EPOB 5310 - Conservation and Ecology, Fall, 2002 Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30-10:45; Humanities 270

 Instructors: Carl Bock, Ramaley N320; Phone: 492-7184; e-mail: Carl.Bock@colorado.edu; Office hours: Tu 1-3, Wed 10-2.

 Tim Seastedt, Rose Litman (east campus, RL 1) 125; Phone: 492-3302; e-mail: Timothy.Seastedt@colorado.edu; Office hours (in Ramaley N336) by appointment.

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Month/Day/ Topic Assignments

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Aug 26/Tu Introduction and Overview Paper 1 Assigned_________________

Aug 28/Th Field Trip - Boulder Open Space ( Bluestem trail)______________

Sept 2/Tu Trophic Cascades (Bock)__________________________________

*Sept 4/Th Paper 1 Due____________________________________________

9/Tu Mutualisms (Bock) Paper 2 Assigned___________________________

*11/Th

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Sept 16/Tu Understanding Ecosystems (Seastedt )______________________

*18/Th

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Sept 23/Tu Meso-ecology I - Metapopulations (Bock)___________________

*25/Th

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Sept 30th Tu Meso-ecology II Fragmentation and Edges (Bock)____________

Oct 2. Fall break, no classes__________________________________________

7/Tu Macroecology (Bock )_________________________________________

*Oct9/Th

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Oct 14/Tu Production and Decomposition (Seastedt) Paper 2 Due_____________

*16/Th

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Oct 21/Tu. Consumers as regulators of Ecosystem Processes (Seastedt) Paper 3 Assigned

*23/Th

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Oct 28/Tu. Soils as Ecological Systems (Seastedt)____________________________

*30/Th

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Nov 4/Tu Grazing and Grasslands (Bock)____________________________________

*6/Th

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Nov. 11/Tu Disturbance Ecology (Seastedt)_______________________________

*13/Th

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18/Tu An Ecosystem Perspective of Invasions and Invasibility (Seastedt)_______

*20/Th

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25/Tu Ecosystems and Global Environmental Change, Part 1 (Seastedt)_________

27/Th Thanksgiving Break, no classes_____________________________________

Dec 2/Tu Paper III Due. Ecosystems and Global Environmental Change, Part 2 (Seastedt)

*Dec. 4/Th

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9/Tu Biodiversity (Bock/Seastedt_____________________________________________

*11/Th

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* time slots reserved for student-lead presentations and discussions.