ECOLOGY (Biology 310)

Course Meeting Time & Place:  Tuesday/Thursday 9:00-10:15, SC217 

Instructor:

Ryan W. McEwan, PhD
Assista
nt Professor of Environmental Ecology
Department of Biology
The University of Dayton 
300 College Park 
Dayton, OH  45469-2320 

Office phone: 1.937.229.2558
Office Location: 223D Sherman Hall

Email: ryan.mcewan@notes.udayton.edu

Lab:     http://academic.udayton.edu/ryanmcewan

 

 

 

Course Links

Syllabus

Lecture Schedule

 

 

 

Exam 1 Materials

 

Required Reading 1

 

Exam 1 Prep

 

In Class Exercises

 

 

Exam 2 Materials

 

Required Reading 2

 

Exam 2 Preprep

 

 

 

Exam 3 Materials

 

In Class Exercise

 

Exam 3 Prep

 

 

 

Topical Links

 

Predictions from New Orleans

 

Ants turned into zombies by fungus

 

Bee populations crashing worldwide

 

Human population growth a serious global threat

 

Hawaiian birds threatened

 

Balkans Lynx Threatened

 

Peregrin Falcon Dive

 

Discovery of Unimaginable Diversity at the Poles

 

Trees Migrate North due to Warming Climate

 

Bird Migration Influenced by Warming Climate

 

Western Trees Killed By Changing Climate

 

Antarctic Ice Sheet is Melting

 

New Orleans Wetlands Lost (pre_Katrina analysis)

 

Human induced, rapid evolution

 

Unintended consequences of  feral cat removal

 

New National Monuments Designated

 

1,000 New Species Discovered

 

Big Trees of California

 

Ecological Degradation Hits You Where it Hurts

 

Mountain Top Removal Essay

 

Ecological Implications of Corn

 

Invasive Species and Climate Change

 

Marine Invasive Species Article

 

Kyoto Protocol

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

 

California Wildfires

 

Pollen viewer

 

Climate time machine

 

New endangered species in Hawaii

 

Nova- The storm that drowned a city

 

Global Storm Tracker

 

 

Longstanding Links

 

New Biology from the National Academy of Sciences

 

Evolution Book From National Academy of Sciences

 

Sustainability, Energy and the Environment (SEE), University of Dayton

 

Biology Department Seminars

 

University of Dayton, Rivers Institute

 

Ecological Society of America