2009 Discussion Schedule |
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| Topic |
Discussion Leaders |
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| Week 1 (20-22
Jan) |
no discussion |
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| Week 2 (27-29
Jan) |
History and Theory in Ecology | Saunders and Fausch |
| Week 3 (3-5
Feb) |
Population Growth and Demography | Marshall |
| Week 4 (10-12
Feb) |
Age/Stage Structured Population Models and Population Regulation | Holfelder and Atkinson |
| Week 5 (17-19
Feb) |
Dispersal and Migration | York and Schoenecker |
| Week 6 (24-26
Feb) |
Biological Invasions - effects on populations | Hardy and Tuffly |
| Week 7 (3-5 Mar) |
Metapopulations | Buhnerkempe and Carlson |
| Week 8 (10-12
Mar) |
No discussion – Midterm Exam
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| Week 9 (24-26
Mar) |
Interspecific Competition | Slepetski and Hartman |
| Week 10 (31 Mar - 2
Apr) |
Predation | Brown and Groce |
| Week 11 (7-9
Apr) |
Food Webs and Indirect Effects | Williams and Hoyer |
| Week 12 (14-16
Apr) |
Spatial Subsidies and Community Assembly | Brewer and Kachergis |
| Week 13 (21-23 Apr) |
Plant Succession and Island Biogeography | Grant and Aoki |
| Week 14 (28-30 Apr) |
Biological Invasions and Disturbance
Ecology |
Erickson and Landcaster |
| Week 15 (5-7
May) |
Causes and Consequences of Diversity | Wilber and Guibault |
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