BASIC CONCEPTS IN ECOLOGY 
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 507 Section#33583 
SPRING 1998

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Date		Topic (Lecturer)				
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Jan. 14  	Introduction, pretest, Physiological ecology (LG&MP)
Jan. 21		Plant physiological ecology  (LG)	                                  
Jan. 26		Biophysical ecology and animal physiological ecology (LG)
Jan. 28		Population Ecology: Basic Models (LG)
Feb. 2		Animal Population Biology: Survey of data (LG)			
Feb. 4		Plant Population Biology: Survey of data (LG)
Feb. 9		Population Structure 1: Age (LG)		
Feb. 11		Population Structure 2: Size (LG)	
Feb. 16		Population Structure 3: Space (LG)
Feb. 18		Discussion: Population and physiological ecology
Feb. 23		Community Ecology: Basic Models (LG)
Feb. 25		Predator-Prey (MP)
Mar. 2		Insect/arachnid communities (Dr. Susan Riechert)
Mar. 4		Competition (MP)
Mar. 9		Test
Mar. 11		Conservation ecology (Dr. Stuart Pimm)
Mar. 16		Invasions and what they tell us about community structure
			(Dr. Dan Simberloff)
Mar. 18		Food Webs (MP)
Mar. 30		Community assembly  (Dr. James Drake)		
Apr. 1		Commensalism and Symbiosis (MP)
Apr. 6		Succession (MP) and Discussion: Community Ecology		
Apr. 8		Ecosystems I (MP)
Apr. 13		Marine ecosystems (Dr. Walker Smith)
Apr. 15		Host parasite interactions (LG)
Apr. 20		Ecosystems II (MP)
Apr. 22		Global ecology (MP)
Apr. 27		Landscape ecology (MP)
Apr. 29		Discussion: Ecosystems
May 4		Computer Project Presentations