Week |
Lecture |
Lab |
| Aug. 24-28 |
Lecture notes for the week
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Lab materials
Helgren et al.
2000. Variation in tortoise life history: Demography of Gopherus berlandieri.
Ecology 81(5):1297-1310.
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| Aug. 30-Sept. 2 |
Life histories, part 1
Part 2
Life history spreadsheet |
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| Sept. 9 |
Life histories, part 3
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| Sept. 14- Sept.18 |
Sept. 14
Intraspecific competition spreadsheet
Sept. 16
Graduate students only - paper for exam
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Class fly data for first experiment.
Guidelines for the first paper.
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| Sept. 28- Oct.2 |
Sept. 28
Extra reading for class: Pritchard, J.R. and
D. Schluter. 2001. Declining interspecific competition during character
displacement: Summoning the ghost of competition past. Evolutionary Ecology
Research 3:209-220.
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Paper reviews are due the 28th. We will be working in the field Monday as well, be prepared.
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| Oct.5-9 |
October 5
Interspecific competition spreadsheet (with isoclines)
October 7
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We will be in the field this afternoon, please be prepared. I have environmental data from three groups for last week.
Davies, K., M. Holyoak, K. Preston, V. Offeman, and Q. Lum. 2009 Factors controlling community structure in heterogeneous metacommunities. Journal Of Animal Ecology 78 (5):937-944.
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| Oct.12-16 |
October 12
Graduate students only - paper for exam 2
October 16
Predation spreadsheet
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Cross creek habitat data (includes some example summary statistics for the first two samples)
Big Creek habitat data
Fish data for both creeks. I calculated some measures of species diversity for each site. We will discuss these in class, for information see page 471 in your text.
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| Oct.26-30 |
October 26
Diversity spreadsheet
October 28
Drake, J.A. 1991. Community-assembly
mechanics and the structure of an experimental species ensemble. American
Naturalist: 137(1) 1-26.
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Group projects ongoing. |
| Nov. 2-6 |
November 2
November 4
Notes on Drake (1991)
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Reviews of second paper due today |
| Nov.9-13 |
November 9
Power, M.E. (1990) Effects of fish in river fod webs. Science 250:811-816.
Graduate students only - paper for exam 3
November 11
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Group projects ongoing. |