Assigned readings for Community Ecology 

BSC 405 (Fall 2008)

 

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Last update:  Nov. 2008

Reading assignments are organized by week

Week 1.                        Salt 1983 Am. Nat.     

Lab 1. 
(Habitat complexity)   Kadmon & Allouch 07 Am. Nat.    
    O'Connor 91 Oecologia (hard copy only)           

Week 2.                       Lawler 1993. J. Anim. Ecol.            Chase & Leibold 2002. Nature                Tilman 1996.  Ecology

Week 3.                        Preproposal example #1                 Preproposal example #2

Lab 2.
(R* and competition)    
Tilman & Wedin 1991 Ecology.         Livdahl & Sugihara 1984. J. Anim. Ecol.                 Juliano 1998.  Ecology.

Week 4.

Lab 3.
(modeling)                       Leibold 1996 Am. Nat.           

Week 5.                           Miller et al. 2005 Am. Nat.   

Week 6.                            Gurevitch et al. 1992       

Week 7.                             Tilman & Wedin 1991 Ecology.     Petren & Case 1996  Ecology       Pacala & Roughgarden 1985 Ecology        Schluter 1994 Science

Week 8.                            NEW! Now with budgets and biosketches

                                           Diss. Proposal example #1    Diss. Proposal example #2    Diss. Proposal example #3

Week 9.                             Bohannon & Lenski 2000        Leibold 1996 Am. Nat.                                                   

Week 10.                             Knight et al.  2005                Knight et al.  Supplement                  Wootton 1994         Preisser et al 2005

                                            Diehl & Feisse 2001                        Croll et al. 2005         

Week 11.                          Biosketches and budget from a large grant                Modeling Paper - Example

Week 12.                             Morris et al 2007        DaughertyJuliano02                  

Week 13.                              Habitat Heterogeneity example.pdf             

Week 14.                                Adler et al 07                 Leibold et al. 04 {NOT REQUIRED}