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Welcome to IB 203: Ecology

Welcome to IB 203: Ecology. Dr. Carol Augspurger carolaug@illinois.edu Please start each ‘subject’ of email: IB 203 question @ lab 155 Morrill 3-1298 office hours 2 Th and by appointment. IB Student Picnic. Tuesday, September 1, 5-8 pm

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Welcome to IB 203: Ecology

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  1. Welcome to IB 203: Ecology • Dr. Carol Augspurger • carolaug@illinois.edu • Please start each ‘subject’ of email: IB 203 question @ lab 155 Morrill 3-1298 office hours 2 Th and by appointment

  2. IB Student Picnic Tuesday, September 1, 5-8 pm Illini Grove Pavilion (corner of Lincoln and Pennsylvania Ave.) Meet Faculty Free Food Free T-shirt Find out what SIB is all about and meet other IB majors!! **Rain Location: 3rd floor Levis** (912 W Illinois)

  3. Illini Grove Pavilion (if rain, 3rd floor Levis)5-8 pm • Food served 5:00 to 7:30 pm • Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, veggie burgers • Ranch beans, potato salad, watermelon • Cookies • Pop and water RSVP to Debbie Lanter, dlanter@illinois.edu or 333-3044

  4. Texts: Ricklefs Economy of Nature 6th EditionMath/Statistics for Life Sciences Lab Manual: ‘Exercises in Ecology’

  5. Course Philosophy • Learn products = ‘What do we KNOW’ @ ecology’ and processes of science = ‘How to DO ecology…’ • Become well-informed citizens about the link between ecology and human-induced problems • Develop higher levels of thought • Use active learning Tell me and I’ll listen Show me and I’ll understand Involve me and I’ll learn Teton Lakota Indian

  6. Grading - compass.illinois.edu • Lecture (50%) First exam 10 + 3 In-class Act. Second exam 14 + 3 “ Final exam 16 + 4 “ • Labs (50%) Participation 7 Homeworks 1-10 10 Student project 1 15 Student project 2 18

  7. Responsibilities • Mine • Yours • Any questions?

  8. Assignments LECTURE Biomes lecture outline: 203 website Main page - go to Lecture Topics LAB • DUEat beginning of first lab this week Homework 1: Hypotheses…(pg. 77) ***2 xerox copies of I-card with photo*** • Read beforefirstlab this week: Lab 1: Small mammals (pg. 87) Homework 2: Mammal habitat choice (pg. 97)

  9. Merit for IB 203Thursday 3-5 in 304 NHB CONTACT: Tracey Hickox hickox@illinois.edu 265-8073 303 NHB

  10. Today’s Outline • What is ecology? (basic + applied) • What are most pressing environmental issues? • Hierarchical levels of biology/ecology • Questions asked at each level of ecology • Introduce Labs I-III: ‘Small mammals, plants,and insects in succession habitats’ • Practice skills used in scientific process

  11. We write to learn… What is ecology? How do basic vs. applied ecology differ? How does basic contribute to applied? What are 5 most pressing environmental issues? Which is # 1? How does ecology help to solve human- induced problems?

  12. What types of questions do ecologists ask? • Descriptive: What? When? Where? Who? • Functional: How? • Evolutionary Why?

  13. Hierarchical levels of biological organization…from molecules toorganisms… • Ecology starts with individual organism…and goes to higher levels of biological organization.

  14. The hierarchical nature and processes of different levels of ecological systems:

  15. Individual organism: How do structure, physiology, and behavior lead to the individual’s survival and reproduction? • Population: What determines the number of individuals and their variation in time and space? • Community: What determines the diversity and relative abundance of organisms living together? • Ecosystem: How do energy and matter move in the biotic and abiotic environment? • Biosphere: How do air, water, and the energy and chemicals they contain circulate globally?

  16. How DO Ecologists Study the Natural World?

  17. Introduction to Labs I-III‘Small mammals, insects, and plants in successional habitats’ What is level of ecology?

  18. PT + TR from W winter

  19. Diagram of strips 5 year soybeans 1 year

  20. Bazzaz south view 2

  21. Food web

  22. 4-5 yr (leaves/stems

  23. seeds

  24. Insects/spiders

  25. predators

  26. What questions can be explored in this food web in these successional habitats?

  27. Does succession affect the distribution and abundance of organisms? • Does plant and arthropod biomass differ between 1 vs. 5-yr plots? • Does abundance of small mammals differ between 1 vs. 5-yr plots? • What factors determine habitat choice of small mammals?

  28. Today’s Outline • What is ecology? (basic + applied) • What are most pressing environmental issues? • Hierarchical levels of biology/ecology • Questions asked at each level of ecology • Introduce Labs I-III: ‘Small mammals, plants,and insects in succession habitats’ • Practice skills used in scientific process

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