Last Updated 09 March 2005
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Environmental Biology

ECOL 206, spring 2005, University of Arizona

Kevin Bonine, Ph.D., Alona Bachi, TA, Matthew Herron, TA

Evolving Lab/Field Trip Schedule

Your Saturday or Sunday field trip is in RED

Date

Topic

Readings etc.

Meeting Location

 



Week 1 (10-14 Jan)

No Lab

Read Ishmael (19 Copies on Reserve in Science Library)



Week 2 (17-21 Jan) , LAB ASSIGNMENT

Campus Plant Walk

Meet in Lab, then depart



Week 3 (24-28 Jan) LAB ASSIGNMENT

Discuss Ishmael, Biodiversity CD (Wilson)

Ishmael (19 Copies on Reserve in Science Library)

Meet in Lab



Week 4 (31 Jan - 04 Feb)

Aerial View of Tucson (this lab will be outside most of the time)

Pima County's Withdrawal From its Past: Raymond Turner 2003 (SDCP) (Very Large File)

Meet in Lab, then depart



Week 5 (07-11 Feb)

Data Analysis, Graphing
useful websites about presenting data graphically: 1) Presenting information Graphically, 2) Betty Jung's page

Meet in Lab



Week 6 (14-18 Feb)

Plant IDs, dichotomous key, Library (w/ Paula Wolfe and Jeanne Pfander)
Link to 2005 library site for ECOL206

Meet in Lab, then depart



Week 7 (21 Feb – 25 Feb)

Tumamoc Hill (Desert Laboratory)

Tumamoc Hill Lab Handout (BRING with you to Lab)
Plants of the Sonoran Desert (READ)
Saguaro Life History Information (READ)

Tumamoc Hill Background Reading (by Nancy Wall)

Background Reading on Flooding and the Santa Cruz (thanks to Geosciences)


OPTIONAL READINGS: Tumamoc Hill Research,
Views of the Changing Sonoran Desert (large file)

Meet S side BSE at VAN



Week 8 (28 Feb -04 Mar)

Population Modelling
Population Modelling Spreadsheet (don't need to print, we will access in lab)
Population Modelling Handout (please don't print, we will access in lab)

Meet at ECE206 (map location)



Week 9 (07-11 Mar)

No Lab (work on your Group Project)



Week 10 (21-25 Mar)

Richness, Diversity, and Disturbance: Greasewood Park, LAB ASSIGNMENT
Connell 1978, Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index

Meet S side BSE at VAN



Week 11 (28 Mar – 01 Apr)

Los Reales Landfill? (with Wilson Hughes)

add Lomborg 2001 chapter?

Meet S side BSE at VAN



Week 12 (04-08 Apr)

Sweetwater Waste Treatment (w/ Joaquim Delgado)
Please read: How water management in Tucson has affected desert surroundings
Please read: Shutes 2001
Optional: Troubled Waters, by Sandra Postel
Optional: Verhoeven and Meuleman 1999
Optional: Constructed Wetland details

Meet S side BSE at VAN



Week 13 (11-15 Apr)

No Lab During Week (work on your Group Project)

Saturday 16 Apr

Mt. Lemmon

Labs 3 + 4, Rex Adams?

Meet S side BSE, 7am - return ~ 6pm

(see readings below)

Sunday 17 April

Mt. Lemmon

Labs 1 + 2, Rex Adams?

Rex Adams from Lab of Tree-Ring Research
Sonorensis Publication 1989 (a great overview of Mt. Lemmon and our Sky Islands)
Guide to Mt. Lemmon Highway (with mileage, elevation, and checklists)
Miscellaneous Mt. Lemmon-related information (including a map; PRINT some of these pages to bring with you)
Whittaker and Niering, 1965 (excerpts) (optional discussion of life zones and vegetation on Mt. Lemmon)
Cruising for Timber! (optional details on how to quickly calculate standing biomass)

Meet S side BSE, 7am - return ~ 6pm



Week 14 (18-22 Apr)

Data analysis and summary Mt. Lemmon

Pale Male Reading for last third of lab meeting

Meet in Lab



Week 15 (25-29 Apr)

Recycling (w/ Alana Levine), Course Evaluations

Meet in Lab



Week 16 (02-06 May)

No Lab

Prepare for Final Exam!

 

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