Rotifers!

Planarian Regeneration

so many worms....so little time.....

Global "worming"

Cnidarians and Ctenophores.....

Introduction to the Cnidaria (Berkeley)

Bioluminesence

Cold Water Coral Reefs

Getting webby with the food web lab......Volunteers!

Check out: http://ecocomplexity.blogspot.com/

Email: tromanuk@gmail.com (150-300 words about your interests and why you would like to volunteer). Please email your interest statement by this Friday (September 24th). Volunteers are required to devote 5+ hours a week. Interviews will be set for next week. Thanks for all the interest you guys have shown! Dr. T

Sponge Videos

Placozoans and Poriferans

Our first "whose who" in the metazoan phylogeny lecture is on Placozoans and Poriferans.

Check out the following sites because animals that have probably existed for about 800 million years are just pretty darn interesting....

British Columbia's Glass Sponge Reefs

Sponge phylogeny, taxonomy, fossils

Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis

Sponges in the news:

Voracious Sponges In Underwater Caves Save Reefs

AskNature! Biomimicry

http://www.asknature.org/

Architecture avoids flooding, creates microclimates: ants

Lecture 4 Video: Janine Benyus shares nature's designs

All about clades

To read more about "clades" follow this link

Lecture 3: Video -- Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting is one of the greatest nature photographers of our time. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Audubon and Time, as well as numerous award-winning books. Lanting's recent exhibition, The LIFE Project, offers a lyrical interpretation of the history of life on Earth.


http://www.ted.com/speakers/frans_lanting.html

http://www.lifethroughtime.com/

Life....in 60 seconds

Cambrian Beasts!

Love. Not Loss

Check out: Dalhousie SuperNova Program

Focus on 'Hotspots'

What are Hotspots? Why are they important? Check out the following links to learn about how protecting small fractions of the worlds land and ocean environments can help to preserve diversity



Wikipedia "Biological Hotspots"
Conservation International "Focus on Hotspots"

Lecture 1: Video - E.O. Wilson

Welcome to 2003 in 2011!

I would like to welcome you all back to a new school year and to Diversity I. The class blog is an extension of the lectures for my (Dr. T's) "invertebrate" lectures and this is where I will provide additional links to important and interesting facts about invertebrates, provide links to the videos shown in class, and upload enrichment and further reading material for those of you that would like to delve deeper into certain subjects. I am really excited about getting to know you all and teaching this class this year!

Dr. T (Tamara Romanuk) and a Japanese Macaque snow monkey (Macaca fuscata)that I hung out with on a recent trip to Japan. Check out the snow monkey food-web!