Jordan Watson & Meriwether

Hughes, J. B., J. J. Hellmann, T. H. Ricketts and B. J. M. Bohannan (2001). "Counting the uncountable: statistical approaches to estimating microbial diversity." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67(10): 4399-4406.

Colwell, R. K. and J. A. Coddington (1994). "Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 345(1311): 101-118.

Gotelli, N. J. and R. K. Colwell (2001). "Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness." Ecology Letters: 379-391.

Other suggested readings:

Petchey, O.L., A. Hector and K.J. Gaston (2004).  How do different measures of functional diversity perform?  Ecology 85: 847-857.

Micheli & Halpern (2005). Low functional redundancy in coastal marine assemblages.  Ecology letters 8:391-400.

J. H. Steele (1991).  Marine functional diversity.  Bioscience 41:470-474.

Hellmann & Gary Fowler (Ecological Applications, 1999) because it covers the issue of bias, precision, and accuracy. 

Palmer (Ecology, 1990 & 1991(correction to 1990 paper)) review of a number of estimator types.

Russ Lande also has a paper about the Simpson's index recently (Lande et al. 2000?)?  This paper addresses ways of dealing with the fact that accumulation curves could cross with higher sampling levels.

Magurran, A. E. (2004). Measuring Biological Diversity. Malden, MA, Blackwell Science Ltd.  A GREAT reference for sampling and measuring diversity - very accessible.


3) October 13                  Functional aspects of ecological systems  & the “classics”
                                         Mary Ramirez, Erin Hagen & Emily Howe

i) Please read p. 3-15 (top) for this week.  We will read the rest later in teh quarter.  Hooper et al. (2005).  Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge.  Ecological Monographs 75: 3-35.

ii) Hector et al.  (1999) Plant diversity and proiductivity experiements in European grasslands.  Science 286: 1123-1127.

iii) Tilman et al.  (1997) The influence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes.  Science 277: 1300-1302.

iv) Please just skim Micheli & Halpern for the main points.  We do nto have time to discuss the dsetails, but I wanted to include it as it is a nice & recent example of the importance of cuntional diversity to MPAs.
Micheli & Halpern (2005). Low functional redundancy in coastal marine
assemblages.  Ecology Letters 8:391-400.

Other related readings:

Covich et al. (2004),  The role of biodiersity in the functioning of freshwater and marine benthic ecosystems.  BioScience 54:767-775.

4) October 20                  Stability, diversity & biocomplexity
                                         Aaron Booy, Meriwether Wilson & Sarah Spilseth

i) Please read p. 15-21 (II A & B) for this week.  You should alrady have a hard copy of this paper!  Hooper et al. (2005).  Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge.  Ecological Monographs 75: 3-35.

ii)  A nice example of stability at a large spatial scale from our department.  Hilborn et al.  (2003)  Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability.  PNAS 100: 6564-6568.

iii) A nice review.  McCann, K.S. (2000)  The diversity-stability debate.  Nature 405: 228-233.

iv) And another short but good bit from Cedar Creek from early on in the study of diversity and stability.  Tilman, D. and J.A. Downing (1994) Biodiversity and stability in grasslands.  Nature 367: 363-365.


5) October 27                  Disturbance & invasion
                                         Trevor Hutton, Cat Curran & Thomas Pool

i) Hughes & Stachowicz (2004) Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seasgrass community to disturbance.   PNAS 101: 8998-9002.

ii)  Stachowizc et al.  (2002) Biodiversity, invasion resistance and marine ecosystem function: reconciling pattern and process.  Ecology 83: 2575-2590.

iv) Hawkes et al. (2005) Plant invasion alters nitrogen cycling by modifying the soil nitrifying community.  Ecology Letters 8: 604-611.

iii)  Seabloom et al.  (2003) Invasion, competitive dominance, and resource use by exotic and native California grassland species.  PNAS 100: 13384-13389.

6) November 3                 Invasion debate
                                   

7) November 10               Ecosystem services
                                         Mary Ramirez, Cristiane Elfes & Cat Curran

Unfortunately, I had trouble finding good aquatic examples, and I wanted to keep the list short for this week.

i)  Kremen, C.  2005 Managing ecosystem services: what do we need
to know about their ecology?  Ecology Letters.  8: 468-479.

ii) Ricketts, T. 2004.  Tropical Forest Fragments Enhance Pollinator Activity in Nearby Coffee Crops.  Conservation Biology.  18: 1262-1271.

8) November 17               Ecosystem Services & Millenium Assessment Part 1
                                          Jordan Watson, Sarah Spilseth, Cristiane Elfes & Fred Goetz 
             

1)  Review the Ricketts paper from last week briefly and then read this follow-up.  Ricketts et al.  Economic value of tropical forests coffee production.  PNAS 101(43): 12579-12582. 

2)  Millenium Assessment. Let's start by reading this general overview.  next week we will focus in on a particular section, but this will give us a start at the scope of things.  It is long, but easy to read and with lots of photos. 

**November 24**         Thanksgiving Holiday

9) December 1                 Assessing the Millennium Assessment
                                          Erin Hagen, Emily Howe, Trevor Hutton & Aaron Booy

1)  Before we get back to talking about the MA this week, let's start with this paper on ecosystem services in an aquatic system.  Peter J. Mumby et al.   2004.  Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean.  Nature 427.

2) This LONG file is a general synthesis of the MA.  Let's focus on the Scenarios section.  Please read pages 71-83.

                     
10) December 8               Local case study

Ben Riedesel, Fred Goetz & Russ Higley