RESTORATION ECOLOGY, ESRM 473

Winter 2013

INSTRUCTOR: KERN EWING, Merrill Hall Room 31, CUH, 543-4426, kern@u.washington.edu

TA: ANDREW FRASER, ahfrase@uw.edu

REFERENCES:

North American Terrestrial Vegetation, by Barbour and Billings, Cambridge University Press 1988.

Terrestrial Plant Ecology, by Barbour, Burk and Pitts (in many editions)

Landscape Restoration Handbook, 2^nd. Ed. Harker et. al.

		SYLLABUS (Note Saturday Field Activities)	Reference	Outline
Jan 7		Introduction North American ecosystems and tools for their restoration	USFS1 USFS2	Outline
Jan 9		Restoration of North American ecosystems (continued)	Terrestrial Vegetation Walter Klimadiagramme
Jan 11	.	Prairies and Grasslands		Outline
Weekend
Jan 14		Oak woodland	USFS SilvicsNA	Outline
Jan 16		North American Savanna		Outline
Jan 18		Thornscrub	Ewing and Best, 2004 Sonoran tropical deciduous forest Sonoran thornscrub Desert photo gallery	Outline
Weekend
Jan 21		HOLIDAY
Jan 23	.	Chaparral	.	Outline
Jan 25		Aridlands		Outline
Weekend		Saturday morning field trip to look at grassland restoration site in Union Bay Natural Area. Meet at Center for Urban Horticulture at 10:00 AM (at new kiosk on Wahkiakum Lane)
Jan 28		Team work on field project
Jan 30	30.5%	Exam
Feb 1		Western riparian restoration	Klamath Overview	Outline
Weekend
Feb 4		Freshwater wetlands	Stevens1 Stevens2 Cowardin	Outline
Feb 6		Coastal wetlands	Campbell R.	Outline
Feb 8		Freshwater tidal systems	.	Outline
Weekend
Feb 11		North American climate
Feb 13		West coast dune systems		Outline
Feb 15		Arctic		Outline
Weekend			.	.
Feb 18		HOLIDAY
Feb 20	.	Alpine/high elevation sites		Outline
Feb 22		Boreal Forest	.	Outline
Weekend
Feb 25	39%	Exam	.	.
Feb27		Eastern deciduous forest		Outline
Mar 1		Southeastern longleaf pine forest		Outline
Weekend
Mar 4		Southwestern ponderosa pine forest
Mar 6		Madrean Pine-Oak Woodland
Mar 8	.	Tropical deciduous forest	.
Weekend
Mar 11	.	Tropical moist forest	.	Outline
Mar 13	.	Hawaiian tropical dry forest		Outline
Mar 15	30.5%	.Exam	.	.