Conservation Biology Lab Syllabus Spring 2007
January 22	Historic Perspectives/Ethics
	Hardin, G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162:1243-1248. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Leopold, A. 1949. The Land Ethic. In, The Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press, New York. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
January 29	Current Issues in Conservation Biodiversity & Global Change
	Ehrlich, P.R. 1988. The loss of diversity. In: Biodiversity, pp21-27, E.O. Wilson Editor, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Balmford, A., A. Bruner, P. Cooper, R. Costanza, et al. 2002. Economic reasons for conserving wild nature. Science 297:950-953 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	McCarty, J.P. 2001. Ecological consequences of recent climate change. Conservation Biology 15:320-331. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
February 5	Current Issues in Conservation Species Concepts & Conservation Biology
	O'Brien, S.J. and E. Mayr. 1991. Bureaucratic mischief: recognizing endangered species and subspecies. Science 251:1187-1188. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Rojas, M. 1992. The species problem and conservation: What are we protecting? Conservation Biology 6:170-178. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Peterson, A.T., and A.G. Navarro-Siguenza. 1999. Alternate species concepts as bases for determining priority conservation areas. Conservation Biology 13:427-431. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
February 12	Current Issues in Conservation Molecular Approaches to Conservation
	Hedrick, P.W. 2001. Conservation genetics: where are we now? Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:629-636 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	DeSalle, R. and G. Amato. 2004. The expansion of conservation genetics. Nature 5:702-712. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
February 19	Current Issues in Conservation Habitat Loss & Fragmentation
	Roslin, T. 2002. So near and yet so far - habitat fragmentation and bird movement. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17:61 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Debinski, D.M. and R.D. Holt. 2000. A survey and overview of habitat fragmentation experiments. Conservation Biology 14:342-355. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Sih, A., B.G. Jonsson, and G. Luikart. 2000. Habitat loss: ecological, evolutionary and genetic consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:132-134. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Smith, J.N.M., and J.J. Hellmann. 2002. Population persistence in fragmented landscapes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17:397-398. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
February 26	Introduction to Population Viability Analysis
	Pergams, O.R.W., R.C. Lacy, and M.V. Ashley. 2000.Conservation and management of Anacapa Island deer mice. Conservation Biology 14:819-832. - Discussion Paper using Vortex [PDF]
	Fahrig, L. 2001. How much habitat is enough? Biological Conservation 100:65-74. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	PVA Exercises with Populus/Vortex Download Vortex Manual as a PDF
March 5	PVA Simulation Modeling - Vortex
March 12	PVA Simulation Modeling - Vortex
March 19	Spring Break
March 26	Current Issues in Conservation Endangered Species Legislation
	Rohlf, D.J. 1991. Six biological reasons why the Endangered Species Act doesn't work - and what to do about it. Conservation Biology 5:273-282. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Dwyer, L.E., D.D. Murphy, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1995. Property rights case law and the challenge to the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 9:725-741 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
April 2	PVA Group Reports
April 9	Current Issues in Conservation Captive Breeding & Reintroductions: Rapid Evolutionary Change
	Heath, D.D., J.W. Heath, C.A. Bryden et al. 2003. Rapid evolution of egg size in captive salmon. Science 299:1738-1740 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Ashley, M.V., M.F. Willson, O.R.W. Pergrams, D.J. O’Dowd, S.M. Gende, and J.S. Brown. 2003. Evolutionary enlightened management. Biological Conservation 11:115-123. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
April 16	Current Issues in Conservation Biological Control of Invasive Species
	Hoddle, M.S. 2004. Restoring balance: using exotic species to control invasive exotic species. Conservation Biology 18:38-49. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Louda, S.M. and P. Stiling. 2004. The double-edged sword of biological control in conservation and restoration. Conservation Biology 18:50-53. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Carruthers, R.I. 2004. Biological control of invasive species, a personal perspective. Conservation Biology 18:54-57. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	PVA lab write-ups due
April 23	Current Issues in Conservation Ecosystem Function & the Loss of Species
	Naeem, S., et al. 1994. Declining biodiversity can alter performance of ecosystems. Nature 368:734-737 - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Raffaelli, D. 2004. How extinction patterns affect ecosystems. Science 306:1141-1142. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Zavaleta, E.S. and K.B. Hulvey. 2004. Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce grassland resistance to biological invaders. Science 306:1175-1177. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
April 30	Current Issues in Conservation Sustainable Development
	Newton, J.L. and E.T. Freyfogle. 2005. Sustainability: a dissent. Conservation Biology 19:23-32. - Discussion Paper [PDF]
	Struhsaker, T.T. 1998. A biologist’s perspective on the role of sustainable harvest in conservation. Conservation Biology 12:930-932. - Discussion Paper [PDF]