Readings & Handouts

Selected Literature:

• Bailey, N.T.J.  1951.  On estimating the size of mobile populations from recapture data.  Biometrika  38:293-306.

• Cahill, J.F., J.P. Castelli, & B.B. Caspter.  2001.  The Herbivory uncertainty principle: visiting plants can alter herbivory.  Ecology 82: 307-312.

• EPA Rapid bioassessment protocols for use in streams and rivers: Benthic macroinvertebrates and fish.  1989, EPA/444/4-89-001.

• Bernays, E.A.  1999.  Plasticity and the problem of choice in food selection.  Annals of Entomol. Soc. Amer.  92(6):944-951.

• Feener, D.H., Jr. 1985. Ant fauna of Brackenridge Field Laboratory and the surrounding areas of Austin, Texas.

• Gilroy, M.P. & B. Furtado. 1995.  Colorado river watch network biomonitoring guide.

• Glunn, F.J., Howard, D.F. & W.R. Tschinkel.  1981.  Food preference in colonies of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta. Insectes Sociaux, Paris.  28(2):217-222.

• Gopen, G. & J. Swan.  1990.  The science of scientific writing.  American Scientist (78): 550-558.

• Hölldobler, B. & E.O. Wilson.  1990.  The ants, 732pp. (selected material and keys).

• Hurlbert, S.H.  1984.  Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments.  Ecol. Mon. 54(2):187-211.

• MacMahon, J.A., J.F. Mull, and T.O. Crist.  2000.  Harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex spp.): Their community and ecosystem influences.  Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31: 265-291.

• LeCren, E.D.  1965.  A note on the history of mark-recapture population estimates.  J. Anim. Ecol. 34:453-454.

• Porter, S.D. & D.A. Savignano.  1990.  Invasion of polygene fire ants decimates native ants and disrupts arthropod community.  Ecology  71(6):2095-2106.

• Singer, M.C., D. Vasco, C. Parmesan, C.D. Thomas & D. NG.  1992.  Distinguishing between 'preference' and 'motivation' in food choice: an example from insect oviposition.

• Porter, S.D. and C.D. Jorgenson.  1980.  Recapture studies of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex owyheei Cole, using a fluorescent marking technique.  Ecol. Entomol.  5:263-269.

• Porter, S.D. and C.D. Jorgensen.  1981,  Foragers of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex owyheei: A disposable caste?  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.  9:247-256.

eBooks:

• Edwards Plateau Vegetation : Plant Ecological Studies in Central Texas
  by Amos, Bonnie.

Handouts:

• How to keep a Field Notebook

• Keys to Aquatic Insects from McCafferty, 1981

• Plant Identification

• Useful terms in discussing systematics

• Wonderful World of Statistics

Misclellaneous:

• Chi-Square Table of Critical Values

• Students t Critical Values

• Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can't Learn Statistics, from The Bell Curve, by R.J. Herrnstein and C. Murray., 1994.

• Table of Aquatic Habitat Classification

• Categorization of Aquatic Insect Habits

• Functional Feeding Groups of Aquatic Insects
  
  
  
  

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