Ecology Assignments

MOVIE REVIEW LINKS          (ALL CLASSES INCLUDED)

Important resources    Your brain on ecology

Read for Content: (Syllabus Order of Presentation)

• SUPPLEMENTAL TEXTBOOK: Basic Ecology (Various Authors)
• Flower communities lab (due in three weeks; also available in jive). 
• Falls of the Ohio Field Trip and Laboratory.
• Ecology Intro 

• Population Growth

• Competition Simulation

  • Additional Competition Info

• Predation Simulation

  • Plants Attract Parasitic Wasps (Everything below this)

  • Plant Defense (Short Version)

  • Plant Defense Against Herbivory

  • Plant Defense Strategies (on site)

  • Cellular Automata  (NOTE: These require JAVA. Get the update if they don't run)
    • Majority (Look at this as a model of a single species dispersal)
    • Predator-Prey Model (Modify the operators suggested at the top. Use right-click for the buttons)
    • Block Extinctions (Play with block size to determine how birth rate influences rate of extinction)

• Introduction to Ecology III: Food Webs (Last Test Starts Here)

  • Networks in Biology  Read for content!!!

  • Stability and Complexity  Read for content!!!

  • Complex Systems and Biological Complexity Tutorials (National Academies)

  • First Book of System Design  

• Introduction to Ecology IV: Energy and Nutrient Flow     

  • Listen to me (REQUIRED): On the Origin of Community Structure (~ 9 min)

  • Monitoring Earth's Critical Zone

  • Iron and Plankton (News story here)

  • Species Extinctions Could Reduce Plant Productivity by Half

•   So, what's wrong with the world anyway? (Take this link for last test material)

• Pentagon Report (READ ME ASSIGNMENT)

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

• Marine Productivity Model.

• Working Climate Model from NASA (free)