The purpose of this seminar is to train students with self-learning ability, good scholarship, presentation skills, and understandings of ecological patterns and their underlying mechanisms. Students will select papers that are related to the issue of ecological patterns, such as Allen’s Rule, Bateman’s Principle, Bergmann’s Rule, Biological Scaling Laws, Brown’s Rule, Cope’s Rule, Dollo’s Law, Gloger’s Rule, Hamilton’s Rule, Island Rule, Jordan’s Rule, Rapoport’s Rule, Rensch’s Rule, Temperature-Size Rule, Thorson’s Rule, etc.