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Hello All! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I have sent this as an e-mail as well, in case some aren't in the habit yet (like me!) of checking the website every day.
I have uploaded a DRAFT version ( = a starting point!) of the first lecture/discussion in powerpoint format. The bulk of which is meant to be an introductory lecture on the topic of Ecosystem Services, though I have included a few slides in the beginning which illustrate the course structure and dynamic. I figure we will need to discuss the syllabus anyway, so why not have a couple of visual aids!
What I have done is tried to mesh slides I got from Margie with slides from Shahid with slides from the Millennium Assessment (which Shahid recommended and uses in his own lectures on the topic), while adding a few of my own. I felt the MA slides provided good structure and detail to the full breadth of the topic, though I'm sure I probably have included too many. I edited them a little and tried to pull out the most relevant to the course. The basic structure is as follows:
Course introduction
Brief History of ES
[the following from the MA]
What are Ecosystem Services and why are they important
What are the primary drivers behind change in ES
How have ES changed in the last 50 years and what are the consequences of this change?
How can we improve the current prognosis?
[end MA slides]
Ecosystem Services and Agriculture
Examples: Pollination
Example: Climate (from Shahid's lecture).
The papers associated with this lecture as it now stands are:
Costanza et al. 1997
Balmford et al. 2002
Daily 1997 (Nature's Services: Chapter 2 explicity, but I've uploaded Chapter 1 and also the conclusion of the book along with it)
Curtis et al. 2003 (Nature 426)
Klein et al. 2006
I have not included any explicit discussion of meta-analysis, but I see that it is on the syllabus. As I do mention it in the course intro slides, we could just have the students read that TREE paper:
Arnquist & Wooster 1995.
I also have NOT included any sort of explicit discussion about species richness/diversity and ecosystem function -- my intention was to keep this intro lecture as an overview, but if we want to include more of that, I have a gazillion slides from Shahid that I can use.
Anyway, please take a look and let me know what you think of the general flow. This was harder than I thought, as there is so much information out there and so many ways to go with it. I just used what I had and took a stab at it. Once we decide on the flow, content-wise, I can work on improving and explaining the individual slides (though many were not mine originally!). And, of course, I am open to discussion on the readings. These papers were the ones that came up when I put the lecture together, but that doesn't mean we have to limit ourselves to these.
Thanks!
Kim
p.s. I am sending/posting this first and will then upload all the mentioned documents. If all goes well, they should be there within 10 minutes or so.
I have uploaded a DRAFT version ( = a starting point!) of the first lecture/discussion in powerpoint format. The bulk of which is meant to be an introductory lecture on the topic of Ecosystem Services, though I have included a few slides in the beginning which illustrate the course structure and dynamic. I figure we will need to discuss the syllabus anyway, so why not have a couple of visual aids!
What I have done is tried to mesh slides I got from Margie with slides from Shahid with slides from the Millennium Assessment (which Shahid recommended and uses in his own lectures on the topic), while adding a few of my own. I felt the MA slides provided good structure and detail to the full breadth of the topic, though I'm sure I probably have included too many. I edited them a little and tried to pull out the most relevant to the course. The basic structure is as follows:
Course introduction
Brief History of ES
[the following from the MA]
What are Ecosystem Services and why are they important
What are the primary drivers behind change in ES
How have ES changed in the last 50 years and what are the consequences of this change?
How can we improve the current prognosis?
[end MA slides]
Ecosystem Services and Agriculture
Examples: Pollination
Example: Climate (from Shahid's lecture).
The papers associated with this lecture as it now stands are:
Costanza et al. 1997
Balmford et al. 2002
Daily 1997 (Nature's Services: Chapter 2 explicity, but I've uploaded Chapter 1 and also the conclusion of the book along with it)
Curtis et al. 2003 (Nature 426)
Klein et al. 2006
I have not included any explicit discussion of meta-analysis, but I see that it is on the syllabus. As I do mention it in the course intro slides, we could just have the students read that TREE paper:
Arnquist & Wooster 1995.
I also have NOT included any sort of explicit discussion about species richness/diversity and ecosystem function -- my intention was to keep this intro lecture as an overview, but if we want to include more of that, I have a gazillion slides from Shahid that I can use.
Anyway, please take a look and let me know what you think of the general flow. This was harder than I thought, as there is so much information out there and so many ways to go with it. I just used what I had and took a stab at it. Once we decide on the flow, content-wise, I can work on improving and explaining the individual slides (though many were not mine originally!). And, of course, I am open to discussion on the readings. These papers were the ones that came up when I put the lecture together, but that doesn't mean we have to limit ourselves to these.
Thanks!
Kim
p.s. I am sending/posting this first and will then upload all the mentioned documents. If all goes well, they should be there within 10 minutes or so.
Hi Kim (and everyone else, please read too),
What about the papers sent in by others that are still part of the introductory readings: Bunker and EcoAgriculture. Should those stay in that folder?
Also, I moved Costanza from week 2 to introduction, so it's in there now. This means that we need more papers for weeks 2 and 3--papers focused on each of the 5 themes covered in those weeks.
Ashley
What about the papers sent in by others that are still part of the introductory readings: Bunker and EcoAgriculture. Should those stay in that folder?
Also, I moved Costanza from week 2 to introduction, so it's in there now. This means that we need more papers for weeks 2 and 3--papers focused on each of the 5 themes covered in those weeks.
Ashley
Hi Ashley. Just thought I'd write to say that as you can probably guess, we're still working on the details for the first few classes. So the list of papers at this point is quite fluid. I wouldn't sweat moving things around until we've all had a chance to review the topics of the first few lectures. No definite decisions have been made, as this is still a work in progress! Hopefully some folks will weigh in this week with their thoughts.
Kim
Kim
Hi Kim,
I looked over the first lecture, it seems like a good start to me but I agree there is too much in it. Immediately I have three candidates to cut and I can come up with more if you want. I think #39, 40 and 50 should go. #39 and 40 really deal with the goals of the MA and that is not really what our seminar is about. Also, I think the slides at the end, except fo the examples really overlap heavily with things in the MA slides. It might worth cutting or at least blending them in with the MA slides. For example, slide #53 seems like an overview of what is detailed in slides 12, 13 and 14. Maybe move 53 to go before or after #12,13, and 14 or use #53 instead of the 3 detailed ones - they are good slides but we need to cut some stuff. Also slide 51 repeats what is in #18 and 21, so I would put these altogether or use either 51 or 18 and 21.
I would condense slies 44-49 into one or two slides with much less detail - I don't think we have time to go into all that is covered in those slides and I think this lecture should focus more on ecosystem services rather than responses to them.
I think it would also be worth expandign the examples and spending less time on all of the examples provided in the MA. All of them provide good information, but I think it is worth using the examples to not just talk about example ecosystem services but begin to talk about how they have been studied. If we do this, I would focus on the pollination and probably Carbon sequestration. If you develop these parts more than I would say cut slides: 33, 34, 36 and 42.
Finally, I think we need to give examples of ecosystem services right after introducing the concept so move slides 54-57 to the spot after slide 8 and maybe put slide 53 up in the intro too.
I hope those are useful comments.
Margie
I looked over the first lecture, it seems like a good start to me but I agree there is too much in it. Immediately I have three candidates to cut and I can come up with more if you want. I think #39, 40 and 50 should go. #39 and 40 really deal with the goals of the MA and that is not really what our seminar is about. Also, I think the slides at the end, except fo the examples really overlap heavily with things in the MA slides. It might worth cutting or at least blending them in with the MA slides. For example, slide #53 seems like an overview of what is detailed in slides 12, 13 and 14. Maybe move 53 to go before or after #12,13, and 14 or use #53 instead of the 3 detailed ones - they are good slides but we need to cut some stuff. Also slide 51 repeats what is in #18 and 21, so I would put these altogether or use either 51 or 18 and 21.
I would condense slies 44-49 into one or two slides with much less detail - I don't think we have time to go into all that is covered in those slides and I think this lecture should focus more on ecosystem services rather than responses to them.
I think it would also be worth expandign the examples and spending less time on all of the examples provided in the MA. All of them provide good information, but I think it is worth using the examples to not just talk about example ecosystem services but begin to talk about how they have been studied. If we do this, I would focus on the pollination and probably Carbon sequestration. If you develop these parts more than I would say cut slides: 33, 34, 36 and 42.
Finally, I think we need to give examples of ecosystem services right after introducing the concept so move slides 54-57 to the spot after slide 8 and maybe put slide 53 up in the intro too.
I hope those are useful comments.
Margie
Hi Margie. Thanks for all the suggestions. I did realize it was a bit of an unwieldy mess, but you should have seen it BEFORE I started deleting slides. Anyway, I'll start making some revisions tomorrow and post an updated version when I've got another draft. My main reason for partitioning out the MA slides from the one's you posted was just to keep the flow of the MA presentation, since it came as a unit and jumping back and forth between slide-types might be jarring. Then, after the MA slides provide the 'grand overview', the second set of slides reinforces those concepts while bringing them in closer to our focus in the course. So that was the rationale, but I can see how it could be construed as overly repetative (what can I say, I'm used to teaching undergraduates!). It was also easy to get sucked in to all the information presented in the MA report ("look at all the pretty pictures"), but of course we need to make this presentation our own and tailor it to suit our goals. And yes, I agree that we need to beef up the examples, but I wasn't sure how much of this to put on the slides and how much should be paper/discussion based. Anyway, I will do my best to incorporate your comments ASAP so we can have another go.
Anyone else?
Thanks,
Kim
Anyone else?
Thanks,
Kim