PCB 5443

Advanced Ecology - Communities and Ecosystems

Spring 2014

Instructor: Jim Fourqurean, OE 225, jim.fourqurean@fiu.edu.

Syllabus

(to be updated as the semester progresses)

V1.01

Date	Topic	Discussion leader	Ricklefs and Miller	Hagen	Keller and Golley	Primary Literature	Assignments due
7-Jan	Class organization
9-Jan	The Ecosystem Concept		173-184	1-32	111-114, 171-202
14-Jan	Stoichiometry		41-76			Redfield 1958
16-Jan	Biogeochemistry 1: C		211-258			Chapin et al. 2006
21-Jan	Biogeochemistry 1 readings	Viviana				Troxler et al 2013, Attermeyer et al 2013
23-Jan	Meet Marine Ecology job candidate
28-Jan	Biogeochemistry of C, N						Synthesis #1
31-Jan	Biogeochemistry 2: N, P
4-Feb	Biogeochemistry 2 readings	Ben				Delgado-Baquerizo et al 2013, Ardon et al 2013
6-Feb	Biogeochemistry 3: S, Fe, Al, etc					Ruiz-Halpern et al 2008.
11-Feb	Energetics and Trophic dynamics		185-201	50-99		Elser et al 1996, Lindeman 1942, Hairston et al 1960, Carpenter et al 1985
13-Feb	Trophic dynamics readings	Sarah				Hessen et al 2013, Matich and Heithaus 2014
18-Feb	Food web ecology - tracers
20-Feb	Trait-mediated indirect effects					Dill et al. 2003, Preisser et al. 2005, Schmitz et al 2004, Hansen et al 2007	Synthesis #2
25-Feb	Trait-mediated indirect effects readings	Camila				Costello and Michel 2013, Winnie 2012
27-Feb	No class -
4-Mar	Succession and ecosystem development		564-587	33-49	21-33, 35-41, 42-54, 55-70	Connell and Slatyer 1977, Bazzaz 1979, Bormann and Likens 1979, Rejmanek and Leps 1996
6-Mar	Succession and ecosystem development readings	Nichole				Harvey and Holtzman 2014, Jones et al 2013	Synthesis #3
11-Mar	No class-Spring Break
13-Mar	No Class- Spring Break
18-Mar	Resource competition ecology 1		416-423			Tilman 1980, Tilman 1985, Miller et al. 2005, Cherif and Loreau, 2007
20-Mar	Resource competition ecology 2
25-Mar	Resource competition readings	Israel				Chen and Taylor 2012; Farrior et al 2013
27-Mar	Ecological Modeling		176-185 259-268	100-145		Fourqurean et al 2003, Cloern 2007, Herbert et al 2011
1-Apr	Ecological Modeling readings	Mario				Blamey et al 2014, Mukherjee et al 2012
3-Apr	Landscape Ecology					Turner 1989, 2005;	Synthesis #4
8-Apr	Landscape ecology readings	Brad				Huang et al 2014; Ehlers et al 2014
10-Apr	Biodiversity		539-618		101-110, 115-118, 119-123, 124-131	Tilman 1994, Tilman 1996, Volkov et al 2003, Hubbell 2006, Algar et al 2007, Hector et al 2002
15-Apr	Biodiversity  readings	Christine				Bynes et al 2014; Bush et al 2013
17-Apr	Human impacts on ecosystems		41-52, 203-226			Vitousek et al 1997, Tilman et al 2001, Galloway et al 2003, Osterblom et al 2007, Worm et al 2006, Estes et al 2011
	Human impacts readings	Emily				Kummu et al 2012, McClanahan and Humphries 2012	Synthesis #5
	†Ecological Economics					Costanza et al 1997, Kremen 2005, Farber et al 2006, Barkmann et al 2008, Ehrlich 2008
	†Ecological Economics readings	Nick				Edens and Hein 2013; Shuhmann et al 2013
Thursday 24-April	Synthesis assignment symposium	Nan, Shelby and				Meet in MSB 105, BBC campus