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Week 1: Introduction (Sept.28): This week we will go over how the class will run, visit study, sites, create research teams, and go over materials for the class. We will also talk about equipment for citizen science and classroom units, both manufactured and DIY. We will take a walk through campus and visit the sites we will be working in.Weeks 2-3: Origins and Arrivals (Oct. 5, 12):For weeks 2 and 3, we will examine the cultural relationships of exotic and indigenous invasive species; how a species once revered, becomes listed as a pest or invasive, and how some become incorporated in the cultural corpus of Indigenous and immigrant communities.Week 2: What makes a species invasive? "The evolutionary impact of invasive species." H. A. Mooney and E. E. ClelandPNAS May 8, 2001 98 (10) 5446-5451; ?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Biological Invasions and Cryptogenic Species." James T. Carlton. Ecology, Vol. 77, No. 6 (Sep., 1996), pp. 1653-1655Week 3:"Invasiveness, invasibility and the role of environmental stress in the spread of non-native plants." Peter Alpert*, Elizabeth Bone & Claus Holzapfel. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Vol. 3/1, pp. 52–66Weeks 4-6: Invasion, Adaptations, and Equilibrium: (Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2): The next three weeks we will examine evolution in action through understanding the effects of invasive species and pathogens on ecosystems, both natural and human made. We will look at ecosystem degradation and responses from local organisms and communities. We will look at population shifts, how invasive species adapt and evolve in their new environments. We will also examine how local organisms adapt their living strategies to the new invaders. We also look at equilibrium when invasive species naturalize to a locale and occupy non-competitive niches.Week 4:“Origin Matters: Diversity Affects the Performance of Alien Invasive Species but Not of Native Species.” Yan Sun, Heinz Müller-Sch?rer, John L. Maron, and Urs SchaffnerWeek 5:"Horticulture as a Pathway of Invasive Plant Introductions in the United States: Most invasive plants have been introduced for horticultural use by nurseries, botanical gardens, and individuals." Sarah Hayden Reichard and Peter White. BioScience, Volume 51, Issue 2, 1 February 2001, Pages 103–113, (2001)051[0103:HAAPOI]2.0.CO;2?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Week 6:PERSPECTIVE: Coevolution between native and invasive plant competitors: implications for invasive species management."Elizabeth A. Leger and??(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Erin K. Espeland.?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. First published:?26 February 2010.?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. ?Weeks 7-8: Management Strategies and Innovations: (Nov. 9, 16): For the remaining three weeks we will examine and discuss management strategies for dealing with invasive species. Out of these strategies, innovations can arise that involve utilizing cultural knowledge, technology, and ecological relationships. Some of the examples would include harvesting invasive species for food, utilizing drone technology to monitor urban canopies to identify invasive species and pathogens, or the introduction of predators within urban waters and land ecosystems as biological controls.Week 7:“Indigenizing Invasive Species Management: Native North Americans and the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Beetle.” Anna J. Willow“Working across Cultures to Protect Native American Natural and Cultural Resources from Invasive Species in California.” Janice M. Alexander, Susan J. Frankel, Nina Hapner, John L. Phillips, and Virgil Dupuis?Week 8: Meanwhile back in the City: Urban Solutions?“The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States.” Scott R. Loss, Tom Will & Peter P. Marra“TNR and conservation on a university campus: a political ecological perspective.” Jonathan Dombrosky and Steve Wolverton"Muskrat theories, tobacco in the streets, and living Chicago as Indigenous land." Megan Bang?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Lawrence Curley?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Adam Kessel?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Ananda Marin?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Eli S. Suzukovich III?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. & George Strack.??(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Pages 37-55.? Accepted 21 Mar 2013, Published online: 17 Jan 2014. Environmental Education Research ?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Volume 20, 2014 - Issue 1?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.: Land education: Indigenous, postcolonial, and decolonizing perspectives on place and environmental education research?(Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Week 9: November 23rd No Classes, Thanksgiving Break?Week 10: ?Class Presentations (Nov. 30): Today, all research groups will present their curriculum units. Keep in mind that this is an outdoor class and presentations will be subject to the weather. Please make prior considerations of how the weather will affect your presentations. Please have an indoor presentation as back up.?Week 11: Reading week, (Last Class Dec.7) Optional Week.?Week 12: Final Curriculum Projects Due: All projects are due and status reports are due on December 14th, before Midnight.? ................
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