ESPM 111 Ecosystem Ecology

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ESPM 111Ecosystem Ecology

• Whendee Silver and Dennis Baldocchi

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Contact Info

• Whendee Silver
• Office Hours TBA
• 319 Hilgard Hall
• wsilver_at_nature.berkeley.edu
• 643-3074
• Dennis Baldocchi
• Office Hours TBA
• 345 Hilgard Hall
• baldocchi_at_nature.berkeley.edu
• 642-2874
• GSI, Aric Newton
• Office Hours TBA
• 235 Hilgard Hall
• agnewton_at_berkeley.edu
• 643-9951

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Grading

• Grades will be calculated as follows
• Homework assignments 30
• Midterm 35
• Final 35

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Topics

• Concepts/Scaling
• Climate, Ecosystem/Atmosphere Interactions
• Energy
• Water
• Soils
• Carbon Cycle
• Production, Respiration, Decomposition
• Nutrient Cycling
• Nitrogen Cycle
• Biodiversity
• Landscape Ecology
• Ecosystem Dynamics
• Disturbance, Primary and Secondary Succession
• Global Change and Ecosystems
• Global Ecology
• Remote Sensing, Ecosytem Modeling, Global
  Biogeochemical Cycles
• Restoration of Ecosystems

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Text and Web Site

• Chapin, Matson and Mooney, Principles of
  Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, 2002
• Website
• http//espm.berkeley.edu/classes/espm-111/