Tuesday

• Molles and Sher, Ch 5.1, 5.4 (only “Balancing Heat Gain and Heat Loss”)
• NKP: Physiological Optima and Critical Limits (Miller and Stillman 2012)
• Molles and Sher, Ch. 6.1 - 6.2 (Focus on terrestrial environments)

Thursday

• Molles and Sher, Ch. 9.1
• Introduction to Species Distribution Models (Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory)
• Theory of Species Distribution Models (BCCVL)

Optional Resources

• NKP: Extreme Cold Tolerance in Ectotherms (Costanzo 2011)
• NKP: Water Uptake and Transport in Vascular Plants (McElrone et al. 2013)
• NKP: Environmental Constraints to the Geographic Expansion of Species (Mott 2010)