ECO5062 - Applied Evolutionary Ecology

Credit hours

Instructor
Luciano Martins Verdade

Objective
Present and discuss with graduate students problems related to conceptual, technological and institutional limitations related to applied evolutionary ecology.

Content
1. Course presentation
2. Plato vs Darwin: populations, species and evolution.
3. Soulé vs Caughley: small populations x declining populations (problems related to biological conservation I)
5. Management unit x management unit: ecology x biological conservation (problems related to biological conservation II)
6. Diversity vs complexity (problems related to communities)Experimental approach vs common sense (problems related to population diagnosis)
7. Estimates of abundance vs population growth (problems related to populations)
8. Spatial heterogeneity vs temporal heterogeneity (problems related to landscape ecology)
9. Anthropogenic pressure vs adaptation: human history vs. natural history
10. Love in times of cholera: behavioral ecology I (problems related to mating systems and parental care)
11. Alice and Huckleberry Finn in Wonderland: Behavioral Ecology II (problems related to dispersion patterns)
12. Tragedy of the common x sustainability: hunting / fishing and agriculture
13. Declaration of war vs conflict negotiation: pest management
14. Veterinarians vs biologists: ecology of diseases
15. From Popper to Umberto Eco: logic and social life in research

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