30 January

Jane [Download PDF]

Howe, Henry F. and Judith Smallwood. 1982. Ecology of seed dispersal. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13:201-228.

6 February

Bryan [Download PDF]

Connell, Jospeh H., and Wayne P. Sousa. 1983. On the evidence needed to judge ecological stability or persistence. American Naturalist 121:789-824.

13 February

Nicole [Download PDF]

Walther, G.R., E. Post, P. Convey, A. Menzel, C. Parmesan, T.J. Beebee, J.M. Fromentin, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, and F. Bairlein. 2002. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416:389-395.

20 February

Amy [Download PDF]

Julie Sloan Denslow. 1987. Tropical rainforest gaps and tree species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 18:431-451.

27 February

Anthony [Download PDF]

D'Antonio, Carla M. and Peter M. Vitousek. 1992. Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:63-87.

6 March

Clint [Download PDF]

West-Eberhard, M.J. 1989. Phenotypic plasticity and the origin of diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20:240-278.

13 March

Lety [Download PDF]

Connor, Edward F. and Daniel S. Simberloff. 1979. The assembly of species communities: Chance or competition? Ecology 60:1132-1140.

20 March

Michelle [Download PDF]

Polis, Gary A. 1981. The Evolution and dynamics of intraspecific predation. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 12:225-251.

3 April

David [Download PDF]

Charnov, Eric L. 1976. Optimal foraging: Attack strategy of a mantid. The American Naturalist 110:141-151.

10 April

Mary [Download PDF]

20 September

Nataly: MacArthur Award 2002. [Download PDF]

James Hemphill Brown. 2004. Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology 85:1771-1789.

27 September

Sarah: MacArthur Award 1988. [Download PDF]

Simon Asher Levin. 1992. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Ecology 73:1943-1967.

4 October

Jory: MacArthur Award 1990. [Download PDF]

William W. Murdoch. 1994. Population regulation in theory and practice. Ecology 75:271-287.

11 October

Anthony: MacArthur Award 1998. [Download PDF]

Robert V. O'Neill. 2001. Is it time to bury the ecosystem concept? (With full military honors, of course!). Ecology 82:3275-3284.

18 October

Bryan: MacArthur Award 1984. [Download PDF]

Robert McCreadie May. 1986. The search for patterns in the balance of nature: advances and retreats. Ecology 67:1115-1126.

25 October

Sasha: MacArthur Award 1992. [Download PDF]

Peter Morrison Vitousek. 1994. Beyond global warming: ecology and global change. Ecology 75:1861-1876.

1 November

Mary and/or David: MacArthur Award 1986. [Download PDF]

Thomas William Schoener. 1989. Food webs from the small to the large. Ecology 70:1559-1589.

8 November

Lety: MacArthur Award 1996. [Download PDF]

David Tilman. 1999. The ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity: A search for general principles. Ecology 80:1455-1474.

15 November

Jane: MacArthur Award 2000. [Download PDF]

Stephen Russell Carpenter. 2002. Ecological futures: building an ecology of the long now. Ecology 83:2069-2083.

Week 6

Classic Paper [Download PDF]

Simberloff, Daniel S. and Edward O. Wilson. 1969. Experimental zoogeography of islands: The colonization of empty islands. Ecology 50:278-296.

Week 5

Classic Paper [Download PDF]

Hairston, Nelson G., Frederick E. Smith, and Lawrence B. Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94:421-425.

Optional Reading [Download PDF]

Power, Mary E. 1992. Top-down and bottom-up forces in food webs: Do plants have primacy? Ecology 73:733-746.

Week 4

Classic Paper [Download PDF]

Grinnell, Joseph. 1917. The niche-relationships of the California Thrasher. The Auk 34:427-433.

Classic Paper [Download PDF]

Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. 1957. Concluding Remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22:415-442.

Week 3

Classic Paper [Download PDF]

Tansley, Arthur G. 1935. The use and abuse of vegetational terms and concepts. Ecology 16:284-307.

Optional Reading [Download PDF]

Pickett, Steward T. A. and Mary L. Cadenasso. 2002. The ecosystem as a multidimensional concept: Meaning, model, and metaphor. Ecosystems 5:1-10.

Week 2

Classic Paper

Huffaker, Carl B. 1958. Experimental studies on predation: Dispersion factors and predator-prey oscillations. Hilgardia 27:343-38.

Optional Reading [Download PDF]

Sih, Andrew. 1997. To hide or not to hide? Refuge use in a fluctuating environment. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12(10):375-376.

Week 1

Classic Paper [Download PDF (835 KB)] [Download complete PDF (22 MB)]

Cowles, Henry C. 1899. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan. Botanical Gazette 27(2):95-117; 27(3):167-202; 27(4):281-308; 27(5):361-391.

Optional Reading [Download PDF]

Cittadino, Eugene. 1980. Ecology and the Professionalization of Botany in America. Studies in the History of Biology 4:171-198.