Ecology Assignments

Read for Content: (Syllabus Order of Presentation)

• SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTBOOK: Basic Ecology (Various Authors)
• Before Darwin (Original or On Site)
• Flower communities lab (due in three weeks; also available in jive).    (Assignment)
• Falls of the Ohio Field Trip and Laboratory.    (Assignment)
• Ecology Intro
• Introduction to Ecology I: Distributions.

• Introduction to Ecology II: Population Growth

• Competition Simulation

  • Read these tomes on Character displacement <== OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENT!!
    • Wiki Character Displacement
    • Ecological Character Displacement and the Study of Adaptation PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND CONDITIONS OUTLINED FOR CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT!!!

  • Territorial Behavior

    • Home Range

    • Territories

      • Lek

      • Lek Pix

    • Mechanisms

      • Wolves

      • Lemurs

      • Acacia ants (There are PIX here)

      • Honey Locust

  • Social Behavior

  • Degrees of Relationship and Kin Selection

  • Game Theory: Introduction and Model   (Assignment)

• Predation Simulation

  • Plants Attract Parasitic Wasps

  • Plant Defense (Short Version)

  • Plant Defense Against Herbivory

  • Plant Defense Strategies (on site)

  • Cellular Automata Assignment
    • Majority
    • Predator-Prey Model

• Introduction to Ecology III: Food Webs  <== THE LAST TEST STARTS HERE!

  • Stability and Complexity

  • First Book of System Design  

• Introduction to Ecology IV: Energy and Nutrient Flow     

  • Iron and Plankton (News story here)

  • Species Extinctions Could Reduce Plant Productivity by Half

  • The Protists Pond Water Laboratory pix for in the lab or review (do NOT print out) Pond Ecosystem Link (Good stuff on Nutrient Cycling)

  • Owl pellet laboratory: Examination of a food web. (a PDF is here) I

  • Read Dino Parents and T. rex growth spurt in Secret Readings

  • Dino Hearts (If link is gone, part of the article is here)

• So, what's wrong with the world anyway?   

• Global Warming 

• Water Pollution and Effects on the Vinegar Eel, Turbatrix aceti

• Marine Productivity Model.

• Working Climate Model from NASA (free)