During
the course of the semester, each student will be the primary discussion leader
and prepare a short handout (1-2 pages) on either a research or review article.
The following guidelines provide a general template for the review, writeup and
discussion (< 15 min/paper) of these assigned papers.
(Drop off a copy of the article immediately following Monday's class & bring
30 copies of your summary writeup for distribution to your classmates on
Thursday /see
weekly assignments below)
I) Definitions: Write down words or terms that are new to you in the assigned paper. (Define these terms prior to arrival in class if possible; otherwise, define them during the group discussion.)
II)
Summary: Write a short, objective summary of the paper. Do not criticize the
paper at this point, simply summarize in a few sentences the purpose, main
findings and "take home" message(s).
III)
Objectives: Explicitly state the objective(s) of the paper, as given by the
author(s). What reason(s) are given to support the scientific importance or
relevance of the objectives?
IV)
Methods: Are the methods used (if any) appropriate and adequate for the
questions or hypotheses that are being addressed? Identify any methods that are
not clearly presented or that you do not understand.
V)
Results: List the main results presented in the paper, include copies of
key figures/tables. How do the results relate to the questions (or test the
hypotheses) set forth in the Objectives? Identify any unclear results.
VI)
Discussion: (Here is where you should offer your personal evaluation of the
paper.) How well does the Discussion reflect the Results? Are interpretations of
the data presented in the Results section justified, or are interpretations and
discussion very speculative? Does the paper adequately represent both the
strengths/weaknesses of the main findings?
VII) Overall: What do you consider as the main strengths of the paper? What are the weaknesses? What is interesting about the paper? What new did you learn? What relevance does this paper have to issues or topics that have been discussed in class? What additional topics in other areas of ecology can you relate this paper to, either in terms of basic science or in terms of applied science?
Assigned Literature Review Papers
Week
2 (1/23)
Salz ~ Aube, M. and L. Caron. 2001. The mangroves
of the north coast of Haiti. Wetlands Ecology & Management 9:
271-278. (pdf file)
Stumpf ~ Lu, J.
1995. Ecological significance and classification of Chinese
wetlands. Vegetatio 118: 49-56 (get copy from me)
Week 3 (1/30)
Pence ~ Rheinhart, RD and K Faser. 2001. Relationship between
hydrology and zonation of freshwater swale wetlands on lower Hatteras Island,
North Carolina, USA. Wetlands 21: 265-273.
Mosley ~ Amon, JP, CA
Thompson, QJ Carpenter and J Miner. 2002. Temperate zone fens of the glaciated
mid-western USA. Wetlands 22: 301-317.
Week 4 (2/6)
Jolly ~
Cole, CA & RT Brooks. 2000. Patterns of wetland hydrology
in the ridge and valley province, Pennsylvania, USA. Wetlands 20:
438-447.
Clark ~ Flynn,
KM, IA
Mendelssohn & BJ Wilsey. 1999. The effect of water level management
on the soils and vegetation of two coastal Louisiana marshes. Wetlands
Ecology & Management 7: 193-218.
Week 5 (2/13)
Gucker ~ Miao, SF, PV McCormick, S Newman & S Rajagopalan.
2001. Interactive effects of seed availability, water depth and phosphorus
enrichment on cattail colonization in an Everglades wetland. Wetlands
Ecology & Management 9: 39-47.
Dungan ~ Woo, I and JB Zedler.
2002. Can nutrients alone shift a sedge meadow towards dominance by the invasive
Typha X Glauca. Wetlands 22: 508-521.
Week 6 (2/20)
Jimenez ~ Baldwin, AH et
al. 2002. Hydrologic change and vegetation of tidal freshwater marshes:
field, greenhouse and seed-bank experiments. Wetlands 21: 519-531.
Week 7 (2/27)
Bellon ~ Drexler, JZ and BL Bedford. 2002. Pathways of
nutrient loading and impacts on plant diversity in a New York Peatland. Wetlands
22: 263-281.
Kemper ~ Brooks, RT. 2000. Annual and seasonal variation
and the effects of hydroperiod on benthic macroinvertebrates of seasonal forest
ponds in Central Massachusetts, USA. Wetlands 20: 707-715.
Week 8 (3/6)
Blandford ~Turner, S.D. et al. 2000. Mycorrhizal fungi associated
with plants in ground-water fed wetlands. Wetlands 20: 200-204
Bertram ~ Rossell, CR & IM Rossell. 1999. Microhabitat
selection by small mammals in a southern Appalachian fen. Wetlands
Ecology & Management 7: 219-224.
Week 9 (3/13)
Baden ~ Fransworth, EJ and DR Ellis. 2001. Is purple loosestrife (Lythrum
salicaria) an invasive threat to freshwater wetlands? Conflicting evidence
from several ecological metrics. Wetlands 21: 199-209.
Broglio ~ Johnson, WC, TL Sharik et al. 1987. Nature and cause of
zonation discreteness around glacial prairie marshes. Canadian Journal
of Botany 65: 1622-1632.
Week 10 (3/28)
Borntraeger ~ Seabloom, EW, KA Moloney and AG Van der Valk. 2001.
Constraints on the establishment of plants along a fluctuating water-depth
gradient. Ecology 82: 2216-2232.
Cusack ~ Batzer, DP 1998. Trophic interactions among
detritus, benthic midges and predatory fish in a freshwater marsh. Ecology
79: 1688-1698.
Week 11 (4/3)
Gloyn ~ Joyal, LA, M McCollough and ML Hunter. 2001. Landscape
ecology approaches to wetland species conservation: a case study of two turtle
species in Southern Maine. Conservation Biology 15: 1755-1762.
Heyn ~ Gunness, MA RG Clark and PJ Weatherhead. 2001.
Counterintuitive parental investment by female dabbling ducks in response to
variable habitat quality. Ecology 82: 1151-1158.
Larson ~ Wissinger, SA, HH Whiteman et al. 1999. Foraging
trade-offs along a predator-permanence gradient in subalpine wetlands. Ecology
80:2102-2116.
Week 12 (4/10)
McKenny ~ Smith, DW, RO Peterson. 1991. Behavior of beaver in
lakes with varying water levels in northern Minnesota. Environmental
Management 15: 395-401.
Miller, S ~ Whiles, MR and BS Goldowitz. 2001. Hydrologic
influences on insect emergence production from central Platte River
wetlands. Ecological Applications 11: 1829-1842.
McClymonds ~ Post, DM, JP Taylor et al. 1998. The role of
migratory waterfowl as nutrien vectors in a managed wetland. Conservation
Biology 12: 910-920.
Week 13 (4/17)
Miller, R. ~ Corder, LD, FMR Hughes and M Getty. 1997. Factors affecting
the regeneration and distribution of riparian woodlands along a northern prairie
river: the Red Deer River, Alberta. J. of Biogeography 24: 675-95.
Moticak ~ Johnson, W.C. 1994. Woodland Expansion in the Platte
River, Nebraska: Patterns and Causes. Ecological Monographs 64:
45-84.
Week 14 (4/25)
Nafus ~Mahoney, JM and SB Rood. 1998.
Streamflow requirements for cottonwood seedling recruitment ~ an integrative
model. Wetlands 18: 634-645.
Swan ~
Week 15 (5/1)
Schaffer ~ Stevenson, RJ & FR Hauer. 2002. Integrating
hydrogeomorphic and index of biotic integrity approaches for environmental
assessment of wetlands. J. of the N. Amer. Benthological Soc. 21:
502-513.
Ulrich ~ Hauer, R & RD Smith. 1998. The hydrogeomorphic
approach to functional assessment of riparian wetlands: evaluating impacts and
mitigation on river floodplains in the USA. Freshwater Biology 40:
517-530.