Visualizing Ecology

This is the same information as the handout on Thursday, Jan. 11.

Visualizing Ecology: Revised Seminar Reading Schedule (Winter 2007)

In your commentaries for the following weeks, you should select one passage from the reading and discuss its significance and implications for issues that we are discussing in the program. Commentaries should be at least 300 words, replies should be at least 100 words.

Week 2: Christianity and Romantic Science

 Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, pp. ix-xiii, 1-111.

* Lynn White, “Historical Roots of Ecological Crisis.”

* Wendell Berry, “Christianity and the Survival of Creation.”

* Genesis 1-3

* Selections from William Paley, "Natural Theology" (1802)

Recommended:

* Carolus Linnaeus, "On the Police of Nature."

Week 3: Darwin and Evolution

Required: 

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, pp. 113-187.

* Selections from Charles Darwin, “Origin of Species”(1859)

Week 4: Clements and Succession

Required:

Donald Worster, Nature's Economy, pp. 189-253.

*Selections from Frederic Clements, “Plant Succession” (1916)

*Henry Gleason, “Individualistic Concept of Plant Association” (1926) 

 Barbour, “Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties” in Uncommon Ground

Week 5: Ecosystem Ecology and Food Web

NOTE: WE ARE ADDING A SEMINAR MEETING (WITH POSTED COMMENTARIES AND REPLIES) TO WEEK 5. READING TBA.