1. First Exam Thursday 18 February
Covers Chapters 1-4, 6-7 plus Chapter 16
and first 8 lectures, 5 discussions, plus 8 Readings:
Scientific Methods
Natural Selection
Human Nature
Our Hunter-Gatherer Heritage
Evolution of Uncaring Humanoids
Unburnable Oil
Population Growth
Evolution’s Problem Gamblers

2. Principle of Allocation
Tolerance Curves
Ray Huey
Principle of Allocation

3. Principle of Allocation
Tolerance Curves
Ray Huey
Principle of Allocation

4. Principle of Allocation
Tolerance Curves
Ray Huey
Principle of Allocation

5. Performance plotted against temperature
Acclimation
Performance plotted against temperature

6. Hypothetical response curves showing interactions

7. Resource Budgets Principle of Allocation
Time, Matter, and Energy Budgets
Rock Pipits Anthus spinoletta
Mild Winter versus Harsh Winter
Feeding: 6.5 hours vs hours
Resting: 1.75 hours vs. 0.6 hours
Fighting: 0.75 hours vs. 0.1 hour

9. Leaf Tactics Light Water availability Prevailing winds Herbivores
Costs and Profits of Leaf Size, Shape, and Placement

11. Leaf Tactics
Similar types of leaves have evolved independently in different plant lineages subjected to comparable climatic conditions
Compound leaves conserve woody tissue
Small leaflets in hot dry regions, but larger under warm moist conditions
Shade tolerant understory species usually have larger and less lobed leaves than canopy species
Lobed leaves do not cast as dense and solid a shadow as do leaves with continuous margins

12. In lowland wet tropical rainforest, trees tend to have large evergreen leaves
In chaparral, plants tend to have small sclerophyllous evergreen leaves
Arid regions tend to support leafless stem succulents such as cacti or plants with entire leaf margins
Cold wet climates tend to support plants with notched or lobed leaf margins

14. Adaptive Geometry Evergreen vs
Adaptive Geometry Evergreen vs. Deciduous Monolayered vs Multilayered plants Shade Tolerance

15. Plant Life Forms Evergreen vs
Plant Life Forms Evergreen vs. Deciduous Monolayered vs Multilayered plants Shade Tolerance Xerophytic vs. Mesophytic leaves Also Hydrophytes (water lilies)

16. Gordon Orians Otto Solbrig

17. Plant Life Forms Evergreen vs
Plant Life Forms Evergreen vs. Deciduous Monolayered vs Multilayered plants Shade Tolerance Xerophytic vs. Mesophytic leaves Also Hydrophytes (water lilies) Creosote Bush Larrea divaricata-- Mesquite Prosopis 

19. Foraging Tactics and Feeding Efficiency Costs and Profits of Foraging An optimal foraging tactic maximizes the difference between foraging profits and their costs Food = matter and energy for maintenance and reproduction Hazards: exposure to predators, loss of time for other activities Sit-and-Wait ambush predators (e.g. spiders at webs) Widely foraging active hunters (go out and find prey) Search Time (per item eaten) versus Pursuit Time (per item eaten) Search for all possible prey items, but pursue them one at a time Prey items can be ranked from most preferred to least desirable

20. “Economics of Consumer Choice” Assumptions: a) Environmental structure is repeatable, with statistical expectation of finding a given resource (habitat, microhabitat, or prey item) b) Food items can be arranged along a continuous spectrum, such as by size or energy reward c) Similar phenotypes are closely equivalent in harvesting abilities d) Principle of Allocation applies: no one phenotype can be maximally efficient on all prey types e) An individual’s economic “goal” is to maximize its total intake of food resources
Robert MacArthur

21. “Economics of Consumer Choice” Four Phases of Foraging:
“Economics of Consumer Choice” Four Phases of Foraging: 1) deciding where to search 2) searching for palatable food items 3) upon locating a potential food item, deciding whether or not to pursue it 4) pursuit itself, with possible capture and eating Search and pursuit efficiencies for each food type in each habitat are entirely determined by preceding assumptions about morphology and environmental repeatability. These efficiencies dictate probabilities associated with search and pursuit (phases 2 and 4) . Thus, need to consider only the two decisions: where to forage and which prey items to pursue (phases 1 and 3 above)
Robert MacArthur

22. “Economics of Consumer Choice” (R. H
“Economics of Consumer Choice” (R. H. MacArthur) Clearly, an optimal consumer should forage where its expectation of yield is greatest — an easy decision to make, given knowledge of efficiency probabilities and the structure of the environment (of
course, in reality, animals are not omniscient and must make decisions based on incomplete information). The decision as to which prey items to pursue is also simple. Upon finding a potential prey item, a consumer has just two options: either pursue it or go on searching for a better item and pursue that one instead. Both decisions end in the forager beginning a new search, so the best choice is clearly the one that returns the greatest yield per unit time. An optimal consumer should opt to pursue an item only when it cannot expect to locate, catch and eat a better item during the time
required to capture and ingest the first prey item.

24. From Huey and Pianka 1981 Ecology 62: 991-999.

25. C. S. Holling

28. 400 Frames per second (3/100ths of a second)
Tom Frazzetta
Thomas Frazzetta
400 Frames per second (3/100ths of a second)

29. Physiological Ecology Homeostasis: maintenance of a relatively stable internal state under a much wider range of external environmental conditions Temperature regulation (thermoregulation) Physiological Optima and Tolerance Curves Acclimation

30. Energetics of Metabolism and Movement Ingestion = Assimilation + Egestion Assimilation = Productivity + Respiration Productivity = Growth + Reproduction Ingestion = Egestion + {Respiration + Growth + Reproduction} {Assimilation} Homeotherm versus Poikilotherm Endotherm versus Ectotherm

31. Body Mass, grams

33. Log,

35. Metabolic Cost of Movement
Log,
Log,

36. Metabolic Cost of Movement
Log,
Log,

37. Metabolic Cost of Movement
Log,
Log,

38. Adaptation and Deterioration of Environment
Ronald A. Fisher
Non-directed (random) changes in either A or B are equally likely
to reduce the level of adaptation (d ) when small, but as the magnitude
of undirected change increases, the probability of improvement
diminishes. Duality of Fisher’s model (A and B can be interchanged)

39. Water Economy in Desert Organisms Other Limiting Materials Sensory Capacities and Environmental Cues Adaptive Suites Design Constraints

40. Heat Budgets and Thermal Ecology