Biology/Animal Behavior 356/656

Plant-animal Interactions

Professor Warren G. Abrahamson
David Burpee Professor of Plant Genetics
Department of Biology
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837

Biology Building 308/309
Phone: (570) 577-1155 - email: abrahmsn@bucknell.edu

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Syllabi & Schedules

• Lecture Syllabus
• Field/Lab Syllabus
• Daily Activities
• Video Schedule

Academic Honesty/Plagiarism

Class Lectures, Discussions, & Presentations
(Students enrolled in this course can access all lecture slides via Blackboard)

• Class Lectures
  • Introduction and Objectives
  • Interactions and Coevolution
  • Pollination Ecology
  • Fruits, Seeds, and Dispersal Ecology
  • Insect Herbivore & Host-plant Interactions
  • Mammalian Herbivore & Host-plant Interactions
  • Ant & Plant Interactions
  • Carnivorous Plants and Insects
  • Plant Communities as Animal Habitats
  • Plant-animal Interactions in Agricultural Ecosystems
    
• Discussion Leaders and Topics
  
• Symposium Schedule

Readings

• Texts
• Electronic Reserves -- Bucknell University's Bertrand Library

Research Proposals and Projects

• Ideas for Your First Project
• Research Proposal Example
• Journal Article Critiques
• Bog Study Plan
  • Photos of Field Work
• Research Paper Example
  • Synthesis Paper
  • Standard Research Paper
• Ideas for Your Second Project
• Suggestions for Effective Oral Presentations
• Suggestions for Effective Writing
• Comments on the First Papers