Lectures

Links to PowerPoint Lectures . These are b/w pdfs - 4 slides per page - for printing. Color pdfs - 1 slide per page - are available as large (many pages!) files for viewing.
 

INTRODUCTION

  Week 1

  Jan. 23

  Introduction to Course (color pdf)

WORLD VEGETATION TYPES AND THEIR CLIMATIC ADAPTATION   

 

  Jan. 25

  World Climate and Vegetation (color pdf)

  Week 2

  Jan. 28

  World Climate and Vegetation (cont.) [Idealized climate maps from Strahler & Strahler]

 

  Jan. 30

  Vegetation vs. Flora (color pdf)

 

  Feb. 1

  Tropical Rainforests I (color pdf)

  Week 3

  Feb. 4

  Tropical Rainforests II (color pdf)

 

  Feb. 6

  Tropical Montane Forests (in last pdf)

 

  Feb. 8

  Tropical Deciduous Forests and Savannas (color pdf)

  Week 4

  Feb. 11

  Deserts (color pdf)

 

  Feb. 13

  Mediterranean Sclerophylls (color pdf)

 

  Feb. 15

  Temperate Forests (rain, evergreen, deciduous) (color pdf - rain, evergreen, deciduous)

  Week 5

  Feb. 18

  Boreal (color pdf), Tundra and Alpine (color pdf)

 

  Feb. 20

  Temperate Grasslands (color pdf)

  HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY

 

  Feb. 22

  Distributions & Floristic/Faunistic Regions (color pdf)

  Week 6

  Feb. 25

  EXAM 1

 

  Feb. 27

  Distributions & Floristic/Faunistic Regions (continued)

  

  Mar. 1

  Evolution, Convergence, and Biogeography (color pdf)

  Week 7

  Mar. 4

  Geographical Variation Within Species (color pdf)

 

  Mar. 6

  Geographical Variation Within Species (continued)

  

  Mar. 8

  Guest Lecture: Biogeographic Depositories

  Week 8

  Mar. 11

  Historical Biogeography - a History of Ideas (color pdf)

 

  Mar. 13

  Earth History and Biogeography (color pdf)

 

  Mar. 15

  Life History and Biogeography & Short pdf description of "trees"

  Week 9

  Mar. 18

  Relationships of Floras: Southern Hemisphere (color pdf)

 

  Mar. 20

  Relationships of Floras: the Wallace Line(s) (color pdf)

  

  Mar. 22

  Relationships of Floras: Eastern Asia - Eastern North America (color pdf)

 SPRING BREAK

  Week 10

  Apr. 1

  Phylogeography and Ecobiogeography (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 3

  EXAM 2

 BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ISLANDS

 

  Apr. 5

  Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography (color pdf)

  Week 11

  Apr. 8

  Islands and Dispersal Biology (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 10

  Islands and Adaptive Radiations (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 12

  Biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands - I (color pdf)

  Week 12

  Apr. 15

  Biogeography of the Hawaiian Islands - II (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 17

  Islands in the Sky: Tepuis and Paramo (color pdf)

ORIGIN AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN FLORA

 

  Apr. 19

  Origin and Biogeography of Ancient Floras: Paleozoic (color pdf)

  Week 13

  Apr. 22

  Origin and Biogeography of Ancient Floras: Mesozoic (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 24

  Origin and Biogeography of North American Flora: Tertiary (color pdf)

 

  Apr. 26

  Origin and Biogeography of North American Flora: Pleistocene (color pdf)

  Week 14

  Apr. 29

  Origin and Biogeography of North American Flora: Pleistocene (cont.)

 

  May 1

  Biogeography of Great Lakes Region: Holocene (color pdf)
      GLOBAL CHANGES AND PLANT GEOGRAPHY

 

  May 3

  Pleistocene Climate and Tropical Forests (color pdf) [see good review in Science]

  Week 15

  May 6

  Weeds - Changing Plant Distributions (color pdf) [David Quammen's Planet of Weeds]

 

  May 8

  Climate Changes - Changing Plant Distributions? (color pdf) [final topics on 1 ppt]

 

  May 10

  Conservation Biogeography

  Week 16

  May 14

  EXAM 3 during final exam time - Tue. 12:25 pm - not cummulative