ESPM 111 Ecosystem Ecology Lecture Notes
Dennis Baldocchi
ESPM
University of California, Berkeley
Spring, 2013, co-taught with Whendee Silver
Textbook:
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney
| Ecosystem concepts |  |
| Ecosystem Scaling/Chaos, part 1 | |
| Ecosystem Scaling/Chaos, part 2 | |
| Climate and atmosphere | |
| Energy | |
| Ecosystem-climate Interactions | |
| Ecosystem structure and function | |
| Water and ecohydrology | |
| Principles of the carbon cycle | |
| Ecophysiology of leaves | |
| Production and carbon balance of plant stands | |
| Remote sensing of ecosystem ecology, on towards global ecology | |
| Ecosystem dynamics | |
| Ecosystem development during primary and secondary succession | |
| Case study oak savanna | |
| Landscape patterns in ecosystem structure and function: Resource gradients | |
| Modeling as an integrative ecosystem tool | |
| Global climate change | |
Ecosystems and environmental change part I Effects of Temperature, CO 2, precipitation, O 3 on ecosystem function and vegetation dynamics |
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Ecosystems and environmental change part II Shifts in ecosystem function and vegetation dynamics |
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