BI111
Biological Diversity and Evolution
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).
- Slade et al. (2014): Assortative mating among animals of captive and wild origin following experimental conservation releases.
- Koop et al. (2014): Birds are islands for parasites.
- Santangelo et al. (2020): Multivariate phenotypic divergence along an urbanization gradient.
- Ayres et al. (2006): Direct uptake of soil nitrogen by mosses.
- Ruxton (2014): Why are so many trees hollow?
- Clarke et al. (2009): Tree shrew lavatories: a novel nitrogen sequestration strategy in a tropical pitcher plant.
- Kissling and Barrett (2013): Diplostigmaty in plants: a novel mechanism that provides reproductive assurance.
- Walters and Paterson (2012): Parents lend a helping hand to their offspring in plant defence.
- Huang et al. (2023): Camouflaged plants are shorter than non-camouflaged plants in the alpine zone.
- Stephenson et al. (2015): Pace of life, predators and parasites: predator-induced life-history evolution in Trinidadian guppies predicts decrease in parasite tolerance.
- Wardle et al. (2012): Soil-mediated indirect impacts of an invasive predator on plant growth.
- Required: iClicker Cloud; biology-journal exercise book.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public syllabus copy ↗Winter 2025
- Public syllabus copy; dates retained.