Where & When: Tues & Thur 10:30 – 11:50 on Zoom (contact Dave for link & pw)
Instructor: Dave Jenkins email: david.jenkins at ucf.edu
Text: Real LA & JH Brown (eds). 1991. Foundations of Ecology: Classic papers with commentaries. U. Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-70594-1
The next decade could be even worse: An interview with Peter Turchin, by Graeme Wood, in the Atlantic. Recommended by Jack.
COURSE SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGES)
Class Dates | Theme | Readings to Discuss
(italics are in Real & Brown; others are links to pdfs) |
DDs |
Aug 25, 27 | Intro | Tuesday: Syllabus
Thursday: Brief History of Ecology |
Dave
Dave |
Sep 1, 3 | Organisms & environment | Tuesday: Porter & Gates (1969), Grime (1977) Questions
Thursday: Beale et al. (2008), Díaz et al. (2016) Questions |
Dave
Dave |
Sep 8, 10 | Populations 1 | Tuesday: Volterra (1926), Birch (1948), Cole (1954) Questions LV R code
Thursday: Savage et al. (2004), Barreto et al. (2019) Questions |
Dave
Lok |
Sep 14, 16 | Populations 2 | Tuesday: Skellam (1951), Huffaker (1958) Questions
Thursday: Saccheri et al. (1998), Nathan (2006) Questions |
Dave
Dave |
Sep 21, 23 | Niche | Tuesday: Grinnell (1917), Davidson & Andrewartha (1948), Hutchinson (1957) Questions
Thursday: Boucher-Lalonde et al. (2012), Chase & Myers (2011) Questions |
Dave
Anthony |
Sep 28, 30 | Competition | Tuesday: Park (1948), MacArthur (1958), Connell (1961) Questions Thursday: Mayfield & Levine (2010), Korb & Foster (2010) Questions |
Dave
Jule |
Oct 6, 8 | Predation | Tuesday: Holling (1959), Brooks & Dodson (1965), Schoener (1971) Questions
Thursday: Paine (1966), Pierce & Ollason (1987), Harley (2011) Questions |
Dave
Gianna |
Oct 13, 15
M TO YOU |
Evolutionary Ecology | Tuesday: Kettlewell (1955) & great video, Hutchinson (1959), Ehrlich & Raven (1964) Questions Thursday: Harper (1967), Cavender-Bares et al. (2009), Schoener (2011) Questions |
Dave
Emily |
Oct 20, 22
M DUE |
Diversity | Tuesday: Huston (1979), Shmida & Wilson (1985), Jost (2007) Questions
Thursday: Carmona et al. (2016), Tucker et al. (2017) Questions |
Ian
Allison |
Oct 27, 29 | Communities | Tuesday: Hairston et al. (1960), Ricklefs (1987), Lawton (1999) Questions
Thursday: Leibold et al. (2004), Lawson et al. (2019) Questions |
Dave
Dave |
Nov 3, 5 | Ecosystems | Tuesday: Forbes (1887), Lindeman (1942), Teal (1962) Questions Thursday: Odum (1969), Likens et al. (1970), Gounand et al. (2017) Questions |
Dave
Gianna & Anthony |
Nov 10, 12 | Scale | Tuesday: Levin (1992), Ricklefs (2008), Soininen et al. (2007) Questions
Thursday: Chave (2013), Chase et al. (2018), He et al. (2020) Questions |
Dave
Dave |
Nov 17, 19 | Chaos & Thresholds | Tuesday: May (1974), Noy-Meir (1975), Beisner et al (2003) chaos R code Questions
Thursday: Barnosky et al. (2012), Mathias et al. (2020) Questions |
Dave
Jule & Lok |
Nov 24 | Climate & change | Tuesday: Davis (1969), Hobbs et al. (2009), Loarie et al. (2009) Questions
Thursday: No Class |
Dave
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Dec 1, 3
Final TO YOU |
Integrative directions | Tuesday: Ricklefs & Jenkins (2011), Johnson et al. (2015) Questions
Thursday: Picasso (2018), Bettencourt & Kaur (2011) Questions |
Dave
Allison & Emily |
Dec 8, 10 | FINALS WEEK – FINAL DUE DEC 10 |