8/24    Class Organization;

Lecture: History of Ecology: Ecosystem and Ecological Concepts/Structure

Supportive Readings:

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  2002.Chapman et al. Chapt 1.

Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition  Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College Publishing. Chapter 1-2

Forest Ecology 1998. B.V. Barnes, D.R. Zak, S.R. Denton, and S.H Spurr. John Wiley & Sons. Chapter 1.

9/4       No Class Labor Day

9/11   Lecture: Trophic Levels and Their Interaction

Supportive Readings

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  2002.Chapman et al. Chapt 11.

Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition  Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College Publishing. Chapter 16

Forest Ecology.  1997. J.P. Kimmins  John Wiley & Sons Co. Ch 4.1-4.4

Ecosystem and Ecological Concepts/Structure

Assigned Readings:

jAmundson, R. and H. Jenny. 1997.  On a state factor model of ecosystems.  Bioscience. 47:536-543.

kOdum, E. P. 1969.  The Strategy of Ecosystem Development.  Science 164: 262-270.

lBerlyn, G.P. and P.M.S. Ashton 1998.  Forests and ecosystem paradigm. J. of Sus. For.   7:141-157.

9/25   Lecture: Net Primary Production, Leaf Area, and Growth Efficiency

Supportive Readings:

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  2002.Chapman et al. Chapt 5. 108-109; 119-121

Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition  Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College Publishing. Chapter

6 & 8.

Net Primary Productivity

Assigned Readings:

j Raich, J.W., A.E. Russell, and P.M. Vitousek. 1997. Primary productivity and ecosystem development along an elevation gradient on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i. Ecol. 78:707-721.

kShan, J. L.A. Morris, and R. L. Hendrick. 2001.  The effects of management on soil and plant carbon sequestration in slash pine plantations. J. of Appl. Eco.  38: 932-941.

l Waring, R.H., J.J. Landsberg, and M. Williams. 1998. Net primary production of forests: a constant fraction of gross primary production. Tree Phy. 18:129-134.

jBolstad, P.V., J. M. Vose, and S.G. McNulty 2001.  Forest productivity, leaf area, and terrain in Southern Appalachian deciduous forests.  Forest Sci. 47(3): 419-427.

kSamuelson, L., T. Stokes, T. Cooksey, and P. McLemore, II.  Production efficiency of loblolly pine and sweetgum in response to for year of intensive management.  Tree Phy. 21:369-376.

l.Gilmore, D.W., R.S. Seymour, and D.A. Maguire. Foliage-sapwood area relationships for Abies balsamea in central Maine, U.S.A

Can. J. For. Res. 26:2071-2079.

10/9     Lecture: Herbivory and Plant Defenses in Forest Ecosystems

              Supportive Readings     

                    Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  2002.Chapman et al. Chapt 11. 246-250.

                    Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001. Sanders College Publishing. 

                    Chapter 15 Forest Ecosystems.

            Assigned Readings
             Carbon Allocation & Tissue Turnover

                    jKaelke, C, E.L. Kruger, and P.B. Reich. 2001.  Trade-offs in seedling survival, growth, and physiology among hardwood species

species of contrasting successional status along a light-availability gradient. Can. J. For. Res. 31:1602-1616.

                    kJose, S., S. Merritt, and C.L. Ramsey. 2003. Growth, nutrition, photosynthesis, and transpiration responses

                     of longleaf  pine seedlings to light, water, and nitrogen. Forest Ecol. & Manage. 180: 335-344.

 kVanninen, P. and A. Makela. 2005.  Carbon budget for Scots pine trees: effects of size, competition, and site fertility on

    growth allocation and production.  Tree Phys. 25:17-30.

10/16            TEST

10/23    Lecture: Types of Experimental Design and Measurement of Ecological Functions

 Supportive Readings:

Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College Publishing.

Chapter 4, Chapter 5: 67-76.

10/30     Lecture: Decomposition and It's Role in Forest Ecosystems

              Supportive Readings:

                Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  Chapin III et al. 2002.  Chapter 7.

                Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001. Sanders College Publishing. 

                    Chapter 13.

  Assigned Readings
  Herbivory

  jMattson, W. J. and R.A. Haack. 1987. The role of drought in outbreaks of plant-eating insects. 1987. 

                        Biosicence 37:110-117.

                    kColey, P.D., J.P. Bryant, and F.Stuart Chapin III. 1985. Resource availability and plant antiherbivore defense.

                          Sci. 230: 895-899.

                    lSchowalter, T.D., W.W. Hargrove, and D.A. Crossley J.r 1986.  Herbivory in forested ecosystems. Ann. Rev.

                        Entonomol. 31:177-96.

11/6  Lecture: Nutrient Cycling: Basics

           Supportive Readings

           Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  Chapin III et al. 2002.  Chapter 8

           Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College Publishing. Chapter 10 & 12

           Forest Ecosystems.  Perry, D.A. 1994. John Hopkins University Press.  Chapter 18

           Assigned Readings
           Decomposition

                    jDo soil fauna increase rates of litter breakdown and nitrogen release in forests of British Columbia, Canada. Can. J.

                    For. Res. 31: 1195-1204.

                    kGurievik, N., D.L. Kelting, and H. Lee Allen. 2003.  The effects of vegetation control and fertilization on net nutrient

                     release from decomposing loblolly pine needles.  Can. J. For. Res. 33:2491-2502.

                    lSanchez, F.G. Loblolly pine needle decomposition and nutrient dynamics as affect by irrigation, fertilization, and substrate

                    quality.  For. Ecol. Man. 152:85-96.

11/20 Lecture: Nutrient Cycling & N Cycling and Impacts of Succession on Nutrient Cycling

Supportive Readings

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology. Chapin III et al. 2002. Chapter 9

Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001. Sanders College Publishing. Chapter 13, 14

11/27     Lecture: Forest Dynamics and Succession

     Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology.  Chapin III, F. S. ,P A. Matson, and H. Mooney. Capt 13.
    Terrestrial Ecosystems. 2nd Edition. Aber, J.D. and J.M. Melillo. 2001.  Sanders College

        Publishing Chapt. 18.

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