Spring 2005

Date	leader	topic	reading
1. Jan 24	Vander Zanden	Introduction to food webs	None
2. Jan 31	Gille, Solomon	Food web energetics	Lindeman 1942, Strayer 91, Burns 89
3. Feb. 7	Colby, Harvey, Gilroy	Food chain dynamics	Volterra 1926, Hairston et al. 1960, Ehrlich and Birch 1967
4. Feb. 14	Diebel, Larkin	More food chain dynamics	Fretwell 87; Wootton and Power 1993; Persson 99;
5. Feb. 21	Kamarainen, Schmidt, Mercado	Complexity	Pimm and Lawton 1978, McCann et al. 1998
Feb. 28	cancelled	Cancelled	Cancelled
6. Mar. 7	Diebel, Larkin	Interaction strength	Paine 1980, Strong 1992
7. Mar. 14	Gille, Solomon	Food chain ‘structure’	Cohen 1989, Williams et al. 2002, Paine 1988
Mar. 21	Spring break	Cancelled	Cancelled
8. Mar. 28	Waters, Preston, Van De Bogert	Food chain lengths	Pimm and Lawton 1977, Post 2002
9. Apr. 4	Van De Bogert, Waters,	Complexity vs. simplicity	Hairston and Hairston 1993
10. Apr. 11	Preston, Jensen, Jones	Food web subsidies	Jeffries et al. 2004, Polis and Hurd 1995
11. Apr.18	Kamarainen, Mercado	Complexity vs. simplicity	Polis and Strong 1996 Hairston and Hairston 1997
12. Apr. 25	Colby, Harvey, Schmidt,	isotopes, contaminants, generalities in ecology	Lawton 1999 Murray 2000 Forbes et al manuscript
13. May 2	Jensen, Jones	Applications of food webs - fisheries management	Ryther 1969 Pauly et al 1998 Walters et al 2005

Paine 1980, Strong 1992