IB250 Spring 2005

IB 250 Food Webs and Landscapes, Spring 2005
Mondays 1:30-3:00

4110 VLSB

Instructor:

Mary Power

office: 4184 VLSB
e-mail: mepower@socrates.berkeley.edu

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Schedule:

Updated: 4/15/05

Date:	Topic:	Readings:	Discussion Leader(s):
1/17/05	Introduction and organization
1/31/05	Overview and definitions: Strong interactions and food chain length	Shurin et al. 2002, Polis et al. 2000, Berlow et al. 1999	Mary Power
2/7/05	Productivity and food chain length	Carpenter et al. 1985, Fretwell 1977, Pastor and Bridgeham 1999	Sandra Clinton
2/14/05	Disturbance and food chain length	Marks et al. 2000, Spiller and Agrawal 2003, Schneider and Frost 1996	Mike Park, Jack Sculley
2/21/05	Presidents’ Day
2/28/05	Environmental context (terrestrial vs. aquatic, open vs. closed, the nature of boundaries)	Strayer et al. 2003, Stapp and Polis 2003, Schoener 1989	Andrea Swei
3/7/05	Consumer traits (bioenergetics, efficiencies, body size)	Beckerman et al. 1997, Schmitz 2002, Ovadia and Schmitz 2002, Schmitz 2003	Os Schmitz, Blake Suttle
3/14/05	Food quality (stoichiometry, defense)	Sterner and Elser 2002 (Chapter 3), Sterner and Elser 2002 (Chapter 7), Urabe et al. 2002	Maria Goodrich
3/21/05	Spring Break
3/28/05	Life histories, ontogenetic niche shifts and tropho-species issues	Mittelbach et al. 1988, Raimondi et al. 2000	Matt Daugherty
4/4/05	Species impacts, including ecosystem or landscape ‘engineering’	Ernest & Brown 2001, Castilla 1999, Power et al. 1996	Camille McNeely, Aaron Haiman
4/11/05	Cross habitat fluxes	David 1998, Meyer 1983, Nakano 2001	Mike Limm
4/18/05	Climate change and food webs	Sculley and Powell manuscript, Post et al. 1999, Schmitz et al.2003	Jack Sculley, Blake Suttle
4/25/05	Food webs and watershed fluxes	Doyle et al. 2003, Flecker 1992, Vanni et al. 2002, Flecker et al. 2002, *Directions to Mary's Crib*	Alex Flecker, Steve Thomas, Mary Power