Zoology Graduate Orientation Seminar

Week	Topic	Discussion leader
Aug 30	Orientation	Craig Osenberg
Sept 06	no class
Sept 13	Murdoch et al. 2005. Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration. Science 309:610-613 and supplement.	Craig Osenberg
Sept 20	Grenfell et al. 2001. Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics. Nature 414:716-723 and supplement.	Nat Seavy
Sept 27	Saether and Bakke 2000. Avian Life history variation and contribution of demographic traits to the population growth rate. Ecology 81:642-653.	Ian Fiske & Christine Stracey
Oct 04	Estes et al. 1998. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science 282:473-476. Springer et al. 2003. Sequential megafauna collapse... PNAS 100:12223-12228.	Jackson Frechette
Oct 11	Peacor and Werner 2001. The contribution of trait-mediated indirect effects to the net effects of a predator. PNAS 98:3904-3908.	Holly Kindsvater
Oct 18	Chesson 2000. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:343-366.	Smriti Bhotika
Oct 25	Tilman 1999. The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: a search for general principles. Ecology 80:1455-1474.	Jada White
Nov 01	Loreau and Hector 2001. Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature 413:548-548.	Sarah Haas
Nov 08	Mittelbach et al. 2001. What is the observed relationships between species richness and productivity? Ecology 82:2381-2396.	Hardin Waddle
Nov 15	Elser et al. 2000. Biological stoichiometry from genes to ecosystems. Ecology Letters 3:540-550.	Zy Biesinger
Nov 22	no class (Thanksgiving week)
Nov 29	Ernest et al 2003. Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use. Ecology Letters 6:990-995.	Joanne Joyner-Matos & Hope Klug
Dec 06	Myers et al. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403:853-858.	Jimmy O'Donnell, Larisa Grawe