These lectures are for Randy Mitchell’s Ecology course (3100:217) at the University of Akron, and new lectures will be posted as they become available. If you are viewing lectures off campus, they will need approximately 10 to 15 minutes to load with a 28.8 connection Most of the presentations are saved as adobe ‘pdf’ files. Some presentations are self-playing “Astound” files — just download the presentation to disk and then double-click on it — sorry, but no Mac versions of these lectures are available. If you have questions about the lectures, please email me or drop in at office hours (on the course syllabus).
Multimedia Lectures and Lecture Notes to Download:
Spring 2011:
Coral Reef Study from Day 1 – PDF file for Jan 11 & 13, 2011
Left out in the cold case study part 1 – PDF file for Jan 13, 2011
Left out in the cold case study part 2 – PDF file for Jan 18 2011
Left out in the cold case study part 3– PDF file for Jan 20 2011
Energy (Chp 7) Muddy Points -Day 1 – PDF file with slides for Jan 25 2011
Energy (Chp 7) Muddy Points -Day 2 – PDF file for Jan 27 2011
Chp 6 Muddy points + Niche– PDF file for Feb 3 2011
Niche and Distribution– PDF file for Feb 8 2011
Distribution and Science– PDF file for Feb 10 2011
Experiments and Survivorship– PDF file for Feb 15 2011
Age Pyramids, Life Tables – PDF file for Feb 24 2011
March 1 – Watched movie – ‘Return of the Cuyahoga.’ Available in UA’s Bierce library, (on reserve), more information available at http://returnofthecuyahoga.com/, and http://www.pbs.org/thereturnofthecuyahoga/
Population growth muddy points 1– PDF file for March 8 2011
Population growth muddy points 2– PDF file for March 10 2011
Human Population growth– PDF file for March 22 2011
Competition 1 – PDF file for March 24 2011
Competition 2– PDF file for March 29 2011
Competition 3- PDF file for March 31 2011
Predation– PDF file for April 5 2011
Predation and mutualism – PDF file for part of April 12 2011
Mutualism2 – PDF file with slides for April 14 2011
Species Diversity – PDF file with slides for April 19 2011
Communities – PDF file with slides for April 21 2011
Communities2 and Ecosystems– PDFs for April 26 2011
Ecosystems2– PDF file with slides for April 28 2011
Past Materials (My coverage of the material varies from year to year, but this may be of some use)
Fall 2010: