Aug 25 

Lead:  Greg

Aug 27

Readings: Redfield 1934, Redfield 1958.

Lead:  Greg

Sept 1

Readings:  Marañón 2015

Lead:  Greg

Sept 3 

Leads:  Rachel (Kleiber), Morgan (West)

Readings: Kleiber et al. 1947, Brown et al. 2004, West et al. 1997

Sept 8

Lead:  Greg

Readings: McMahon 1973, Prange 1979

Readings:  Meiri et al. 2003, White et al. 2007, Serrat et al. 2008

Sept 15

Blue Book Exam (1 hour)

Introduce Niche Theory (30 minutes)

Lead: Greg

Readings: Grinnell 1917 (chapter 5), Elton 1927, Hutchinson 1957 (chapter 8)

Sept 17:

Leads: Ethan, Syndey

Readings: Pulliam 2002, Holt 2009

Sept 22

Lead: Greg

Readings:  MacArthur 1958 (chapter 32), Tillman 1977

Sept 24

Leads: Riley, Dorothy

Readings: Amarasekare 2003, Levine et al. 2017

Sept 29

Lead: Greg

Readings: Wootton 1994, Ehrlich 1964

Oct 1

Leads: Morgan,  Anna

Readings: Werner_Peacor_2003, Bruno_etal_2003

Oct 6

Lead: Greg

Readings: Krebs et al. 1995, Murdoch 1994, Turchin 1999

Oct 8

Leads:  Riley, Arrow

Readings:  Coulson et al 2001, Hixon et al 2002

Oct 13

Leads:  Greg, Rachel

General Readings: Brown & Brown 1977, Hanski 1991, Pullium 1988

Student led paper: Hanski and Ovaskainen 2000

Oct 15

Leads:  Greg, Anna

General Readings: Watt 1947 (Chapter 31), Vellend 2010

Student led paper: Kraft et al. 2014

Oct 20

Oct 22 - No Class

Oct 27 

Readings: Allesian and Tang 2012, Hairston et al. 1960 (chapter 17), McCann 2000

Lead: Greg

Oct 29 

Readings: 

Discussion 1: Rooney et al. 2006

Discussion 2: Holt and Polis 1997, McCann and Hastings 1997

Leads: Sydney, Dorothy

Nov 3

Readings: Williams 1957, Stearns 1976.  Additional background: Stearns 1989

Lead: Greg

Nov 5

Readings: Noordwijk et al. 1986, Reznick et al 1985, Smith & Fretwell 1974

Leads: Ethan, Anna

Nov 12

Readings:  Monaghan et al. 2009, Wright et al. 2018, Healy et al. 2014

Leads: Rachel, Ethan

Nov 17

Lead: Greg

Nov 19

Leads: Morgan, Dorothy

Nov 24

Lead: Greg

Dec 1

Leads: Sydney, Arrow

Blue Book Exam (1.5 hours)

Dec 3