EEB 5370: Climate change and extinction (Spring 2014)
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This year, the topic will be climate change and extinction. The main text for the course will be Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change (Hannah, ed. 2011. Island Press).
Week | Who | Topic | Reading | Notes |
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22 Jan | Chris E. | The history | Thomas et al. 2004 plus "3 Communications arising" | |
29 Jan | Emma | The fall out | Preface, Ch 1-3 | Questions |
5 Feb | --- | SNOW DAY | ||
12 Feb | Chris F. | Refining extinction estimates | Ch 4-5 | |
19 Feb | Nicole | Current extinctions | Ch 6-8 | Questions |
26 Feb | Katie | Extinctions in distant past | Ch 9-10 | Questions |
5 Mar | Besnik | Extinctions in recent past | Ch 11-12 | Questions |
12 Mar | Ben | Insects | Ch 13, Case study (Breed et al. 2013 Nature Climate Change 3:142–145) | Questions |
19 Mar | ---- | NO MEETING: SPRING BREAK | ---- | Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources |
26 Mar | Dan | Tropical forest systems | Ch 14, Case study (Malhi et al. 2008 Science) | Questions |
2 Apr | Allison & Sam | Coral reef systems | Ch 15, Case study (Anthony et al. 2008 PNAS} | Questions |
9 Apr | Pancho | Oceanic (non-reef) systems | Ch 16, Case study (Garcia et al. 2007 PNAS) | |
16 Apr | Cristina | Freshwater systems | Ch 17, Case study (McMenamin et al. 2008 PNAS) | Questions |
23 Apr | Manette | Species interactions | Ch 18, Case study (Burkle et al. 2013 Science) | |
30 Apr | Hayley | What's the latest? | IPCC report | Will depend on info has been released (maybe combine with wrap-up?) |
7 May ?? | Chris E. et al. | Wrap-up: What have we learned? | Ch 19-20 | schedule may change |