Week 7

Overview

This week, we will wrap up some takeaways from the Lokta-Volterra competition model, and learn how lessons from this model help us understand species coexistence in more general contexts. Specifically, we will learn how insights from the Lotka-Volterra model help make sense of species coexistence mediated by organisms at other trophic levels (e.g. how herbivores or soil microbes can mediate plant-plant coexistence).

In-class activities

In lieu of in-person lecture on Wednesday, please watch an episode from the Our Planet series, which is freely available at the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAZgPndxNjoA

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