Queens College Winter Notebook
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Lecture 1: Course Overview
Chapter 1 Notes
Chapter 2 Notes
Lecture Notes
Temperature and Energy
What is Winter?
Where is Winter?
Responses to Winter
Energy and Snow
Lab 1: Size and Volume
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 2: Soil Invertebrates
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lecture 2: Winter and Plants
Life in the Cold Ch. 3 Notes
Winter World Ch. 24 Notes
Lecture Notes
Acclimation/Hardening
Water balance in winter
Evergreen advantage of early photosynthesis
Wind stress near treeline
Tree Cookie Lab
Lab 3: Leaf Litter Understory
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 4: Tree Cookies: Hemlock Vs. Chestnut
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 5: Night Owling
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 6: Aquatic Invertebrates
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 7: Forest Ecology
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 8: Winter Flock Foraging
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lab 9: Stomatal Adaptation in Evergreens
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lecture 3: Winter and Endotherms
Life in the Cold 93-125 Notes
Winter World Ch. 6 Notes
Winter World Ch. 7 Notes
Lecture Notes
Pathways of Heat Exchange
Physical Barriers to Heat Loss
Lower Critical and Thermoneutral Zones
Biogeographic Rules
Lab 10: Supercooling and Ice Nucleation
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Winter World Ch. 16 Notes
Lecture 4: Winter and Ectotherms
Life in the Cold 125-141 Notes
Winter World Ch. 14 Notes
Lecture Notes
Chilling Intolerance, Freeze Avoidance, Freeze Tolerance and the Ectotherm cooling curve.
Freeze Intolerance/Avoidance
Freeze tolerance
Organisms also use behavior to avoid cold.
Avoidance versus Tolerance
Colorado Potato Beetle
Vertebrate Ectotherms
Rapid Cold-hardening in insects
Lecture 6: Animal-Plant interactions, Migration
Life in the Cold Ch. 6 Notes
Winter World Ch. 20,17 Notes
Lecture Notes
Migrations Vs. Dispersal
Lab 11: Diapausing Insects
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion
Lecture 7: Changing Winter
Life in the Cold Ch. 9 Notes
Winter World Ch. 20,17 Notes
Lecture Notes
Lab 12: Lab Analyses/Statistics
Questions
Lecture 10: Life Under Ice
Life in the Cold Ch. 5 Notes
Winter World Ch. 11 Notes
Lecture Notes
Lab 13: Paper Presentations I
Notes
Lab 14: Paper Presentations II
Notes
Lecture 11: Animals Portraits and Humans in Cold Places
Life in the Cold Ch. 7,8 Notes
Lecture Notes
Ungulates
Lecture 12: Evolved Responses to Changing Winter
Bale and Howard (2010) Notes
Lecture Notes
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Lab 7: Forest Ecology
Introduction
Procedure
Results
Discussion