Transcript 01 Intro 2009-1 - School of Life Sciences

Welcome to IB 203: Ecology
• Dr. Carol Augspurger
• [email protected]
• Please start each ‘subject’ of email:
IB 203 question @ lab
155 Morrill
3-1298
office hours 2 Th and by appointment
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IB Student Picnic
Tuesday, September 1, 5-8 pm
Illini Grove Pavilion
(corner of Lincoln and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Meet Faculty
Free Food
shirt
Free T-
Find out what SIB is all about and meet other IB
majors!!
Illini Grove Pavilion
(if rain, 3rd floor Levis)
5-8 pm
• Food served 5:00 to 7:30 pm
• Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie
burgers
• Ranch beans, potato salad, watermelon
• Cookies
• Pop and water
RSVP to Debbie Lanter,
[email protected] or 333-3044
Texts:
Ricklefs Economy of Nature
6th Edition
Math/Statistics for Life Sciences
Lab Manual: ‘Exercises in Ecology’
Course Philosophy
• Learn products = ‘What do we KNOW’ @ ecology’
and processes of science = ‘How to DO ecology…’
• Become well-informed citizens about the link
between ecology and human-induced problems
• Develop higher levels of thought
• Use active learning
Tell me and I’ll listen
Show me and I’ll understand
Involve me and I’ll learn
Teton Lakota Indian
Grading - compass.illinois.edu
• Lecture (50%)
First exam
Second exam
Final exam
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• Labs (50%)
Participation
Homeworks 1-10
Student project 1
Student project 2
10 + 3 In-class Act.
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16 + 4
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Responsibilities
• Mine
• Yours
• Any questions?
Assignments
LECTURE
Biomes lecture outline: 203 website
Main page - go to Lecture Topics
LAB
• DUE at beginning of first lab this week
Homework 1: Hypotheses…(pg. 77)
***2 xerox copies of I-card with photo***
• Read before first lab this week:
Lab 1: Small mammals (pg. 87)
Homework 2: Mammal habitat choice (pg. 97)
Merit for IB 203
Thursday 3-5 in 304 NHB
CONTACT:
Tracey Hickox
[email protected]
265-8073
303 NHB
Today’s Outline
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What is ecology? (basic + applied)
What are most pressing environmental issues?
Hierarchical levels of biology/ecology
Questions asked at each level of ecology
Introduce Labs I-III: ‘Small mammals, plants,and
insects in succession habitats’
• Practice skills used in scientific process
We write to learn…
• What is ecology?
• How do basic vs. applied ecology differ?
• How does basic contribute to applied?
• What are 5 most pressing environmental
issues? Which is # 1?
•How does ecology help to solve humaninduced problems?
What types of questions do
ecologists ask?
• Descriptive:
What? When? Where? Who?
• Functional:
How?
• Evolutionary
Why?
• Hierarchical levels
of biological
organization…
from molecules to
organisms…
• Ecology starts with
individual organism…
and goes to higher
levels of biological
organization.
The hierarchical nature and processes of
different levels of ecological systems:
• Individual organism: How do structure,
physiology, and behavior lead to the
individual’s survival and reproduction?
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Population: What determines the number of
individuals and their variation in time and
space?
• Community: What determines the diversity
and relative abundance of organisms living
together?
• Ecosystem: How do energy and matter move
in the biotic and abiotic environment?
• Biosphere: How do air, water, and the energy
and chemicals they contain circulate globally?
How DO Ecologists Study the Natural World?
Introduction to Labs I-III
‘Small mammals, insects, and
plants in successional
habitats’
What is level of ecology?
PT + TR from W winter
Diagram of strips
5 year
soybeans
1 year
Bazzaz south view 2
Food web
4-5 yr (leaves/stems
seeds
Insects/spiders
predators
What questions can be
explored in this food web in
these successional habitats?
• Does succession affect the distribution
and abundance of organisms?
• Does plant and arthropod biomass differ
between 1 vs. 5-yr plots?
• Does abundance of small mammals
differ between 1 vs. 5-yr plots?
• What factors determine habitat choice of
small mammals?
Today’s Outline
• What is ecology? (basic + applied)
• What are most pressing environmental
issues?
• Hierarchical levels of biology/ecology
• Questions asked at each level of ecology
• Introduce Labs I-III: ‘Small mammals,
plants,and insects in succession habitats’
• Practice skills used in scientific process