Community Ecology
BIOL 7083, Fall 2009
Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:40 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Life Sciences Building, Room 28

Instructor: Dr. Kyle E. Harms



Click on the underlined links below to view or download course
materials (the links are named with filename extensions)
     "doc" = Microsoft Word document format
     "pdf" = Portable document format
     "ppt" = Microsoft PowerPoint format



Syllabus - pdf



Topics

     What is Community Ecology? - ppt

     Species-diversity patterns - ppt

     Relative-abundance distributions - ppt

     Competition - ppt

     Predation & parasitism - ppt

     Herbivory - ppt

     Mutualism - ppt

     Multiple-species interactions - ppt

     Origins & maintenance of diversity - I - ppt

     Origins & maintenance of diversity - II
     (phylogenetic perspective) - ppt

     Diversity-stability; diversity-productivity;
     diversity-invasibility relationships - ppt

     Disturbance & succession - ppt

     Scaling - ppt

     Community & Ecosystem Ecology in
     human-dominated land- & sea-scapes;
     Conservation Biology - ppt



Student presentations

     11/3/09 - The Relationship Between Diversity & Invasibility (Klock) - ppt

     11/5/09 - Archbold Biological Station (Hmielowski) - ppt

     11/5/09 - Chemical Mechanisms of Indirect Plant Defense (Accamando) - ppt

     11/10/09 - Avian Dynamics in Even-Aged Plantations (Owens) - ppt

     11/10/09 - Seed Dispersal (Wieland) - ppt

     11/12/09 - Ecological Niches (Powell) - ppt

     11/12/09 - Niche & Neutral Theory (Galeano) - ppt

     11/17/09 - Bottom-up vs. Top-down Controls on Spartina productivity (Kiehn) - ppt

     11/17/09 - Seabird Coloniality (Leumas) - ppt

     11/19/09 - Brood Parasitism (Villani) - ppt

     11/19/09 - Latitudinal Gradients in Plant-Insect Interactions (Bhattarai) - ppt



Reading assignments & reference lists
(from previous & current semesters)

     BIOL 7083, Fall 2003, reading assignments - doc

     BIOL 7083, Fall 2004, reading assignments - doc

     BIOL 7083, Fall 2005, reading assignments - doc

     BIOL 7083, Fall 2007, reading assignments & reference list - doc

     BIOL 7083, Fall 2009, reading assignments & reference list - doc

Remaining schedule