Additional Readings for Botany/Zoology/Forest Ecol. & Mgmt. 460 - Spring 2005

Allen, T.F.H. (1998). Community Ecology. The Issue at the Center. Ch. 8 in Dodson, S.I. et al. Ecology. Oxford University Press, NY. Excerpt (pp. 317-320) summarizing Cooper, W.S. (1926) The fundamentals of vegetation change. Ecology 7: 391-414. For lectures on the community criterion. It is a classic paper, but a bit of a secret. It has the wonderful image of a braided stream analogy for the development of a community.

Allen, T.F.H., T. Havlicek, & J. Norman (2001) Wind tunnel experiments to measure vegetation temperature to indicate complexity and functionality. Pp 135-145 in “Advances in Energy Studies. Exploring Supplies, Constraints, and Strategies. S. Ulgiati, M.T. Brown, M. Giampietro, R.A. Herendeen, & K. Mayumi, editors. Servici Grafici Editoriale, Padova, Italy.

Allen, T.F.H., G. Mitman & T.W. Hoekstra. (1993) Synthesis mid-century: J.T. Curtis and the community concept. Pages 123-144 in John T. Curtis: Fifty years of Wisconsin Plant Ecology. J.S. Fralish, R.P. McIntosh and O.L. Loucks, editors. Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Allen, T.F.H., J.A. Tainter & T.W. Hoekstra (1999). Supply-side sustainability. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 16:403-427.

Allen, T.F.H., J.A. Tainter, J.C. Pires, & T.W. Hoekstra (2001) Dragnet Ecology - “Just the facts, ma’am”: the privilege of science in a postmodern world. BioScience 51:475-485.

Cairns, J. Jr. & K. Dickson (1971) A simple method for the biological assessment of the effects of waste water discharges on aquatic bottom-dwelling organisms. Journal of Water Pollution Control 43: 755-72. This is for the leaf litter lab. It gives a simple but sensible measurement scheme for looking at animal collections.

Conover, D.O. & S.B. Munch. 2002. Sustaining fisheries yields over evolutionary time scales. Science 297:94-96.

Curtis, J.T. & R.P. McIntosh (1951) An upland forest continuum in the Prairie-Forest Border Region of Wisconsin. Ecology 32: 476-496. This is a real classic paper. It is for the sampling lab, and for the lectures on the community criterion.

Essington, T.E., J.F. Kitchell, C.J. Walters. 2001. The von Bertalanffy growth function, bioenergetics, and the consumption rates of fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 58: 2129-2138.

Gardner, R.H., B.T. Milne, M.G. Turner & R.V. O’Neill (1987) Neutral models for analysis of broad scale landscape pattern. Landscape Ecology 1: 19-28. For the landscape lab (figure 1).

Gardner, R.H., R.V. O’Neill, M.G. Turner & V.H. Dale (1989) Quantifying scale-dependent effects of animal movement with simple percolation models. Landscape Ecology 3: 217-27. For the landscapes lab. We will use the ideas in figure 7.

Grieg-Smith, P. (1983) Quantitative plant ecology. University of California Press. Excerpts from a classic text. This is for the sampling labs.

Harper, J.L. & R.A. Benton (1966) The behavior of seeds in the soil II. J. Ecol. 54: 151-66. This goes with part I above for the seed box lab.

Harper, J.L., J.T. Williams & G.R. Sagar (1965) The behavior of seeds in the soil. I. J. Ecol. 53: 273-86. This is for the seed box lab. It is a classic piece of experimental work.

Jacobson, J.L., & S.W. Jacobson (2004) Prospective studies of exposure to an environmental contaminant: The challenge of hypothesis testing in a multivariate correlational context. Psychology in the Schools 41: 625-637.

Ludwig, D., R. Hilborn, & C. Walters (1993) Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: lessons from history. Science 260:17,36.

Norstrom, R.J., D.J. Hallett, & R.A. Sonstegard (1978) Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) as indicators of organochlorine contamination in Lake Ontario. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 35:1401-1409.

Olson, R.J., & C.H. Boggs (1986) Apex predation by Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares): independent estimates from gastric evacuation and stomach contents, bioenergetics, and cesium concentrations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 43:1760-1775.

Schneider, E.D. & J.J. Kay (1994). Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 19(6-8):25-48.

Van Voris, P. et al. (1980) Functional complexity and ecosystem stability. Ecology 61: 1351-60. For the microcosms lab.

Vitousek, P.M., H.A. Mooney, J. Lubchenko, & J.M. Mellillo. 1997. Human domination of earth’s ecosytems. Science 277:494-499.