Landscape Ecology

 

Fall 2003

 

Syllabus

 

 

Tuesday       11:30-12:50                                  11:704:450 – Undergraduate

Wednesday  11:30-12:50                                  16:215:520 - Graduate

 

145 ENR

 

 

This course and the syllabus draws on the resources in Turner, Gardner and O’Neill’s Landscape Ecology Text.  However, two additional excellent resources have had a strong influence on the direction, organization and content of this course.  The first is a similar course taught by Dr. Dean Urban at Duke University:

(http://www.env.duke.edu/landscape/classes/env214/env214.html)

and the second is Dr. Kevin McGarigal’s landscape ecology course: (http://www.umass.edu/landeco/teaching/landscape_ecology/schedule/landeco_schedule.html). 

 

Reference to these web pages are encouraged throughout the semester and the contribution that these web pages make to landscape ecology instruction for this class and for teaching landscape ecology in general is commendable!

 

Readings are in the box in ENR 145, placed in their appropriate folders by week.  Please put them back in their proper places when done with them so they will be there for your fellow classmates.

 

 

 

Week

Week of

(Tues.)

 

Topic

Readings

1

9/1

Introduction and History

Turner et al. Ch 1

Turner 1989

Urban 1987

Theme  I

 

Scale and Measuring Scale

 

2

9/8

The concept of scale & scaling techniques

Turner et al. Ch 2

Wiens 1989

Levin 1992

3

9/15

Landscape Elements:  Patches, boundaries, connectivity

Pickett & Rogers 1997

Haddad 1999

Dunning et al. 1995

Theme II

 

Quantifying Landscape Patterns

 

4

9/22

Measuring landscapes

Turner et al. Ch 5,

 

5

9/29

Analyzing landscape patterns – data types

Goodchild 1994

 

6

10/6

Landscape composition and configuration

Gustafson 1998

 

7

10/13

Landscape metrics

Scale presentations

Wu et al. 2002

8

10/20

Lab exercises/Midterm

 

9

10/27

Landscape models

Project discussion

Turner et al. Ch 6

Milne 1997

With and King 1997

Theme III

 

Formation of Landscape Pattern

 

10

11/4

Abiotic processes

Turner et al. Ch 4

Urban et al. 2000

Article Review

11

11/11

Biotic Processes

Turner et al. Ch 8

Crooks 2002

Syphard & Garcia 2001

12

11/12

Disturbance

Turner et al. Ch 7

Turner et al. 1997

Franklin et al. 2002

Theme IV

 

Implications of Landscape Pattern

 

13

11/17

Populations and MetaPopulations: 

Turner et al Ch. 8

Dunning et al. 1995

Zollner & Lima 1997

Wiens 1997

14

11/25

Communities

Turner et al. Ch. 8

Holt 1997

Wiens et al. 1993

15

11/26

Ecosystems

Turner et al. Ch. 9

Pacala & Deutscham 1995

Theme V

 

Applications of  Landscape Ecology Principles

 

16

12/2

Landscape Change

Turner et al. Ch 10

Collinge & Foreman 1998

Wallin et al. 1994

17

12/3

Conservation Biology

Turner et al. Ch 11

Groves et al. 2002

With 1997

18

12/8

Adaptive Management

Regional Planning

Christensen et al. 1996

Leitao & Ahern 2002

19

 

FINAL Exam

??? TBA

 

 

Important Dates:

 

October 15                  Midterm (tentative)

November 20               Papers done – Peer Review

December 1                 Peer Reviews complete

December 9                 Revisions Incorporated, web ready - 2nd Peer Review

December 17               2nd Peer Review complete

December 22               All revisions complete

December 22               On-Line

 

 

 

Return to Landscape Ecology Front Page

Return to Course Description