Fall, 2008
Drs. Alan Molumby and Darrel Murray
Syllabus
LABORATORY
(the link above includes lab report guidelines)
Dr.Darrel Murray’s Lectures
Note that the reading assignment, on the first page of each of these lectures, is out of date. The reading assignments on Dr. Murray’s powerpoints correspond to Freeman 2nd edition. For those of you who did not economize by buying an old edition, consult the syllabus for current pages.
Lecture 1: Introduction to Ecology Lecture 2: Demography Lecture 3: Population Dynamics
Lecture 4: Competition Lecture 5: Predation Lecture 6: Production
Lecture 7: Tritrophic Interactions Lecture 8: Food Webs Lecture 9: Trophic Structure
Lecture 10: Energy Flow Lecture 11: Nutrient Cycles Lecture 12: Eutrophication
Lecture 13:Climate Change Lecture 14: Nitrogen Deposition Lecture 15: Conservation Biology
Lecture 16: Life Histories and Harvesting Lecture 17: Conservation Genetics Lecture 18: Restoration Ecology
Dr. Alan Molumby’s Lectures
What is Life?-What is Out There?
Genetics
Evidence for Evolution
Microevolution
Mating Systems
Macroevolution
A Rationale for Conserving Biodiversity
Problem Sets
check the syllabus for the due dates
Problem Set1
PS 1 Answers
Problem Set 2
PS2 Answers
Problem Set 3
Problem Set 4
Practice Exams
We post these with a few caveats-
1) at least one question (on a Molumby exam) is keyed wrong
2) it is OLD, so some of the stuff (including Dr. Molumby’s take on ecology, which is a little different than Dr. Murray’s) was not covered this year.
3) Please, don't ask us to post answers..experience has taught us that these are more effective when we do not.
Practice Exam-Murray
Second Practice Exam-Murray
An Old Genetics Exam
An Old Evolution Exam
Sample Exam-Molumby
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