Prof. Leo Buss
OML 326
Prof. John Cooley
OML 401
TA: Kim Komatsu
OML 426
Lectures: MWF 10:30-11:20, ESC 110
Sections: Th 4:00-4:50, OML 201
Textbook: Gotelli. A primer of ecology, 4th ed.
25% - Exam 1
25% - Exam 2
25% - Exam 3
25% - Lecture and section participation and assignments
Make-up exams will either be oral or cumulative and held during reading week.
| September | 3 | Advice to an inquiring organism | |
| 5 | Demography 1: Life insurance for plants and animals | Gotelli Ch. 3 | |
| 8 | Demography 2: L(x)B(x) tables | ||
| 10 | Demography 3: From L(x)B(x) tables to population growth | ||
| 12 | Advanced Demography 1: Life history theory - Why we die | ||
| 15 | Advanced Demography 2: Life history theory - Iteroparity and Semelparity | ||
| 17 | Advanced Demography 3: Life history theory - Sex ratios | ||
| 19 | Population Growth 1: The discrete logistic | Gotelli Ch. 1-2 | |
| 22 | Population Growth 2: The continuous logistic | ||
| 24 | Population Growth 3: Real populations | ||
| 26 | HOUR EXAM | ||
| 29 | Systems thinking and the meaning of stability | ||
| October | 1 | Population ecology 1: Logistic model of competition | Gotelli Ch. 5 |
| 3 | Population ecology 2: Competition in lab populations | ||
| 6 | Population ecology 3: Connell's barnacles | ||
| 8 | Population ecology 4: A model of predation and some variants | Gotelli Ch. 6 | |
| 10 | Population ecology 5: Nicholson's blowflies | ||
| 13 | Population ecology 6: Foraging tactics | ||
| 15 | Population ecology 7: A model of mutualism | ||
| 17 | From population systems to communities | ||
| 20 | Behavioral Ecology (Foraging; diet choice) | Handout | |
| 22 | Behavioral Ecology (Foraging; patch residency) | Handout | |
| 24 | Autecology, Synecology, and units of study | ||
| 27 | Behavioral Ecology (Signals) | Bradbury and Vehrencamp 2000 | |
| 29 | Succession (verbal models) | Gotelli Ch. 8 | |
| 31 | HOUR EXAM | ||
| November | 3 | Succession (Markov Model) | Gotelli Ch. 8 |
| 5 | Abundance and Diversity | Gotelli Ch. 9 | |
| 7 | Biogeography (Islands) | Gotelli Ch. 7 | |
| 12 | Biogeography and Food Webs | Leibold 1995 | |
| 14 | Niches and Community Models | Macarthur 1955 | |
| 17 | Patterns of Diversity | Hubbell 2001, Janzen 1967 | |
| 19 | Metapopulations | Gotelli Ch. 4 | |
| 21 | Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry | Likens 2004 | |
| December | 1 | Coevolution, invasives, etc. | Facon et al. 2006 |
| 3 | Resource Management | Gilpin and Soule 1986 | |
| 5 | Evolutionary ecology | Losos and Schluter 2000 | |
| 17 | EXAM |