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Biology 146: Ecology Fall 2008
Taught by Dr. Donald A. McFarlane
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Wednesdays |
Fridays |
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Sept 3rd Exponential growth
NO LAB |
Sept 5th Logistic Growth |
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Sept 8th Abiotic Factors |
Sept 10th Competition Lab 1 :Growth |
Sept 12th Mutualism |
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Sept 15th Predation |
Sept 17th Herbivory Lab 2: Modeling |
Sept 19th Parasitism |
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Sept 22nd Disease |
Sept 24th Mortality Lab 3: Modeling predator and prey |
Sept 26th Sustainable Yield |
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Sept 29th Life History Strategies |
October 1st Population Regulation
Lab 4. Life tables |
Oct 3rd Community Types |
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Oct 6th Species Richness |
Oct 8th Diversity Lab 5: Biodiversity Indices
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Oct 10th Stability |
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Oct 13th NO CLASS
ASSIGNMENT 1 download
and
Wallaby reading download |
Oct 15th NO CLASS
NO LAB |
Oct 17th NO CLASS |
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Oct 20 th FALL BREAK
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Oct 22nd NO CLASS
NO LAB |
Oct 24th NO CLASS |
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Oct 27th Succession |
Oct 29th Trophic Structure Lab 6: Rank abundance and
rarefaction |
Oct 31st Energy Flow |
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Nov 3rd Nutrient Cycles |
Nov 5th Biogeography Lab 7: Mark release recapture |
Nov 7th island Biogeography |
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Nov 10th MIDTERM 2 |
Nov 12th Community Assembly Lab 8: Beta Diversity
and Nestedness |
Nov 14th Biological Control |
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Nov 17th Climate |
Nov 19th Paleoecology 1 NO LAB |
Nov 21st NO CLASS THANKSGIVING |
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Nov 24th Paleoecology 2 |
Nov 26th Carbon Cycle Lab 9: Adiabatic lapse rate |
Nov 28th Behavioral ecology |
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Dec 1st Ecology of Anolis |
Dec 3rd Ecology of the Serengeti |
Dec 5th OPEN |
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8th OPEN |
FINAL: Wed Dec 17th, 9:00am |
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