Date

Reading Assignments

Tutorial Papers/Laboratory

Study Ques.

1/7

Herpetology as a field of study

Chapter 1

Ensatina ring species

Readings: Flip through Stebbins for info on local herps

 Q1

1/9

Reptiles and Vertebrate Evolution

Chapter 2

1/8 Trip to Waterman Gap

 Q2

1/11

Classification and Diversity of Amphibians

Chapter 3

 Q3

1/14

Classification and Diversity of Reptiles

Chapter 4

1/15 Natural History Museum -- Introduction to Local Amphibian and Reptile Diversity

 Q4

1/16

Field Trip -- Herp Diversity on Campus OR Tutorial Reading

Rain Dependent

Q5

1/18

Temperature and Water Relations Reptile Development

Chapter 5

Q6

1/21

Holiday -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1/22 -- Field Trip -- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

Herp Diversity Around the World or 1/13 -- Field Trip - California Academy of Sciences

Phylogenetic methods

1/23

Energetics and Performance

Chapter 6

 Q7

1/25

Field Trip -- Herp Diversity on Campus OR Tutorial Reading

 Q8

1/28

Reproduction and Life History

Chapter 7

1/29 -- Field Trip Collecting Amphibian Eggs, Egg Development -- North Coast

Recording Frog Choruses and Playback Experiments

 Q9

1/30

Amphibian Development

Readings: Extra info

 Q10

2/1

Field Trip -- Dicamptodon Walk, breeding ponds OR Tutorial

 Q11

2/4

Body Support and Locomotion

Chapter 8

2/5 -- Field Trip TBA

If sunny Fort Ord OR Big Basin

 Q12

2/6

Feeding Systems

Chapter 9

Q13

2/8

MIDTERM

2/11

Movements and Orientation

Chapter 10

2/12 -- Field Trip

If sunny Fort Ord OR Big Basin

 Q14

2/13

Communication

Chapter 11

 Q15

2/15

Mating Systems and Sexual Selection

Chapter 12

 Q16

2/18

Holiday -- President's Day

2/18

Foraging Ecology and Interspecific Interactions

Chapter 13

2/19 -- Field Trip -- Biophysics and Physiology (if sunny)

More amphibians if it rains

Q17

2/20

Species Assemblages

Chapter 14

 Q18

 2/22

Guest Lecture: Maggie Fusari

Conservation Biology

2/26 -- Field Trip to Frog Ponds

Red Legged Frog Conservation

 Q19

 2/26

Guest Lectures Maggie Fusari

Conservation Biology

 Q20

 2/28

Guest Lecture: Tosha Comendant

Reptiles of Madagascar

 Q21

 3/1

FINAL

3/1-3/3- -- Field Trip to LizardLand -- Desert South (weekend trip)

 3/5

LAB PRACTICAL

 3/6

DNA Methods in Behavioral

Research -- Demo by Gwynne Corrigan

 3/8

Sign up for Field Trip to LizardLand

3/2 -- Field Trip to LizardLand

 3/10

Sign up for Field Trip to LizardLand

 3/13

Sign up for Field Trip to LizardLand