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BI111

Biological Diversity and Evolution

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2025 · Biological Diversity & Evolution

Topics

  • Genetics
  • speciation
  • evolutionary history
  • plant structure, transport and reproduction
  • population and community ecology.

Readings

  • Biology: Exploring the Diversity of Life, 5th Canadian edition (Nelson).
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  • Slade et al. (2014): Assortative mating among animals of captive and wild origin following experimental conservation releases.
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  • Koop et al. (2014): Birds are islands for parasites.
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  • Santangelo et al. (2020): Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient.
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  • Ayres et al. (2006): Direct uptake of soil nitrogen by mosses.
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  • Ruxton (2014): Why are so many trees hollow?
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  • Clarke et al. (2009): Tree shrew lavatories: a novel nitrogen sequestration strategy in a tropical pitcher plant.
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  • Kissling and Barrett (2013): Diplostigmaty in plants: a novel mechanism that provides reproductive assurance.
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  • Walters and Paterson (2012): Parents lend a helping hand to their offspring in plant defence.
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  • Huang et al. (2023): Camouflaged plants are shorter than non-camouflaged plants in the alpine zone.
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  • Stephenson et al. (2015): Pace of life, predators and parasites: predator-induced life-history evolution in Trinidadian guppies predicts decrease in parasite tolerance.
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  • Wardle et al. (2012): Soil-mediated indirect impacts of an invasive predator on plant growth.
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  • Required: iClicker Cloud; biology-journal exercise book.
    Other material
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