Zoology 485: Evolutionary Ecology
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Syllabus [pdf]
Lectures [pdf]
Updated schedule [pdf]
- 01/14/2009 [pdf]
- 01/16/2009 [pdf]
- 01/21/2009 [pdf]
- 01/23/2009 [pdf]
- 01/30/2009 Problem review
- 02/04/2009 [pdf]
- 02/06/2009 [pdf]
- 02/09/2009 The 12th is Charles Darwin's Birthday! Please try to attend the Darwin Day festivities on campus this week.
- 02/11/2009 [pdf]
- 02/20/2009 [pdf]
- 02/23-25/2009 [pdf]
- 03/23-25/2009 [pdf]
Papers
- 01/14/2009 [optional] Orians 1962
- 02/13/2009 [required] Vellend and Geber (2005)
- 03/23/2009 [required] Stearns (1989)
- 03/23/2009 [required] Conover and Schultz (1995)
- 03/23/2009 [required] Billerbeck et al (2001)
- 03/23/2009 [required] Lankford et al (2001)
- 03/25/2009 [required] Grant and Grant (1993)
- 03/25/2009 [required] Grant and Grant (1995)
- 03/30/2009 [required] Walther et al (2002)
- 03/30/2009 [required] Visser and Holleman (1998)
- 04/01/2009 [required] Grant (1972)
- 04/01/2009 [required] Wilson (1961)
- 04/06/2009 [required] Schluter (1996)
- 04/06/2009 [required] Losos et al (1994)
- 04/06/2009 [required] Losos et al (1998)
- 04/08/2009 required] NO CLASS, instead please attend Matt Leibold's departmental seminar on Thur, 4/9, "Evolutionary ecology of meta-communities." Also, a pdf of a relevant paper can be found here. If you cannot attend the seminar, please read the pdf regardless. A question will appear on the final exam from this material.
- 04/13/2009 [required] Stearns (2000)
- 04/15/2009 [required] Gould and Lewontin (1979)
- 04/15/2009 [required] Mayr (1983)
- 04/20/2009 [required] Pianka (1970)
- 04/20/2009 [required] Hairston et al (1970)
- 04/20/2009 [required] Pianka (1972)
- 04/20/2009 [required] Wilbur et al (1974)
- 04/22/2009 [required] Reznick et al (2002)
- 04/29/2009 [required] Maynard Smith (1979)
- 04/29/2009 [required] Laroche et al. (2009)
Homework
- homework 1 [pdf]
- homework 2 [pdf]