Current Issues in Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture

Journal Club (Autumn 2012)

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/29376/

 

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.

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

· Folk can post relevant articles.

Date

Leaders

Topic

Reading

Notes

9/28

Kern and others

Tropical dry forests

Read: Murphy & Lugo. 1986. Ecology of tropical dry forest. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 17:67-88.

Read: Janzen. 1988. Tropical dry forests. Pg. 130-137 in EO Wilson (editor), Biodiversity. The National Academies Press, Washington, DC.

Review figures: Maass et al. 1995. Seasonal changes of leaf area index (LAI) in a tropical deciduous forest in west Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 74:171-180.

PowerPoint is here.

 

Student responsibilities and expectations document is here.

10/5

Andrew, Jon

Native invaders

Carey et al. 2012. Native invaders—challenges for science, management, policy, and society. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10:373-381.

 

10/12

Natalie, Cindy, Martha

Green infrastructure

Pataki et al. 2011. Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9:27-36.

 

10/19

Laura, Lisa, Michelle

Social aspects of restoration

Last names A-Ma: Broadbent et al. 2012. The effect of land use change and ecotourism on biodiversity: a case study of Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica, from 1985 to 2008. Landscape Ecology 27:731-744.

Last names Mb-Z: Fernandez-Gimenez et al. 2008. Adaptive management and social learning in collaborative and community-based monitoring: a study of five community-based forestry organizations in the western USA. Ecology and Society 13(2):art4.

We like the way the articles address ecological planning strategies at different scales... Costa Rica example shows government planning and policies and US example of Adaptive forest management looks at citizen involvement in monitoring... We thought reading the two together will help to highlight the complexity of the social issues surrounding success of restoration projects and the advantage of taking a multi-scale approach.

10/26

Rob, Catie, Brian

Volunteers

Guiney & Oberhauser. 2009. Conservation volunteers’ connection to nature. Ecopsychology 1:187-197.

Marynowski & Jacobson. 1999. Ecosystem management education for public lands. Wildlife Society Bulletin 27:134-145.

 

11/2

Ina, Chris, Theresa

Compost tea

Pant et al. 2011. Effects of vermicompost tea (aqueous extract) on pak choi yield, quality, and on soil biological properties. Compost Science & Utilization 19:279-292.

Optional: Scharenbroch et al. 2011. Laboratory assays on the effects of aerated compost tea and fertilization on biochemical properties and dentrification in a silt loam and Bt clay loam soils. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 37:269-277.

 

11/9

Allison, Tony, Alex

Endophytes

Arnold et al. 2003. Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree. PNAS 100:15649-15654.

Optional: Chakraborty et al. 2012. Climate change and multitrophic interactions in soil: the primacy of plants and functional domains. Global Change Biology 18:2111-2125.

 

11/16

Jigs, Hui-Chung, Katie

Emergy

Lu et al. 2006. Emergy synthesis of an agro-forest restoration system in lower subtropical China. Ecological Engineering 27:175-192.

Hau & Bakshi. 2004. Promise and problems of emergy analysis. Ecological Modelling 178:215-225.

 

11/23

No School

 

Thanksgiving Break

 

11/30

Ellen, Tarrahan, Evan

Salmon habitat restoration

Gray et al. 2002. Contrasting functional performance of juvenile salmon habitat in recovering wetlands of the Salmon River estuary, Oregon, U.S.A. Restoration Ecology 10:514-526.

 

12/7

Lindsey, Crescent, Phil

Indigenous burning

Peter & Shebitz. 2006. Historic anthropogenically maintained bear grass savannas of the southeastern Olympic Peninsula. Restoration Ecology 14:605-615.

Optional: Kimmerer & Lake. 2001. The role of indigenous burning in land management. Journal of Forestry 99:36-41.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previous Schedules

 

 

2011-12

Autumn

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Spring

 

2010-11

Autumn

Winter

Spring

 

2009-10

Autumn

Winter

Spring

 

2008-09

Autumn

Winter

Spring

 

 

 

 

 

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