Communities and Ecosystems
Biology 5222
Fall 2001

Instructors: Dr. Howard S. Neufeld, Professor
                 Dr. Robert P. Creed, Assistant Professor
Texts: Community Ecology, by Peter Morin, Blackwell Science 1999
               Forest Ecosystems, Dave Perry, Johns Hopkins University Press 1994

Recommended Additional Texts:
           An Entangled Bank, by Joel Hagen, Rutgers University Press 1992
         Terrestrial Ecosystems, by John Aber and Jerry Mellilo,
         Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem, by F. Herbert Bormann
                        and Gene E. Likens, Springer-Verlag 1979
         Biogeochemistry of a Forested Ecosystem,  2nd. Ed., by Gene E.Likens
                        and F. Herbert Bormann, Springer-Verlag 1977 (1995)
         Communities and Ecosystems, by Robert H. Whittaker, MacMillan 1975
         Terrestrial Ecosystems in Changing Environments, by Herman H.
                        Shugart, Cambridge Studies in Ecology 1998
         Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Glboal Change, 2nd Ed., by William
                        H. Schlesinger, Academic Press, 1997

Rooms:        316 Rankin        Lecture        M, W      1-2 pm
                    316 Rankin        Discussion    W           2-3 pm
                    223 Rankin        Lab               Th          1-4 pm
                           (and at the ASU Nature Preserve)



Course Information
Lecture and Lab Schedule
Book List
Papers of Interest               Classic Papers           Recently Published Papers


Lectures on the Web
    History of Ecosystem Ecology - Part 1
      History of Ecosystem Ecology - Part 2
    History of Ecosystem Ecology - Part 3
    Biomes - Introduction and the Tundra
    Biomes - The Boreal Forest
    Biomes - The Temperate Forests
    Biomes - Conifer Forests
    Biomes - Grasslands and Savannahs
    Biomes - Mediterranean Systems
    Biomes - The Deserts
    Biomes - The Tropical Rainforests
      Biomes - Synthesis and Discussion of NPP

    Hubbard Brook - An Introduction
    Hubbard Brook - Precipitation Chemistry
    Hubbard Brook - Acid Rain
    Hubbard Brook - Input-Output Budgets
    Hubbard Brook - Weathering of the Soils
    Hubbard Brook - Elemental Cycles - An Introduction
    Hubbard Brook - Hubbard Brook in Relation to Other Forests
     Coweeta - First Year Regeneration Patterns



Laboratory
     Biogeochemical Cycling in the ASU Nature Preserve - An In-Depth Study



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