Chapter 3: Species Populations, Interactions and Communities

"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as lineal descendents of some few beings which have lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."
- Charles Darwin

Readings:

1. How Species Diversity Arises (pg 49-55)
2. Species Interactions Shape Communities of Species (pg 55-60)
3. The Growth of Species Populations (pg 60- 63)
4. Properties of Communities Depend on Species Diversity (pg 63-67)
5. Communities are Dynamic and Change Over Time (pg 68-70)