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Home Requirements Syllabus Lecture_Notes Links JDB_HomePage JDB_email: jd363@columbia.edu 212.854.0149 Edited 3.Oct.03 |
Syllabus Week 1 – Islands as natural laboratories (ch 1 & 2) Week 2 – Types of ecosystems present on islands (ch 1 & 2) Week 3 – Islands as biodiversity hotspots (ch 3) Week 4 – Speciation (ch 4 & readings) Week 5 – Historical biogeography and islands (ch 9 in Brown and Gibson) Week 6 – Arrival of new species and population-level change (ch 5) Week 7 – The taxon cycle (ch 6 & readings) Week 8 – Adaptive radiation (ch 6 & readings) Week 9 – Equilibrium theory of island biogeography (ch 7) Week 10 – Community assembly, structure, and function (ch 8) Week 11 – Metapopulation dynamics (ch 9 & readings) Week 12 – Island conservation issues: Fragmentation (ch 9) Week 13 – Island conservation issues: Invasive species (ch 10 & readings) |