STREAM ECOLOGY - BIO 514
Spring 2002
Dr. Leonard Smock - Room 126 Life Sciences
1. Introduction
2. Physical Environment
a. Channel Geomorphology
b. Hydrology
c. Sediments
3. Chemical Characteristics
4. Organic Matter - Heterotrophic Energy Sources
a. Energy Flow
b. Storage, Processing and Transport
c. Microbial Loop
5. Primary Producers
a. Periphyton - composition, controlling
factors, energetics
b. Macrophytes
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6. Benthic Macroinvertebrates
a. Composition of the Fauna
b. Factors Controlling Benthic Invertebrate
Populations
c. Vertical Distribution
d. Feeding Strategies
e. Upstream/Downstream Movements
f. Life History Patterns and Seasonal Cycles
g. Secondary Production
h. Trophic Basis of Production
7. Riverine Fish
a. Community Structure
b. Trophic Ecology
8. Community and Ecosystem Level Processes
a. Predation
b. Plant-Herbivore Interactions
c. Competition
d. River Continuum Concept
e. Nutrient Spiraling
f. Landscape Perspective
9. River Modifications
Text: Stream Ecology, Structure and Function of Running Waters
by J.D. Allan (1995)
Supplemental Text: Methods in Stream Ecology, edited by F. R.
Hauer and G.A. Lamberti (1996)
Grading: Two exams
- 20% each
Cumulative
final - 25%
Lab write-ups/
- 35%
participation
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