Readings
This page provides a consolidated list of readings for the course. If you want a complete bibliography of the readings associated with each lecture, you'll need to wait until the end of the semester. If you're trying to find a particular reference and don't remember which lecture it was associated with, you should be able to find it here. In addition you will find complete citations (and some links) to all of the references cited in the course notes at http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1368513/conservation-biology/. (See the Mendeley page for more information about Mendeley.)
Following each reference you'll find a "link" button that will take you to an on-line version of the article. Most of them are from journals that require a subscription, but the ones I link to are ones to which the University of Connecticut subscribes. So if you're planning to follow these links from within the UConn.Edu domain, you shouldn't have any problem. If you try to follow the links from off campus, you may not be able to see the references. If you want/need to see the references from off campus, you can use your NetID to access the UConn VPN. Once you've connected to the VPN, you should be able to follow the links to your heart's content.
Adler, P. B., E. W. Seabloom, et al. 2011. Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness. Science 333:1750-1753. link
Allan, E., W. Weisser, et al. 2011. More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:17034-17039. link
Barrowclough, G. F., R. J. Gutierrez, et al. 1999. Phylogeography of Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) Populations Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences: Gene Flow, Genetic Structure, and a Novel Biogeographic Pattern. Evolution 53:919-931. link
Bowen, B. W., and S. A. Karl. 1999. In War, Truth Is the First Casualty. Conservation Biology 13:1013-1016. link
Briggs, S. V. 2009. Priorities and paradigms: directions in threatened species recovery. Conservation Letters 2:101-108. link
Callicott, J. B., L. B. Crowder, et al. 1999. Current Normative Concepts in Conservation. Conservation biology 13:22-35. link
Caro, T. 2007. The Pleistocene re-wilding gambit. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 22:281-283. link
Collar, N. J., S. H. M. Butchart, et al. 2011. Biodiversity: blessing not blunder. BioScience 61:254-254. link
Crutzen, P. J. 2002. Geology of mankind. Nature 415:23. link
Curtin, C. 2007. Integrating Landscape and Ecosystems Approaches through Science-Based Collaborative Conservation. Conservation Biology 21:1117-1119. link
Dietz, R. W. and B. Czech. 2005. Conservation Deficits for the Continental United States: an Ecosystem Gap Analysis. Conservation Biology 19:1478-1487. link
Doak, D. F., J. A. Estes, et al. 2008. Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable. Ecology 89:952-961. link
Donlan, J., H. W. Greene, et al. 2005. Re-wilding North America. Nature 436:913-914. link
Donlan, C. J., J. Berger, et al. 2006. Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Agenda for Twenty-First Century Conservation. American Naturalist 168:660-681. link
Edmands, S. 2007. Between a rock and a hard place: evaluating the relative risks of inbreeding and outbreeding for conservation and management. Molecular Ecology 16:463-475. link
Grady, J. M. and J. M. Quattro. 1999. Using Character Concordance to Define Taxonomic and Conservation Units. Conservation biology 13:1004-1007. link
Hanson, C. T., D. C. Odion, et al. 2009. Overestimation of Fire Risk in the Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan. Conservation Biology 23:1314-1319. link
Hanson, C. T., D. C. Odion, et al. 2010. More-Comprehensive Recovery Actions for Northern Spotted Owls in Dry Forests: Reply to Spies et al. Conservation Biology 24:334-337. link
He, F. and S. P. Hubbell 2011. Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss. Nature 473:368-371. link
Hoekstra, J. M., T. M. Boucher, et al. 2005. Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection. Ecology Letters 8:23-29. link
Jackson, S. T. and R. J. Hobbs. 2009. Ecological Restoration in the Light of Ecological History. Science 325:567-569. link
Jäger, H., I. Kowarik, et al. 2009. Destruction without extinction: long-term impacts of an invasive tree species on Galápagos highland vegetation. Journal of Ecology 97:1252-1263. link
Kareiva, P., S. Watts, et al. 2007. Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare. Science 316:1866-1869. link
Kareiva, P. and M. Marvier. 2003. Conserving biodiversity coldspots: recent calls to direct conservation funding to the world's biodiversity hotspots may be bad investment advice. American Scientist 91:344-351. link
Karl, S. A. and B. W. Bowen. 1999). Evolutionary Significant Units versus Geopolitical Taxonomy: Molecular Systematics of an Endangered Sea Turtle (genus Chelonia). Conservation Biology 13:990-999. link
Keough, H. L. and D. J. Blahna. 2006. Achieving Integrative, Collaborative Ecosystem Management. Conservation Biology 20:1373-1382. link
Koblmüller, S., M. Nord, et al. 2009. Origin and status of the Great Lakes wolf. Molecular Ecology 18:2313-2326. link
Leidner, A. K. and M. C. Neel. 2011. Taxonomic and Geographic Patterns of Decline for Threatened and Endangered Species in the United States. Conservation Biology 25:716-725. link
Leonard, J. A. and R. K. Wayne. 2008. Native Great Lakes wolves were not restored. Biology Letters 4:95-98. link
Leonard, J. A. and R. K. Wayne. 2009. Wishful thinking: imagining that the current Great Lakes wolf is the same entity that existed historically. Biology Letters 5:67-68. link
Lindenmayer, D. B. and G. E. Likens. 2009. Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24:482-486. link
Luck, G. W., T. H. Ricketts, et al. 2004. Alleviating spatial conflict between people and biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101:182-186. link
Maguire, L. A. 1991. Risk analysis for conservation biologists. Conservation Biology 5:123-125. link
McGarrahan, E. 1997. Much-studied butterfly winks out on Stanford preserve. Science 275:479-480. link
McLaughlin, J. F., J. J. Hellmann, et al. 2002. Climate change hastens population extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99:6070-6074. link
Mech, L. D. 2009. Crying wolf: concluding that wolves were not restored. Biology Letters 5:65-66. link
Melbourne, B. A. and A. Hastings. 2008. Extinction risk depends strongly on factors contributing to stochasticity. Nature 454:100-103. link
Mendenhall, C. D., C. H. Sekercioglu, et al. 2011. Predictive model for sustaining biodiversity in tropical countryside. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:16313-16316. link
Milot, E., H. Weimerskirch, et al. 2007. Surviving with low genetic diversity: the case of albatrosses. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:779-787. link
Myers, N., R. A. Mittermeir, et al. 2000. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403:853-858. link
Noon, B. R. and J. A. Blakesley. 2006. Conservation of the Northern Spotted Owl under the Northwest Forest Plan. Conservation Biology 20:288-296. link
Norton, D. A. 2009. Species Invasions and the Limits to Restoration: Learning from the New Zealand Experience. Science 325:569-571. link
Oliveira-Santos, L. G. R. and F. A. S. Fernandez. 2010. Pleistocene Rewilding, Frankenstein Ecosystems, and an Alternative Conservation Agenda. Conservation Biology 24:4-5. link
Olson, D. M., E. Dinerstein, et al. 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth. BioScience 51:933-938. link
Polasky, S., S. R. Carpenter, et al. 2011. Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26:398-404. link
Prendergast, J. R., R. M. Quinn, et al. 1993. Rare species, the coincidence of diversity hotspots and conservation strategies. Nature 365:335-337. link
Pritchard, P. C. H. 1999. Status of the Black Turtle. Conservation Biology 13:1000-1003. link
Rahbek, C. and R. K. Colwell 2011. Biodiversity: Species loss revisited. Nature 473:288-289. link
Ricciardi, A. and D. Simberloff. 2009. Assisted colonization is not a viable conservation strategy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24:248-253. link
Richardson, D. M., J. J. Hellmann, et al. 2009. Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106:9721-9724. link
Rodriguez, R., O. Ramirez, et al. 2011. 50,000 years of genetic uniformity in the critically endangered Iberian lynx. Molecular Ecology 20:3785-3795. link
Roman, J. 2011. Finding genes that fit. Conservation 12(3):38-44 link
Rudd, M. A. 2011. Scientists' Opinions on the Global Status and Management of Biological Diversity. Conservation Biology 25:1165-1175. link
Sabo, J. L. and D. M. Post. 2008. Quantifying periodic, stochastic, and catastrophic environmental variation. Ecological Monographs 78:19-40. link
Sala, O. E., F. S. Chapin, III, et al. 2000. Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100. Science 287:1770-1774. link
Sandler, R. 2010. The Value of Species and the Ethical Foundations of Assisted Colonization. Conservation Biology 24:424-431. link
Schlaepfer, M. A., D. F. Sax, et al. 2011. The Potential Conservation Value of Non-Native Species. Conservation Biology 25:428-437. link
Scheffer, M., J. Bascompte, et al. 2009. Early-warning signals for critical transitions. Nature 461:53-59. link
Scorse, J. 2006. Why environmentalists should embrace economics. Working Paper. Monterey Institute of International Studies. link
Seddon, P. J., D. P. Armstrong, et al. 2009. The Risks of Assisted Colonization. Conservation Biology 23:788-789. link
Shrader-Frechette, K. and E. D. McCoy. 1999. Molecular Systematics, Ethics, and Biological Decision Making under Uncertainty. Conservation Biology 13:1008-1012. link
Skarpaas, O. and O. E. Stabbetorp. 2011. Population Viability Analysis with Species Occurrence Data from Museum Collections. Conservation Biology 25:577-586. link
Spies, T. A., J. D. Miller, et al. 2010. Underestimating Risks to the Northern Spotted Owl in Fire-Prone Forests: Response to Hanson et al. Conservation Biology 24:330-333. link
Thomas, C. D. 2011. Translocation of species, climate change, and the end of trying to recreate past ecological communities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26:216-221. link
Thomas, C. D., M. C. Singer, et al. 1996. Catastrophic extinction of population sources in a butterfly metapopulation. American Naturalist 148:957-975. link
Traill, L. W., B. W. Brook, et al. 2010. Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world. Biological Conservation 143:28-34. link
Van Houtan, K. S. 2006. Conservation as Virtue: a Scientific and Social Process for Conservation Ethics. Conservation Biology 20:1367-1372. link
Vilà, M., J. L. Espinar, et al. 2011. Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems. Ecology Letters 14:702-708. link
Vitousek, P. M., H. A. Mooney, et al. 1997. Human domination of earth's ecosystems. Science 277:494-499. link
Vitt, P., K. Havens, et al. 2010. Assisted migration of plants: Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes. Biological Conservation 143:18-27. link
Wallace, B. P., A. D. DiMatteo, et al. 2010. Regional Management Units for Marine Turtles: A Novel Framework for Prioritizing Conservation and Research across Multiple Scales. PLoS ONE 5(12):e15465. link
Wallace, B. P., A. D. DiMatteo, et al. 2011. Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles. PLoS ONE 6(9):e24510. link
Wardle, D. A., R. D. Bardgett, et al. 2011. Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses. Science 332:1273-1277. link
Wheeldon, T. and B. N. White. 2009. Genetic analysis of historic western Great Lakes region wolf samples reveals early Canis lupus/lycaon hybridization. Biology Letters 5:101-104. link
Willig, M. R. 2011. Biodiversity and Productivity. Science 333:1709-1710. link
Wilson, H. B., B. E. Kendall, et al. 2011. Variability in population abundance and the classification of extinction risk. Conservation Biology 25:747-757. link
Wilson, H. B., L. N. Joseph, et al. 2011. When should we save the most endangered species? Ecology Letters 14:886-890. link
Woodwell, G. M. 2010. The biodiversity blunder. BioScience 60:870-871. link
Woodwell, G. M. 2011. Biodiversity: not wrong, just an unfortunate distraction. BioScience 61:254-255. link