Biogeography 490/690; 2:30-3:45 Mon/Wed; BHS 130

Dr. Brett R. Riddle; brett.riddle@unlv.edu; FMA 102; (702) 895-3133

JAN 12            Reading and essay assignment

JAN 14            continue reading and essay assignment

Introduction to the Discipline

JAN 19            Structure of the course Ch 1     The Science of Biogeography

JAN 21            Ch 1     continued                      Ch 2     The History of Biogeography

UNIT ONE: The Environmental Setting and Basic Biogeographic Patterns

JAN 26            Ch 3     Physical Setting: The Geographic Template

JAN 28            Ch 4     Distributions of Species: Ecological Foundations

FEB 02            Ch 4     cont.

FEB 04            Ch 5     The Geography of Communities complete undone        

FEB 09            EXAM I  covers unit one material

UNIT TWO: Earth History and Fundamental Biogeographic Processes

FEB 11            Ch 5     cont.

FEB 16            President’s Day

FEB 18            Ch 6     Dispersal and Immigration

FEB 23            Ch 7     Speciation and Extinction

FEB 25            Ch 8     The Changing Earth

MAR 02          Ch 8     cont.

MAR 04          EXAM  II covers most of unit two material

MAR 09          Ch 9     Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene

MAR 11          Ch 9     cont.

UNIT THREE: Evolutionary History of Lineages and Biotas

MAR 16          Ch 10   The Geography of Diversification

MAR 18          Ch 10 cont. Ch 11        Reconstructing the History of Lineages

MAR 23          Ch 11   cont.

MAR 25          Ch 12   Reconstructing the History of Biotas

MAR 30          Ch 12   cont.

UNIT FOUR: Ecological Biogeography

APR 01            Ch 13   Island Biogeography: Patterns in Species Richness

APR 06, 08      SPRING BREAK, NO CLASS

APR 13            EXAM  III covers ch 9 plus unit three material

APR 15            Ch 14   Island Biogeography: Assembly and Evolution of Insular Communities

APR 20            Ch 15   Areography, Ecogeographic Rules, and Diversity Gradients      

APR 22            Unit four wrap-up        

UNIT FIVE: Conservation Biogeography and the New Frontiers

APR 27            Ch 16   Biodiversity and the Geography of Extinctions

APR 29            Ch 17   Conservation Biogeography and the Biogeography of Humanity

MAY 06          EXAM  IV covers units four and five material, 3:10 pm