EFB 797: "Adaptive Peaks Graduate Seminar" (Spring 2007)

Organizer: Dr. Annette Kretzer

The seminar consists of three lectures given by acclaimed researchers in their fields and invited as part of the Adaptive Peaks Seminar Series sponsored by the Department of EFB. Students will read selected publications in preparation of these visits according to the schedule detailed below. Efforts will be made to arrange one hour long meetings between students and speakers typically immediately after lecture.

Time: Thu 4:00-5:00 pm.

Place: Seminars will generally be presented in Illick 5 unless announced otherwise; all other meetings will be held in Illick 8.

Preliminary Schedule

• Jan. 18: Organizational meeting

• Jan. 25: Peter F. Brussard, J. Michael Reed, C. Richard Tracy, 1998: Ecosystem management: what is it really? Landscape and Urban Planning 40: 9 – 20. [PDF]*

• Feb. 1: C. Richard Tracy, K. E. Nussear, T. C. Esque, K. Dean-Bradley, C. R. Tracy, L. A. DeFalco, K. T. Castle, L. C. Zimmerman, R. E. Espinoza, and A. M. Barber, 2006: The importance of physiological ecology in conservation biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46: 1191­1205. [PDF]*

• Feb. 8: Speaker Dick (C. Richard) Tracy (University of Nevada at Reno, Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Program): "The importance of physiological ecology to conservation biology" (host: Shields)

• Feb. 15: Tracy CR, and George TL, 1992: On the determinants of extinction. The American Naturalist 139: 102-122. [PDF]*

• Feb. 22: Nekola, J.C. & P.S. White. 1999. The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal of Biogeography. 26:867-878. [PDF]*

• Mar. 1: Preston, F.W. 1950. Gas laws and wealth laws. Scientific Monthly. 71:309-311. [PDF]*

• Mar. 8: Nekola, J.C. & J.H. Brown. 2007. The wealth of species: ecological communities, complex systems and the legacy of Frank Preston. Ecology Letters: in press. [PDF]*

• Mar. 15: SPRING BREAK

• Mar. 22: Speaker Jeff Nekola (University of New Mexico, Biology Department): "Ecological Communities as Complex Systems: distance decay, emergent properties, and the legacy of Frank Preston" (host: Hajek)

• Mar. 29: Wackernagel, 2005: Communication Strategies for Effective Footprint Applications. [PDF]*

• Apr. 5: Wackernagel M, Kitzes J, Moran D, Goldfinger S, and Thomas M, 2006: The Ecological Footprint of cities and regions: comparing resource availability with resource demand. Environment and Urbanization 18: 103-112. [PDF]* Wackernagel M, Schulz NB, Deumling D, Linares AC, Jenkins M, Kapos V, Monfreda C, Lohi J, Myers N, Norgaard R, and Randers J, 1999: Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. PNAS 99: 9266­9271. [PDF]*

• Apr. 12: Living Planet Report 2006. [PDF]*

• Apr. 19: Speaker Mathis Wackernagel
(Global Footprint Network): "One Planet Budgeting with the Ecological Footprint: Making Sustainability Real (host: Wickham) [presentation flyer]*

• Apr. 26: Conclusions.

*Sorry, all PDF files are accessible from campus only.