Tuesday

• Molles and Sher, Ch. 7.1 - 7.4
• NKP: Plant-Soil Interactions and Nutrient Uptake (Morgan and Connelly 2013)
• NKP: Biological Stoichiometry (Cease and Elser 2013)

Thursday

• NKP: Body Size and Temperature: Why they Matter (Martinez del Rio and Karasov 2010)
• Molles and Sher, Ch. 9.4
• Ripple et al. 2017 Extinction risk is most acute for the world’s largest and smallest vertebrates
• News essay on Ripple et al. (Briggs, BBC)

Optional Resources

• NKP: The Ecology of Photosynthetic Pathways (Forseth 2010)