Course information
Class meetings: Mondays 3:35-4:25 (117 Ecology Building)
Instructor: Jeb Byers (email: jebyers@uga.edu), Jackie Mohan (email: jmohan@uga.edu), John Drake (email: jdrake@uga.edu)
Course description: Cross-disciplinary Ecology (ECOL 8030) is a course for students to engage in active discussion and presentation of cutting-edge topics in ecology.
Assignments and grading policy: This course is graded on the S/U system. To receive a score of S you must satisfactorily complete all assignments. Class activities include
- Weekly class discussions led by students
| Date | Seminar speaker | Presenters | Reading |
| Aug 18 | INTRODUCTION | Instructors | Three rules for leading a paper discussion |
| Aug 25 | Paula Pappalardo | Byers | Pappalardo, P. and M. Fernandez 2014. Mode of larval development as a key factor to explain contrasting effects of temperature on species richness across oceans. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:12-23. |
| Sept 1 | NO CLASS | | |
| Sept 8 | Tom Miller | Drake | Miller, T.E.X. and B.D. Inouye. 2013. Sex and stochasticity affect range expansion of experimental invasions. Ecology Letters 16:354-361. |
| Sept 15 | Erin Mordecai | Griffin
Vinson | Mordecai, E. 2012. Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted. Ecology Letters 16:22-30. |
| Sept 22 | Heather Tallis | Guinessey
Chappell | Ruckelshaus, M. et al. 2013. Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions. Ecological Economics (in press). |
| Sept 29 | Shannon LaDeau | Song
Krueger | LaDeau, S.L. et al. 2011. Data-model fusion to better understand emerging pathogens and improve infectious disease forecasting. Ecological Applications 21:1443-1460. |
| Oct 6 | Massimo Pigliucci | Phillips
Sanchez | Pigliucci, M. 2002. Are ecology and evolutionary biology "soft" sciences. Annales Zoologici Fennici 39:87-98. |
| Oct 13 | Liz Ottesen | deJesus
Colbert | Ottesen, L., et al. 2014. Multispecies diel transcriptional oscillations in open ocean heterotrophic bacterial assemblages. Science 345:207-212. |
| Oct 20 | No speaker | Fisher
Kemp | Sul, W.J.,et al. 2013. Marine bacteria exhibit a bipolar distribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:2342-2347. |
| Oct 27 | Erik Noonburg | Bentz
Worsley-Tonks | Shima, J.S. & S.E. Swearer. 2010. The legacy of dispersal: larval experience shapes persistence later in the life of a reef fish. Journal of Animal Ecology 79:1308-1314. |
| Nov 3 | | Kaul
Baker | Bascompte, J., P. Jordano, J.M. Olesen. 2006. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science 312:431-433.
Thompson, J.N. 2006. Mutualistic webs of species. Science 312:372-372 |
| Nov 10 | Walter Dodds | Farrell
Brownson | Dodds, W.K., W.H. Clements, K. Gido, R.H. Hilderbrand, & R.S. King. 2010. Thresholds, breakpoints, and nonlinearity in freshwaters as related to management. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:988-997. |
| Nov 17 | Dustin Marshall | Ament
McElroy | Crean, A.J., K. Monro, and D. J. Marshall. 2011. Fitness consequences of larval trait persist across the metamorphic boundary. Evolution 65:3079-3089. |
| Nov 24 | NO CLASS | | |
| Dec 1 | | Majewska | Hobbs, R.J., E. Higgs, and J.A. Harris. 2009. Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24:599-605. |