Revised on 4/09/02
Syllabus
EFB 516 Ecosystems
Spring 2002
Revised
Instructor: Dr. Charles A.S. HallOffice: 354 Illick Hall
()Office hours:MWF 2:00-3:00
TTh 11:30-12:00
Grad TA: Akiko OgawaOffice: 223 Illick Hall
()Office hours:MW 11:00-12:00
U. Grad TA: Dan CluneCan be found at: Moon Library 1F
()Office hours: TBA
Class Hours/Location: Tuesday, Thursday, 10:00 –11:20 AM in Bray Hall 321
Textbooks:
Required
Ecosystems Readers Part I and II (Available at Purchasing Office 100 Bray)
T1) Hall, C.A.S. Maximum Power: The Ideas and Applications of H.T. Odum, University Press of Colorado. 1995
T2) Park, C. Tropical Rainforests, Routledge. 1994
Optional/Other
T3) Day, J.W., Hall, C.A.S. et.al., Estuarine Ecology, John Wiley & Sons. 1989
T4) Whittaker, R., Communities and Ecosystems, MacMillian. 1975 (Out of print, at least two copies on reserve in Moon Library; good review)
T5) Hall, C.A.S., et.al. Energy & Resource Quality: The Ecology of the Economic Process, University Press of Colorado. 1992 (Recommended)
T6) (Eds) Hall, C.A.S. et al., Quantifying Sustainable Development: The Future of Tropical Economics. Academic Press. 2000.
Grading Criteria:Essays20%
Midterm40%
Final Exam40%
Course web page URL:
2002 Spring Semester Schedule (Revise 3)
- Lecture schedules and reading assignments are subject to changes. Further changes will be notified during the class, and also be posted on the course web page.
Date / Lecture Topics /Readings
/ Reader#I. INTRODUCTION
(Tue) Jan. 15 / Why Ecosystems? / *Odum, E.P.
*Colinvaux, P. / 1
2, 3
(Thu) Jan. 17 / Atmospheric Circulation Patterns & the Distribution of Life / *Walter, H.
*Hall (Introduction & Chapter 10: Mclanahan) / 4
T1
(Tue) Jan 22 / Tour of Major Global Biomes I
- Tropical / *Colinvaux, P. / 2, 3
(Thu) Jan 24 / Tour of Major Global Biomes II
- Temperate / *Gosz, J.R., et al.
*Whittaker, R. / 5
6
(Tue) Jan 29 / Tour of Major Global Biomes III
- Boreal and Tundra / *Hall (Chapter 6: Kemp et al.) / T1
(Thu) Jan 31 / Tour of Major Global Biomes IV
- Lakes / *LeBrassuer, R.J., et al. / 24
II. ENERGETICS AND NUTRIENT FLOWS
(Tue) Feb 5 / Energetics & Thermodynamics
- An Overview / *Hall, C.A.S., et al. (Chapter 1)
*Hagen, J.B. / 7
11
(Thu) Feb 7 / Energetics and Individual Organisms / *Hall (Chapter 9: Hall)
#Odum, H.T.
#Teal, J.M.
#Smith, J.J. & H.W. Li / T1
12
13
14
(Tue) Feb 12 / Energetics and Ecosystems and
Measurement of Primary Production / *Hall, C.A.S. & R. Moll
#Houghton, R.A. & G.M. Goodwell
#Whittaker, R.H. & P.L. Marks / 15
16
17
(Thu) Feb 14 / Trophic Relations
ESSAY HOMEWORK DUE / *Hagen, J.B.
*Lindeman, R.L.
*Kozlovsky, D.G. / 8
9
18
(Tue) Feb 19 / Nutrient Cycles I
- An Overview / *Whittaker, R.
*Bormann, F.H., et al.
#Post, W.M., et al. / 19
20
21
(Thu) Feb 21 / Nutrient Cycles II
- in Aquatic Ecosystems / *Elmgren, R.
*Shindler, D.W.
*Pastor, et al. / 22
23
25
(Tue) Feb 26 / Nutrient Cycles III
- in Terrestrial Ecosystems / *Aber, J.D. & J.M. Melillo
*Waring & Schlesinger / 26
33
(Thu) Feb 28 / Global Carbon Cycle / *Woodwell, G.M.
*Detwiler, R.P.& C.A.S. Hall / 27
28
(Thu) Feb 28 / PRE-EXAM REVIEW SESSION (attendance not required) Time: TBA
(Tue) Mar 5 / MIDTERM EXAM
(Thu) Mar 7 / REVIEW EXAM / *Hall (Chapter 28: Odum) / T1
Mar 11 – 15 / SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSES. DRIVE CAREFULLY!!!
(Tue) Mar 19 / Global Climate Change
Guest Lecturer: Neil Pederson, PhD candidate, Columbia Univ. / *Loehle
*Solomon / ^H3
^H4
III. ECOSYTEMS OF THE WORLD
(Thu) Mar 21 / Blue Water Ecosystems I / *Pomeroy, L.R.
*Redfield, A.C.
*Hamner, W.M., et al.
*Hall (Chapter 8: Welsh)
or Hall(Chapter 14:Campbell)
#Parsons, T.R. / 29
30
31
T1
32
(Tue) Mar 26 / Estuaries I
- An Overview / *Day, J.W., C.A.S. Hall, et al.
(Chapter 1,2, &3) / T3
(Thu) Mar 28 / Estuaries II
- Productivity and Nutrient Cycles / *Day, J.W., C.A.S. Hall, et al.
(any three chapters of your choice) / T3
(Tue) Apr 2 / Estuaries III
-Detritus and Fisheries-
(Thu) Apr 4 / Estuaries IV
- Estuarine Ecosystems and Human / *Day, J.W., C.A.S. Hall, et al.
(any one chapter about management of estuaries) / T3
(Tue) Apr 9 / Estuaries V
(Thu) Apr 11 / Tropical Forests I
- An Overview / *Park, C.C.
*Whitmore, T.C.
*Keller, M., et al. / T2
35
36
(Tue) Apr 16 / Tropical Forest II
-Luquillo NF, Puerto Rico
ESSAY HOMEWORK 2 DUE / *Janzen, D.H.
*Hadley, M., & J.P.Lanly
#Zinn, H. / 38
40
41
(Thu) Apr 18 / Tropical Forest III
- Tropical Ecosystems and Human / *Pandey, U., & J.S. Singh *Janzen, D.H.
#Geertz, C. / 43
44
42
(Tue) Apr 23 / Tropical Forests IV
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Ariel E. Lugo, Director, International Institute of Tropical Forestry / *Lugo, A.E.
*Hall, C.A.S., et al. (Chapter 6)
*Olsen (Chapter 21)
#Murphy, P.G., & A.E.Lugo / 37
T5
T1
39
(Thu) Apr 25 / Industrial Ecosystems I
- General Principles / *Hall, C.A.S., et al. (Chapter 2)
*Hall (Chapter 22: Brown et al.)
#Loomis, R. / T5
T1
45
(Tue) Apr 30 / Industrial Ecosystems II
- Relations to Economics / *Hall et al.
*Ludwig, et al.
#Wali, M.K.
#Hall, C.A.S. / ^H1
^H2
46
47
TBA / DISCUSSION AND REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
(Thu) May 9 / FINAL EXAM (10:15 - 12:15, at 313 Bray)
Remarks:
*Required Reading
#Optional reading for further depth
^H1: To be handed out in the class.
Hall, C.A.S., Lindenberger, D., Kummel, R., Kroeger, T., and Eichhorn, W. 2001. The need to reintegrate the natural sciences with economics. Bioscience 51(8):663-673.
^H2: Ludwig, D., R. Hilborn, and C. Walters. 1993. Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conervation: Lessons form History. Science 260:17, 36.
^H3: Loehle, C. 2000. Forest ecotone response to climate change: sensitivity to temperature response functional forms. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1632-1645.
^H4: Solomon, A.M. 1986. Transient-response of forests to co2-induced climate change - simulation modeling experiments in eastern North America. Oecologia 68: 567-579.