Date

Leaders

Topic

Reading

Notes

1/11

Faculty

Global agriculture in 2050

Read: Tilman et al. 2011. Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture. PNAS 108, 20260-20264.

Related papers:

Foley et al., 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature 478, 337-342.

Mueller ND et al. 2012. Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management. Nature 490, 254-257.

McMichael AJ et al. 2007. Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health. The Lancet 370, 1253-1263 (This is the 50g per day red meat paper).

See also supplemental figures and tables of the paper.

Student responsibilities and expectations document is here.

1/18

Lindsey Hamilton, Andrew Fraser

Conservation psychology

Main: Schultz PW. 2011. Conservation means behavior. Conservation Biology 25: 1080-1083

Addendum: Saunders CD. 2003. The emerging field of conservation psychology. Human Ecology Review 10: 137-149 (at least skim through)

1/25

Jon Diemer, Theresa Yoder

Corridors and climate change

Primary: Beier, 2012. Conceptualizing designing corridors for climate change. Ecological Restoration 30:312-319.

Supplemental: Williams et al., 2005.  Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the Cape Proteaceae. Conservation Biology 19: 1063-1074

Beier is the required reading.

Williams is supplemental paper which represents original research and a quantitative approach to the problem.

2/1

Chris Watson, Martha Moritz

Assisted migration

McLane SC, Aitken SN. 2012. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) assisted migration potential: testing establishment north of the species range. Ecological Applications 22: 142-153

2/8

Luke McGuff, Hui-Chung (Wenny) Tsai

Phytoremediation

Main: Cunningham SD, Ow DW. 1996. Promises and prospects of phytoremediation. Plant Physiology 110: 715-719

Supplement: Miller RS et al. 2011. Comparison of trichloroethylene toxicity, removal, and degradation by varieties of Populus and Salix for improved phytoremediation applications.  J. Bioremed. Biodegrad. S7:001

2/15

Rob Edsforth, Nate Haan

Novel ecosystems

Primary: Hobbs RJ et al. 2009. Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24: 599-605

Supplemental: Thorpe AS , Stannley AG. 2011. Determining appropriate goals for restoration of imperiled communities and species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48: 275-279

The Hobbs article will provide the theoretical framework and the Thorp., Stanley article can provide specific examples from our region as fodder for discussion.

2/22

Jigs Jeong, Ellen Sherck

Ecology in the space era (terraforming and closed microbial ecosystems)

Friedmann & Ocampo-Friedmann. 1995. A primitive cyanobacterium as pioneer microorganism for terraforming Mars. Advances in Space Research 15:243-246.

Hendrickx et al. 2006. Microbial ecology of the closed artificial ecosystem MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative): reinventing and compartmentalizing the Earth’s food and oxygen regeneration system for long-haul space exploration missions. Research in Microbiology 157:77-86.

Supplemental: Haqq-Misra. 2012. An ecological compass for planetary engineering. Astrobiology 12:985-997.

3/1

Tony Rho, Rosemary Baker

Undesirable species to bridge restoration

Kirkman L.K. et al. 2007.  The perpetual forest: using undesirable species to bridge restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology 44:604-614

3/8

Michelle Fischer, Crescent Calimpong

Restoration trajectories and measures

Main: Zedler JB, Callaway JC. 1999. Tracking wetland restoration: Do mitigation sites follow desired trajectories? Restoration Ecology 7: 69-73

Supplemental: Ruiz-Jaen MC, Aide TM. 2005. Restoration success: How is it being measured? Restoration Ecology 13:569-577

3/15

Alex Greene, Allison McGrath

Energy cropping and birds

Main: Roth AM et al. 2005. Grassland bird response to harvesting switchgrass as a biomass energy crop. Biomass & Bioenergy 28:490-498

Supplemental: Murray LD et al. 2003. Potential effects on grassland birds of converting marginal cropland to switchgrass biomass production. Biomass & Bioenergy 25:167-175

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