BIOL 4120

Ecology

STUDY TOOLS

The author of the textbook maintains a website at http://www.prenhall.com/stiling with supplementary information for all chapters (with quiz materials) and your instructor has also contributed supplementary material (accessible through the ecology course syllabus page on this website)


LINKS FOR LECTURES NOTES AND LABORATORY INSTRUCTIONS

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Evolution Introduction

Lecture 3 The Physical Environment

Lecture 4 The Aquatic Environment

Lecture 5 The Terrestrial Environment

Lecture 6 Plant Adaptations

Lecture 7 Animal Adaptations

Lecture 8 Life History

Lecture 9 Population

Lecture 10 Population Growth

Lecture 11 Population Regulation

Lecture 12 Meta-populations

Lecture 13 Competition

Lecture 14 Predation and Herbivory

Lecture 15 Symbioses

Lecture 16 Communities

Lecture 17 Succession

Lecture 18 Ecosystems

Lecture 19 Landscape Ecology

Lecture 20 Terrestrial Ecosystems

Lecture 21 Aquatic Ecosystems

Peterson Functional Response Lab

 

 

 

Laboratory Instructions

Introduction to Spreadsheets

Spreadsheet Graphics

Demography lab

Estimating Population Size

Spatial Pattern in the Forest lab  (data 1 & data 2)

Functional Response lab

Plant Competition lab

Mimicry lab

Ecological Simulation Lab

SPECIAL TOPICS

Modeling Exponential Population Growth

Modeling Density-Dependent Growth

Diversity Indices

Paper/Presentation description

Effective Population Size

Rarefaction

Data from Lab 6 on Spatial Patterns

Data from Lab 7 on Functional Response

Introduction to the Examination Format

Plant Competition Lab Data-set

Peterson Intro To Spreadsheets

Peterson Spreadsheet Graphics  

Spreadsheet Graphics Data

 

 

 





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