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Fundamentals of Ecology

Prof. Vishwesha Guttal Prof. Kavita Isvaran Prof. Kartik Shanker Prof. Umesh Srinivasan Prof. Maria Thaker Prof.… · IISc Bangalore

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Lectures

Week 1 Introduction, Sensory Ecology, and Resource Acquisition

  1. Lec 01 Fundamentals in Ecology Video
  2. Lec 02 Evolutionary Ecology Video
  3. Lec 03 How animals and plants sense and navigate the world Video
  4. Lec 04 Accessing resources Video
  5. Lec 05 Competing for resources Video

Week 2 Movement, Anti-predator and Social Behaviours

  1. Lec 06 Movement ecology Video
  2. Lec 07 Adaptations in predator-prey interactions Video
  3. Lec 08 Social behaviour Video
  4. Lec 09 Mating systems Video
  5. Lec 10 Life history theory Video

Week 3 Population Growth and Dynamics

  1. Lec 11 General intro to population dynamics Video
  2. Lec 12 Math Refresher Video
  3. Lec 13 Density independent growth Video
  4. Lec 14 Tutorial / Numerical Examples Video
  5. Lec 15 Density dependent growth (Continuous time; logistic model) Video

Week 4 Population Dynamics and Spatial Structure

  1. Lec 16 Lotka-Volterra competition models Video
  2. Lec 17 Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence Video
  3. Lec 18 Summary and recap Video
  4. Lec 19 Spatial population structure and dynamics Video
  5. Lec 20 Metapopulation case study: butterflies Video

Week 5 Study Design and Quantitative Thinking

  1. Lec 21 Study design - Part 1 Video
  2. Lec 22 Study design - Part 2 Video
  3. Lec 23 Study design - Part 3 Video
  4. Lec 24 Quantitative thinking - Part 1 Video
  5. Lec 25 Quantitative thinking - Part 2 Video

Week 6 Community Ecology: Introduction, Niche and Community Assembly

  1. Lec 26 Introduction Video
  2. Lec 27 Conditions and resources Video
  3. Lec 28 Fundamental and realised niches Video
  4. Lec 29 Distribution of communities Video
  5. Lec 30 Community assembly Video

Week 7 Community Ecology: Species Interactions

  1. Lec 31 Introduction to species interactions Video
  2. Lec 32 Competition Video
  3. Lec 33 Predation Video
  4. Lec 34 Parasitim & Infectious disease Video
  5. Lec 35 Positive interspecies interactions Video

Week 8 Community Ecology: Food webs and Species Invasion

  1. Lec 36 Foodwebs Video
  2. Lec 37 Food web case study Video
  3. Lec 38 Plant-animal interactions Video
  4. Lec 39 Species invasion as an ecological process I Video
  5. Lec 40 Species invasion as an ecological process II Video

Week 9 Community Ecology: Species Diversity and its Estimation

  1. Lec 41 Species concepts Video
  2. Lec 42 Species diversity 1 Video
  3. LEc 43 Species diversity 2 Video
  4. Lec 44 Diversity and distribution Video
  5. Lec 45 Relative abundance Video

Week 10 Community Ecology: Macroecology and Biogeography

  1. Lec 46 Macroecology 1 Video
  2. Lec 47 Macroecology 2 Video
  3. Lec 48 Biogeography Video
  4. Lec 49 The Changing Earth Video

Week 11 Ecosystems and Bio-geochemical Cycles

  1. Lec 50 Ecosystems & Biogeochemistry - 1 Video
  2. Lec 51 Ecosystems & Biogeochemistry - 2 Video

Week 12 Anthropogenic Environmental Changes & Synthesis of the course

  1. Lec 52 Introduction to the Anthropocene Video
  2. Lec 53 Climate change Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IISc Bangalore
Department
Multidisciplinary
Teacher
Prof. Vishwesha Guttal Prof. Kavita Isvaran Prof. Kartik Shanker Prof. Umesh Srinivasan Prof. Maria Thaker Prof.…
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Biology
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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