Current Issues in Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture

CFR 503

Journal Club

Welcome!  We meet on Fridays from 4-5 pm in DRC 103.

Discussions are facilitated by:

· Jon Bakker

· Kern Ewing

· Jim Fridley

· Soo-Hyung Kim

· Sarah Reichard

 

Discussion Board

A discussion board for Journal Club is available here:

https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/jbakker/18720/

 

It can be used in many ways:

· Weekly leaders can post questions or comments before class to guide our reading (and the in-class discussion).

· People can continue discussions beyond class time.

· Folks that have to be in the field or are sick can still participate.

· Folk can post relevant articles.

Date

Leaders

Topic

Reading

Notes

1/7

Faculty

Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services

Dodds et al. 2008. Comparing ecosystem goods and services provided by restored and native lands. BioScience 58:837-845.

[Background: Costanza et al. 1997. The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253-260.]

 

1/14

Lauren, Drew

Biochar

Lehmann. 2007. A handful of carbon. Nature 447:143-144.

Reijnders. 2009. Are forestation, bio-char and landfilled biomass adequate offsets for the climate effects of burning fossil fuels? Energy Policy 37:2839-2841.

[Background: Lehmann. 2007. Bio-energy in the black. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:381-387.]

 

1/21

Caitlin, Katherine

Climate change

Harris et al. 2006. Ecological restoration and global climate change. Restoration Ecology 14:170-176.

 

1/28

Dan, Blake

Phytoremediation

Pilon-Smits & Freeman. 2006. Environmental cleanup using plants: biotechnological advances and ecological considerations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4:23-210.

 

2/4

Dylan, Jenny

Hedera helix

Biggerstaff & Beck. 2007. Effects of English ivy (Hedera helix) on seed bank formation and germination. American Midland Naturalist 157:250-257.

 

2/11

No Class

Lab Meetings

 

 

2/18

Kate, Kevin

Biogenic volatile organic compounds

Bao et al. 2008. Biogenic volatile organic compound emission potential of forests and paddy fields in the Kinki region of Japan. Environmental Research 106:156-169.

[background: Penuelas & Llusia. 2003. BVOCs: plant defense against climate warming? TREE 8:105-109.]

Think about BVOCs on a larger scale. If BVOC's will increase with increased global temperatures, and certain plants emit more than others, should plant BVOC rates be considered in decisions regarding land-use changes and planting plans for restoration projects?

2/25

No Class

SFR 2011 Graduate Student Symposium

 

 

3/4

Heather, Sara

Phenology

Both et al. 2009. Climate change and unequal phenological changes across four trophic levels: constraints or adaptations? Journal of Animal Ecology 78:73-83.

[background: Visser & Both. 2005. Shifts in phenology due to global climate change: the need for a yardstick. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: Biological Sciences 272:2561-2569.]

Questions are here.

3/11

Jake

Reference conditions

Brewer & Menzel. 2009. A method for evaluating outcomes of restoration when no reference sites exist. Restoration Ecology 17:4-11.

[background: Pages 75-78 in Clewell & Aronson. 2007. Ecological restoration: principles, values, and structure of an emerging profession. Island Press, Washington, DC.]

Some things for folks to think about:

 

-Is this method a suitable substitute for mimicking an actual reference ecosystem?  Is it a better method?

 

-What are the tradeoffs when restoring an ecosystem means losing potentially valuable and/or rare species?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Schedules

 

 

2010-11

Autumn

 

 

 

2009-10

Autumn

Winter

Spring

 

2008-09

Autumn

Winter

Spring

 

 

 

 

 

Contact: cfr503@uw.edu