GEOG 442 Home Page

Biogeography

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News:

* Readings
* Deadlines

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Resources:

* Final study guide
* Biomes viewgraphs
* USGS: Divisions of Geologic Time (pdf table)
* Animation of Earth History

* Bonus: Chi-square program!
* Another bonus: Chi-square prob-values for various calculated X2 values
* Online conversion (e.g., metric to English)

* Guidelines for the critical bibliographic essay
* A reminder about writing standards
* NASA Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors

* Insolation by month and latitude (animation)
* Online key to Palos Verdes native plants
* Paper version of Palos Verdes key

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Lab and Field:

* Student-collected data : Palos Verdes recovering CSS species and spatial associations
* Pictures of you collecting PV transect data
* Pictures of our first field trip (the infamous key)
* Student-collected data : Pigeon morphic diversity by habitat
* Student-collected data : Pigeon males and their targets by morph

* Lab 1: Energy flux by latitude and season
* Lab 2: Species richness trends in North America
* Lab 3: Comparing different biodiversity measures
* Lab 4: Calculating alpha, beta, and gamma biodiversity with Palos Verdes data
* Lab 5: Using Chi-square to test pigeon natural and sexual selection

* Field trips: Palos Verdes species identification and transecting (8 October and 5 November)
* Alternate field trip: Urban fauna

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Document maintained by Dr. Rodrigue
First placed on web: 08/25/02
Last revision: 12/11/11
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