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BIOL 303

Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Historical course

Winter 2017

Topics

  • Community & ecosystem ecology— conceptual frameworks
  • climate change on freshwater food webs using palaeolimnology (Guest
  • Winter ecology tutorial
  • processes - migration, dispersal, equilibrium theory (Guest lecture
  • Communities and Ecosystems
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Available class time for review
  • Production in terrestrial ecosystems (abiotic & biotic)
  • Net Primary Production and Decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems
  • Synthesis topics
  • Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem
  • Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem (discussion). ELLIS HALL
  • Climate change in the Arctic: The stoichiometry issue (discussion). ELLIS
  • microbial) community structure in the low Arctic
  • Synthesis topic: Global change ecology
  • Synthesis, and Review session
  • Evolution
2014-2015

Topics

  • L2: Community & ecosystem ecology—framework (PG)
  • L7: Winter ecology (PG)
  • Communities and Ecosystems
  • L13: Community response to environmental change: local and regional
  • L14: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (PG)
  • L15: Biodiversity discussion
  • Vellend et al. paper (PG)
  • Available class time for review
  • L17: Production in terrestrial ecosystems (abiotic & biotic) (PG)
  • L18: Decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems (PG)
  • L22: Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem (PG)
  • L23: Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem (discussion) (PG)
  • L25: Climate change in nitrogen cycling in the Arctic (PG)
  • L26: Invasion ecology (SA)
  • L27: Invasion ecology (discussion) (SA)
  • L28: Synthesis topic: Global change ecology (PG)
  • L29: Synthesis topic: Global change ecology (discussion) (PG)
2013-2014

Topics

  • L2: Community & ecosystem ecology—framework
  • Tutorial 1: Winter ecology
  • L9: Synthesis topic: Tar sands
  • L10: Synthesis topic: Tar sands (discussion)
  • L11: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Tutorial 2: Biodiversity experiment
  • L13: Production in terrestrial ecosystems (abiotic & biotic)
  • L14: Decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems
  • L17: Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem
  • L18: Synthesis topic: The phosphorus problem (discussion)
  • L24: Synthesis topic: Global change ecology
  • L25: Synthesis topic: Global change ecology (discussion)
  • Evolution
  • Natural selection
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