GEOG/ES&P 330
California Ecosystems
News:
Readings
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Deadlines
Resources:
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Syllabus
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Midterm study
guide
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Final is in BeachBoard
Content
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Botanical
terms cheat sheet
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Online key to Palos Verdes
native
plants
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Rodrigue's
Chi-square calculation spreadsheet
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Another
version of Rodrigue's
Chi-square calculation spreadsheet (goes up to 2 x 10 and 3 x 11 tables)
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How to
organize
a scientific paper or talk
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Google Scholar
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How to
cite references
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Talk
viewgraphs
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Group
reports
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Current
state of group projects and peer evalution worksheet
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Talk
checklist
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Paper
checklist
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Backgrounder: Why
study pigeons?
- Lecture:
Notes
from introduction (also see syllabus)
- Lecture:
Links
to images for California environment overview
- Lecture:
Viewgraphs
for life classification lecture
- Lecture:
Beaches,
dunes, bluffs, terraces (viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Beaches,
dunes, bluffs, terraces (notes)
- Lecture:
California
sage scrub (CSS) (viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Chaparral
(viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Chaparral fire hazard
(article I did in 1993 that is oddly timely)
- Lecture:
Chaparral fire hazard (Dr.
Laris and my talk on changing fire hazard:
- See Presentation notes, especially third and fourth parts)
- Lecture:
Oak
woodlands (viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Oak woodlands
(web page)
- Lecture:
California
prairies and annual exotic-dominated grasslands (notes)
- Lecture:
California
riparian woodlands (notes)
- Lecture:
Wetlands
(web page)
- Lecture:
Deserts
(web page)
- Lecture:
Exotics
and invasives (viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Leaf
arrangements and stem attachments (web page)
- Lecture:
Leaf
arrangements and stem attachments (viewgraphs I used on Zoom)
- Lecture:
Leaf
surface and texture terminology (web page)
- Lecture:
Leaf complexity,
margins, shapes (web page)
- Lecture:
Leaf
complexity, margins, shapes (viewgraphs)
- Lecture:
Flower
anatomy (web page)
- Lecture:
Inflorescence
(web page)
- Lecture:
Seeds and
fruits (web page)
Lab and Field:
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Lab 1:
Spatial sampling of vegetation
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Lab 2:
Alpha, beta, and gamma diversity (using your predecessors' field
data)
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Lab 3:
Using Calflora's What Grows Here?
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Lab 4:
Keying out plants from Calphotos images
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Lab 5:
Keying out plants from herbarium samples (virtual ones, courtesy of
COVID-19)
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Lab 6:
Doing a virtual quadrat field sample (another COVID-19 improv)
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Lab 7:
Chi-square hypothesis-testing with GEOG 442 PigeonWatch data
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Lab 8:
Your future self applies for career positions as a new CSULB graduate
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Lab 9: in-class lab on
nearest-neighbor analysis
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Student field projects:
- Data you acquired!
- Data your predecessors acquired
- Things the groups can do with these data
- Data acquisition process
Document maintained by Dr.
Rodrigue
First placed on web 08/15/15
Last revision: 12/13/20