Syllabus: BIOLOGY 3500 -- Ecology
Spring Semester 2012 -- 10:50 - 12:05 p.m. M W, Seq 140 
Lab: 1:40 - 4:30 p.m. W, Seq 213.

Dr. James K. Adams -- 148 Sequoya Hall      Office: 706-272-4427     Home: 706-602-6993
E-mail: jadams@daltonstate.edu             Faculty website: www.daltonstate.edu/faculty-staff/jadams/

Textbook: Ecology: Concepts Applications, 6th Edition, by Molles, Jr.
Laboratory Manual: Ecology on Campus, Lab Manual, by Kingsolver

Week               Topics                                   Chapter, Pages        Scheduled Lab Exercise

Jan. 7 - 10      Introduction to course
                  Introduction to Ecology (overview)     1                             Intro to Ecology Lab
                  Natural History: Life on Land              2

Jan. 14 - 17    Natural History: Life in Water         3                             Soils guest speaker
                    Pop. Genetics/Natural Selection        4                             (Gina Kertulis-Tartar) 

Jan. 22 - 24    ***Martin Luther King Holiday, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013***
                   Temperature Relations                        5                              Chapter 6, A           

Jan. 28-31      Water Relations                              6                               Chapter 1, B
                 ***EXAM 1, Chaps. (1) 2 - 6; Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013*** 
                      
Feb. 4 - 7    Energy and Nutrient Relations              7                              Chapter 2, C
                Mate Choice                                           8 (174 - 185) 

Feb. 11 - 14    Population Distribution/Abundance   9                             Chapter 3, A        
                  
Feb. 18 - 21   Population Dynamics                       10                             Chapter 7, A

Feb. 25 - 28    ***EXAM 2, Chaps. 7 - 10;  Monday, Feb. 25, 2013***
                      Population Growth                           11                             Chapter 4, A                  

                                    ***Spring Break, March 2 - 10, 2013***
Mar. 11 - 14      Pop. Growth  (cont.)                   11                             Chapter 8, B
                   Life Histories                                      12           

March 18 - 21   Competition                                 13                             Chapter 11, C
                   Exploitative Interactions                      14 

    (Last Day to Withdraw with a W [not an F] -- Thursday, March 21, 2013) 

March 25 - 28      Exploitative Interactions (cont.)  14                            Chapter 12, C
                   Mutualism                                           15       
                                                                                                          
April 1 - 4  ***EXAM 3, Chaps. 11-15; Monday, April 1, 2013***   Chapter 5, C
                   Species Abundance/Diversity              16 

April 8 - 11     Community Structure                       17                            Chapter 13, B
                    Primary Production/Energy Floow       18

April 15 - 18   Primary Production/Energy Flow      18                            Chapter 13, B
                      Nutrient Cycling and retention            19
                      Succession/Stability                           20
   
April 22 - 25    Succesion/Stability (cont.)                20                           Chapter 18, A                        
               ***EXAM 4, Chaps. 16-20, Wednesday, April 24, 2013***

April 29          Landscape Processes                        21 (471 - 477)
                      Geographic Ecology                           22

            FINAL:   10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Monday, May 6, 2013