| Date | Lecture Topic |
| 1-Sep | Introduction--What is ecology? |
| 3-Sep | Using Excel--Chap. 1 |
| 6-Sep | Labor Day |
| 8-Sep | Chapter One--Match between organisms and environment |
| 10-Sep | Chapter Two--Conditions |
| 13-Sep |
Chapter Two--Conditions, cont. |
| 15-Sep |
Chapter Two--Conditions, cont. |
| 17-Sep |
Chapter Three--Resources |
| 20-Sep |
Chapter Three--cont |
| 22-Sep |
Chapter Three--cont |
| 24-Sep |
Chapter Four--Life and Death in Unitary and Modular Organisms |
| 27-Sep | No class |
| 29-Sep |
Chapter Four--cont. |
| 1-Oct |
Chapter Four--cont. |
| 4-Oct |
Chapter Five--Dispersal, Dispersion and Migration |
| 6-Oct |
Chapter Five--Dispersal, Dispersion and Migration |
| 8-Oct |
Chapter Five--Dispersal, Dispersion and Migration |
| 11-Oct | Columbus Day |
| 13-Oct |
Chapter Six-Intraspecific Competition |
| 15-Oct |
Lecture Examination over Chapters One to Five Answers to Lecture Exam |
| 18-Oct |
Discrete, Continuous, Exponential, Logistic, Deterministic and Stochastic Models of Intraspecific Competition |
| 20-Oct |
Territoriallity, Self-thinning ; Chapter Seven-Interspecific Competition |
| 22-Oct |
Chapter Seven: Coefficients of interaction |
| 25-Oct |
Chapter Seven: Interspecific competition |
| 27-Oct |
Chapter Eight: The Nature of Predation |
| 29-Oct |
Chapter Nine: The Behavior of Predators |
| 1-Nov |
Chapter Ten: The Population dynamics of predation |
| 3-Nov |
Chapter 11: Decomposers and Detritivores |
| 5-Nov |
No class--I will be in Pittsburgh for a meeting |
| 8-Nov |
Chapter 12: Parasitism and Disease |
| 10-Nov |
Chapter 12: Parasitism and Disease and Chapter 13: Symbiosis and Mutualism |
| 12-Nov |
Chapter 13: Symbiosis and Mutualism |
| 15-Nov |
Chapter 17: The nature of the community |
| 17-Nov |
Chapter 18: Flux of energy through communities |
| 19-Nov |
Lecture Examination over Chapters Six to 13 Answers to Lecture Exam |
| 22-Nov | |
| 24-Nov | Thanksgiving Vacation |
| 26-Nov | Thanksgiving Vacation |
| 29-Nov |
Chapter 19: Flux of matter through communities |
| 1-Dec | |
| 3-Dec |
Chapter 22: Food webs |
| 6-Dec |
Chapter 23: Islands, areas and colonization |
| 8-Dec |
Chapter 24: Patterns in species richness |
| 10-Dec | |
| 13--17 Dec | Final Exam Week---Wednesday, 11:00 to 13:30, Chapters in the last 1/3 of the course--Answers to Lecture Exam |