The Struggle for Existence torrent

Textbook for the first-year biology course at the University of Toronto.


TEXTBOOK TITLE: The Struggle for Existence

AUTHOR: James D Thomson (the professor of the course)

U of T COURSE CODE: BIO120

U of T COURSE TITLE: Adaptation & Biodiversity

VERSION: Copyright 2014

PAGES: 94


*NOTE: This version is incomplete, since I only took the first half of the course. It contains parts 1-6 of 10.


CONTENTS:
PART 01 Introduction, motivation, goals, and advice
PART 02 Adaptation to meet ecological challenges
PART 03 Distribution and abundance as things we need to explain
PART 04 Patterns of climate from global to habitat scales
PART 05 Physiological ecology as a way of thinking about organisms
PART 06 Population ecology
PART 07 Community ecology, primarily regarding animals *not included
PART 08 Trophic relationships and plant-animal interactions *not included
PART 09 Synthesis and conclusions *not included


COURSE SUMMARY: https://fas.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/BIO120H1


TITLE TRIVIA: The term "struggle for existence" is in reference to a chapter contained in "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin. Here's a link that explores the term further... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_for_existence