Zoology 511 -- Ecology of Fishes -- Spring 2009

521 Noland Hall  1:20-5:00 pm

  

 

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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  

 

 

Syllabus

 

WISCONSIN FISH FAMILIES AND SPECIES 

 

2009 BADGER MILL CREEK DATA

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 

LAB HANDOUT

EXCEL WORKSHEET

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

LAB HANDOUT

EXCEL WORKSHEET

SCALE IMAGES

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

Data entry template

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

POWERPOINT ON WRITING

Assignments: Discuss Worm et al. Final draft of paper, due by NOON May 8thBioenergetics 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

 

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