Geography 647 - Biogeography
Instructor:
Scott GoetzOffice: 1165 Lefrak, Hours: Weds 12-2
Phone: 405-1297; e-mail: sgoetz@geog.umd.edu
The course focuses on issues and factors that affect the abundance, richness, diversity and spatial distribution of species. Each class meeting will focus on a specific topic relevant to this theme, with students reviewing major and/or recent papers in the field. Student participation is an integral part of the course. Each class meeting will include a short introduction to the background of a given topic followed by student review and discussion of published papers. Lectures with be included periodically to introduce topics and review progress. A list of readings will be provided for review by the next class period, with students reviewing 1-2 papers per week (the list of papers can be retrieved below by following the link associated with each topic). Each paper will be read by at least 2 students (for maximum return from the class they should be read by all). There will be a short final exam that will touch on the major points of each topic. There will also be a report to be submitted by each student
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Sept 1 |
Biogeography; Ecological & evolutionary factors |
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Sept 8 |
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Sept 15 |
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Sept 22 |
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Sept 29 |
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Oct 6 |
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Oct 13 |
Island Biogeography - Applications to Reserve design (SLOSS) |
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Oct 20 |
Guest Lecture - mapping endemic bird species richness in E.Africa |
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Oct 27 |
Review. (alt. Minimum viable populations) |
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Nov 3 |
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Nov 10 and 17 |
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Nov 24 |
Macroecology
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Dec 1 |
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Dec 8 |
Local vs regional processes
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Dec 15 - |
Exam |