Dr. Borrett's teaching schedule:

Fall 2009

Bio602 Ecological Thought: Past to Present

Biol366-204 Ecology Laboratory

SEE Laboratory Meetings. This fall the laboratory will be meeting weekly to discuss readings and research methods for systems ecology, ecological network analysis, and theoretical ecology.

Past Courses

• 2008. UNCW. Bio366 Ecology.

• 2008. UNCW. Bio495 Bringing Home the Biosphere.

• 2007. UNCW. Bio534 Advanced Ecology.

• 2006. Stanford University. Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling. Undergraduate and graduate course. Co-instructor: K.R. Arrigo. Stanford, CA.

• 2003. Institute of Ecology. Ecological Thought: Past to Present. Required course for ecology graduate students. Co-instructors: B.C. Patten, S.J. Whipple. Athens, GA. syllabus

• 2003. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Ecosystem Complexity in the Marine Environment – Seeking an Answer to the Question: What is Biocomplexity? Three week short course for undergraduate and graduate students. Co-instructors: P.G. Verity, M.E. Frischer, B.C. Patten, S.J. Whipple. Skidaway, GA.

• Guest Lecturer and Teaching Assistant. 2002. Institute of Ecology. Theory of Systems Ecology. Graduate course. Professor: B.C. Patten. Athens, GA.

SEE Lab Meetings Fall 2009

During the fall of 2009, SEEL will be meeting weekly on Mondays at 10 am in Friday Hall RM 1017. We will be reading and discussing papers on theoretical ecology as well as ongoing work in the lab

Our planned schedule follows along with links to the readings.

Meeting #	Date	Discussion Leader	Topic	Materials/Papers
1	Aug. 24
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The Extended Ecology Laboratory at UNCW is a group of biologists/ecologists who meet regularly to discuss ongoing research and topics in ecology. All UNCW faculty and students are welcome to join. These meetings provide an informal opportunity to present, discuss, and constructively critique current work, interesting papers, presentation for meetings, etc.

This web page lists our scheduled meetings, topics and will have links to any papers or materials for our discussion.

If you would like to join our list serve for activity announcments, please visit http://lists.uncw.edu/mailman/listinfo/eel

Fall 2009 Schedule

Meeting #	Date	Discussion Leader	Topic	Materials/Papers
1	Oct. 12	T. Lewis	artificial reef system (dobo 131)

BIO 534 :: Advanced Ecology :: Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling

Syllabus

Project, Example Manuscript

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Readings/Assignments Due
Introduction
1	Aug. 21	Introduction
2	26	Models and Science	Jackson et al. 2000
3	28	Sick Day
4	Sept. 2	Model Type & Use (discussion)	Carpenter and Kitchell 1987, Whipple et al. 2007, Lindeman 1942, Sillman et al. 2005
5	4	System Conceptualization	FEM Ch4
Quantitative Models
6	9	Population Growth	Gotelli Ch1
7	11	Intraspecific Competition (logistic)	Gotelli Ch2
8	16	Control functions
9	18	Catch up & Quiz 1
10	23	Structured Populations	Gotelli Ch3
11	25	Interspecific Competition	Gotelli Ch5
12	30	Predation	Gotelli Ch6
13	Oct. 2	Reading Discussion	Fussman et al. 2000: Shertzer et al. 2002
	7	Fall Break
14	9	Project Topic Presentations	Project Task 1: Topic Selection
15	14	Three state variable models: Putting the pieces together
Confronting Models with Data and Model Evaluation
16	16	Environmental Forcing, Parameterization, and Calibration	DMB Ch9
17	21	Model Evaluation	Oreskes 1994; Ginzburg 2003
18	23	Model Analysis	Reckhow 1994
19	28	Inductive Process Modeling
Advanced Topics and Paper Discussions
20	30	Catch-up & Quiz 2	Project Task 2: Proposal
21	Nov. 4	Ecosystem Network Analysis	Fath & Patten 1999
22	6	PD: Matt	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2641143
23	11	PD: Andria	http://www.pnas.org/content/87/24/9610.full.pdf+html
24	13	PD: Liz	http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121421668/PDFSTART
25	18	PD: Lisa	choisy&rohani2006.pdf
26	20	PD: Tyler	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.06.031
27	25	PD: Nikolai	http://www.springerlink.com/content/l48k3n8162m4p631/fulltext.pdf
	27	Thanksgiving
28	Dec 2	PD: Dave & Course Summary	Adler & Drake 2008 Environmental Variation, Stochastic Extinction, and Competitive Coexistence Project Task 2: Final Report DUE
29	11	11:30 Final Exam	Project Task 4: Oral Report DUE

BIO 534L :: Advanced Ecology Laboratory:: Fundamentals of Ecological Modeling

Syllabus

Project

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Readings
1	Aug. 21	Lab 1: Getting Started with R	DMB Laboratory Manual; CRAN; Emacs; Tinn-R
2	28	Lab 2: Math Warm Up	Mangle 2006 (Ch1)
3	Sept. 4	Review Lab 1 and 2; Catch Up
4	11	Lab 3: Simulation Techniques, Errors, and Chaos R Files: bio534-euler-exp-growth.r, exponential.r, exponential-run.r	MBS-Ch6-Mistakes computers make (pp. 107-118); Otto&Day-chaos; DMB Lab Manual - section 13
5	18	...continued
6	25	...continued
7	Oct. 2	Lab 5: Two state-variable models
	7	Fall Break
8	9	...continued
9	16	Lab 6: Confronting Models with Data
10	23	Lab 7: Three state-variable models	Beisner et al. 2003
11	30	...continued
12	6	Field Trip: System conceptualization
13	13	work on final projects
14	20	work on final projects
	27	Thanksgiving
15	Dec. 11	3 pm Final Exam	Project Task 4: Oral Report

BIOL366 Fall 2009

Date	Laboratory	Notes
Aug. 21	Sampling Sedentary Organisms	Introduction PDF
Aug. 31	Forest Sampling (Part 1)	Introduction PDF
Sept. 14	Forest Sampling (Part 2)	Introduction PDF
Sept. 21	Forest Data Analysis	Introduction PDF
Sept. 28	Capture-Removal Sampling	Introduction PDF
Oct. 12	Mark-Recapture Sampling (Snail Lab)
Oct. 19	Indirect measures
Oct. 26	Wetlands
Nov. 2	Barrier Island Ecology
Nov. 9	Association and Dispersion	Data
Nov. 16	Island Biogeography	Supplement ExcelModel
Nov. 30	Lab Exam

Grading (as in syllabus)

Item	Points
10 Lab Assignments	100
Forest Laboratory Report	20
Laboratory Exam	50
total	170

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This information is an archive of material from Spring 2009

BIOL 366 :: Ecology Laboratory

Syllabus

Laboratory Report Assignment

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Reading/Assignments
1	Jan 12-16	Scientific Method & Describing a Population	Molles 2005; Missing pages from Kingsolver text (pp 8-9)
2	Jan 19-24	MLK Day; Library Labs	see the library lab schedule below
3	Jan 26-30	Sampling Sedentary Organisms
4	Feb 2-6	Forest Ecology I: Hypothesis development and sampling design	photo1; photo2; Assessment Rubric
5	Feb 9-13	Forest Ecology II: Sampling
6	Feb 16-20	Data Analysis	Gotelli and Ellison
7	Feb 23-27	Indirect Measures of Population Size (HV-Henwood)
8	Mar 2-6	Ecological Communities Part 1	Draft Forest Report Due
	Mar 9-13	Spring Break - No Lab
9	Mar 16-20	Ecological Communities Part 2
10	Mar 23-27	Ecological Communities Part 3
11	Mar 30-Apr 3	Island Biogeography
	Apr 6-10	Easter Break - No Lab
12	Apr 13-17	Wetland Communities	Final Forest Report Due
13	Apr 20-24	Barrier Island Ecology
	Apr 27-May 1	No Labs

Library Lab Schedule

These laboratories are taught by Peter Fritzler, a sciences librarian at UNCW.

BIO 366-201, Tuesday, January 20 from 2-5:00pm in Randall Library 1022

BIO 366-202, Wednesday, January 21 from 11-2:00pm in S&B 221

BIO 366-203, Wednesday, January 21 from 2-5:00pm in Hoggard Hall 249

BIO 366-204, Thursday, January 22 from 2-5:00pm in Randall Library 1022

BIO 366-200, Friday, January 23 from 11-2pm and 2-5:00pm in Randall Library 1022 (makeup sessions)

Syllabus

Participation (updated April 21, 2009)

Species Resume Assignment; Species already selected

Exams

Ecological Careers

State of Nations Ecosystems

Assessement Progress

May 9, 2009 - final grades posted

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Readings/Assignments Due
I. Introduction
1	8-Jan	Introductions: Biosphere and Diversity of Life
2	13-Jan	Nature of Ecology	Ch 1; Syllabus
3	15-Jan	Evolution and Adaptation	Ch2
II. Organisms and their Physical-Chemical Environment
	20-Jan	Snow Day
4	22-Jan	Niche and Climate	Ch3; Begon et al. p.30-31 and p.86-88
5	27-Jan	Aquatic Environments	Ch4
6	29-Jan	Terrestrial Environments	Ch5
7	3-Feb	Nutrient Cycles :: Macro Nutrients (CHONPS) :: Carbon	Beedlow et al. 2004; Ch22 p. 474-483
8	5-Feb	Nutrient Cycles :: Macro Nutrients (CHONPS)	Ch22
9	10-Feb	EXAM I
10	12-Feb	Life History Patterns // Exam I Review	Ch8
III. Populations and Interactions
11	17-Feb	Population Properties and Growth	Ch9 and 10
12	19-Feb	Regulation and Intraspecific Competition; Living Graphs	Ch11
13	24-Feb	Interspecific Competition	Ch13
14	26-Feb	Interspecific continued
15	3-Mar	Interspecific continued
16	5-Mar	Predation	Ch14
	10-Mar	Spring Break :: no class
	12-Mar	Spring Break :: no class
IV. Communities
17	17-Mar	Symbioses: Parasitism and Mutualism	Ch15
18	19-Mar	Community Attributs and Structure	Ch16
19	24-Mar	EXAM II
20	26-Mar	Food Webs	TBD
21	31-Mar	Community Structure	Ch17
V. Ecosystems
22	2-Apr	Community Dynamics and Succession	Ch18
23	7-Apr	Energetics and Organization	Ch20
	9-Apr	Easter Holiday :: no class
24	14-Apr	Energetics and Organization	Ch20
25	16-Apr	Guest Lecture: Jennifer Culbertson: Applied Ecology
26	21-Apr	Decomposition	Ch21
27	23-Apr	Summary/Review
VI. Final Exam
28	5-May	EXAM III (7-10 pm)
	9-May	Commencement

Previous Exams

I am making previous exams available as study aids. These exams should provide you with an idea of the kinds of quesitons I have asked before and what I tend to emphasize. Notice, however, that we may be covering differnet material, in a different order, and that I may change the format of the exams to accomodate new conditions (e.g. the class size).

Time	Exam
Sp08	Exam I
Sp08	Exam II
Sp08	Exam III
Sp09	Exam I v1 (mc answers & results; short essay answers)
Sp09	Exam II (mc answers, example_essays)
SP09	Exam III (mc_answers)

Schedule

#	Date	Topic	Readings	Exercises
1	20 Aug	Introductions	Syllabus
2	25	Scientific Origins	A. Kormondy (TOC; Introduction; Early Natural History) B. Kingsland 1991
3	27	Scientific Method	Ford 2000 chapter 16 (on library reserve)
4	1 Sept	Ecological Stoichiometry	A. Kormondy (Physical & Chemical Environment - Liebig, Blackman, Shelford, Geiger, Clarke, Oosting & Billings) B. Redfield 1958	Exercise 1: Concept Mapping
5	3		C. Reiners 1986 D. Elser et al. 2000 E. Striebel et al. 2009
6	8	Biosphere and Gaia	A. Lovelock and Margulis 1974 B. Charlson et al. 1987	Homework 1 Due
7	10		C. Kirchner
8	15	Density Dependence	A. Kormondy (Populations - Malthus, Verhulst, Birch, Nicholson, Hairston et al.) B. Caley et al. 1996 OR Murdoch et al. 1994	Han
9	17		C. Lopez-Sepulcre and Kokko 2005
10	22	Host-Parasite Interactions	A. Kormondy (Populations: Burkholder, Gause, Connell, Wheeler) B. May 1983	Exercise 2: Propositional Logic
11	24		C. Raffel et al.
12	29	Biodiversity and Ecosystem Fcn	A. Hutchinson 1959 B. Hooper et al. 2005
13	1 Oct		C. TBD	Homework 2 Due
	6	Fall Break
14	8	no class, work on homework 3
15	13	Community Assembly	A. Kormondy (Community - Clements, Braun-Blanquet and Furrer, Ramensky, Gleason) B. Leibold et al. 2004
16	15		C. Lepori & Malmqvist (other link)
17	20	Niche vs. Neutral Theory	A. Hutchinson 1957 B. Hubbell 2005	Homework 3 Due
18	22		C. Leibold and McPeek 2006 D. Gilbert et al.
19	27	Ecosystem Energetics	A. Kormondy (ecosystems - Evans, Transeau, Juday, Lindeman, Clarke, Odum) B. Schneider and Kay 1994
20	29		C. TBD	Homework 4 Due
21	3 Nov	Paleo Ecology (Christy)
22	5
23	10	IntraGuild Predation (Anne-Marie)
24	12
25	17	Microbial Ecology (Jess)	Paper 1, Paper 2
26	19		Paper 3, Paper 4, and Paper 5	Homework 5 Due
27	24	Reflection Presentations
	26	Thanksgiving
28	1	Reflection Presentations
	12-May	Commencement