Homework 4 is due on 19 April at 5PM.  Please put the homework file in the ANGEL dropbox. This homework asks you to read 1 website and 2 papers and answer the associated questions.  The homework file is :

Homework 4

The website and papers are linked below:

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/disturbance-and-diversity-an-ecological-chicken-and-13256228

Montoya & al 2006

Cardinale, Science 2012

The trophic cascade resulting from the introduction of wolves to Yellowstone is perhaps the most famous, and misunderstood in the popular perception of ecology.

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/16/this-will-shatter-your-view-of-apex-predators-how-wolves-change-rivers/

And for a rebuttal . . .

Here’s a nice review in Science about how park management has repeatedly interfered with natural predator-prey dynamics in Yellowstone and the fantastic opportunities to learn about ecological dynamics that have resulted.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6228/1302

An enormously geeky ecology blog post about diversity:

Biodiversity and pizza – an extended analogy leading to a call for a more multidimensional treatment of nature