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Books about Ecology
 Herpetology. University
of Texas at Austin. This great web site contains lectures from a team-taught
herpetology course at the University of Texas. Among these lectures are
a series on various ecological topics including spatial and temporal patterns
of activity, foraging ecology, reproductive tactics, demographic studies,
anti-predator adaptations, guild structure and community organization,
biogeography, and more. Some of these pages utilize lizards as examples.
Highly recommended.
Biology
160 - Evolution and Biodiversity. Thomas J. Herbert. Lecture notes
for an introductory evolution and evolutionary ecology course at Miami
University. Some of the topics covered are the species concept, systematics,
coevolution, predation, competition, natural selection, and speciation.
Recommended.
Ecology.
Derrick W. Sugg, State University of New York at Geneseo. A very nice
web site with lecture notes covering such topics as biodiversity, population
structure and growth, population genetics, competition, predation, biogeography,
energy and nutrients, and global climate change. Recommended.
Introduction to Global
Change, Fall Semester. University of Michigan. This site represents
the lecture note for a global change course team taught at the University
of Michigan. Although the lecture notes for this course are not uniform
in quality, most of them are just plain outstanding. Just a few of the
topics covered are evolution, speciation, communities, competition and
predation, ecosystems, some biomes (coral reefs and tropical rain forest),
nutrient cycling, and energy flow in ecosystems. This is a great site
for both evolution and ecology. Highly recommended.
Ecology. Ray
Russo, Indiana University. A great set of lecture notes for an ecology
course. Some of the topics covered include population ecology, population
growth and structure, life history patterns, population genetics, competition,
predation, community structure and biodiversity, and succession. In addition
to the lectures there are other resources here. Highly recommended.
Conservation
Biology. Hugh MacIssac, University of Windsor. These lecture notes
for a course in conservation biology contain a good deal of information
on ecology topics related to conservation. In particular there are sections
on biodiversity, continental drift, island biogeography, habitat fragmentation,
conservation genetics, economics, and conservation ethics. Recommended.
Ecology
and Evolution: Biology 301. David S. Wethey, University of South Carolina.
Synoptic lecture notes on evolution and ecology. Topics include morphological
and genetic variation, natural selection, fitness, population ecology
and life history strategies, competion models and examples, predation,
succession, and energy flow. The emphasis is on mathematical models.
Biology
103: General Biology Spring, 1997. Biology 103 is a team taught course
on evolution and ecology taught at the University of Oregon. The quality
of the lecture notes is variable. Most is in the form of a series of slides,
although more complete material is also present. The section of coevolution
is particularly well done.
Biology 330, Principles
of Ecology. Ken Lang. Lecture outlines from an ecology course taught
at the Humboldt State University. There is some good material on ecology
here, but it is not well organized, so you will have to look around in
the section marked "lecture materials" to find what you want.
An
Introduction to Ecology: Processes and Interactions. Rosemary Richardson,
Bellevue Community College. A very succinct survey of ecology as part
of a botany course starting with weather and moving through populations,
energy flow, and species interactions. Brief but recommended.
Conservation
Ecology. Doug Alexander, California State University, Chico. Although
entitled conservation ecology, these synoptic lecture notes cover most
topics in ecology. Most of the material is in outline form, but a few
more detailed presentations are included.
Ecology - 002:1324. Stephen
Heard. Synoptic lecture notes from an ecology course taught at the University
of Iowa.
Animal Ecology.
Fran Gelwick. Synoptic lecture notes on animal ecology covering such topics
and dispersal, population ecology, competition, predation, community structure,
and island biogeography.
BIO2060.
Ransom A. Myers, Dalhousie University. Somewhat eclectic, synoptic lecture
notes on food webs, predation, competition, community structure, and biodiversity.
Plant
Biology, PBIO 100. James Reveal, University of Maryland. Plant Biology
is a general plant biology course taught at the University of Maryland.
The site has a series of synoptic lectures for the course covering many
aspects of plant ecology including succession, biomes, pollination, and
a series of other isolated topics.
Miniunit Zeta.
Academic Television Services. An introduction to ecology in the form of
a series of units. Each unit has an introduction to a topic and then a
series of questions you have to answer before going on to the next unit.
The site concentrates on biomes and communities of plants and animals.
Bio 111 Environmental
Science. Jim Swan, TVI Community College. A nice set of lecture notes
on ecology and environmental sciences. Some of the topics covered are
population dynamics, succession, biomes, and hydrology.
Ecology.
Diana Barshaw, Emporita State University. A series of lecture notes for
a general ecology course. Some of the topics covered are ecosystems and
energy, trophic structure, populations, and the physical environment.
Plants, People, and the
Environment. A team taught introductory botany course from the University
of Illinois. Some of the lecture notes cover topics in ecology.
Environmental
Sciences. John V. Aliff, Georgia Perimeter College. This course contains
a number of notes on ecology including pages on ecosystems and energy
flow, population ecology, biomes, succession, and water pollution.
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