Hi-
The readings for Dec. 3 are:
1. For climate change and its effects on WI forests:
a. Your Scheller and Mladenoff 2008 article: Scheller, R.M. and D.J. Mladenoff. 2008. Simulated effects of climate change, fragmentation, and inter-specific competition on tree species migration in northern Wisconsin, USA. Climate Research 36: 191-202. Copyright issues prevent me from adding the pdf to the folder, but you can click on it directly at: http://landscape.forest.wisc.edu/pdf/SchellerMladenoff%20ClimRes%202008.pdf
b. Optional: Madeline Fisher's nice UW news essay on this article: http://www.news.wisc.edu/15386
2. For restoration in the face of climate change:
a. Harris, J.A., R.J. Hobbs, E. Higgs, and J. Aronson. 2006. Ecological restoration and global climate change. Restoration Ecology 14(2):170-176. (in the readings folder as Harrisetal2006.pdf)
b. Optional: Seastedt, T.R., R.J. Hobbs, and K.N. Suding. 2008. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment 6, doi:10.1890/070046.(in the readings folder as Seastedtetal2008.pdf)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Readings Nov 12 and 19th; no class Nov 26
Hi-
Here are the readings for the next two weeks. We won't meet on Nov. 26th, the afternoon before Thanksgiving, to give us all more time to make pumpkin pies and roast turkeys (or whatever your Thanksgiving traditions might be).
Nov 12 (Tricia and possibly Jon)
Robert Gough, Farming the Cutover, introduction and Chapter 1.
Optional: Steen-Adams, M.M., N.E. Langston, and D.J. Mladenoff. 2007. “White pine in the northern forests: An ecological and management history of white pine on the Bad River Reservation of Wisconsin,” Environmental History 12: 624-648.
Nov 19 (Bob and possibly Tricia)
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and David J. Mladenoff, “Why history matters in landscape ecology,” Landscape Ecology 22 (2007): 1-3.
Rhemtulla, J.M., D.J. Mladenoff and M.K. Clayton. 2007. Regional land-cover conversion in the U.S. upper Midwest: magnitude of change and limited recovery (1850-1935-1993). Landscape Ecology 22: 57 -75. link: http://landscape.forest.wisc.edu/PDF/Rhemtulla_LE2007.pdf
Optional: Rhemtulla, J. M., D. J. Mladenoff, and M. K. Clayton. 2008. Legacies of historical land use on regional composition and structure in Wisconsin (USA): (Mid-1800s—1930s—2000s).
Here are the readings for the next two weeks. We won't meet on Nov. 26th, the afternoon before Thanksgiving, to give us all more time to make pumpkin pies and roast turkeys (or whatever your Thanksgiving traditions might be).
Nov 12 (Tricia and possibly Jon)
Robert Gough, Farming the Cutover, introduction and Chapter 1.
Optional: Steen-Adams, M.M., N.E. Langston, and D.J. Mladenoff. 2007. “White pine in the northern forests: An ecological and management history of white pine on the Bad River Reservation of Wisconsin,” Environmental History 12: 624-648.
Nov 19 (Bob and possibly Tricia)
Jeanine M. Rhemtulla and David J. Mladenoff, “Why history matters in landscape ecology,” Landscape Ecology 22 (2007): 1-3.
Rhemtulla, J.M., D.J. Mladenoff and M.K. Clayton. 2007. Regional land-cover conversion in the U.S. upper Midwest: magnitude of change and limited recovery (1850-1935-1993). Landscape Ecology 22: 57 -75. link: http://landscape.forest.wisc.edu/PDF/Rhemtulla_LE2007.pdf
Optional: Rhemtulla, J. M., D. J. Mladenoff, and M. K. Clayton. 2008. Legacies of historical land use on regional composition and structure in Wisconsin (USA): (Mid-1800s—1930s—2000s).
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Readings for Nov 5
Hi-
For this Wednesday, we'll be discussing:
Steen-Adams et al 2008 (NOT Steen-Adams et al 2007--that's for later this fall): “Indian history of the Great Lakes Lumber Era: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe,” manuscript in prep.
White and Mladenoff 2004: Old-growth forest landscape transitions from pre-European settlement to present.” Landscape Ecology 9 (2004): 191-205.
OPTIONAL (and not yet loaded onto the website): Gates et al 1983: ,“Wildlife in a Changing Environment,” 52-82 in Susan Flader, ed. The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History (U of MN: 1983)
For this Wednesday, we'll be discussing:
Steen-Adams et al 2008 (NOT Steen-Adams et al 2007--that's for later this fall): “Indian history of the Great Lakes Lumber Era: The Case of the Bad River Band of Ojibwe,” manuscript in prep.
White and Mladenoff 2004: Old-growth forest landscape transitions from pre-European settlement to present.” Landscape Ecology 9 (2004): 191-205.
OPTIONAL (and not yet loaded onto the website): Gates et al 1983: ,“Wildlife in a Changing Environment,” 52-82 in Susan Flader, ed. The Great Lakes Forest: An Environmental and Social History (U of MN: 1983)
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