taddallas
commented
3 years ago Ideas for review topics:
- Biodiversity-stability relationship
- Latitudinal diversity gradient
- Modern coexistence theory (Chesson)
- Food web models?
- Stochasticity in population models
- Priority effects/ historical contingency
- Diversity-disease relationships ('dilution/amplification effects')
- Long-term changes in plant phenology (can be about just some specific species)
- Long-term changes in animal phenology
- Phenological mismatch between plants and pollinators
- Biodiversity metrics (how to measure biodiversity)
- Treeline dynamics
- What is niche?
Open datasets:
- Portal project data (and other sources listed here https://ecologicaldata.org/find-data)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- NEON data (https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/explore)
- Plant phenology portal (https://www.plantphenology.org)
- USA phenological network (https://www.usanpn.org/usa-national-phenology-network)
- Long term ecological data (https://lternet.edu)
We may can come with a list of potential projects for students if they cannot find their own.