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Week |
Topics |
Reading (in textbook unless otherwise noted) |
Field Trip | Exercises |
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1 4/3 Introduction |
Purposes of biodiversity survey and monitoring. Overview of common methods |
Ch. 1 Ch 2 pp. 12-16, 54-73 |
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2 4/9-4/13 Survey design |
Sample location, sample size, sampling with unequal probabilities |
Ch. 2 |
4/13 GPS survey methods. Location TBD | |
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3 4/16-4/20 Plant community sampling 1 |
Vegetation sampling theory and methods | 4/20 Vegetation plot layout and sampling, grasslands and shrublands | ||
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4 4/23-4/27 Plant Community sampling 2 |
Stand structure, diversity, composition and biomass | Davis and Roberts 2001 | 4/27 Vegetation sampling continued, forest survey methods | |
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5 4/30-5/4 Plant and animal community indices |
Diversity, evenness, similarity, |
Overview of ordination methods (Palmer, Ordination web page)
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5/7 Mark recapture estimation of butterfly populations. Camera trapping methods. | |
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6 5/7-5/11 |
Mark recapture theory and methods |
Ch. 3. pp 94-119 (2nd ed. of text) See also the home page for program MARK |
5/11 No field trip. | |
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7 5/14-5/18 Animal populations 1 |
Population sampling techniques for birds and mammals |
Chapters 9, 10
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5/18 Rodent trapping and bird survey methods | |
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8
5/21-5/25 |
Survey methods for herptiles and invertrebates |
Chapters 5, 7, 8 |
Memorial Day Weekend-no field trip | |
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9 5/28-6/1 Freshwater systems |
Index of Biotic Integrity |
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6/1 Impact monitoring: San Marcos Foothills development | |
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10 Review |
Case studies in biological survey and monitoring | 6/8 Survey of aquatic invertebrates- Lion Canyon | ||
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No Final Exam |