•TOPICS:
Species ranges and correlates of species range size (January 30th)
• Ecological niches and methods for modeling them (February 6th)
• Niche conservation (February 13th)
• Body size and macroecological patterns (February 20th)
Measuring species richess (February 27th)
• Determinants of species richness patterns across latitude (March 5th)
Determinants of species richness patterns across elevation (March 12th)
• Gradients of genetic diversity due to repeated climate change cycles and paleomacroecology (March 19th)
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• Conservation macroecology and biogeography (April 9th)
SYLLABUS: here
TOOLS AND DATASETS: here
LABS:
Lab 5 - Introduction to species richness calculations. Download test dataset here.
Lab 5&6 - Species richness calculations, DIVA-GIS, Estimate-S and Eco-tools. Download seedbank dataset here.
LITERATURE FOR DEBATES:
Week 1:Debate team 1a - in support of Rapoport's rule - papers: Stevens 1989, Sanders 2002
Debate team 1b - against Rapoport's Rule - papers: Gaston 1999, Ribas 2006
Week 3: Debate team 2a - in support of niche conservatism - papers: Peterson et al. 1999, Wiens 2004,
also see these abstracts.
Debate team 2b - against niche conservatism - papers: Davis and Shaw 2001, Broennimann et al 2007
LITERATURE FOR DISCUSSION:
Week 2: Papers for niches and niche modeling discussion: Hijmans, 2006, Phillips 2006 (please don't get too bogged down in the technical details), Soberon, 2005. You might want to read these in the following order: Soberon -> Phillips -> Hijmans.
Week 4: Papers for the metabolic theory. body size and biodiversity discussion: Brown et al. 2002, Horn 2004,
Tilman et al. 2004. Please also look over (the scanned copy of) Chapter 5 of Brown's Macroecology book.
Week 5. Papers for species richness estimation and the mid-domain effect discussion: Gotelli and Colwell 2001, and Colwell et al. 2004.
Week 6. Paper for species richness patterns across latitudinal gradients: Rickleffs 2004.
Week 7. Paper for species richness/diversity patterns across altitudinal gradients: Lomolino 2001.
Week 8. Papers for the gradients of genetic diversity/paleomacroecology discussion: Jablonksi et al. 2006, Loehle 2007.
Week 9. Papers for macroecology and conservation discussion: Whittaker et al. 2005, Ceballos and Ehrlich 2006.
POSITION PAPERS: