BIO-4601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fort Leonard Wood (Military Base), Wavelet, Mesocosm
Document Summary
Thomas l anderson mechanisms of demographic variability across scales and. Grew up and went to undergrad in wisconsin interested in variation of species in lakes. Looking towards demographic variability on small timescales on a local level vs long timescales on a regional level (and mechanism of species interactions and environmental constraints, including mediating factors) Studied larval salamanders, dragonflies, water bugs, etc and white-tailed deer. Observational study in fort leonard wood in mo and micro and mesocosm environments. Embryonic mortality based off of drought years vs normal years much higher mortality in drought years, ponds dried up before eggs even hatched in 33 cases. Ringed salamander is a predator of the spotted salamander (# of ringed salamanders vs survival of spotted salamander), but the spotted salamanders were larger when they went through metamorphosis due to lack of interspecies competition. Larval survival with cover area (fake cattails) vs no cover, food web complexity (other organisms, mosquito fish, dragonflies, newts).
