{"id":2470,"date":"2013-04-23T13:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:12:32","slug":"cc106-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/04\/23\/cc106-information\/","title":{"rendered":"CC106 Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Below is a list of important topics from lectures since CC106&#8217;s last exam (<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> including the April 16th lecture and those after). <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Important topics:<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b> <\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ecology Lectures I and II: Biomes and Physical Ecology<\/span>:\u00a0(Prof. Schnieder)<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Ecology as concept<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Biotic vs. abiotic traits of environment<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Biome vs. biogeographic region<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Levels of biological organization<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Physical geography vs. biogeography<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Ecological systems (population, community, ecosystem, biosphere)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Conditions conducive to high diversity of life in ecosystem<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Reasons for climate variation<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Coriolis effect<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Hadley cells<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Influence of wind on ocean currents and exchange of heat via ocean currents<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Influence of topography on climate<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Convergent evolution in environmentally similar but geographically separate regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Traits that form major conditions of terrestrial vs. aquatic biomes<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Wallace&#8217;s line and six biogeographic regions<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Relation of continental drift to biogeographic regions<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8211; Examples of biotic interchange (Bering land bridge, Panamanian land bride).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chemical Ecology Lecture<\/span>:\u00a0(Prof. Atema)<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Chemical signals are everywhere in life, inside and outside our and their bodies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Currents are necessary to carry odors over any significant distance; this could vary from millimeters to kilometers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Smell and taste are the two primary sense organs to respond to chemical signals: smell interacts with odors in the free flowing medium (air or water); taste tests the stuff we eat to stimulate appetite and to avoid poisoning ourselves.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The\u00a0molecular receptors\u00a0for smell and taste can be similar (because both function to interact with chemicals).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The anatomy of\u00a0smell and taste sense organs\u00a0is very different, including the mouth map of the taste brain and the glomeruli in the smell brain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ecology III Lecture: Population Growth<\/span>:\u00a0(Prof. Schneider)<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span>D<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">efinition of a population.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">BD model of population size: essentially, <\/span>births increase and deaths decrease population size.<\/li>\n<li>Per capita growth rate.<\/li>\n<li>Life Table.<\/li>\n<li>L<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">ife histories determine population growth rates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">P<\/span>opulations grow multiplicatively, but limiting resources can cap population growth.<\/li>\n<li>Limits to population growth.<\/li>\n<li>Carrying capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Human population growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Reminders<\/b>:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Professor Schneider sent out an email this morning with the Arctic Ice assignment attached. That will be due this coming Monday in your discussions. You may work with a parter on this if you would like. Let me or Nate know if you have any questions regarding this assignment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Nate and Gayle will hold a review for the final but that is a couple weeks away from now. They will send along more information about that when it gets closer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Interesting Science Article\/News:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Fish&#8217;s DNA May Explain How Fins Turned to Feet, New York Times: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/18\/science\/coelacanth-dna-may-tell-how-fish-learned-to-walk.html?ref=science\">nyti.ms\/Zmpidx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a list of important topics from lectures since CC106&#8217;s last exam (not including the April 16th lecture and those after). Important topics: Ecology Lectures I and II: Biomes and Physical Ecology:\u00a0(Prof. Schnieder) Ecology as concept- Biotic vs. abiotic traits of environment- Biome vs. biogeographic region- Levels of biological organization- Physical geography vs. biogeography- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,189,3860,2534,2332],"tags":[3890,45004,2059,48303,44930,579,2806,4418,233,48305,48300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}