Lab News and Readings |
FALL 2008 Lab News
- Congratulations to Shelley and Marcus for submitting their theses, Bon Voyage! (12/9)
- Congratulations to Emily for successfully advancing! (12/5)
- Congratulations to Marcus on successfully defending his thesis! (11/24)
- Welcome to new lab members, Heather Blair and Angela Calderado, who will be working on vernal pool community ecology. (11/7)
- Congratulations to Shelley on successfuly defending her thesis! (11/7)
- Wildlife Society Meeting at CSUS on Wednesday, November 5. Sarah, Shelley, and Byron are giving talks. (11/3)
- Two new grad students added to the lab: Angela Calderado (connectivity in vernal pools) and Heather Stiles (invasion/restoration in sub-alpine meadows) (11/3)
- Congratulations to Clara on sucessfully defending her thesis! Have a safe trip back to Colombia, we'll miss you around here. (10/24)
- Bio 160 Field Ecology Class at Eagle Lake Field Station is being advertised for Summer 2009. There needs to be a minimum of 12 for the class to go. Click here to see flyer.
- Emily, Elif, and Sarah run the Carnivorous Plant workshop at the Expanding Your Horizons Conference on 10/4. We hear it was a great time. Thanks! We're still waiting for the footage of Emily on TV.
- Kneitel in DC from 10/1-10/4
- Our field season in the Van Vleck Meadows ends on a great note, but with a little car trouble- have an hour to hear the story? (8/17)
- Marcus is quoted in USAToday article on power lines and birds (6/26)
- Emily is off to Guyana for the summer to do research (6/26)
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Fall 2008 Lab Meetings:
Mondays at 3 in SQU 38
(Lab Meetings include the EEC Discussion Group)
*In Spring 2009, we will be reading "Foundations of Ecology", email me for more information
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Date |
Reading (email me for pdf) |
Leader |
9/8 |
Organizational Meeting + Kikvidze et al (2005) Linking patterns and processes in alpine plant communities: a global study. Ecology 86: 1395-1400 |
Jamie |
9/15 |
Eros (2007) Partitioning the diversity of riverine fish: the roles of
habitat types and non-native species. Freshwater Biology 52: 1400-1415 |
Elif |
9/22 |
Peres (2001) Effects of Subsistence Hunting on Vertebrate Community Structure in Amazonian Forests. Conservation Biology 14: 240-253 |
Emily |
9/29 |
Quested et al (2003) DECOMPOSITION OF SUB-ARCTIC PLANTS WITH DIFFERING NITROGEN
ECONOMIES: A FUNCTIONAL ROLE FOR HEMIPARASITES. Ecology 84: 3209–3221 |
Jim |
10/6 |
McNeil & Fairweather (1993) Single large or several small reserves? An experimental approach with seagrass fauna. J Biogeography 20: 429-440 |
Clara |
10/13 |
Leroux & Loreau (2008) Subsidy hypothesis and strength of trophic cascades
across ecosystems. Ecology Letters 11: 1147-1156. |
Jamie |
10/20 |
Practice defense talk |
Clara |
10/27 |
Rist et al. (2008) Evaluating measures of hunting effort in a bushmeat system. Biological Conservation 141: 2086-2099. |
Emily |
11/3 |
Practice defense talk |
Shelley |
11/10 |
Practice advancement talk |
Emily |
11/17 |
Kraft et al. (2008) Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest. Science 322: 580-582 |
Jim |
11/25 |
Behrens and Lafferty (2007). Temperature and diet effects on omnivorous fish
performance: implications for the latitudinal
diversity gradient in herbivorous fishes. Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci. 64: 867–873
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Elif |
12/1 |
Manuscript |
Jamie |
12/8 |
McCoy et al (2008) Predator shadows: complex life histories as generators of spatially
patterned indirect interactions across ecosystems. Oikos online |
Jamie |
12/15 |
We will meet again in the Spring Semester and will be reading "Foundations of Ecology", email me for more information |
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