| DATE (T-TH) | COURSE SEGMENT
Tentative lecture title |
TENTATIVE LECTURER |
| THE REALM OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY | ||
| Sept 1 | Introduction, course details The fundamental problems facing biodiversity |
Fitzgerald |
| Sept 3 | Is Conservation Biology Real? |
Fitzgerald |
| PROCESSES THAT CREATE BIODIVERSITY AND THE CURRENT LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY |
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| Sept 8 | What is biodiversity and how much is there? | Fitzgerald |
| Sept 10 | Processes that create biodiversity: |
Honeycutt or Fitzgerald |
| Sept 15 | Mass extinctions and extinction theory | Honeycutt |
| Sept 17 | Current loss of biodiversity | Honeycutt |
| CONSERVATION GENETICS | ||
| Sept 22 | Conservation genetics Lecture 1 | Honeycutt |
| Sept 24 | Conservation genetics Lecture 2 | Honeycutt |
| Sept 29 | Conservation genetics Lecture 3 | Honeycutt |
| POPULATIONS | ||
| Oct 1 | Population biology: demography, structure, and viability I | Winemiller |
| Oct 6 | Population biology: demography, structure, and viability II | Winemiller |
| Oct 8 | Population biology: demography, structure, and viability III | Winemiller |
| Oct 13 | Contribution of long-term studies: case studies | Winemiller |
| Oct 15 | Application of behavioral ecology to conservation biology | Packard |
| Oct 20 | Mid-Term Exam | |
| Oct 22 | Endangered species conservation and management | Slack |
| COMMUNITIES, ECOSYSTEMS AND LANDSCAPES | ||
| Oct 27 | Application of the theory of island biogeography to conservation biology | Slack |
| Oct 29 | Habitat fragmentation | Slack |
| Nov 3 | Community level processes and conservation | Slack |
| Nov 5 | Ecosystem approaches | Gelwick |
| Nov 10 | Ecosystem approaches | Gelwick |
| Nov 12 | Landscape ecology and conservation biology | Lacher |
| Nov 17 | GAP analysis | Lacher |
| Nov 19 | Ecological restoration | Lacher & Guest (job seminar?) |
| ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY | ||
| Nov 24 | Economic Issues and Conservation Biology | Lacher & guest |
| Nov 26 | Holiday, no class | |
| Dec 1 | Harvesting wild species: implications for biodiversity conservation | Lacher |
| Dec 3 | The morass of ecological sustainability | Fitzgerald or Lacher or Packard |
| Dec 8 | Indigenous perspectives; TAKE-HOME FINAL DUE | Packard & Guest |