Table of Contents

Part 1: Organisms : Introduction; The match between organisms and their environments; Conditions; Resources; Life and death in unitary and modular organisms; Migration and dispersal in space and time. Part 2: Interactions : Introduction; Intraspecific competition; Interspecific competition; The nature of predation; The behaviour of predators; The population dynamics of predation; Decomposers and detritivores; Parasitism and disease; Mutualism. Part 3: Two overviews : Introduction; Life history variation; Abundance. Part 4: Communities : Introduction; Practical manipulations of abundance: killing, culling and conserving; The nature of the community; The flux matter through communities; The influence of competition on community structure; The influence of predation and disturbance on community structure; Islands, areas and colonization; Community stability and community structure; Patterns of species richness.