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There's a good chance we'll discuss this paper later in the semester, but since it came out in yesterday's Nature, I thought I'd post a link to it now:
Koh, L.P., and D. W. Wilcove. 2007. Cashing in palm oil for conservation. Nature 448:993-994
Tropical forests in southeast Asia are under threat from oil-palm growers. This is an opportunity to combine sustainable economic growth with biodiversity conservation, argue Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove.
I'm catching up on my reading. In addition to the article on the ivory-billed woodpecker that I me thentioned in today's lecture, the 17 August issue of Science has another article on the difficulty of predicting extinction in response to climate change.
Here are links to the articles:
I just uploaded a new set of notes on the biology of small populations. I suspect that we won't finish everything we want to talk about concerning extinction today, but we'll finish that after Labor Day and start to get into some more direct applications of ecological principles to conservation next Wednesday.
I've added a few of the EEB departmental seminars to the lecture schedule. I've picked only those that seemed most directly relevant to the course, but you can find the whole list at http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/seminars.php.
I mentioned that the Monterey Bay Aquarium produces a list intended to help you decide which fish are OK to eat – or as they put it “Our seafood guides can help you make choices that are good for you and good for the oceans.” Ben Gahagan also sent me a link to the Blue Ocean Institute's Guide to Ocean Friendly Seefood. If you'd like to see where your favorite fish falls on either of these lists, here are the links:
I've posted notes on patterns of extinction. You can find them by clicking on the detail page for 29 August. I suspect that we won't finish everything in those notes until after Labor Day, but I suggest you take a look at them before Wednesday if at all possible
If you're receiving this e-mail message, it's because you were listed in the PeopleSoft class roster for EEB 310, Conservation Biology as of 3:10pm this afternoon. You'll find this announcement duplicated on the course web site (http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb310/index.html). I'll provide more information about the course and the web site in our first class meeting next Monday, but if you'd like to poke around, please do.
See you on Monday!
I've posted revised notes for the introductory lecture next Monday. You can find them by clicking on the Schedule button, clicking on the lecture for 27 August, and following the links to the HTML (if you want to read on line) or to the PDF (if you want to print it).
Enjoy!
I've updated the syllabus now. The lecture schedule may shift around a little, and I may add a few related seminars to the schedule, but there won't be major changes from here on out.
I haven't updated any of the lecture notes yet. I'll post notices here when they've been updated. You're welcome to look at the old versions, if you're so inclined. The new versions won't be markedly different from the ones that are two years old. But if you want the latest and the greatest, wait until they show up on the detail pages associated with each lecture.
I'm just getting started on putting the web site together for this year. Feel free to poke around, if you'd like, but you won't find much here for at least another week – possibly two.
The Overview page will give you an idea of how the course will be organized, though obviously the dates will be changed.
The Notes page will give you a good sense of the topics we're likely to cover. Some may be added and some may be deleted, but the bulk of the topics will stay the same (although the notes will be revised).
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