Week |
Date |
Facilitator |
Topic |
Reading |
1 |
21 Jul |
Arthur Georges |
AERG Business meeting |
-- |
2 |
28 Jul |
John Row |
Interface between terrestrial and
aquatic habitats and the implications for conservation. |
|
3 |
4 Aug |
TBA |
TBA |
|
4 |
11 Aug |
Erica Alacs |
Commercial use of turtles: Is sustainability
achievable? |
Congdon, J.D., Dunham, A.E., and
van Loben Sels, R.C. (1994) Demographics of common snapping turtles
(Chelydra serpentina): Implications for conservation and management
of long-lived organisms. Amer.Zool., 34:397-408. |
5 |
18 Aug |
Jim Hone |
Linking pasture, livestock and vertebrate
pests |
Barlow, N.D. Pastures, pests and
productivity: Simple grazing models with two Herbivores. New Zealand
Journal of Ecology, 10:43. |
6 |
25 Aug |
Niccy Aitken |
Plagerized errors and molecular genetics - a rebuttal of creationism |
|
7 |
1 Sep |
Margi Bohm |
Climate change - new evidence from Antarctica
implicates humans |
|
10 |
22 Sep |
Petina Love |
Rates of decomposition as an indicator of
river health |
|
| 11 |
29 Sep |
Bill Maher |
Cutting edge applications of radio-isotope
ratios in ecology and evironmental science |
|
| 12 |
6 Oct |
Mike Braysher |
Feral ferals go feral over ferals |
|
13 |
13 oct |
Linda Merrin |
Modelling in ecology - Indulgence or useful
tools? |
|
| 14 |
20 Oct |
Dr Andrea Byrom |
TBA |
|
| 15 |
27 Oct |
Nancy FitzSimmons & Margi Bohm |
Designing that cutting edge lecture - not just a seminar in another
guise |
|
Week |
Date |
Facilitator |
Topic |
Reading |
1 |
26 Feb |
David Williams |
AERG Business meeting |
-- |
2 |
3 Mar |
Arthur Georges |
The struggle
to govern the commons |
Dietz T et
al. (2003) The struggle to govern the commons. Science 302,
1907-12 |
3 |
10 Mar |
Will Osborne |
Extinction
risk from climate change |
Thomas CD et
al. (2004) Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427,145-8 |
4 |
17 Mar |
Damien Fordham |
Indigenous
land management |
|
5 |
24 Mar |
Jim Hone |
Estimating
trends in bird populations |
-- |
6 |
31 Mar |
David Williams |
Testing hypotheses
in the historical sciences |
Cleland CE (2001)
Historical science, experimental science, and the scientific method.
Geology 29, 987-90 |
7 |
7 Apr |
Sally Berridge |
Creative Thinking
Workshop N.B. Held at 1230-1400 in Library TR1. Background |
Loehle C (1990) A guide to increased
creativity in research - inspiration or perspiration? BioScience
40, 123-9
|
10 |
28 Apr |
Sean Doody |
Species diversity
and spatial scale |
Sax DF & Gaines
SD (2003) Species diversity: from global decreases to local increases.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18(11) 561-6. |
| 11 |
5 May |
Williams/Hone |
Multiple working
hypotheses |
Chamberlin, T.C.
(1890) The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science 7 Feb
1890. [reprinted in 1965 in Science 148, 754-9.] |
| 12 |
12 May |
Steve Sarre |
The adaptationist
paradigm |
Gould SJ &
Lewontin RC (1979) The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian
paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc.
Lond. B 205, 581-98. |
13 |
19 May |
David Bourne |
Developing
a web site for feral animals |
|
| 14 |
26 May |
Anna MacDonald
|
Confronting the Darwinian
paradigm
|
Singh RS (2003)
Darwin to DNA, molecules to morphology: the end of classical population
genetics and the road ahead. Genome 46(6), 938-42. Abstract |
| 15 |
2 Jun |
Simon Foster |
A little arsenic
is a good thing? |
Uthus EO (2003)
Arsenic essentiality: a role affecting methionine metabolism. The
Journal of Trace Elements in Experimental Medicine 16, 345-55 |
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Ecology Research Group
