Zoology 511 -- Ecology of Fishes -- Spring 2009
521 Noland Hall 1:20-5:00 pm
Lab Instructors
Jereme Gaeta jereme.gaeta@gmail.com cell: (661)319-0871 office: (608)262-3087
Gretchen Hansen ghansen2@wisc.edu cell: (517)775-9317 office: (608)263-2465
Offices: Center for Limnology, 680 N. Park St, Room 223 (Gretchen) and Room 118 (Jereme)
Office Hours: After class Tuesday and Wednesday or by appointment.
Faculty Instructors
Jim Kitchell 206 Center for Limnology
Jake Vander Zanden 223B Center for Limnology
WISCONSIN FISH FAMILIES AND SPECIES
2008 BADGER MILL Fish
data Habitat
data
WEEKLY TOPICS
Week 1 (Jan. 20,21)
Lecture: Course introductions, TA research, Fish Anatomy, wiscfish and fishbase, Becker Key
Lab: Dissections, learn internal and external anatomy,wiscfish/fishbase exercise
Assignments: None
Readings: None
Week 2 (Jan.27,28)
Lecture: Evolution and Functional Morphology, First ½ of WI Fishes list, finding and reading articles (web o’ science and google scholar)
Lab: Observation, describe differences in the morphology of the first ½ of WI fish families,
Assignments: Ecology of Your Fish (due week 4), Construct your own key (due week 4)
Readings: None
Week 3 (Feb. 3,4)
NO CLASS! WORK ON ASSIGNMENTS AND DO READING!
Week 4 (Feb. 10,11)
Lecture: Population dynamics
Lab: Mark recapture, discuss Carpenter and Kitchell
Readings: Carpenter and Kitchell, 1985, Trophic cascades in lakes Quiz 1.
Construct your own key due. Ecology of your fish is due.
Week 5* (Feb. 17,18)
Lecture: Age and growth, electrofishing techniques and safety. AGE AND GROWTH LECTURE IN PDF FORMAT
Lab:
Scales, otoliths, calculating growth
Assignments: None
Readings: None
Week 6 (Feb. 24,25)
BADGER MILL FIELD TRIP
Assignments: Hypotheses/questions, (due week 8).
Readings: none
Week 7* (Mar. 3,4)
Lecture:
Organizing
and analyzing data in Excel, how to write a scientific paper part 1.
Excel
practice worksheet for lecture
Data
analysis handout (handed out in class)
How
to write handout 1 (handed out in class)
How to write handout 2 (additional resource)
Lab:
Data entry, statistics in Excel
Assignments: Your Hypotheses/Questions, due Week 8.
Readings: none
Week 8 (Mar. 10,11)
MIDTERM EXAM
Assignment: Hypotheses/questions due
Spring Break, No Class (Mar. 19,20)
Week 9 (Mar. 24,25)
Lecture: Exotics and communities, How to write part 2, 2nd half of WI fish species
Lab: Pulling out and playing with fish from the second half, discuss Moyle and Light 1996
Assignments: First draft of paper (due week 10)
Readings: Moyle and Light 1996: Biological invasions of freshwater Quiz 2
Week 10 (Mar. 31, Apr.1)
Lecture: Foraging and diets. The peer review process. HANDOUT
Lab: Diet analysis LAB HANDOUT
Assignments: Peer review assignment, (due week 11) Paper first drafts due.
Readings: None
Week 11 (Apr. 7,8)
Lecture: Bioenergetics
Lab:
Bioenergetics HANDOUT,
SIMULATION FILES
Discuss Kitchell 1977
Assignments: Second draft of paper, due week 12. Bioenergetics assignment, due week 13.
Peer review assignment due.
Readings: Kitchell 1977: Development of Bioenergetics model Quiz 3
Week 12 (Apr. 14,15)
Kitchell’s Cabin field trip.
Assignments: Paper second drafts due.
Week 13 (Apr. 21,22)
Lecture:
Fisheries crisis. Go over drafts
Assignments: Discuss Worm et al. Final draft of paper, due by NOON May 8th. Bioenergetics assignment due
Readings: Worm et al. 2006. Global fisheries collapse Quiz 4
Week 14 (Apr. 28,29)
Lecture: Fisheries techniques, review for final
Lab: Discuss Vander Zanden et al. 1999, Play “Fish Jeopardy” to review for final Jeopardy answers
Assignments: none
Readings: Vander Zanden et al. 1999, stable isotopes Quiz 5
Week 15 (May 5,6)
FINAL EXAM
Assignments:
Final draft of paper (hardcopy with
all drafts included) due by noon May 8th
in CFL mailboxes
* Badger Mill Creek back-up dates (there will be some shifting if there is a cold snap and we can’t go during week 6)
Suggested References
Though there is no text book for this course, these books are great references on the topic of fish ecology. These books can be viewed in the Limnology library.
Becker, G.C. 1983. The Fishes of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press. Madison, WI.
Available online at: http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/becker.html
Evans, D.H. (Ed.). 1993. The Physiology of Fishes. CRC Press. London.
Helfman, G.S., B.B. Collette, and D.E. Facey. 1997. The Diversity of Fishes. Blackwell Science, Inc. Malden, MA.
Helfman, G.S. 2007. Fish Conservation: A Guide to Understanding and Restoring Global Aquatic Biodiversity and Fishery Resources. Island Press
Matthews, W.J. 1998. Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology. Chapman & Hall. New York, NY.
Moyle, P.B., and J.J. Cech. 1996. Fishes: An introduction to Ichthyology. Prentice Hall. Saddle River, NJ.
Wooton, R.J. 1990 Ecology of Teleost Fishes. Chapman and Hall. London.
Great websites:
Wiscfish: http://www.wiscfish.org/fishid/
Fishbase: http://fishbase.org/
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/
Web of Knowledge: http://apps.isiknowledge.com/
USGS stream gauging
site for Badger Mill Creek http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?05435943
