Week-1 Defining the Plant Community
LEC-1ai The Plant Community (PPT-PDF)
LEC-1aii Vegetation
Gradients of the Arizona Mountains (PPT-PDF)
LEC-1b Ecology of the Sand
Dunes of Lake Michigan (PPT-PDF)
Required reading:
Cowles
(1899a,
1899b,
1899c,
1899d)
Gleason
(1926)
Clements
(1936)
Whittaker &
Neiring (1975)
Noy-Meir and
van der Maarel (1987)
Suggested reading:
Olson (1958)
Tansley
(1935)
Watt (1947)
Whittaker (1956)
LAB APA Style Guide to Writing Lab Reports
Week-2 Basic Traits of Plant Communities
LEC-2a
Attributes of the Plant Community (PPT-PDF)
LEC-2b Introduction to Species
Diversity Concepts (PPT-PDF)
Required
reading:
Iremonger
(1990)
McCarthy and
Bailey (1996)
Peet (1974)
Bazzaz (1975)
Suggested
reading:
Box (1996)
McIntosh (1967)
Hurlbert (1971)
LAB Old Field Ecology & Cover Estimate Method
Week-3 Species Diversity Concepts (PPT-PDF)
LEC-3a
Estimating Species Richness (see above)
LEC-3b Advanced Species
Diversity Concepts (see above)
Required
reading:
Colwell and
Coddington (1994)
Palmer (1990)
Preston (1962)
Gleason (1922)
Suggested reading:
Chazdon et al
(1998)
Small and
McCarthy (2002)
Heltshe and
Forrester (1983a)
Heltshe and
Forrester (1983b)
Heltshe and
Forrester (1985)
Smith and Van
Belle (1984)
LAB Software Overview: OpenOffice, EstimateS, R
Week-4 Origin and Maintenance of Species Richness
LEC-4a
Advanced Species Diversity Concepts (continued)
LEC-4b Equilibrium Theory of
Diversity (PPT-PDF)
Required
reading:
Hutchinson (1959;
1961)
MacArthur and
Wilson (1963)
MacArthur (1958)
DeAngelis and
Waterhouse (1987)
Suggested
reading:
Hutchinson (1957)
Connell and
Orias (1964)
Rosenzweig (1971)
Simberloff
and Wilson (1969)
LAB Wetland Ecology & Delineation Methods
Week-5 Theories of Species Diversity
LEC-5a
Equilibrium Theory of Diversity (continued)
LEC-5b Non-Equilibrium Theory
of Diversity (PPT-PDF)
Required
reading:
Paine (1966)
Connell (1978)
Huston (1979)
Augspurger
and Kelly (1984)
Suggested
reading:
Tansley and
Adamson (1925)
Grime (1973)
LAB Forest Ecology & PCQ Method
Week-6 Ecological Assembly Rules
LEC-6a
Midterm Exam
LEC-6b Ecological Assembly
Rules (PPT-PDF)
Required
reading:
Diamond (1975)
Connor and
Simberloff (1979)
Weiher and
Keddy (1995)
Weiher et al
(1998)
Suggested Reading:
Armbruster et
al. (1994)
Mohler (1990)
Colwell and
Winkler (1984)
van der Valk
(1981)
Other Reading
(for reference):
Gotelli and
Graves (1996)
Week-7 Disturbance & Succession
LEC-7a
Disturbance Ecology (PPT-PDF)
LEC-7b Succession (continued)
Required
Reading:
White (1979)
Drury and
Nisbet (1973)
Suggested
Reading:
Sousa (1984)
Egler (1954)
Connell and
Slatyer (1977)
Week-8 Plant Community Succession
LEC-8a Primary
Succession (PPT-PDF)
LEC-8b Secondary Succession
Required
Reading:
Crocker and
Major (1955)
Keever (1950)
Suggested
Reading:
Bard (1952)
Chapin et al.
(1994)
Fastie (1995)
LAB: Student
Mini-Lectures (TBA)
Week-9 Competition & Allelopathy
LEC-9a Secondary
Succession Studies (cont.)
LEC-9b Competition and Allelopathy(PPT-PDF)
Required
Reading:
Weller (1987)
Goldberg and
Werner (1983)
Suggested
Reading:
Gibson et al.
(1999)
Goldberg and
Barton (1992)
LAB: Student Mini-Lectures (TBA)
Week-10 Competition & Allelopathy, cont.
LEC-10a Herbivory
(PPT-PDF)
LEC-10b
Multivariate Analysis in Ecology (PPT-PDF)
(Data Set)
Required Reading:
Muller (1966)
Grime (1977)
Hairston et
al (1960)
Ehrlich and
Birch (1967)
Suggested
Reading:
Watt (1947)
Same as Week-1
Hairston &
Hairston (1993)
McNaughton (1983)
Smallwood et
al. (2001)
Steele et al.
(2001)
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