Required
ALL ARTICLES AVAILABLE AS PDF FILES ON RAMCT
Week 2 (Aug. 29 & 30)
1. Kingsland, S.E. 1991.
Defining ecology as a science. Pages 1-13 in Real, L.A. & J.H.
Brown, editors. Foundations of Ecology-Classic Papers
with Commentaries.
2. Lawton, JH. 1999. Are there general laws in ecology? Oikos 84: 177-192.
3. Turchin, P. 2001. Does population ecology have general laws? Oikos 94: 17-26.
Week
3 (Sept. 5 & 6)
1. Dingle, H. and Drake, V.A. 2007. What is migration? BioScience 57: 113-121
2. Nathan, R. and Muller-Landau H.C. 2000. Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment. TREE 15: 278-285
Week 4 (Sept. 12 & 13)
1. Shea, K. and Kelly, D. 1998. Estimating biocontrol agent impact with
matrix models: Carduus nutans in
2. Heppell, S.S. 1998. Application of life-history and population model analysis to turtle conservation. Copeia 2:367-375
Week
5 (Sept. 19 & 20)
1. Coomes, D.A. and Allen, R.B. 2007. Mortality and tree-size distributions in natural mixed-age forests. Journal of Ecology 95:27-40
2. Clutton-Brock, T.H., Illus, A.W.,
Week
6 (Sept. 26 & 27)
1. Parker I.M. 2000. Invasion dynamics of Cytisus scoparius: a matrix model approach. Ecological Applications 10:726-743
2. Tobin P.C. 2007. Space-time patterns during the establishment of a nonindigenous species. Population Ecology 49:257-263
Week
7 (Oct. 2-4)
1.
2. Fleishman E., Ray C., Sjogren-Gulve P., Boggs C.L., and Murphy D.D. 2002. Assesing the roles of patch quality, area, and isolation in predicting metapopulation dynamics. Conservation Biology 16:706-716
Week 8 (midterm)
Week 9 (Oct. 16-18)
1. Wiens J.A. 1977. On Competition and variable environments. American Scientist 65:590-597
2. Brewer S.J. 2003. Why don’t carnivorous pitcher plants compete with non-carnivorous plants for nutrients? Ecology 84:451-462.
Week 10 (Oct. 23-25)
1. Crooks K.R. and Soulé M.E. 1999. Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system. Nature 400:563-566
2. Navarrete S.A. and Berlow E.L. 2006. Variable interaction strengths stabilize marine community pattern Ecology Letters 9:526-536.
Week 11 (Oct. 30 & Nov. 1)
1. Knight T.M., McCoy M.W., Chase J.M., McCoy K.A. and Holt R.D. 2005. Trophic cascades across ecosystems. Nature 437:880-883.
2. Memmott J.,
Week 12 (Nov. 6-8)
1. Colden V. Baxter C.V., Fausch K.D., Murakami M. And Chapman P.L. 2004 fish invasion restructures stream and forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies. Ecology 85:2656–2663
2. Hubbell S.P. 2006. Neutral theory and the evolution of ecological equivalence. Ecology 87:1387–1398
Week 13 (Nov. 13-15)
1. Gleason H. A., 1926. The individualistic concept of the plant association. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 53: 7–26.
2. Leibold M.A., Holyoak M., Mouquet N., Amarasekare P., Chase J.M., Hoopes M.F. et al. 2004. The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecol. Lett. 7:601–613.
Week 14 (Nov. 27-29)
1. Holway D.A., and Suarez A.V. 2006. Homogenization of ant communities in Mediterranean California: the effects of urbanization and invasion. Biological Conservation 127:319-326.
2. Paine R.T., Tegner M.J. and Johnson E.A. 1998. Compounded Perturbations Yield Ecological Surprises. Ecosystems 1, no. 6: 535-45.
Week 15 (Dec. 4-6)
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