2009 Weekly Discussion Readings:

 

Week 1: No Discussion  
Week 2:

1) Kingsland, S. E. 1991. Defining ecology as a science. Pages 1-13 in L. A. Real and J. H. Brown, editors. Foundations of ecology: classic papers with commentaries. The University of Chicago Press, IL.

2) Simberloff, D. 2004. Community ecology: is it time to move on? The American Naturalist 163:787-799.

3) Turchin, P. 2001. Does population ecology have general laws? Oikos 94:17-26.

 discussion questions
Week 3:

1) Holmes, E.E., and A.E. York. 2003. Using Age Structure to Detect Impacts on Threatened Populations: a Case Study with Steller Sea Lions. Conservation Biology 17:1794-1806.

2) Werner, P.A, and H. Caswell. 1977. Population Growth Rates and Age versus Stage-Distribution Models for Teasel (Dipsacus Sylvestris huds.) . Ecology 58:1103-1111.

 discussion questions
Week 4:

1) Lytle, D.A., and D.M. Merritt. 2004. Hydrologic Regimes and Riparian Forests: a structured population model for cottonwood. Ecology 85:2493-2503.

2) Millspaugh, J.J, R.A. Gitzen, D.S. Licht, S. Amelon, T.W. Bonnot, D.S. Jachowski, D.T. Jones-Farrand, B.J. Keller, C.P. McGowan, M.S. Pruett, C.D. Rittenhouse, and K.M. Suedkamp Wells. 2008. Effects of Culling on Bison Demographics in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. Natural Areas Journal 28: 240-250.

 discussion questions
Week 5:

1) Long E.S., D.R. Diefenbach, C.S. Rosenberry, and B.D. Wallingford. 2008. Multiple proximate and ultimate causes of natal
dispersal in white-tailed deer. Behavioral Ecology 19:1235-1242.

2) Guo, Q., Brown, J. H. and Enquist, B. J. 1998. Using constraint lines to characterize plant performance. Oikos 83: 237-245.

  
Week 6: 1) Parker, I.M. 2000. Invasion dynamics of cytisus scoparius: a matrix model approach. Ecological Applications, 10(3): 726–743

2) Liebhold, A.M., and P.C. Tobin. 2008. Population Ecology of Insect Invasions and Their Management. Annual Review of Entomology. 53:387–408

  
Week 7: 1) Hanski. I. 2001. Spatially realistic theory of metapopulation ecology. Naturwissenschaften, 88: 372–381

2) Bulman, C.R., R.J. Wilson, A.R. Holt, L.G. Bravo, R.I. Early, M.S. Warren, and C.D. Thomas. 2007. Minimum viable metapopulation size, extinction debt, and the conservation of a declining species. Ecological Applications 17:1460 - 1473

  
Week 8: No discussion – Midterm Exam  
Week 9: 1) Fargiome, J., adn D. Tilman. 2005. Niche differences in phenology and rooting depth promote coexistene with a dominant C4 bunchgrass. Oecologia 143: 598 - 606

2) Wiens, J.A. 1977. On Competition and variable environments. American Scientist 65:590 - 597

  
Week 10: 1) Power, M.E., D. Tilman, J.A. Estes, B.A. Menge, W.J. Bond, L.S. Mills, G. Daily, J.C. Castilla, J. Lubchenco, and R.T. Paine 1996. Challenges in the Quest for Keystones. BioScience 48: 609-620

2) Persson,L., P. Amundsen, A.M. De Roos, A. Klemetsen,
R. Knudsen, R. Primicerio. 2007. Culling Prey Promotes Predator Recovery—Alternative States in a Whole-Lake Experiment. Science 316: 1743 - 1746

  
Week 11: 1) Letourneau, D.K., L.A. Dyer, and G. Vega C. 2004. Indirect effects of a top predtor on rain forest understory plant communities. Ecology 85(5): 2144-2152.

2) Navarrete, S.A., and E.L. Berlow. 2006. Variable interaction strengths stabilize marine community pattern. Ecology Letters 9: 526-536.

  
Week 12: 1) Baxter, C.V, K.D. Fausch, M. Murakami, and P.L. Chapman. 2004. Fish invasion restructures stream adn forest food webs by interrupting reciprocal prey subsidies. Ecolgoy 85(10): 2656 - 2663.

2) Funk, J.L., E.E. Cleland, K.N. Suding, and E.S. Zavaleta. 2008. Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance. Trends in Ecolgoy and Evolution 23(12): 695 - 703.

  
Week 13:    
Week 14:    
Week 15:    
     
     
     

 

 

Return to:

EY 600 Web Page

Colorado State University Home Page

Web Page for Dr. Kurt Fausch