Papers are available through the electronic links given here, but most links will only work through the Dartmouth network. In some cases, you will have to choose the paper from within the table of contents. Note that students of Bio 51 are defined as "zealots". See syllabus for additional readings from textbooks. (Last updated 30 Nov 2010 )
History of population ecology and the nature of ecological models
Turchin, P. 2001. Does population ecology have general rules? Oikos 94 (1): 17-26.
Berryman, A. A. 2002a. Population: a central concept for ecology? Oikos 97: 439-442.
Berryman, A. A. 2002b. Population regulation, emergent properties, and a requiem for density dependence. Oikos 99: 600-606.
Berryman, A. A. 2003. On principles, laws and theories in population ecology. Oikos 103: 695-701.
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Defining populations & estimating abundance
Karanth, K. U. and J. D. Nichols. 1998. Estimation of tiger densities in India using photographic captures and recaptures. Ecology 79: 2852-2862.
Sampling distributions and Central Limit Theorem. Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics.
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Dispersion
Packer A, Clay K. 2000. Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree. Nature 404: 278-281.
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Mortality, lifetables, and matrix models
Arnold, J.M., Brault, S., and Croxall, J.P. 2006. Albatross populations in peril: a population trajectory for black-browed albatrosses at South Georgia. Ecological Applications 16: 419-432.
Lande, R. 1988. Demographic models of the northern spotted owl. Oecologia 75:601-607.
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Recruitment patterns and life history theory
Partridge, L. and Harvey, P.H. 1988. The ecological context of life-history evolution. Science 241: 1449-1455.
Lummaa, V., and T.H. Clutton-Brock. 2002. Early development, survival and reproduction in humans. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17: 141-147.
Coltman, DW, P O'Donoghue, JT Jorgenson, JT Hogg, C Strobeck and M Festa-Bianchet. 2003. Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting. Nature 426: 655-658.
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Determination of abundance
Turchin P, Taylor AD. 1992. Complex dynamics in ecological times series. Ecology 73:289-305
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Spatial patterns and processes
Hanski, I. 1998. Metapopulation dynamics. Nature 396: 41-49.
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Harvested populations, conservation biology, and human demography
Johnson, W. 2010. Genetic restoration of the Florida Panther. Science 329:1641-1645.
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