Vertebrate Field Zoology -- BIOL 277 -- Fall 2010

FIRST PART OF COURSE

READING LIST 1 (OPTIONAL)
EXTRA CREDIT FOR READING

EXAM 2 (October 19) QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION

INFORMATION ABOUT RESULTS OF EXAM 1

LECTURE NOTES (FIRST QUARTER)

August 24 (Introduction)

August 26 (NC vertebrates)
North Carolina physiographic regions

August 31 (Diversity of vertebrates)

September 2 (Zoogeography of vertebrates)
September 2 (Extinction)

September 9 (Species and genera)
NC woodpeckers
Phylogeny of North American woodpeckers
Close relatives of Red-bellied Woodpecker

September 14 (Species concepts)
Hairy Woodpeckers from Georgia to Canada (graphics)
Hairy Woodpeckers compared with Downy Woodpecker (graphics)
Hairy Woodpeckers on islands (graphics)

September 16 (Geographic variation)
Optional fun! How many mutations do you have? or the whole US population?

September 20 (OPTIONAL REVIEW, 4:00-6:00, Wilson 128)

September 21 (EXAM 1, first 25 minutes of class)

Measuring gene flow -- Slatkin plot (graphic)

September 21 (Speciation on islands:   Darwin's finches)
Where are the Galapagos Islands? (graphic)
Fourteen species of Darwin's finches (graphic)
Phylogeny of Darwin's finches (graphic)
Gould's lithographs of Darwin's finches (graphic)
Beak sizes of sympatric and allopatric populations of Geospiza (graphic)
Giant tortoises of the Galapagos (optional)
Darwin, Gould, mistakes, and other followups to the voyage of the Beagle (optional)

September 28 (Allopatric and sympatric speciation)
Plausible case of allopatric speciation (graphic)

October 5 (Speciation on continents)
World 18,000 years ago (YBP) (green=forest, blue=ice, brown=other land)
World today (or 500-5000 years ago) (before historical deforestation)
Distributions of some North American species of warblers (graphic)
Speciation in the tropics -- without glaciers!
Distributions of some South American toucans (optional -- graphic)
Cichlid fish in African lakes

October 7 (Hybrid zones)
Hybridizing species along rivers across the Great Plains
Hybrid geese (graphic)

October 12 (UNIVERSITY DAY -- NO CLASS)
9:00-9:30 -- QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION -- OPTIONAL

October 14 (Geographic variation in humans)
Maps of human geographic variation

October 19 (OPTIONAL LAST-MINUTE REVIEW, 8:00-9:15 AM just before the exam!!)

October 19 (EXAM 2, first 25 minutes of class)
EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION