Readings List for EEB507 - Spring 1999

Plant Physiological Ecology:

Mooney, H. A., R. W. Pearcy and J. Ehleringer. 1987. Plant physiological 
ecology today. BioScience 37:18-20.

Pearcy, R. W. et al. 1987. Carbon gain by plants in natural environments. 
BioScience 37:21-29.

Schulze, E.-D. et al. 1987. Plant water balance. BioScience 37:30-37.

Chapin, F. S. et al. 1987. Plant responses to multiple environmental 
factors. BioScience 37:49-57.

Coleman, J. S. and F. A. Bazzaz. 1992. Effects of CO2 and temperature on 
growth and resource use of co-occurring C3 and C4 annuals. Ecology 
73:1244-1259.

Biophysical Ecology:

Gross, L. J. 1986. Biophysical ecology: an introduction to organism 
response to environment. P. 19-36 in T. G. Hallam and S. A. Levin 
(eds.), Mathematical Ecology: An Introduction. Springer Verlag, Berlin. 

Wouter D. Van Marken Lichtenbelt, Renate A. Wesselingh, Jacob T. Vogel, 
Koen B. M. Albers. 1993. Energy Budgets in Free-Living Green Iguanas in 
a Seasonal Environment. Ecology 74:1157-1172.

Animal Population Ecology:

Chitty, D. 1960. Population processes in the vole and their relevance to 
general theory. Can. J. Zool. 38:99-113.

Ehrlich, P. R. and L. C. Birch. 1967. The "Balance of Nature" and 
"Population Control". Am. Nat. 101:97-107.

Krebs, C. J. M. S. Gaines, B. L. Keller, J. H. Myers, and R. H. Tamarin. 
1973. Population cycles in small rodents. Science 179:35-41.

Akcakaya, H. R. 1992. Population cycles of mammals:
Evidence for a ratio-dependent predation hypothesis. Ecol. Monog. 62:
119-142.

Plant Population Ecology:

Fowler, N. L. 1995. Density-Dependent Demography in Two Grasses: A
Five-Year Study. Ecology 76:2145-2164.

Lonsdale, W. M. 1990. The Self-Thinning Rule: Dead or Alive? Ecology
71:1373-1388.

Schemske, D. W. et al. 1994. Evaluating approaches to the conservation
of rare and endangered plants. Ecology 75:584-606.

Population Ecology - Basic Models

Hallam, T. G. 1986. Population dynamics in a homogeneous environment. 
P. 241-285 in T. G. Hallam and S. A. Levin (eds.), Mathematical Ecology: 
An Introduction. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Age Structure:

Grant, P. R. and B. R. Grant. 1992. Demography and the Genetically
Effective sizes of Two populations of Darwin's Finches. Ecology
73:766-784.

Saltz, D. and D. I. Rubenstein. 1995. Population Dynamics of a
Reintroduced Asiatic Wild Ass (Equus Hemionus) Herd. Ecological
Applications 5:327-335.

Size and Stage Structure:

Crowder, L. B., D. T. Crouse, S. S. Heppell and T. H. Martin. 1994.
Predicting the Impact of Turtle Excluder Devices on Loggerhead Sea
Turtle Populations Ecological Applications 4:437-445.

Olmsted, I. and Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla. 1995. Sustainable Harvesting
of Tropical Trees: Demography and Matrix Models of Two Palm Species in
Mexico. Ecological Applications 5:484-500.

Spatial Structure:

Hanski, I., M. Kuussaari, M. Nieminen. 1994. Metapopulation Structure
and Migration in the Butterfly Militaea Cinxia. Ecology 75:747-762.

Tilman, D. 1994. Competition and Biodiversity in Spatially Structured
Habitats. Ecology 75:2-16.

Community Ecology - Basic Models:

Hutchinson, G. E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so
many kinds of animals? Am. Nat. 93:145-159.

Kohler, Steven L. 1992. Competition and the structure of a benthic
stream community. Ecol. Monog. 62:165-188.

Schoener, T. W. 1974. Resource partitioning in ecological communities.
Science 185:27-39.

Predator - Prey:

Berryman, A. A. 1992.  The origins and evolution of predator-prey
theory.  Ecology 73:1530- 1535.

Yodzis, P. 1994.  Predator-prey theory and management of multispecies
fisheries.  Ecological Applications 4:51-58.

Competition:

Hutchinson, G. E. 1978.  Chapt. 4. Living together in theory and
practice.  In: Am Introduction to Population Ecology.  Yale University
Press, New Haven.

Tilman D. 1990.  Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients: the
elements of a predictive theory of competition.  In: Perspective on
Plant Competition (J.B. Grace and D. Tilman, eds.) Academic Press, New
York.


Conservation Ecology (Pimm):

Pimm, S. L. and J. H. Lawton 1998. Planning for biodiversity. Science 
279:2068-2069.

Pimm, S.L., G.J. Russell, J.L. Gittleman, T.M. Brooks 1995.  The future
of biodiversity.  Science 269:347-350..

Other optional suggested readings by Dr. Pimm are:

I discussed three case studies that calibrate the species-area predictions
against the numbers of extinct or soon to be extinct species.  The references
are:  

Pimm, S.L. and R. Askins.  Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern
North America.  Proceedings of the National  Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.).
92:  9343-9347 (1995)

Brooks, T.M., S.L. Pimm, and N. J. Collar.  Deforestation predicts the number
of threatened birds in insular southeast Asia.  Conservation Biology 11,
382-384.

Brooks, T. and A. Balmford. 1996. Atlantic Forest extinctions. Nature 380:115.

The best overview of species diversity patterns
is a very readable book:  

Rosenzweig, M. L. 1995. Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.


Invasion Ecology (Simberloff):

Kareiva, P. (ed.) 1996. Ecology Special Feature on Developing a Predictive 
Ecology for Non-indigenous Species and Ecological Invasions. Ecology 77:1651-1652 and following articles, particularly:

Rejmanek, M. and D. M. Richardson. 1996. What attributes make some plant species more invasive? Ecology 77:1655-1661. 


Food - Webs:

Carpenter, S. R., J. F. Kitchell, J. R. Hidgson, P. A. Cochran, J. J.
Elser, D. M. Lodge, D.  Kretchmer, and X. He 1987.  Regulation of lake
primary productivity by food web structure.  Ecology 68:1863-1876.

Pimm, S. L., Lawton, J. H. and Cohen, J. 1991.  Food web patterns and
their consequences.  Nature 350:669-674.


Succession:

Huston M. H. 1994.  Chapt 9. Biological Diversity.  Cambridge University
Press.


Community Assembly (Drake):

Drake, J. A., C. R. Zimmerman, T. Purucker, and C. Rojo. (in press).
On the nature of the assembly trajectory.  IN: (E. Wieher and P. Keddy,
eds.)  Assembly of Ecological Systems.  Cambridge University Press.

Mutualism:

DeAngelis, D. L., W. M. Post, and C. C. Travis. 1986.  Chapter 8:
Mutualistic and competitive systems.  In: Positive Feedback in Natural
Systems.  Springer-Verlag, New York.

Setala, H.  1995.  Growth of birch and pine seedlings in relation to
grazing and soil fauna on ectomycorrhizal fungi.  Ecology
76:1844-1851.


Host-Parasites:

Marvier, M. A. 1996. Parasitic plant host interactions: plant 
performance and indirect effects on parasite feeding herbivores. 
Ecology 77: 1398-1409.

Poulin, R. 1995. Phylogeny, ecology and the richness of parasite 
communities in vertebrates. Ecol. Monog. 65:283-295.


Ecosystems:

Schlesinger, W.H. 1991.  Chapter 5.  The Terrestrial Biosphere.  pp.
108-141. Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, Academic
Press.

Waring, R.H., and W. H. Schlesinger 1985.  Chapter 3.  Forest
productivity and succession.  Forest Ecosystesms: Concepts and
Management.  Academic Press.

Waring, R.H., and W. H. Schlesinger 1985.  Chapter 5.  Hydrology of
forest ecosystems.  Forest Ecosystems: Concepts and Management.
Academic Press.

Aber, J.D. and J. Melillo 1991.  Chapter 14.  Plant-soil interactions:
summary effects on nutrient cycles. pp. 210-224.  Terrestrial
Ecosystems.  Saunders.

Chadwick, O.A., L.A. Derry, P.M. Vitousek, B.J. Huebert, and L.O. Hedin
1999.  Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of
ecosystems development.  Nature 397:491-497.


Global Carbon Cycle:

Post, W. M., T.-H. Peng, W. R. Emanuel, A. W. King, V. H. Dale, and D.
L. DeAngelis.  1990.  The Global Carbon Cycle. American Scientist
78:310--326.