Assignments in Biogeography
and
Due Dates

Most recently assigned:
  • Cookie Monster's Prey: due Monday, September 16, 1996
    by Wednesday, Sept. 11, each group should have submitted a written description of the qualitative features of its population and a table including raw data on individuals and summary statistics for the population (means, extremes, and so forth.)

Graded assignments: Those listed in bold type are mandatory. Others are optional. You must do a total of 10. Instructions for each will be distributed in class when assignment is made.

  1. Taxonomy-Phylogeny-Cladistics: Cookie Monster Prey due Monday, September 16
  2. Written response to Darwin reading
  3. Written response to Wallace reading
  4. Written response to Simpson reading
  5. Zoogeographic Provinces:due Monday, September 9, 1996
  6. Written responses to selected videos
  7. Biomes:
  8. Biodiversity field experience
  9. Biodiversity in Virginia:
  10. Biogeography of Virginia: affinities, dispersal routes, etc. :
  11. Types of rarity in Virginia:
  12. Bighorn sheep biogeography:
  13. Vegetation transects: altitudinal zonation on Mt Rogers
  14. "Webizing" one of the above mandatory exercises

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Last updated: September 9, 1996. SLW