Course webpage: https://dallaslab.github.io/biol4253/

Principles of Ecology (Biol 4253)

Syllabus

Final project rubric

Youtube lectures (Spring 2021)

Github repo

Notes in PDF

• Lecture 01's notes

  • Reading: How to read a scientific article
  • Reading: What does ecology have to do with me?
  • Presentation

• Lecture 02's notes

  • Reading: A primer of ecology, Chapter 1-2
  • Presentation

• Lecture 03's notes

  • Reading: Demography in an increasingly variable world
  • Reading: Causes and consequences of dispersal in plants and animals
  • Presentation

• Lecture 04's notes

  • Reading: On the relationship between niche and distribution
  • Presentation

• Lecture 05's notes

  • Reading: Succession: a closer look
  • Reading: A primer of ecology. Chapter 9
  • Presentation

• Lecture 06's notes

  • Reading: A primer of ecology. Chapter 4
  • Optional reading: Equilibrium theory of island biogeography: A review
  • Presentation

• Lecture 07's notes

  • Reading: A primer of ecology. Chapter 6. pages 1-14
  • Presentation

• Lecture 08's notes

  • Reading: Disease Ecology
  • Oprtional reading: The influence of vector-borne disease on human history: socio‐ecological mechanisms; optional but highly recommended
  • Presentation

• Lecture 09's notes

  • Reading: Pascual, Mercedes, Jennifer A. Dunne, and Jennifer A. Dunne, eds. Ecological networks: linking structure to dynamics in food webs. pages 3-15
  • Presentation

• Lecture 10's notes

  • Reading: Global Change
  • Reading: Ecological responses to recent climate change
  • Presentation

• Lecture 11's notes

  • Reading: The what, how and why of doing macroecology
  • Reading: Macroecology to unite all life, large and small
  • Presentation