Lectures - Notes and Reading Assignments*

Lecture/Topic

Notes Readings / Assignment
Introduction to Ecology Lecture 1 Chapter 1

Cavitt et al 1999

Hypothesis Testing and Armchair Ecology
Evolution No in class lecture Chapter 2
Introduction to Physiological Ecology Lecture 3 Chapter 3

Critical Thinking Question 1
Plant Physiological Ecology Lecture 4  
Animal Physiological Ecology Lecture 5 Walsberg 2000
Population Ecology Lecture 6 (note - not all material covered in lecture was provided as PowerPoint)

Lecture 6b
Gould Article

Krebs
Community Ecology Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Lecture 9

Lecture 10

(note - not all material covered in lecture was provided as PowerPoint)
Chapter 13, 14, 15, 20

Measuring biodiversity to inform species conservation


Ecosystem Ecology Lecture 11



(note - not all material covered in lecture was provided as PowerPoint)
Chapters 18, 19
know C, N, P cycles

RadioWest Podcast - Selenium and the Great Salt Lake, 6/19/2009

Behavioral Ecology Lecture 12  
     
     
     
     
     

 

Laboratory - Notes and Assignments*

Topic

Notes Readings Assignment
Experimental Design

Introduction to Statistics
     
Pollinator Visitation   Lab Reading  
       
Life Tables females before
males before

females after
males after
   
   
       

 

Research Project Rubric

Guide to writing project report

Krebs et al. 1995.  Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle. Science 269:1112-1115.

Stoner et al. 2007. Cougar exploitation levels in Utah: Implications for demographic structure, population recovery, and metapopulation dynamics.  Journal of Wildlife Management 70:1588-1600

Morgan Ernest and Brown. 2001.  Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization.  Science 292:101-104.  

 

 

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