Aquatic Ecology (BIOL 172)  Spring 2010: CSU-Fresno

 Dr. Steve Blumenshine
316B Science I
sblumens (at) csufresno.edu
559-278-8770

Course Documents:
Will be posted as needed....

Lec 1a-Life in Water
Lec 1b-Life in Water
 

 

Lecture Readings:

Meeting: Reading
Jan 26 & 28 Ch 2 in Bronmark & Hansson: The Biology of Lakes and Ponds
Feb 2 Snucins, E., and J. Gunn.  2000.   Interannual variation in the thermal structure of clear and colored lakes.   Limnology and Oceanography 45(7): 1639-1646. (Adobe .pdf file)
Feb 23 Cole, J.J. et al.   1994.  Carbon dioxide supersaturation in the surface waters of lakes.   Science 265:1568-1570
Feb 25 Schindler, D.E. et al.  1997.  Influence of food web structure on carbon exchange between lakes and the atmosphere.  Science 277:248-251.
Mar 11 (Focus on the sections about macroinvertebrates)
Blumenshine, S.C., et al. 1997. Benthic-pelagic links: responses of benthos to water column nutrient enrichment. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 16:466-479
Mar 16 Brooks, J.L., and S.I. Dodson.   1965.  Predation, body size, and composition of plankton.  Science 150:28-35.
Mar 18 Moyle, P.B., and P.J. Randall.  Evaluating the biotic integrity of watersheds in the Sierra Nevada, California.  Conservation Biology 12:1318-1326
May 4 Vannote, R.L. et al. 1980.  The River Continuum Concept.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 37:130-137
May 6 Hambright, K.D., S.C. Blumenshine, and J. Shapiro. 2002. Can filter feeding fishes improve water quality in lakes? Freshwater Biology 47: 1173-1182