ESPM 134 Spring 2008 lecture: 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Tuesday and ThursdayFire, Insects and Diseases
in Wildland Ecosystemslocation: 132 Mulford Hall
course control number 29364Instructors: Tom Bruns (Microbial Ecology), Rick Everett (Fire Ecology), Nick Mills (Forest Entomology)
Table of Contents Description Textbook Grades Reading Discussion Sessions Field Trips Instructors Syllabus Readings Old exams Class Photo Student Pitch Canker Project
DESCRIPTION
In this course we will provide insights into the importance of fire, insects and diseases through lectures, discussion sessions and field trips. In addition, we will discuss how humans are affecting wildland ecosystems through both direct (forest management) and indirect (travel, air pollution, commerce, etc.) actions that change the roles of these agents. [course info.pdf]
Edmonds et al. 2000, Forest Health and Protection. This should be available in the bookstore. We will also put one copy on two-hour reserve in the Bio Sciences Library in the Valley Life Science Building.
The grades will be based on one midterm exam worth (30%) [2008 midterm grade distribution], a comprehensive final exam (40%), and two papers (10% each), participation in discussion (10%). The two papers can be either two fieldtrip reports, or one fieldtrip report and a term paper. Fieldtrip reports are due on the Tuesday one week after the weekend of the fieldtrip. Late reports drop in value by half a grade point (5%) each day after the due date. Participation on at least one trip is expected, but a term paper can be substituted for a fieldtrip if there is an unavoidable conflict. We strongly recommend participation in both trips. Most of the material for the tests comes directly from lectures and from the written material handed out during lectures; therefore attendance at lectures and discussions correlates strongly with grades. Outside readings will be posted on the website as PDFs.
We have five sets of two papers that we read and discuss as a class. A set of 3 students will be responsible for leading the discussion for each paper, but all students are expected to read the material and be prepared to discuss it. The presentation of these papers by the small groups and the participation in the discussion constitutes 10% of the grade. If you have an unexcused absence on a discussion day will receive a zero for that discussion (2% of your total grade). We will also incorporate questions for the readings into the midterm and final.
Trip 1: March 1. Point Reyes National Seashore: Wild fire interactions in coastal ecosystems, and effects of introduced pathogens. Trip leaves at 8:00 am and returns by 5:00 pm the same day. Bring appropriate clothes (rain gear) and a lunch. [Pt. Reyes assignment]
Trip 2: May 3-4. Blodgett Research/Demonstration Forest: interactions of disease, insects and fire in production forestry and prescribed burning. Leaves Saturday morning 8:00 AM (May 3 - itinerary) and returns Sunday (April 27) by mid to late afternoon. Bring a lunch, sleeping bags, warm cloths and rain gear. We will sleep indoors in cabins and cook together - the accomodations are plush. Estimated food cost is $18. Here is the written assignment
Tom Bruns
321C Koshland
642-7987, 643-5483 (lab)
email: pogon@berkeley.edu
Office hours Th 2:15-3:00, Fri 1:30-2:30
or by appointment
Rick Everett
360C Mulford Hall
643-4773
email: everett@nature.berkeley.edu
Office hours: Tues Th 8-10
or by appointmentNick Mills
201 Welman
642-1711
email: nmills@nature.berkeley.edu
Office hours W 1-3
or by appointment
day date topic [click on topic for the lecture handout] instructor lecture slides Tuesday 1/22 Introduction to course and plant disease Bruns lecture 1 Thursday 1/24 Mistletoes and parasitic plants Bruns lecture 2 Tuesday 1/29 Insects: Diversity, structure and function Mills Thursday 1/31 Roles of insects in forest ecosystems Mills Tuesday 2/5 Forest Insect Groups-cones, shoots, wood feeders Mills Thursday 2/7 Introduction to Fire and Fire Terminology Everett lecture 6 Tuesday 2/12 Fuels and Behavior Everett lecture 7 Thursday 2/14 Fire and and forest restoration Everett lecture 8 Tuesday 2/19 Reading: Disturbance regimes Everett Thursday 2/21 Characteristics of fungi Bruns lecture 9 Tuesday 2/26 Beneficial Microoganisms and Mycorrhizal interactions Bruns lecture 10 Thursday 2/28 Reading: Mt Vision (Pt. Reyes) Fire Bruns Saturday 3/1 Field trip - Pt. Reyes National Seashore Tuesday 3/4 Pt. Reyes fieldtrip review [Pt. Reyes assignment] all Thursday 3/6 Canker and Wilt diseases Bruns lecture 11 Tuesday 3/11 Defoliating insects (Pt. Reyes paper due) Mills Thursday 3/13 Bark Beetles Mills Tuesday 3/18 Natural enemies of forest insects Mills Thursday 3/20 Midterm (covers through 3/13) Tuesday 3/25 Spring Break Thursday 3/27 Spring Break Tuesday 4/1 Decay fungi and root disease Bruns lectures 15 & 16 Thursday 4/3 root disease II Bruns Tuesday 4/8 Reading: Yosemite and root disease fire interactions Bruns Thursday 4/10 Foliar pathogens and rusts Bruns lecture 17 Tuesday 4/15 Population dynamics of insects Mills Thursday 4/17 Reading: insect dynamics and forest response Mills Tuesday 4/22 Prescribed Fire, Fire hazard mitigation Everett fire slides Thursday 4/24 Reading: TBA - fire surrogate studies Everett post fire slides Tuesday 4/29 Introduced pathogens Bruns intro pathogen slides Thursday 5/1 Invasive forest insects Mills Saturday 5/3 Blodgett Forest Field trip all assignment Sunday 5/4 Blodgett Forest Field trip all Tuesday 5/6 Blodgett review Bruns Thursday 5/8 Reading: insect, pathogen and fire altering introductions
(Blodgett paper due)all Tuesday 5/20 Final exam
date topic author title 2/19 Disturbance regimes Noss et al.pdf Managing fire-prone forests in the western United States Romme 1998.pdf Are large, infrequent disturbances qualitatively different from small, frequent disturbances? Romme 1998.doc Paper Discussion Romme et al 1998 2/28 About the Mt. Vision (Pt. Reyes) fire Allen & Shook.pdf Introduction Holzman & Foger.pdf Post-Fire vegetation response in the Bishop Pine forest at Point Reyes National Seashore Powell.pdf Recovery of Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) following a wildfire at Inverness Ridge in central coastal California Bruns.pdf Community dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungi following the vision fire Chow.pdf Assessment of northern spotted owls after the vision wildfire Point Reyes National Seashore Collins.pdf Fluvial geomorphic response of a northern California coastal stream to wildfire Fellers.pdf Fire effects on the Point Reyes Mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa phaea) Gardali.pdf After the vision fire: monitoring landbirds in the riparian zone FireMap.pdf Point Reyes and Marin County fire map 4/8 Yosemite and root disease fire interactions Slaughter & Rizzo 1999.pdf Past forest management promoted root disease in Yosemite valley [huge file: 34mb] Dickman.pdf Plant pathogens and long-term ecosystem changes (SKIP THE PART ON Armillaria luteobulbalina) 4/17 Insect dynamics and forest response Lovett 2002.pdf Insect defoliation and nitrogen cycling in forests Taylor & Carroll 2004.pdf Disturbance, forest age, and mountain pine beetle outbreak dynamics in BC: a historical perspective 5/6 Blodgett Review Stephens & Moghaddas 2005.pdf Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a mixed conifer forest Kerry turns pyro Collins, Moghaddas & Stephens 2007.pdf Initial changes in forest structure and understory plant community following fuel reduction activities in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest 5/8 Insect, pathogen and fire altering introductions D'antonio & Vitousek 1992.pdf Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle and global change no one signed up for this so, we will not read it. Niemela & Mattson 1996.pdf Invasion of North American forests by European phytophagous insects Keeley 2006.pdf Fire Management Impacts on Invasive Plants in the Western United States
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