Lesson 2 Soil supports diverse and abundant life 6
Lesson 3 Plants exhibit adaptations to variations in nutrient availability 10
Unit 2 Population ecology 13
Lesson 4 Population size and density 13
Lesson 5 Species distribution 16
Lesson 6 Population dynamics 19
Lesson 7 Life history theory 23
Unit 3 Community ecology 26
Lesson 8 The role of species within communities 26
Lesson 9 Species with a large impact on community structure 29
Lesson 10 Effects of biogeography on community diversity 35
Lesson 11 Ecological succession 38
Unit 4 Ecosystem ecology 41
Lesson 12 Energy flow in ecosystems 41
Lesson 13 Biogeochemical cycles 45
Lesson 14 Ecosystem dynamics 50
Lesson 15 Ecosystem services 52
Lesson 16 Evolution and natural selection in ecosystems 55
Unit 5 Global change ecology 59
Lesson 17 Global change: an overview 59
Lesson 18 Human impact and ecosystem degradation 63
Lesson 19 Impacts of global change on human society 66
Lesson 20 Biodiversity and climate change 69
Lesson 21 Global climate change and risk assessment: invasive species 73
Part Ⅱ Promotion Components
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Unit 6 Studies on autecology ecology 79
Lesson 22 Growth and yield stimulation under elevated CO2 and drought:a meta-analysis on crops 79
Lesson 23 Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition 81
Lesson 24 Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on the nutritional and active ingredient contents during the floral development of medicinal chrysanthemum 84
Lesson 25 Interactive effects of temperature and pCO2 on sponges: from the cradle to the grave 86
Lesson 26 Salinity influences arsenic resistance in the xerohalophyte Atriplex atacamensis Phil 90
Unit 7 Studies on population ecology 93
Lesson 27 Climate, invasive species and land use drive population dynamics of a cold-water specialist 93
Lesson 28 Does movement behaviour predict population densities?A test with 25 butterfly species 95
Lesson 29 Anthropogenic-driven rapid shifts in tree distribution lead to increased dominance of broadleaf species 97
Lesson 30 Species’ traits influenced their response to recent climate change 99
Lesson 31 Genetic diversity affects the strength of population regulation in a marine fish 101
Unit 8 Studies on community ecology 105
Lesson 32 Levels and limits in artificial selection of communities 105
Lesson 33 Effects of temperature variability on community structure in a natural microbial food web 109
Lesson 34 Size-balanced community reorganization in response to nutrients and warming 113
Lesson 35 Functional trait diversity across trophic levels determines herbivore impact on plant community biomass 116
Lesson 36 Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity-invasion relationship in soil microbial communities 119
Unit 9 Studies on ecosystem ecology 122
Lesson 37 Energy flows in ecosystems—relationships between predator and prey biomass are remarkably similar in different ecosystems 122
Lesson 38 Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests 125
Lesson 39 Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients 128
Lesson 40 Disturbances catalyze the adaptation of forest ecosystems to changing climate conditions 130
Lesson 41 Elevated CO2 and temperature increase soil C losses from a soybean-maize ecosystem 133
Unit 10 Studies on global change ecology 136
Lesson 42 Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species 136
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