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Reading List for ESCI 435/535: Landscape Ecology

Fall Term, 2008

Last Updated: 11/18/08 

Note: I WILL NOT be placing articles on reserve in the Main library. I will place a few books on reserve in the Main Library. Most articles will be available electronically (see links below). A few readings may not be available electronically and in these cases, I will put a copy in a class notebook in the Huxley Library (ES545). You will be responsible for making your own copies of these papers. There is a xerox machine in the Huxley Library so you will be able to make copies there. You will need to bring your own copycard.

You can also navigate to these papers, or other papers you may locate yourself using Proquest Research Libraries. The library has a subscription to this web-based resource and many others. Proquest will be useful for locating electronic copies of many of the journal articles. As far as I know, it will not be useful for getting book chapters or government documents. To use this very cool resource, you click on the link below. Then click on the "Publication Search" tab. You will then enter the name of the journal in the dialog box and then hit the “search” button. This may give you a list of journals with similar titles. For example, a search for Ecology :

|Behavioral Ecology; New York   [pic]  Full Text: 1999 - current, delayed 6 month(s) |

|Ecology; Brooklyn   [pic]  Full Text: 1991 - current |

|Human Ecology; Ithaca   [pic]  Full Text: 1997 - current |

|Human Ecology; New York   [pic]  Full Text: 1996 - current, delayed 1 year(s) |

|International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology; London   [pic]  Full Text: 2003 - current |

|The Journal of Ecology; Oxford |

If you then click on Ecology, you get a list of journal volumes. Select the appropriate volume and browse the table of contents for the article you need. When you print out the article, you want to be sure you print the "page image" or “PDF” NOT the "full text". The full text just gives you the text of the article WITHOUT the tables and figures. The page image gives you text plus tables and figures.

(Click here to go to the Proquest Research Libraries)

Another source of online journals is something called Jstors. Click on the link below to go there. Jstors offers some journals that are not available in Proquest. You can also get to Proquest and Jstors and many other online resources directly from the Library’s web page.

(Click here to go to Jstors)

THAT'S IT! LET ME KNOW HOW THIS WORKS AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIGURE OUT ANY MORE COOL FEATURES OF PROQUEST, Jstors OR ANY OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES.

A final word about online resources: In recent years, more and more journals are becoming available online. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The good news is that online resources are very easy to access and you don’t need to spend your dime at the Xerox machine. The bad news is that most of us (including me!) are getting lazy and becoming overly reliant on these online resources. Many of us are just too darned lazy to walk to the library and search out a paper copy of a journal. We tend to feel that if it is not online, it must not be important. NOT TRUE! Some great papers are published in journals that we do not have available online. This is especially true for older classic papers. The net effect is that the use of online journals tends to make us very myopic in what we choose to read. Online resources were supposed to make journals more widely available. They were supposed to broaden our perspective but in many cases, these online resources have tended to narrow our perspective. Less and less of the literature is becoming more and more widely available. The stuff that is not available online tends to be ignored. The take-home message? Online resources are fantastic. By all means use them. However, don’t rely on these things exclusively! If you come across a paper in a journal that is not available online, don’t give up! Go the library and chase the journal down or request it through interlibrary loan if we don’t have it. Someday, maybe all journals will be available on the web but we are not quite there yet. In the meantime, we need to use the paper journals and the Xerox machines. Someday, you’ll be able to tell your kids about the olden days and how you used to lug stacks of heavy paper journals to this contraption called a Xerox machine. They’ll be impressed…..or maybe just amused….

Last Updated: 11/18/08

 

Reading #1 (Sept. 29) (updated 9/25/08)

Urban, D.L., et al.. 1987. Landscape ecology. Bioscience 37:119-127. (Yes, this is an older paper, but please read it anyway! It is a classic.) (Click here to view this article through JSTOR)

Turner, M.G. 2005. Landscape ecology in North America: past, present and future. Ecology 86(8):1967-1974.(Click here for pdf file)

Turner, M.G. 2005. Landscape ecology: what is the state of the science? Ann. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 36:319-344.

Reading #2 (Oct. 1) (updated 9/29/08)

Miller, J.R., M.G. Turner, E.A.H. Smithwick, C.L. Dent and E.H. Stanley. 2004. Spatial extrapolation: the science of predicting ecological patterns and processes. Bioscience 54:310-320. (Click here to view through EBSCOhost; Go for the PDF Full-text version)

Gustafson, E.J. 1998. Quantifying landscape spatial pattern: what is the state of the art? Ecosystems 1:143-156. (Click to view) stacks in the main library)

Reading #3 (Oct. 6) (updated 10/3)

Stephenson, N.L. 1990. Climatic controls on vegetation distribution: the role of the water balance. Amer. Nat. 135:649-670. Click to view through JSTORS

Urban, D.L. , C. Miller, P.N. Halpin and N.L. Stephenson. 2000. Forest gradient response in Sierran landscapes: the physical template. Landscape Ecology 15:603-620. urban_etal_2000.pdf

Reading #4 (Oct. 8) (updated 10/6)

Take another look at the Urban et at. 2000 paper that I assigned for 10/6) and also read:

Reiners, W.A. and G.E. Lang. 1979. Vegetation patterns and processes in the balsam fir zone, White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ecology 60:403-417. (Click here to view the article through JStors)

Reading #5 (Oct. 13) (updated 10/10)

Watt, A.S.. 1947. Pattern and process in the plant community. Journal of Ecology 35:1-22. (available in Huxley library or on the stacks in the main library) Click for access through JSTORS

Smith, T.M. and D.L. Urban. 1988. Scale and resolution of forest structural patterns. Vegetatio 74:143-150. pdf_files\smith_and_urban_1988.doc

Reading #6 (Oct. 15) (updated (10/14)

Urban, D.L., M.F. Acevedo and S.L. Garman. 1999. Scaling fine-scale processes to large-scale patterns using models derived from models: meta-models. Pages 70-98 In: D. Mladenoff and W. Baker (eds.), Spatial modeling of forest landscape change: approaches and applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pdf_files\urban_etal_1999.doc

Reading #7 (Oct. 20) (updated 10/17)

Knight, D.H. and L.L. Wallace. 1989. The Yellowstone Fires: Issues in landscape ecology. BioScience 39: 700 706. Click here to access through JSTORS

Miller, C. and D.L. Urban. 1999. A model of surface fire, climate and forest pattern in the Sierra Nevada, California. Ecological Modelling 114:113-135. millerurban_99a.pdf

Reading #8 (Oct. 22) (updated 10/17)

Swanson, F.J., T.K. Kratz, N. Caine and R.G. Woodmansee. 1988. Landform effects on ecosystem patterns and processes. Bioscience 38:92-98. (Click here to view and print this document through JSTORS)

Reading #9 (Oct. 27) (updated 10/17)

Parsons, D.J., T.W. Swetnam and N.L. Christensen. 1999. Uses and limitations of historical variability concepts in managing ecosystems. Ecological Applications 9:1177-1178.(Click to access the article through JSTORS)

Landres, P.B., P. Morgan and F.J. Swanson. 1999. Overview of the use of natural variability concepts in managing ecological systems. Ecological Applications 9:1179-1188. (Click to access the article through Jstors) Note that this issue of Ecological Applications includes a series of papers on this topic.

Reeves, G.H., L.E. Benda, K.M. Burnett, P.A. Bisson and J.R. Sedell. 1995. A disturbance-based ecosystem approach to maintaining and restoring freshwater habitats of evolutionarily significant units of anadromous salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. American Fisheries Society Symposium 17:334-349. 

October 29: No readings. Review for Mid-term Exam

November 3: Mid-term Exam

Reading #10 (Nov. 5) Cohen, W.B., J.D. Kushla, W.J. Ripple and S.L. Garman. 1996. An introduction to digital methods in remote sensing of forested ecosystems: focus on the Pacific Northwest. Environmental Management 20(3):421-435. (Click here for .pdf file) (Click here for color figures from this paper)

Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, G.G. Parker and D.J. Harding. 2002. Lidar remote sensing for ecosystem studies. Bioscience 52(1):19-30. (Click here for pdf file)

Reading #11 (Nov. 12)

Gustafson, E.J. and R.H. Gardner. 1996. The effect of landscape heterogeneity on the probability of patch colonization. Ecology 77:94-107. (Click here to view and print this document through JStors)

Belisle, M. 2005. Measuring landscape connectiviety: the challenge of behavioral landscape ecology. Ecology 86(8):1988-1995. (Click for pdf file)

Reading #12 (Nov. 17)

Tischendorf, L. 2001. Can landscape indices predict ecological processes consistently? Landscape Ecol. 16:235-254. (Click here to view and print article)

Langlois, J.P. L. Fahrig, G. Merriam and H. Artsob. 2001. Landscape structure influences continental distribution of hantavirus in deer mice. Landscape Ecology 16(3):255-266. (Click here to view and print article)

Reading #13 (Nov. 19) Landscape Genetics I

Manel, S., M.K. Schwartz, G. Luikars and P. Taberlet. 2003. Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 18(4):189-197 manel_etal_2003.pdf

Holderegger, R., U. Kamm and F. Gugerli. 2006. Adaptive vs. neutral genetic diversity: implications for landscape genetics. Landscape Ecology 21:797-807. (Click here to view and print article)

Reading #14 (Nov. 17) Landscape Genetics II

Cushman S.A., K.S. McKelvey, J. Hayden and M.K. Schwartz. 2006. Gene flow in complex landscapes: testing multiple hypotheses with causal modeling. The American Naturalist 168(4):xxx-xxx. Cushman_etal_2006.pdf

November 26: No Class (Thanksgiving Break begins at noon)

Reading #15 (Dec. 1) Metapopulations and Communities

Pulliam, H.R. 1988. Sources, sinks and population regulation. Amer. Nat. 132:652-661. (Click to view through JSTORS)

Schumaker, N.H. T. Ernst, D White, J. Baker and P. Haggerty. 2004. Projecting wildlife responses to alternative future landscapes in Oregon’s Willamette basin. Ecological Applications 14(2):381-400. . (schumaker_etal_2004.pdf)

Just for fun, you might also read:

Pulliam, H.R. 1998. The political education of a biologist: Part I. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:199-202. Click here to view through JSTORS This paper is both depressing and amusing.

Pulliam, H.R. 1998. The political education of a biologist: Part II. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26:499-503 Click here to view through JSTORS

Reading #16 (Dec. 3) Ecosystem Processes: Hydrology

Jones, J.A., F.J. Swanson, B.C. Wemple and J.U. Snyder. 2000. Effects of roads on hydrology, geomorphology, disturbance patches in stream networks. Conservation Biology 14:76-85. . Click here to view article (Note that this issue of Conservation Biology includes a whole series of papers about road impacts on ecosystems)

Moscrip, AL and D.R. Montgomery. 1997. Urbanization, flood frequency and salmon abundance in Puget Lowland Streams. J. of the Amer. Water Resources Assoc. 33:1289-1297. Click here to view article

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