EEB 5370: Ecosystem services (Spring 2015)

EEB 5370: Ecosystem services (Spring 2015)

This year, the topic will be ecosystem services. During the first half of the semester we will read review articles to assess the current state of thinking about the topic. The second half of the semester will be more "hand-on" and will involve investigating some of the tools available for actually quantifying ecosystem services. We will start by examining TESSA and, if time allows, we will also take a look at InVEST. If you know of other tools, please let me know and we can look at those too.

Week	Who	Topic	Reading	Notes
26 Jan	Chris E	Introduction	MEA 2005, Kremen & Ostfeld 2005
2 Feb	----	CANCELLED - SNOW DAY
9 Feb	Hannah	Coral reefs	Moberg & Folke 1999; Yee et al. 2014	willing to switch date
16 Feb	Shannon	Coastal shelf	Barbier 2012; Lester et al. 2013
23 Feb	Ben North	Forests	Gamfeldt et al. 2012; Foley et al. 2007
2 Mar	Jean-Luc	Vertebrates	Wenny et al. 2011, Valencia-Aguilar et al. 2013
9 Mar	Benedict Gagliardi	Wetlands	Brinson & Eckles 2011; Blackwell & Pilgrim 2011
16 Mar	----	NO MEETING: SPRING BREAK	----	Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources
23 Mar	Timothy	Agriculture	Robertson et al. 2014, Natuhara 2013
30 Mar		Introduction to TESSA	Peh et al. 2013; read and watch the video here
6 Apr			Playing with tools
13 Apr			Playing with tools
20 Apr			Playing with tools	MEET IN BIO/PHARM 203
27 Apr	Chris E		Schröter et al. 2014, Raymond et al. 2013	ADD Mace et al. paper???