IB 153 Population and Community Ecology, Fall 2005
Updated: 10/13/05

Instructors: 

First half of course:		Second half of course:
	Cherie Briggs office: 4014 VLSB office hours:  Mondays 2-3, Tuesdays 4-5 e-mail: cbriggs@berkeley.edu		Mary Power office: 4184 VLSB office hours:  e-mail: mepower@berkeley.edu

GSIs:

Maria Goodrich office:  4178 VLSB office hours: Tuesdays 9-10 and by appointment e-mail:  goodrich@berkeley.edu

Margaret Metz office:  4181 VLSB office hours:  Wednesdays 11-12 and by appointment e-mail:  mmetz@berkeley.edu

Latest Updates:  Added example midterm questions, example midterm answers, plus list of equations, which will be supplied on the midterm.

Link to Discussion Section Web Page

Syllabus

Book: C. J. Krebs, Ecology, 5th edition

Correction to Krebs page 86 (I'm not sure how many copies of the book have this problem, but in mine, the labels on the figure axes are not complete.  I've also seen copies that are correct.)

Homework Assignments:

Homework:	Due Date:
Homework 1:  DemographyHomework2005.pdf	In class, September 20
Homework 2:  PopDynHomework2005.pdf	In class, September 29
Homework 3: CompPredHomework2005.pdf	In class, October 13
Synthesis Paper Instructions.  For those of you who want to get started on this early.	December 9, 2005

EXAMPLE MIDTERM QUESTIONS

Schedule:

Week:	Date:	Topic:	Lecture Notes and Handouts:	Readings:
1	Tues: 8/30/05	Introduction and organization	Syllabus	Chap 1
	Thurs: 9/1/05	Approaches to Ecology	approaches_web.pdf	Chap 1, 3
2	Tues: 9/6/05	Limits to distribution	distribution_web.pdf	Chap 4-8
	Thurs: 9/8/05	Demography	demography_web.pdf	Chap 9, 10
3	Tues: 9/13/05	Life Histories	lifehistories_web.pdf	Chap 10
	Thurs: 9/15/05	Population growth, intraspecific competition	IntraspecificCompetition_web.pdf	Chap 11
4	Tues: 9/20/05	Population regulation	PopRegulation_web.pdf	Chap 16
	Thurs: 9/22/05	Interspecific competition	InterspecificCompetition_web.pdf	Chap 12
5	Tues: 9/27/05	Interspecific competition	Competition_Part2_web.pdf	Chap 12
	Thurs: 9/29/05	Trophic ecology	predation1_web.pdf	Chap 13
6	Tues: 10/4/05	Parasitism and disease	Guest lecture by Dr. John Latto	Chap13, part of Chap 14
	Thurs: 10/6/05	Predation	predation2_web.pdf	Chap 15
7	Tues: 10/11/05	Spatial processes	space_web.pdf	Chap 18
	Thurs: 10/13/05	Review session	midterm_examples.pdf midterm_examples_answers.pdf list of equations which will be supplied on midterm: equations.pdf
8	Tues: 10/18/05	MIDTERM
	Thurs: 10/20/05	Mary Power’s half of the course begins

Ecology Links:
Ecological Society of America
Publications of the Ecological Society of America
List of Ecology-Related Seminars on Campus from the California Biodiversity Center