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Biology at Grinnell
Bio 252.02 Organisms, Evolution, and Ecology
Spring, 2007
Syllabus and course information
Week 1 Plan
Some readings
Schmidt-Nielsen. 1984. Scaling, why is animal size so important? -- Chapters 1 and 2.
Gould, SJ. January 1974. Size and shape: the immutable laws of design set limits on all organisms.
Natural History
Emerson, SB. 1978. Allometry and jumping in frogs: helping the twain to meet.
Evolution
32:551-564.
Darwin, C. 1959. Excerpts from
On the Origin of Species.
Irschick, D.J. and J.B. Losos 1998. A comparative analysis of the ecological significance of maximal locomotor performance in Caribbean Anolis lizards. Evolution 52:219-226.
Protas et al. 2006.
Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of albinism. Nature Genetics; Jan2006, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p107-111
Carroll, S.P and C. Boyd. 1992. Host radiation in a soapberry bug: natural history with the history. Evolution 46:1053-69.
Rice WR, Salt GW (1988) Speciation via disruptive selection on habitat preference: Experimental evidence.
American Naturalist
131: 911-917.
Weis, A. and WG Abrahamson.
Potential Selective Pressures by Parasitoids on a Plant-Herbivore Interaction. Ecology 66: 1261-9.
Williams, GH. 1957. Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence
Evolution 11:398-411.
Power, Mary. 1992
.
Habitat Heterogeneity and The Functional Signifiance of Fish in River Food Webs. Ecology 73:1675-1688.
Knapp et al.
1999. The keystone role of bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie.
Bioscience 49:39-50.
Gilbert, S. 2001. Ecological developmental biology: Developmental biology meets the real world. Developmental Biology 233:1-12.
Local resources
Regional Resources
Big picture
Center for Prairie Studies
Northern Prairie Biological Resources
Ecological Society of America
Conard Environmental Research Area
IA threatened & endangered plants
