Death Valley in bloom. Spring '04 |
DON'T FORGET TO ATTEND THE SI SESSIONS!!
Here is the video/lecture on fungi by Paul Stamets - its great!
MAP to Monterey Mushroom farm
| Material | Description |
| Course Syllabus | Course Description and Schedule |
| Readings for 7th Edition | Campbell 7th Edition readings |
| Class Project | Overview of the powerpoint project |
| Access study materials | link to Access study materials |
| Powerpoint rubric | Rubric for the Powerpoint presentation |
| Lab report rubric | a rubric to help write the major lab reports |
| Exam 1 study | study guide for exam 1 |
| Lab exam 1 study | study guide for lab exam 1 |
| Lab exam 2 study | study guide for lab exam 2 |
| Exam 2 study | Exam 2 study guide - UPDATED |
| Exam 3 study guide | look here for updates to this |
| Final study (last material) | Study guide for pop bio and conservation |
| Title | Notes |
| Lab: phylogenetics | Classification, taxonomy and phylogenetics |
| Lab: Bacteria and Eukaryotes | Cyanobacteria and intro to eukaryotes - plant cells |
| Lab: Photosynthesis | |
| Lab: Life Cycles and Plant cells | Also download this handout on life cycles and this one on plant cells |
| Lab: Photosynthetic protists | Also download these handouts on protists: Protists 1, Protists 2, and Protists 3 |
| Lab: Algal protists | And also this handout on green algae |
| Lab: Bryophytes and seedless vascular plants | Mosses! |
| Lab: Ferns and Conifers and... | Also download the fern life cycle, and table of gymnosperm characteristics |
| Lab: flowers and life cycles | BRING flowers to Lab today if you remember!! Also here is some terminology |
| Lab: seeds and fruits - after fertilization! | Bring any seeds and fruits you want to investigate. Also download this KEY and info. |
| Tissues, stems and roots: growth! | Pick up some cool stems and roots |
| Leaves, adaptations and allelopathy Lab | I will hand out some of this Lab in class - but download this part! |
| Fungi lab | download this table too |
| Download: Intertidal habitats characteristic of the Monterey Bay and the Methods handout for the lab | Read these carefully before lab |
| Intertidal spreadsheet | enter your data here, with team names! |
| Plant communities template and example | Download these! |
| Assessing the Role of Predators in Ecological Communities | Paper discussing the role of killer whales in shaping the North Pacific ecological communities. |
| Megafaunal Collapse in the North Pacific | bottom up vrs top down forcing as mechanisms shaping the community structure |
| Humans and primary productivity | mapping human appropriation of global primary productivity (PNAS paper) |
| Size and Function in conifer tracheids and Angiosperm vessels | A great paper about 'flow' in these two phyla of plants. American Journal of Botany |
| Darwins finches and Character displacement | A paper with some great examples of character displacement (Science journal) |
| Course Introduction (Lec 1) | Course Introduction The Changing Earth Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny |
| Classification | Principles of Taxonomy and phylogeny |
| Lecture 2 | prokaryotes, cyanobacteria, origin of Euk cells, cells, membranes, transport |
| Photosynthesis | Photosynthesis |
| Eukaryotes | Eukaryotic cells, modes of reproduction, Plant cells. Download this handout on plant cells (terminology) too. |
| Protists I | Evolution of eukaryotic cells, Plant-like Protists |
| Protists II-Algae | Algal protists |
| Bryophytes (Non-Vascular Plants) Origins of Vascular Plants Seedless Vascular Plants (Ferns and Friends…) |
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| Gymnosperms! | Gymnosperms and the power of the seed |
| Angiosperms 1 | Flower power! |
| Angiosperms 2 | More flower power-reproduction |
| Plant growth and development | Angiosperm structure and growth |
| Transport in plants | Xylem and Phloem flow - mechanisms for moving fluid |
| Plant Hormones | An overview of plant hormones |
| Plant physiological ecology | adaptations to environmental stress |
| Fungi | fungal ecology, phyla and life cycles |
| Ecology and ecosystems I | Some of the ecology slides |
| Ecology and ecosystems II | The rest of the ecology slides |
| Ecology notes | Some of my ecology notes |
| Ecology/succession notes | Some more of my notes |
| Ecosystems notes | notes on energetics and biogeochemical cycles |
| behavior powerpoint | notes/powerpoint for animal behavior |
| populations powerpoint | notes/powerpoint for population dynamics |
| Conservation Biology notes | Some of my (unguaranteed)notes |
| Conservation Bio powerpoint | Slides and notes |