Tentative Schedule of Topics for Fall 2004

Date

Speaker

 

Category*

Topic

Readings

 

 

 

 

 

Sept 15

Agata Kamler

h & p

Climate change and plant-animal interactions

(Lindroth et al.)

(Hill and Hodkinson)

Sept 22

Dana Rogoff

h

Algal grazing by marine herbivores

Teegarden et al

Kirk & Gilbert

Meyer-Harms et al

Sept 29

Johanna Kertesz

h

Do marine herbivores select nutritious food?

Boyer et al

Giannotti and McGlathery

Oct 6

Jen Carah

 

Pollen limitation in plants

Ehrlen and Eriksson

Vaughton

Oct 13

Meredith Thomas

d

Seed dispersal by birds

Duncan&Chapman

Figuerola et al.

Oct 20

Ian Walsh

d

Seed dispersal by primates

Poulsen et al

Stevenson

Oct 27

Joe Heublein

 

 

Zooey Diggory

s

 

s

Vegetation  structure and salmon spawning habitat

 

 

Vegetation as habitat structure in riparian systems

 

Roni and Quinn

Solazzi et al

 

Helfield and Naiman

Henschel et al

Nov 3

John Doudna

p/h

Interactions of animals with invasive plants

Herrera and Dudley

Harris et al

Nov 10

Chris Peyer

h

Bottom-up control of the dynamics of herbivore populations

Dyer

Eber

Nov 17

Jenny Yorty

h

Ants and their interaction with extra floral nectaries

Beckmann and Stucky

Eubanks et al

Nov 24

 

 

break

 

Dec 1

Jeff Rutter

p/h

Herbivory in plant hybrid zones

Fritz et al

Floate et al

Dec 8

Cynthia Fenter

p

Nectar robbing by bees and its effects on plants

Irwin&Brody

Stout et al

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p = pollination, h = herbivory, d = seed dispersal, s = habitat structure