Biology 331 - Fall 2000

Ecology Seminar

Reading List

Required textbooks can be purchased at The Odyssey Bookshop, in the Village Commons

The required readings are in a binder in Clapp 8 and also on reserve in the library

Optional textbooks are on reserve in the library

Textbooks (required)

Gotelli, N. J., and G. R. Graves. 1996. Null models in ecology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Hilborn, R., and M. Mangel. 1997. The ecological detective: confronting models with data. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

 

Textbooks (optional; copies are on reserve; order on your own if you want to own them)

Day, R. A. 1994. How to write and publish a scientific paper, 4th edition. Oryx Press.

Gotelli, N. J. 1998. A primer of ecology, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

Supplemental readings (required; on electronic reserve; and in a binder in Clapp 8)

Berryman, A. A. 1992. The origins and evolution of predator-prey theory. Ecology 73: 1530-1535.

Bertness, M. D. and R. M. Callaway. 1994. Positive interactions in communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:191-193.

Chapin, F. S., III, O. E. Sala, I. C. Burke, J. P. Grime, D. U. Hooper, W. K. Lauenroth, A. Lombard, H. Mooney, A. R. Mosier, S. Naeem, S. W. Pacala, J. Roy, W. I. Steffen, and D. Tilman. 1998. Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity. BioScience 48: 45-52.

Fox, B. J., and J. H. Brown. 1993. Assembly rules for functional groups in North American desert rodent communities. Oikos 67: 358-370.

Fox, B. J., and J. H. Brown. 1995. Reaffirming the validity of the assembly rule for functional groups or guilds: Reply to Wilson. Oikos 73: 125-132.

Ginzburg, L. R., and H. R. Akçakaya. 1992. Consequences of ratio-dependent predation for steady-state properties of ecosystems. Ecology 73: 1536-1543.

Hairston, N. G., F. E. Smith, and L. B. Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94: 421-425.

Hutchinson, G. E. 1949. Circular causal systems in ecology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 51: 221-246.

Vitousek, P. M., J. D. Aber, R. W. Howarth, G. E. Likens, P. A. Matson, D. W. Schindler, W. H. Schlesinger, and D. G. Tilman. 1997. Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: sources and consequences. Ecological Applications 7: 737-750.

Weiher, E., G. D. P. Clarke, and P. A. Keddy. 1998. Community assembly rules, morphological dispersion, and the coexistence of plant species. Oikos 81: 309-322.

Weiner, J., and S. C. Thomas. 1986. Size variability and competition in plant monocultures. Oikos 47: 211-222.

Wilson, J. B. 1995. Null models for assembly rules: The Jack Horner effect is more insidious than the Narcissus effect. Oikos 72: 139-144.