Week Date Topic (tentative)
Week 1 9/13 Course introduction
Week 2 9/20 Ch 2. The History of Biogeography
Week 3 9/27 Phylogenetic inferences
Week 4 10/4 Molecular Phylogenetics
Week 5 10/11 Inferring and Reconstructing Histories within and among closely-related Species— Phylogeography
Week 6 10/18 Ch 5. The Geography of Communities; Ch 6. Dispersal and Migration
Week 7 10/25 Ch 7. Speciation and Extinction
Week 8 11/1 Ch 8. The Changing Earth;
Ch 9. Glaciation and Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene
Week 9 11/8 Ch 10. The Geography of Diversification
Week 10 11/15 Ch 12. Reconstructing the History of Biotas
Week 11 11/22 Ch 13. Island Biogeography: Patterns in Species Richness;
Ch 14. Island Biogeography: Assembly and Evolution of Insular Communities
Week 12 11/29 Ch 15. Areography, Ecogeographic Rules, and Diversity Gradients;
Ch 16. Biodiversity and the Geography of Extinctions
Week 13 12/6 Ch 17. Conservation Biogeography and the Biogeography of Humanity
Week 14 12/13 Ch 18. The Frontiers of Biogeography
Week 15 12/20 Special topic: Gene flow and range limits
Week 16 12/27 Special topic: range size and richness
Week 17 1/3 Project Reports
Week 18 1/10 Project Reports