Review for Final
Big Ideas From the beginning
•Evolution
•Natural
Selection
–Requirements
–Evolution
by Natural Selection
–Complexities
of selection
•Conflicting
Demands
•Sexual
Selection
Since Midterm
•Sensory
Ecology
–Optimal
Assessment (false
positives
and
negatives)
–Information
processing (Cognition
and
decision-making)
Scrub jays: adaptive memory
•Sex
and Parenting
–Diversity
(mating associations, parenting, sexual dimorphism)
–Tiers
of conflicting demands
•Cost
of reproduction (examples)
•Anisogamy
–Male-male
competition
–Female
choice (hypothesized benefits and examples)
–Ecology
of mating (opportunities for mates, value of care, EPCs)
•Song
–Mechanism
(syrinx and neural pathways)
–Development
•White-crowned
sparrow
•Lessons
from other species
•Overview
diagram
–Function
•Habitat
•Messages
•Misinformation
•Dear
enemy
•Migration
and Orientation
–Definitions
•Migration,
dispersal, natal philopatry, breeding philopatry
–Function/Evolution
•Alternative
scenarios
–Development
•Genetics
of migration in blackcaps
–Mechanism
•Orientation
in indigo buntings
•Populations
–Lifetable
•How
to interpret
•What
types of questions can be addressed
–Population
regulation (Song sparrows of Mandarte)
•Density
independent
•Density
dependent
–Direct
vs indirect effects
•Predators
(mice and chipmunks)
•Competitors
(patterns and experiments)
•Conservation
–Gilpin
and Soule 4 Vortices
•Vortex
R (define and examples)
•Vortex
D (define and examples)
•Vortex
F (define and examples)
•Vortex
A (define and examples)
–Case
examples
•Condor,
Crane, and Peregrine