 | ECOL 1990H: Evolutionary ecology: the ecology of change |
Summary
Ecologists typically seek to understand how organisms interact with their
responses change. How can we understand the natural world when all organisms
change over time, and in seemingly unpredictable ways? This seminar will explore
the basic concepts and tools of evolutionary ecology - the study of how organisms
evolve in response to their environments, and in turn how such evolutionary change
can impact the environment. We will take a wide view of ecology and evolution, and
explore issues from the evolution of the earth, to how biological interactions evolve,
and to how global climate change can impact evolution and extinction.
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Readings
Week 1 (due 20 Jan) - Lecture 1 slides (Intro to Evolutionary Ecology)
1. Jacob. 1977. Evolution and tinkering. Science 196: 1161-1166.
2. Boag and Grant. 1981. Intense natural selection in a population of Darwin's finches
(Geospizinae) in the Galapagos. Science 214: 82-85.
3. Zimmer. 2009. On the origin of life on Earth. Science 323: 198-199.
Week 2 (due 27 Jan) - Lecture 2 slides (Evolution)
1. Allendorf et al. 2008. Genetic effects of harvest on wild animal populations. TREE
23: 327-337.
2. Sultan. 2007. Development in context: the timely emergence of eco-devo. TREE 22:
575-582.
3. Via. 2002. The ecological genetics of speciation. American Naturalist 159: S1-S7.
Week 3 (due 3 Feb) - Lecture 3 slides (Genetics in Ecology)
1. Barrett et al. 2008. Life history determines genetic structure and evolutionary
potential of host-parasite interactions. TREE 23: 678-685.
2. Stearns. 1976. Life-history tactics: a review of the ideas. Quarterly Review of BIology
51: 3-47.
Week 4 (due 17 Feb) - Lecture 4 slides (Life histories)
1. Reznick. 1985. Costs of reproduction: an evaluation of the empirical evidence.
Oikos 44: 257-267.
2. Reznick, Nunney, and Tessier. 2000. Big houses, big cars, superfleas, and the
costs of reproduction. TREE 15: 421-425.
3. Weih. 2003. Trade-offs in plants and the prospects for breeding using modern
biotechnology. New Phytologist 158: 7-9.
Week 5 (due 17 Feb) - Lecture 5 slides
Week 6 (due 24 Feb) - Lecture 6 slides
1.Jones and Teeling. 2006. The evolution of echolocation in bats. TREE 21: 149-156.
2. Gillespie. 2005. The ecology and evolution of Hawaiian spider communities.
American Scientist 93: 122-131.
Week 7 (due 3 Mar) - Lecture 7 slides
1. Hey. 2006. On the failure of modern species concepts. TREE 21: 447-450.
2. Provan and Bennet. 2008. Phylogeographic insights into cryptic glacial refugia.
TREE 23: 564-571.
Week 8 (due 17 Mar) - Lecture 8 slides
1. Hughes et al. 2008. Social insect symbionts: evolution in homeostatic fortresses.
TREE 23: 672-677.
Week 9 (due 24 Mar) - Lecture 9 slides
Week 10 (due 31 Mar) - Lecture 10 slides
Week 11 (due 7 Apr) - Lecture 11 slides
1. Johnson and Stinchcombe. 2007. An emerging synthesis between community
ecology and evolutionary biology. TREE 22: 250-257.
2. Urban et al. 2008. The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities. TREE 23: 311-
317.
Week 12 (due 14 Apr) - Lecture 12 slides
1. Bidartondo. 2005. Tansley review: the evolutionary ecology of myco-heterotrophy.
New Phytologist 167: 335-352.
Week 13 (due 21 Apr) - Class presentations
Week 14 (due 28 Apr) - Lecture 14 slides
Copyright 2009 Richard P. Shefferson. All rights reserved.
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