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Spring Semester 2005

NRES 441 / 641:  Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants  (3 credits)

Course Syllabus         Lecture PowerPoint Slides

Date                    Handouts                                                                     

Jan. 18                NV Noxious Weed List

Jan. 20                Federal Noxious Weed List

Jan. 25, 27          Handouts #1, #2, and #3

 

Feb. 1, 3, 8         Handouts #4, #5, #6, and #7

 

Feb. 3                 Undergraduate Extra Credit Assignment & Writing Rules

 

ANNOUNCEMENT: Date of Exam #1 changed to Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Feb. 8, 10           Handouts #8, #9, #10, and #11

Feb. 10, 15         Handouts #12, #13, #14, #15, and #16

Feb. 17               Handouts #17, #18, and #19

Feb. 24               Handouts #20, #21, #22, #23, #24, #25

ANNOUNCEMENT: Required reading for Tuesday, March 1, 2005:

Simberloff D, Parker IM, Windle PN (2005) Introduced species policy, management, and future research needs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(1);12-20.  Available through UNR's electronic journals or from http://www.frontiersinecology.org/specialissue/

Mar. 10               Handouts #26, #27, #28, #29

Mar. 10, 15, 17  Handouts #30, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35

Mar. 17               Handouts #36, #37

Mar. 22, 24        Handouts #38, #39

Mar. 24               Handouts: Pesticide label, Selected herbicide properties

Apr. 5, 7              Handout #40, Prescribed fire control

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Lecture PowerPoint Slides

(Note: Slides from lectures for individual sections of the course are posted after they are presented in class.  All slides from lectures except guest lectures are © Copyright by Robert S. Nowak, 2005)

Section   1) a  State and Federal laws and regulations

                1) b  Ecological definitions and characterizations

                2)  How are they located?

                3) a, b, & c  Vacant niche, Allelopathy, and Environmental change hypotheses

                3) d, e, & f  Variable resource availability, Competition, and Micro-evolutionary change hypotheses

                3) g & h  Release from biotic constraints and Biodiversity hypotheses

                3) i & j  Disturbance / land use and Anthropogenic hypotheses

                4) a  Ecological impacts

                4) b & c  Economic & social impacts

                5) a & b  Management: How big? & Prevent entry

                5) c  Control: Prioritize

                5) c i  Chemical control

                5) c ii - iv & d  Mechanical & biological control; Eradication

Guest Lectures:

        Robert Pattison (Mar. 1, 2005)

        Dawn Rafferty (Mar. 3, 2005)

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