Limnology 151

Class Presentations (.ppt format)

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• The Structure of Aquatic Systems
• Lake Basins
• Water and Light
• Heat and Stratification
• Water Movements
• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Redox and Nitrogen
• Phosphorus, Iron, and Manganese
• Major Ions
• Lake Biota
• Phytoplankton
• Zooplankton
• Primary and Secondary Productivity
• Fish and Fisheries Management
• Streams
• Estuaries
• Lake Succession and Eutrophication
• Paleolimnology
• Tropical Reservoirs
• Lake Management
• Course Summation

Aquatic Foodwebs

Academic Quarter: Fall 2006
CRN: 44225
Course: GEO298
Location: Wickson 2120J
Meeting Time: Tuesdays 4:30 to 6:00 pm
Units:2

Description

This course is designed as a review and discussion of trends in aquatic food-web research with an emphasis on a landscape level perspective on food-web structure and trophic dynamics. Specific areas of focus will include ecosystem connectivity, nutrient cycling and vectors, and aqua-terrestrial food-web subsidies. The goal of the course will be to design a monitoring approach for lake food-webs that incorporates these ideas and a watershed scale perspective on lake trophic dynamics. Attention will also be given to probable impacts of climatic change associated with global warming on aquatic-food webs.

Course requirements:

• Attendance
• Presentation of one meeting’s topic and accompanying reading, and facilitation of a discussion based on that presentation
• Participation in a field trip to the Castle Lake research station during which students and professors from UC Davis and UNR will collaborate on the design of a lake food-web research and monitoring program for Castle Lake.