Topics in Evolutionary Ecology

TOPICS IN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
Meetings: Thursday 2:30-3:30 pm, Ackert Hall, Room 324B

Avian Ecology

Topics in Evolutionary Ecology is a graduate level class and journal club in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. Topics change each semester to keep discussions lively, and to make the course available to most graduate students in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology section. In Fall 2004, the topic will be Conservation Biology, and we will consider papers that examine examine applied and theoretical aspects of the conservation of biological diversity on the planet. The format of this graduate class is flexible and can be used as a forum to discuss recent papers in the literature, to make informal presentations on research proposals, or to receive feedback on manuscripts that are being prepared for publication.

All interested persons are welcome to attend. Students planning to attend meetings regularly in Fall 2004 are invited to register for this seminar as a topics course: Biol 697 (undergrad) or Biol 890 (grad, 1-credit, see the Biology Course Schedule for Fall 2004). Fall 2004 will be the last semester that it will be possible to enroll in this graduate course for credit. Students enrolled in the class are expected to attend the class regularly, be active participants in seminar discussions and to lead a group discussion for 1-2 journal articles. Discussion materials can be found as PDF files in the schedule below and will be available one week before each meeting.

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FALL 2004 - CONSERVATION BIOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Aug 26	Organizational meeting
Sep 2 Brett Sandercock	Caughley, G. 1994. Directions in conservation biology. Journal of Animal Ecology 63:215-244. PDF file
Sep 9 Bala Thiagarajan	Prakash, V., D.J. Pain, A.A. Cunningham, P.F. Donald, N. Prakash, A. Verma, R. Gargi, S. Sivakumar and A.R. Rahmani. 2003. Catastrophic collapse of Indian White-backed Gyps bengalensis and Long-billed Gyps indicus Vulture populations. Biological Conservation 109:381-390. PDF file Risebrough, R. 2004. Conservation biology: fatal medicine for vultures. Nature 427:596-598. PDF file Oaks, J.L. et al. 2004. Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan. Nature 427:630-633. PDF file
Sep 16 Karl Kosciuch	Peery, Z.M., S.R. Beissinger, S.H. Newman, E.B. Burkett, and T.D. Williams. 2004. Applying the declining population paradigm: diagnosing causes of poor reproduction in the Marbled Murrelet. Conservation Biology 18:1088-1098. PDF file
Sep 23 Justin Boyles	Malik, S., P.J. Wilson, R.J. Smith, D.M. Lavigne, and B.N. White. 1997. Pinniped penises in trade: a molecular-genetic investigation. Conservation Biology 11:1365-1374. PDF file von Hippel, F.A. and W. von Hippel. 2002. Sex, drugs and animal parts: will Viagra save threatened species? Environmental Conservation 29:277-281. PDF file Hoover, C. 2003. Response to 'Sex, drugs and animal parts: will Viagra save threatened species?' Environmental Conservation 30:317-318. PDF file von Hippel, W. and F.A. von Hippel. 2004. Is Viagra a viable conservation tool? Response to Hoover, 2003. Environmental Conservation 31:4-6. PDF file
Sep 30 Jackie Nooker	Johnson, JA, J.E. Toepfer, and P.O. Dunn. 2003. Contrasting patterns of mitochondrial and microsatellite population structure in fragmented populations of Greater Prairie-chickens. Molecular Ecology 12:3335-3347. PDF file
Oct 7 Dustin Wilgers	Shine, R., J. Webb, M. Fitzgerald, and J. Summer. 1998. The impact of bush rock removal on an endangered snake species, Hoplocephalus bungaroides. Wildlife Research 25:285-295. PDF file Goldingay, R., and D. Newell. 2000. Experimental rock outcrops reveal continuing habitat disturbance for an endangered Australian snake. Conservation Biology 14:1908-1912. PDF file
Oct 14 Corina Jung	Kellert, S.R., J.N. Mehta, S.A. Ebbin, and L.L. Lichtenfeld. 2000. Community natural resource management: promise, rhetoric, and reality. Society and Natural Resources 13:705-715. PDF file Berkes, F. 2004. Rethinking community-based conservation. Conservation Biology 18:621-630. PDF file
Oct 21 Juan Campos	Schwartzman, S., A. Moreira, and D. Nepstad. 2000. Rethinking tropical forest conservation: perils in parks. Conservation Biology 14:1351-1357. PDF file Terborgh, J. 2000. The fate of tropical forests: a matter of stweardship. Conservation Biology 14:1358-1361. PDF file
Oct 28 Ryan Rehmeier	Blumstein, D.T. and E. Fernández-Juricic. 2004. The emergence of conservation behavior. Conservation Biology 18:1175-1177. PDF file Lusseau, D. 2003. Effects of tour boats on the behavior of botlenose dolphins: using Markov chains to model anthropogenic effects. Conservation Biology 17:1785-1793. PDF file
Nov 4 Tim Parker	Merilä, J., L.E.B. Kruuk and B.C. Sheldon. 2001. Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature 412:76-79. PDF file Coltman, D.W., P. O'Donoghue, J.T. Jorgenson, J.T. Hogg, C. Strobeck and M. Festa-Bianchet. 2003. Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting. Nature 426:655-658. PDF file
Nov 11 Bill Jensen	Lach, D., P. List, B. Steel, and B. Shindler. 2003. Advocacy and credibility of ecological scientists in resource decisionmaking: a regional study. Bioscience 53:170-178. PDF file
Nov 18 Brett Sandercock	Lewison, R.L., S.A. Freeman, and L.B. Crowder. 2004. Quantifying the effects of fisheries on threatened species: the impact of pelagic longlines on loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles. Ecology Letters 7:221-231. PDF file Tuck, G.N., T. Polachek, J.P. Croxall and H. Weimerskirch. 2001. Modelling the impact of fishery by-catches on albatross populations. Journal of Applied Ecology 38:1182-1196. PDF file
Nov 25	No meeting, Thanksgiving holiday
Dec 2 TBA
Dec 9 TBA
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SPRING 2004 - SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Jan 22	Organizational Meeting
Jan 29 Brett Sandercock	Felsenstein, J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Naturalist 125:1-15. Ghalambor, C.K. and T.E. Martin. 2001. Fecundity-survival trade-offs and parental risk-taking in birds. Science 292:494-497.
Feb 5 Carolyn Ferguson	Judd, W.J. et al. 2002. Plant systematics: a phylogenetic perspective, 2nd ed., Sinauer pp.14-33. Barkman, T.J., S-H Lim, K.M. Salleh and J. Nais. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA sequences reveal the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesia, the world's largest flower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101:787-792.
Feb 12 Tony Mong	Székely, T. and J.D. Reynolds. 1995. Evolutionary transitions in parental care in shorebirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 262:57-64.
Feb 19 Suzie Strakosh	Johnson, S.D., T.J. Edwards, C. Carbutt and C. Potgieter. 2002. Specialization for hawkmoth and long-proboscid fly pollination in Zaluzianskya section Nycterinia (Scrophulariaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 138:17-27.
Feb 26 Aaron Reed	Pfennig, D.W. 2000. Effect of predator-prey phylogenetic similarity on the fitness consequences of predation: a tradeoff between nutrition and disease. American Naturalist 155: 335-345.
Mar 4 Tara Conkling	Paterson, A.M., G.P. Wallis and R.D. Gray. 1995. Penguins, petrels, and parsimony: does cladistic analysis of behavior reflect seabird phylogeny? Evolution 49: 974-989.
Mar 11 Sam Wisely	Cook, J.A. and M.A. Fleming. 2002. Phylogeography of endemic ermine (Mustela erminea) in southeast Alaska. Molecular Ecology 11: 795-807.
Mar 18 Ryan Rehmeier	Mermoz, M.E. and J.F. Ornelas. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of life-history adaptations in parasitic cowbirds. Behavioral Ecology 15: 109-119.
Mar 25	Spring Break
Apr 1 Beth Ross	Pérez-Barbería, F.J., I.J. Gordon, and M. Pagel. 2002. The origins of sexual dimorphism in body size in ungulates. Evolution 56: 1276-1285.
Apr 8 Larissa Lill	Binida-Emonds, O.R.P and J.L. Gittleman. 2000. Are pinnipeds functionally different from fissiped carnivores? The importance of phylogenetic comparative analysis. Evolution 54: 1011-1023.
Apr 15 Harmony Dalgleish	A phylogenetic comparison of growth forms in the grasses of the Great Plains and South Africa.
Apr 22 Karl Kosciuch	Cicero, C. and N.K. Johnson. 1998. Molecular phylogeny and ecological diversification in a clade of New World songbirds (genus Vireo). Molecular Ecology 7: 1359-1370.
Apr 29 Madhav Nepal	Jousselin E., J. Rasplus, and K. Finn. 2003. Convergence and coevolution in a mutualism: evidence from a molecular phylogeny of Ficus. Evolution 57: 1255-1269.
May 6 Teresa Woods	Wright, S.D., R.D. Gray and R.C. Gardner. 2003. Energy and the rate of evolution: inferences form plant rDNA substitution rates in the western Pacific. Evolution 57: 2893-2898. Brochu, C.A., C.D. Sumrall and J.M. Theodor. 2004. When clocks (and communities) collide: estimating divergence time from molecules and the fossil record. Journal of Paleontology 78: 1-6. van Tuinen, M. and S.B. Hedges. 2004. The effect of external and internal fossil calibrations on the avian evolutionary timescale. Journal of Paleontology 78: 45-50.
May 13 Jackie Nooker	Irwin, D.E., S. Bensch, and T.D. Price. 2001. Speciation in a ring. Nature 409: 333-337. Irwin, D.E. 2000. Song variation in an avian ring species. Evolution 54: 998-1010.

FALL 2003 - BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Aug 28 Brett Sandercock	Williams, C.K., R.S. Lutz and R.D. Applegate. 2003. Optimal group size and Northern Bobwhite coveys. Animal Behaviour 66:377-387.
Sep 4 Karl Kosciuch	Heg, D., L.W. Bruinzeel and B.J. Ens. 2003. Fitness consequences of divorce in the Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus. Animal Behaviour 66:175-184.
Sep 11 Ryan Rehmeier	Andrade, M.C.B. 2003. Risky mate search and male self-sacrifice in redback spiders. Behavioral Ecology 14:531-538.
Sep 18 Aaron Reed	McGuire, B., L. L. Getz, and M. K. Oli. 2002. Fitness consequences of sociality in prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster: influence of group size and composition. Animal Behaviour 64:645-654.
Sep 25 Dustin Wilgers	Losos, J.B., P. Le Fras N. Mouton, R. Bickel, J. Cornelius and L. Ruddock. 2002. The effect of body armature on escape behavior in cordylid lizards. Animal Behaviour 64:313-321.
Oct 2 Tony Mong	Reale, D. and M. Festa-Bianchet. 2003. Predator-induced natural selection on temperament in bighorn ewes. Animal Behaviour 65:463-470.
Oct 9 Chris Frey	Cristol, D.A., E.B. Reynolds, J.E. LeClerc, A.H. Donner, C.S. Farabaugh and C.W.S. Ziegenfus. 2003. Migratory Dark-eyed Juncos, Junco hyemalis, have better spatial memory and denser hippocampal neurons than nonmigratory conspecifics. Animal Behaviour 66:317-328.
Oct 16 Tara Conkling	Renison, D., D. Boersma, and M.B. Martella. 2002. Winning and losing: causes for variability in outcome of fights in male Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus). Behavioral Ecology 13:462-466.
Oct 23 Jeremy Baumgardt	Heckel, G. and O. von Helversen. 2002. Male tactics and reproductive success in the harem polygynous bat Saccopteryx bilineata. Behavioral Ecology 13:750-756.
Oct 30 Corina Jung	Neuenschwander, S., M.W.G. Brinkhof, M. Kolliker and H. Richner. 2003. Brood size, sibling competition, and the cost of begging in Great Tits (Parus major). Behavioral Ecology 14:457-462.
Nov 6 Bala Thiagarajan	Ramakrishnan, U. and R.G. Coss. 2001. Strategies used by Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata) to reduce predation risk while sleeping. Primates 42:193-206.
Nov 13 Bill Jensen	Zahavi, A. 2003. Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology: my personal views on theories of social behaviour. Animal Behaviour 65:859-863. Hemelrijk, C. K. 2002. Self-organization and natural selection in the evolution of complex despotic societies. Biological Bulletin of Woods Hole 202:283-288.
Nov 20 Tracey Johnson	Salewski, V., F. Bairlein and B. Leisler. 2003. Niche partitioning of two Palearctic passerine migrants with Afrotropical residents in their West African winter quarters. Behavioral Ecology 14:493-502.
Nov 27	No meeting - Thanksgiving Weekend
Dec 4 Julie Murphy	Griffin, A.S. and C.S. Evans. 2003. Social learning of antipredator behaviour in a marsupial. Animal Behaviour 66:485-492. Snyder, N.F.R., S.E. Koenig, J. Koschmann, H.A. Snyder and T.B. Johnson. 1994. Thick-billed Parrot releases in Arizona. Condor 96:845-862.
Dec 11 Brett Sandercock	Hays, W.S.T. 2003. Human pheromones: have they been demonstrated? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54:89-97.

SPRING 2003 - AVIAN ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Jan 23 Brett Sandercock	Yáber, M.C and K.N. Rabenold. 2002. Effects of sociality on short-distance, female-biased dispersal in tropical wrens. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:1042-1055.
Jan 30 Ryan Rehmeier	Mumme, R.L. 2002. Scare tactics in a neotropical warbler: white tail feathers enhance flush-pursuit foraging performance in the Slate-throated Redstart (Myioborus miniatus). Auk 119: 1024-1035.
Feb 6 Bala Thiagarajan	Shankar, R.T.R. 2001. Effect of slash-and-burn shifting cultivation on rainforest birds in Mizoram, northeast India. Conservation Biology 15: 685-698.
Feb 13 Chris Anderson	Bart, J. and S. Earnst. 2002. Double sampling to estimate density and population trends in birds. Auk 119: 36-45. Thompson, W.L. 2002. Towards reliable bird surveys: Accounting for individuals present but not detected. Auk 119: 18-25.
Feb 20 Tammi Johnson	Hagelin, J.C. and J.D. Ligon. 2001. Female quail prefer testosterone-mediated traits, rather than the ornate plumage of males. Animal Behaviour 61: 465-476.
Feb 27	Cancelled for teaching seminar of candidate for Animal Physiologist position
Mar 6 Jackie Nooker	Velando, A. 2002. Experimental manipulation of maternal effort produces differential effects in sons and daughters: implications for adaptive sex ratios in the Blue-footed Booby. Behavioral Ecology 15: 443-449.
Mar 13 Tony Mong	Saino, N, R. Ambrosini, R. Martinelli, P. Ninni and A.P. Moller. 2003. Gape coloration reliably reflects immunocompetence of Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) nestlings. Behavioral Ecology 14: 16-22.
Mar 20	Spring break - no meeting this week
Mar 27 Karl Kosciuch	Kus, B.E. 2002. Fitness consequences of nest desertion in an endangered host, the Least Bell's Vireo. Condor 104: 795-802.
Apr 3 Tara Conkling	Jouventin, P. and T. Aubin. 2002. Acoustic systems are adapted to breeding ecologies: individual recognition in nesting penguins. Animal Behaviour 64: 747-757.
Apr 10 Chris Smith	Smith, C.C. The power of evolution in ecology. Unpublished manuscript.
Apr 17 Gregory Schrott	Mazerolle, D.F. and K.A. Hobson. 2003. Do Ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapillus) avoid boreal forest edges? A spatiotemporal analysis in an agricultural landscape. Auk 120: 152-162.
Apr 24 Brett Sandercock	Smith, J.N.M., M.J. Taitt and L. Zanette. 2002. Removing Brown-headed Cowbirds increases seasonal fecundity and population growth in Song Sparrows. Ecology 83: 3037-3047.
May 1 Bala Thiagarajan	van Riper III,C, S. G. van Riper and W.R. Hansen. 2002. Epizootiology and effect of avian pox on Hawaiian forest birds. Auk 119: 929-942.
May 8 Karl Kosciuch & Ryan Rehmeier	Wagner, R.H. and E. Danchin. 2003. Conspecific copying: a general mechanism of social aggregation. Animal Behavior 65: 405-408. Barta, Z. and L.-A. Giraldeau. 2001. Breeding colonies as informaion centers: a reappraisal of information-based hypotheses using the producer-scrounger game. Behavioral Ecology 12: 121-127.

FALL 2002 - BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Sep 5 Brett Sandercock	Doherty et al. 2002. Sources of variation in breeding-ground fidelity of Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos). Behavioral Ecology 13: 543-550.
Sep 12 Karl Kosciuch	Wagner, R.H., E. Danchin, T. Boulinier and F. Helfenstein. 2000. Colonies as byproducts of commodity selection. Behavioral Ecology 11: 572-573. Suryan, R.M and D.B. Irons. 2001. Colony and population dynamics of Black-legged Kittiwakes in a heterogeneous environment. Auk 118: 636-649.
Sep 19 Ryan Rehmeier	Stahler, D., B. Heinrich and D. Smith. 2002. Common Ravens, Corvus corax, preferentially associate with grey wolves, Canis lupus, as a foraging strategy in winter. Animal Behaviour 64: 283-290.
Sep 26 Aaron Reed	Price, M.V., and R.A. Correll. 2001. Depletion of seed patches by Merriam's kangaroo rats: are GUD assumptions met? Ecology Letters 4: 334-343.
Oct 3 Gregory Schrott	Neudorf, D.L. and S.G. Sealy. 2002. Distress calls of birds in a neotropical cloud forest. Biotropica 34: 118-126.
Oct 10 Chris Anderson	Gill, J.A., K. Norris and W.J. Sutherland. 2001. Why behavioural responses may not reflect the population consequences of human disturbance. Biological Conservation 97: 265-268. Gutzwiller, K.J., E.A. Kroese, S.H. Anderson and C.A. Wilkins. 1997. Does human intrusion alter the seasonal timing of avian song during breeding periods? Auk 114: 55-65.
Oct 17 Brooke Stansberry	Mennill, D.J., L. M. Ratcliffe and P. T. Boag. 2002. Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science 296: 873. Otter, K., P.K. McGregor, A.M.R. Terry, F. R.L. Burford, T. M. Peake and T. Dabelsteen. 1999. Do female Great Tits (Parus major) assess males by eavesdropping? A field study using interactive song playback. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 1305-1309.
Oct 24 Tim Parker	Sih, A., M. Lauer and J.J. Krupa. 2002. Path analysis and the relative importance of male-female conflict, female choice and male-male competition in water striders. Animal Behaviour 63: 1079-1089.
Oct 31 Bala Thiagarajan	Hart, B.L., L.A. Hart, M. McCoy and C.R. Sarath. 2001. Cognitive beahiour in Asian elephants: use and modification of branches for fly switching. Animal Behaviour 62: 839-847.
Nov 7 Bill Jensen	Lenormand, T. 2002. Gene flow and the limits to natural selection. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 183-189. Røskaft, E, A. Moksnes, B.G. Stokke, C. Moskát and M. Honza. 2002. The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behaviour in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos. Behavioral Ecology 13: 163-168.
Nov 14 Lorri Newby	Paz-Y-Miño C., G., S.T. Leonard, M.H. Ferkin and J.F. Trimble. 2002. Self-grooming and sibling recognition in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, and prairie voles, M. ochrogaster. Animal Behavior 63: 331-338.
Nov 21 Ben Erie	Stapp, P. Habitat selection by an insectivorous rodent: patterns and mechanisms across multiple scales. J. Mammalogy 78: 1128-1143.
Nov 28	Thanksgiving, no meeting scheduled
Dec 5 Aaron Reed	Ovadia, O., Y Ziv, Z. Abramsky, B. Pinshow, and B. P. Kotler. 2001. Harvest rates and foraging strategies in Negev Desert gerbils. Behavioral Ecology 12: 219-226.

SPRING 2002 - AVIAN ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Paper or Topic
Jan 21 Brett Sandercock	Robertson, R.J and W.B. Rendell. 2001. A long-term study of reproductive performance in Tree Swallows: the influence of age and senescence on output. Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 1014-1031.
Jan 31 Robert Robel	Anderson, D.R. 2001. The need to get the basics right in wildlife field studies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29: 1294-1297.
Feb 7 Jim Rivers	Budden, A.E. and J. Wright. 2001. Falling on deaf ears: the adaptive significance of begging in the absence of a parent. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49: 474-481.
Feb 14 Greg Schrott	Schrott, G. (manuscript). Distribution of breeding birds in the naturally fragmented forests of Grand Teton National Park
Feb 21 Bill Jensen	Murphy, M. T. 2001. Source-sink dynamics of a declining Eastern Kingbird population and the value of sink habitats. Conservation Biology 15: 737-748.
Feb 28 Dave Rintoul	Hobson, K.A, K. P. McFarland, L. I. Wassenaar, C. C. Rimmer, and J. E. Goetz. 2001. Linking breeding and wintering grounds of Bicknell’s Thrushes using stable isotope analyses of feathers. Auk 118: 16–23.
Mar 7 Chris Anderson	Develey, P.F. and P.C. Stouffer. 2001. Effects of roads on movements by understory birds in mixed-species flocks in central amazonian Brazil. Conservation Biology 15: 1416-1422.
Mar 14 Kim With (host)	Schukman, J. (presentation). Population trends in forest birds in relation to forest cover in Kansas and Missouri.
Mar 21	Spring break, no meeting scheduled
Mar 28 Jim Rivers	Rivers, J. (research proposal). Proximate factors that influence begging behavior in nestling Brown-headed Cowbirds
Apr 4 Chris Smith	Benkman C.W., Holimon W.C. and J.W. Smith. 2001. The influence of a competitor on the geographic mosaic of coevolution between crossbills and lodgepole pine. Evolution 55: 282-294.
Apr 11 Brett Sandercock	Prum R.O. 2002. Why ornithologists should care about the theropod origin of birds. Auk 119: 1-17. Norell M., Ji Q., Gao K., Yuan C., Zhao Y., Wang L. 2002. 'Modern' feathers on a non-avian theropod. Nature 416: 36-37.
Apr 18 Dave Rintoul	Rintoul, D. (presentation): Fat composition in migratory shorebirds in Kansas.

SPRING 2001 - AVIAN ECOLOGY SCHEDULE
Date and Host	Discussion Topic
Feb 16 Bill Jensen	Peer B.D., Robinson S.K. and J.R. Heckert. 2000. Egg rejection by cowbird hosts in grasslands. Auk 117: 892-901.
Feb 22 Brett Sandercock	Martin, T.E. 2001. Abiotic vs. biotic influences on habitat selection of coexisting species: climate change impacts? Ecology 82: 175-188.
Mar 1 Jim Rivers	Heeb P., Kolliker M, and H. Richner. 2000. Bird-ectoparasite interactions, nest humidity, and ectoparasite community structure. Ecology 81: 958-968.
Mar 8 Dusty Becker	Blake J.B. and B.A. Loiselle. 2000. Diversity of birds along an elevational gradient in the Cordillera Central, Costa Rica. Auk 117: 663-686.
Mar 15 Jack Cully	Brown C.B. and M.B. Brown. 1986. Ectoparasitism as a cost of coloniality in Cliff Swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota). Ecology 67: 1206-1218.
Mar 22	Spring break, no meeting scheduled
Mar 29 Bill Jensen	Johnson D.J. and L.D. Igl. 2001. Area requirements of grassland birds: a regional perspective. Auk 118: 24-34.
Apr 5 Dave Rintoul	Rintoul, D. (presentation). Fat deposition in migratory Sandhill Cranes in the Platte River, Nebraska.
Apr 12 Chris Anderson	Miller J.R. and N.T. Hobbs. 2000. Recreational trails, human activity, and nest predation in lowland riparian areas. Landscape and Urban Planning 50: 227-236.
Apr 19 Brett Sandercock	Merola-Zwartjes M. and J.D. Ligon. 2000. Ecological energetics of the Puerto Rican Tody: heterothermy, torpor, and intra-island variation. Ecology 81: 990-1003.
Apr 26 Jim Rivers	Moore F.R. and M.V. McDonald. 1993. On the possibility that intercontinental landbird migrants copulate en route. Auk 110: 157-160. Rivers J. (research report). Lack of sperm production and sperm storage by arctic-nesting shorebirds during spring migration.

Last updated: Fall 2004