BIOL 442/542 SPRING 2009
General Information
Lecture Schedule (Revised 12
January 2009)
SAMPLE EXAM 1
Schedule, Lecture Notes and Readings
Monday
12
January Introduction
Wednesday 14 January Lecture 1
- Ecology and
Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions
large, color version of Lecture 1
Monday
19 January
Martin Luther King Day Holiday - NO CLASSES
Wednesday 21 January Lecture 2 - Coevolution:
Definitions and Detection
large, color version of Lecture 2
Monday
26 January
Discussion 1 - Floral Evolution and the Structure of a Scientific Paper
Galen, C. 1996. Rates of floral
evolution: adaptation to bumblebee pollination
in an alpine wildflower, Polemonium
viscosum.
Evolution
50:120-125.
Questions for Discussion on this
paper
Wednesday
28 January Lecture 3
- Herbivory I: How do
herbivores choose their food? Herbivory by insects and vertebrates
Large, color version of lecture 3
Monday
2 February Discussion II
- How do herbivores choose their food?
Dearing, M.D., A.M. Mangione, and W.H.
Karasov. 2000. Diet breadth of
mammalian
herbivores: nutrient vs. detoxification constraints.
Oecologia
123:397-405.
Questions for small-group discussion
Wednesday
4 February Lecture
4 - Herbivory II: How
do plants defend themselves against herbivores?
Plant anatomy and secondary
chemistry
Large, color version of lecture 4
Monday
9 February
Discussion III - How do plants defend themselves against herbivory?
Young, T.P., and B.D. Okello. 1998.
Relaxation of an induced defense after exclusion
of herbivores: spines on Acacia drepanolobium.
Oecologia
115:508-513.
Questions for small-group discussion
Monday
23 February Discussion IV -
Plant defense and multiple interactions
Hamilton, E.W. III, and D.A. Frank. 2001.
Can plants stimulate soil microbes and their own
nutrient supply? Evidence from a grazing tolerant
grass. Ecology 82:2397-2402.
Questions for small-group discussion
MATERIAL FOR EXAM 1
ENDS HERE
Sample Exam 1
Wednesday
4 March
Discussion V - Ant-Plant Interactions (2 short papers on
different types of interactions)
Howard, J.J. 2001. Costs of
trail construction and maintenance in the leaf-cutting ant
Atta columbica. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology
49:348-356.
Sagers, C.L., S.M.
Ginger, and R.D. Evans. 2000. Carbon and nitrogen isotopes trace
nutrient
exchange in an ant-plant mutualism. Oecologia 123:582-586.
Monday
9 March
Lecture 8 - Frugivory and
Seed Dispersal
Large, color version of lecture 8
(Final Paper Topics Due)
Monday
30
March Lecture 10 - Pollination I:
The Plant Perspective - Color
version
Wednesday 1 April
Discussion VIII - Pollination I: The
Plant Perspective
Pauw, A., J.
Stofberg, and R.J. Waterman. 2009. Flies and flowers in Darwin's
race.
Evolution
63:
268-279.
Questions for
discussion
Monday
6 April
Lecture 11
-
Pollination
II: Animal Foraging Behavior - Color version
Wednesday 8 April
Discussion IX - Pollination by Animals: Animal
Foraging Behavior
Mitchell,
R.J., J.D. Karron, K.G. Holmquist, and J.M. Bell. 2004. The
influence
of Mimulus ringens
floral
display size on pollintor visitation patterns. Functional Ecology
18:116-124.
Questions for
discussion
Monday
13 April
Lecture
12 - Pollination III: Plant Mating Systems
Wednesday 15 April
Discussion X - Pollination III: Plant Breeding
Systems
Motten, A.F.,
and J.L. Stone. 2000. Heritability of stigma position and the
effect of
stigma-anter
separation on outcrossing in a predominantly self-fertilizing weed,
Datura stramonium (Solanaceae)
American Journal of Botany 87: 339-347.
Questions
for discussion
Monday
20 April
Lecture
13 - Pollination IV: Conservation of Plant-Pollinator Interactions
Wednesday 22 April
EXAM II - in
class (hand out take-home portion)
Monday
27 April
Graduate Student Final Paper Presentations (take-home exam due)
Wednesday 29 April
Graduate Student Final Paper Presentations
Monday 4 May Final Papers Due
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Links to Other Botanical Sites
University of Wisconsin
Herbarium and Systematics Collection
This site has Class, Subclass, Order and Family descriptions
and many photos of genera within each family
California Academy of
Sciences Photo Collection - Calfornia Plants
This site is searchable by common and scientific names
Botanical Society of America
Information about the Society, electronic journal (American Journal of
Botany),
and links to many botanical sites
Discover Life - Polistes
Society
This site has online keys and other resources for identification
Tree of Life Project
The project assembles the phylogenetic relationships of all living
things into a single Tree of Life