Biology 147/247
Spring 2013
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
"The Ecology of Biodiversity"
TENTATIVE: Last modified: 16 April 2013
Links to all assigned reading except Morin are on the Readings page on the class web page
Lec
Wk
1
1
Date Lecture Topic
Lecture
Readings
**
Organization,
Apr
Scope & Basic
1
Concepts
M ch 1:3-7,
22-23
Terms&Concepts Intro: approaches & graphs
Complex interactions...Brown
Fox - Basic weeks 1&2
et al 01
Concepts
2
Species Richness
Apr
M 12:3011: Patterns of
3
308
BioDiversity
3
Species Richness
Apr
M 11:2712: Area Effects &
5
280
Islands
4
Apr Community
8
Boundaries
2
5
Apr Ecological
12 Interactions
7
Apr
15
8
M 1:7-14
BHT 17:
686-692
Hay 1994
Ricklefs &
Miller 545548
(Section
27.4);
Species Richness
Apr
Morin 143: Diversity &
10
18, 23; 54Abundance
55
Suggested:
Harrison &
Cornell
2008
6
3
Discussion Topics,
Vocabulary and
Readings and Due
Assignments
Dates
Competition 1:
Examples &
Patterns
Apr Competition 2:
17
Theory &
a) Paper to discuss:
Emerson & Kolm 2005
b) Exercise: asking
questions in Community
Ecology
Assignment 1a: Asking
questions
M 1:18-23,
Review EEB
8:187-199,
Writing style
210-212
(EEB Writing
Guidelines)
M 2:24-27,
Terms&Concepts
46-57
weeks 3&4
M 3:58-79;
Hay 1994
Fox:
Competition
Identifying communities
(emph BHT 686-692).
9
10
4
Apr
19
Evidence
review of LV theory
(just skim)
M 3:79-89
Predation 1:
Predator
Behavior
M 4:90-110
BHT ch9
305-307
Predation 2:
Apr
Effects on
22
Communities
11
Apr
Herbivory 1
24
12
a) Paper to discuss: Schmitz
2008 b) Assignment 1a
returned, w/ comments.
Terms&Concepts
weeks 5&6
Apr Beneficial
29 Interactions
M 7:166167 (7.17.3); 171183 (fig);
186
May Community
1
Genetics
TBA
Futuyma &
Slatkin
1983
Mitton
2003;
Whitham
2003
14
Study Guide for
the mid-term
Hay 1991
Howe &
Westley
1998
Apr
Herbivory 2
26
13
5
M 4:116119 (comp
vs. pred)
Due: Assignment 1a:
typed ONLY
REVIEW FOR EXAM Study Guide1 and for
Study Guide2
May
MID-TERM EXAM
3
15
May
6
6
Controls on
Communities:
Top-Down vs.
Bottom-Up
16
May Interaction
8
Strengths
17
18
7
May
10
Diversity,
Stability, &
Disturbance 1
Diversity,
May
Stability, &
13
Disturbance 2
4:111-116;
8: 196-201
Estes et al
1998
M 8: 204
(Fig 8.14);
209(mid) 210
a)Explain Assign 1b
b)Predation/Competition:
Smith et al 2003
M 12:283301, 308316, 318
Terms&Concepts
weeks 7&8
19
May
Succession
15
8
Community Genetics:
Crutsinger et al. 2006
Due - Assignment 1b:
questions and
approaches. Typed only.
20
Davis 1986:
May
pp 269-274
17 Climate Change 1
Parmesan
1999
21
May
Climate Change 2
20
22
May Paleocommunities BHT
22 1
24:909-912
23
May Paleocommunities Davis 1986 Essay #2 - TBA
24 2
pp 275-280
May
Memorial Day
27
9
24
Pickett &
Cadenasso
1995
Polis 1997
May Communities &
31 Ecosystems
Carpenter
1998
Jeffries &
Maron 1997
26
Jun Human Impacts 1:
3
Invasive species
27
a) Human Impacts
2: Recent &
Jun
Old
5
b) Course
Summary
28
Plant Defenses: Thimann
Greenhouses
Terms&Concepts
weeks 9&10
Community
Ecology &
May
Space:
29
Landscape
Ecology
25
10
M 13:all
except
13.4.1
Chapin al
1994
M 14:340348
Jackson
1997
Study guide for
Final
Diversity: McCann 2000
2nd paper due
(hard copy) in
lecture
Course Review
Jun
7
Jun FINAL EXAM:
11 7:30-10:30
** M= Morin (2nd ed.), BHT= excerpts from Begon, Harper & Townsend: Ecology (3rd ed.)
GM = excerpts from Mittlebach: Community Ecology