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Biology 357 – Evolutionary
Ecology
Professor: Eric R. PiankaOffice: Patterson 125, Mon.,
Fri. 1-2 PM
471-7472,
Instructor and Course
Websites:
http://uts.cc.utexas
.edu/~varanus/eric.html
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/bio357/
Download Syllabus from above
site
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No Teaching Assistant
Discussion sections will not meet officially but can be used by students for self-organized study groups
Wednesday 10-11, CAL 200
Wednesday 11-12, CAL 0.120
Friday 9-10, MEZ 1.102
Friday 10-11, UTC 1.118
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Pianka, Evolutionary Ecology, 6th or
7th editions
You can also read these on line at
Blackboard’s “Course Documents”
Please Read
Chapter 1
Chapter 8
30 readings:
“Scientific Methods”
“Natural Selection”[Also, please look over Chapters 2 through
7 to make
certain you are familiar with that
background material]
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For this generation,
who must confront the
shortsightedness of their ancestors . . .
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Suggested Additional Reading
Case, An Illustrated
Guide to
Theoretical Ecology
(read pp. 79-100)
Gotelli, A Primer of Ecology (pp. 2-
85)
Ginzburg and Golenberg, Lectures in
Theoretical Population Biology (read
pp. 1-5 and 193-219)
An Illustrated Guideto Theoretical Ecology
Ted J. Case
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Exams:
First Exam: 26 Sept.
Second Exam: 31 Oct.
Third Exam: 5 Dec.
Final Exam: 13 December, 2-5 PM
Best 2 of 3 = 50% + Final
50%
[No “Make Up” Exams!]
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Grades:
Three hour exams
26 Sept.
31 Oct. > Best 2 of 3 =
50%
5 Dec.
Final 50% : 13 December, 2-5
PM +/- Grading System
will be used
[No “Make Up” Exams!]
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Politicians and other advertisers equate ecology with “beer cans and pollution” and environment with “clean air and clean water,” in short thehuman environment. Anthropocentric.All other organisms have environments, too.
Environment is defined as all the physical and biotic factors impinging upon a particular organismic unit, as well as everything affectedby that organismic unit.
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An organismic unit could be an individual, apopulation, or even all of the organisms livingtogether in a particular ecosystem, an entire community.
These constitute different levels of organization in the biological hierarchy of life.
Ecology is defined as the study of the interactionsbetween organisms and their environments.
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Ecology requires wild organisms in the naturalenvironments within which they evolved and towhich they have become adapted.
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Ecology requires wild organisms in the naturalenvironments within which they evolved and towhich they have become adapted.
Once, we were surrounded by wilderness and wild animals, now we surround them.
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Anthropocentrism — humans see themselves at the center of the universe.
What good are rattlesnakes?
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Snakes in Cages
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“Love” in Vials
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Captive organisms are out of context, they don’t have a natural environment (they might as well be dead as far as an ecologist is concerned)
Henry David Thoreau (1854)
Walden “Book of Life” metaphor Holmes Rolston (1985) “Vanishing Book of Life”Humans are just beginning to be able to read it, but its pages are tattered and torn, and entire chapters have been ripped out. Need to save as much as possible (conservation biology), but also must READ it (ecology) before it is gone. Other Earthlings have a right to exist, too.
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Holmes Rolston
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Hierarchical Organization of the Biological Sciences
<—————— Integrative Biology——————————>
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Hierarchical Organization of the Biological Sciences
Please go to course website and read NY Times: “Depth of Time” articleAlso, please read Nee’s one page commentary in Nature (downloadable pdf)
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Daniel T. Haydon
Scaling in Biology
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Time and Space Scaling in Ecology
Daily movements (home range, territory)
Dispersal events (immigration,
emigration)
Colonization of new areas and habitats
Geographic range expansion or contraction
Geographical patterns of diversityDaniel R. Brooks
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Models may be verbal, graphical, or mathematical
Model: mere “caricatures of nature” (all models are imperfect)
Trade offs in construction of models
precisiongeneralityrealism
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