ESPM 290
Disturbance Ecology Seminar
Fall 2003

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Students can enroll in either ESPM 290 section 1 or IB 250 section 1 for this class.

Mussel Bed Patch

Class Readings

Disturbance Review 2001 (Sousa)

Disturbance Review 1984 (Sousa)

Neighborhood Effects, Disturbance Severity, and Community Stability in Forests

Fire history in northwest Mexico (Stephens, Skinner, Gill)

Fire history, topography, and wind blowdown in Colorado (Kulakowski and Veblen)

Patterns of Disturbances (Runkle 1982)

Intertidal Landscapes (Paine and Levin 1981)

Gap Regeneration (Runkle 1981)

Disturbance in Streams (McCade and Gotelli 2000)

Impacts of Invasions (11-25)

Class summary notes

Introduction 8-26

Language of Disturbance 9-2

Disturbances in Rivers 9-9

Forest Disturbances 9-9

Summary of Disturbances in Rivers and Forests 9-9

Disturbances and Food Webs of Rivers 9-16

Fire as a Disturbance Agent (Stephens 9-23)

Summary of Fire as a Disturbance Agent (9-23-03)

Patch Dynamics: Models from Mussels to Forests (Battles 9-30)

Supplement to Patch Dynamics (9-30-03)

Disturbance in Benthic Marine Communities (Sousa 10-7)

Spatial Extent of Disturbances (10-28)

Student Seminars

Seasonality (10-14)

Seasonality (10-14 Power Point)

Severity (10-21)

Severity summary (10-21)

Spatial Extent (10-28)

Temporal Patterning (11-4)

Complex Interactions (11-18)

Complex Interactions Presentation (11-18)

Consequences of Disturbance for Diversity presentation(11-25)

Consequences of Disturbance for Diversity references (11-25)

Disturbance and Diversity (12/2/03)