Date
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Topic
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Reading/Assignment
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T 1/6
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Introduction
Adaptation
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1 (skim)
3 (53-6, 59-66, 69-72)
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Th 1/8
|
Adaptation
Study design
|
9 (184-192)
13 (263-4)
Estimating population size IN CLASS
|
T 1/13
|
Field exercise: Estimating population size
in crows
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Outside. Dress appropriately.
|
Th 1/15
|
Variation in the physical environment
Biomes
|
4 (73-85, 95-6)
5 (98-109, 119-24, skim 110-118)
|
T 1/20
|
Life histories
|
10
Review of Huey et al. DUE
|
Th 1/22
|
Populations: Distribution
Life tables
|
13 (253-7)
14 (269-82)
|
T 1/27
|
Populations: Regulation
|
14 (283-9)
Population dynamics IN CLASS
|
Th 1/29
|
Dispersal
Metapopulations
|
13 (257-61, 265-7)
15 (302-9)
Crow write-up DUE
|
T 2/3
|
EXAM 1
|
|
Th 2/5
|
Foraging
|
9 (192-6), 17, 18
|
T 2/10
|
Consumer interactions
|
17, 18
Predator functional responses IN CLASS
|
Th 2/12
|
Competition
|
19
|
T 2/17
|
Community structure
|
21
Review of Estes et al. DUE
|
Th 2/19
|
Coevolution, mutualism, and other interactions
|
Class Cancelled - go see seminar by Lester
Brown at 2:30 in HUB 108
|
T 2/24
|
EXAM 2
|
|
Th 2/26
|
Disturbance and succession
|
22
|
T 3/2
|
Patterns of diversity
Biogeography
|
23 (444-5, 447-54)
24 (459-62, 470-8)
|
Th 3/4
|
Carbon cycles
|
6, 7
Nutrient budgets IN CLASS
|
T 3/9
|
Nutrient cycles
|
7, 8
|
Th 3/11
|
Environmental change
|
26
|
T 3/16
|
EXAM 3 (4:30-6:20)
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