Emphasis on current literature and modern approaches to evolutionary patterns and processes. Descriptive and experimental procedures used to assess evolutionary diversity for analysis of population genetics and systematic relationships. Laboratory problems, discussion, and individual research projects. The physiological approach to interpreting adaptation in plants, with emphasis on terrestrial seed plants. The physiological approach to interpreting adaptation in plants, with emphasis on terrestrial seed plants.
Lectures focus on ecological principles.
Seminars and weekend field trips. Goals and contributions of ecological theory. Formulation of models and applications to data. Topics include demography, population growth, community interactions, food webs, metapopulations, disturbance, structure, stochasticity, chaos, and patchiness. Model development, analysis, and interpretation.