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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><b><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Graduate seminar for Fall 2019 (ECOL 596W)</span></b></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Course title: Macroecology, macroevolution, and speciation</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Credit hours: 2</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Meeting: Once per week, for 1:20 minutes</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Instructor: John J. Wiens (<a href="http://www.wienslab.com/Home.html">http://www.wienslab.com/Home.html</a>)</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Goal: To explore the evolutionary and ecological origins of diversity patterns. In the first part of the semester, we will provide an overview of different topics in macroecology, macroevolution,
and speciation. In the second part, we will select a topic to focus on in more depth. Macroecological topics can include diversity gradients, geographic range sizes, community assembly, and ecological niches. Macroevolutionary topics can include rates and
patterns of diversification, speciation, and extinction, and rates and patterns of phenotypic trait evolution (including adaptive radiation and niche evolution and conservatism). Topics in speciation can include ecological and genetic mechanisms of speciation,
species concepts, and geographic modes of speciation.</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Course format: The course will emphasize exploring, reading, and discussing the essential primary literature on these topics. In some years, we have also done class projects, sometimes
leading to a published paper (e.g. Larsen et al. 2017; Quarterly Review of Biology). </span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Time and place: TBA (based on student’s availability)</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Target audience: Ph.D. and Master’s students in ecology, evolution, or related areas.</span></em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">John J. Wiens, Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Tucson, AZ 85721-0088<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Phone: 520-621-0337<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Web: <a href="http://www.wienslab.com/Home.html">http://www.wienslab.com/Home.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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