 | ECOL 4950: Senior seminar |
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Readings
Week 1 (due 24 Aug) -
1. Bush and Silman. 2007. Amazonian exploitation revisited: ecological asymmetry
Week 2 (due 31 Aug) -
1. Nash. 2007. Decrypting biofuel scenarios. Bioscience 57:472-477.
2. Laurance. 2007. Switch to corn promotes Amazon deforestation. Science 318:1721.
3. Tilman, Hill, and Lehman. 2008. Carbon-negative biofuels from low-input high-
diversity grassland biomass. Science 314:1598-1600.
4. ESA position statement on biofuels
Week 3 (due 14 Sept) -
1. Mohan et al. 2006. Biomass and toxicity responses of poison ivy (Toxicodendron
radicans) to elevated atmospheric CO2. PNAS 103:9086-9089.
2. Comments and responses to the above article (Schnitzer et al 2008 and Mohan et
al 2008).
3. Shefferson, Kull, and Tali. 2005. Adult whole-plant dormancy induced by stress in
long-lived orchids. Ecology 86:3099-3104.
Week 5 (due 28 Sept) -
1. Freeman and Byers. 2006. Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in
marine mussel populations. Science 313:831-833.
2. Gurevitch and Padilla. 2004. Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions?
TREE 19:470-474.
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