Conservation Biology

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.

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.

Badano, E. I., E. Villarroel, R. O. Bustamante, P. A. Marquet, and L. A. Cavieres 2007. Ecosystem engineering facilitates invasions by exotic plants in high-Andean ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 95:682-688. link

Balmford, A., A. Bruner, P. Cooper, R. Costanza, S. Farber, R. E. Green, M. Jenkins, P. Jefferiss, V. Jessamy, J. Madden, K. Munro, N. Myers, S. Naeem, J. Paavola, M. Rayment, S. Rosendo, J. Roughgarden, K. Trumper, and R. K. Turner. 2002. Economic reasons for conserving wild nature. Science 297:950-953 link

Barrowclough, G.F., R.J. Gutierrez, and J.G. Groth. 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. A., and S. A. Karl. 1999. In war, truth is the first casualty. Conservation Biology 13:1013-1016. link

Boyce, M.S. 1992. Population viability analysis. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 23:481-506. link

Callicott, J. B., L. B. Crowder, and K. Mumford. 1999. Current normative concepts in conservation. Conservation Biology 13:22-35. link

Cardinale, B. J., D. S. Srivastava, J. Emmett Duffy. J. P Wright, A. L. Downing, M. Sankaran, and C. Jouseau. 2006. Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature 443:989-992. link

Chapin III, F.S., O.E. Sala, I.C. Burke, J.P. Grime, D.U. Hooper, W.K. Lauenroth, A. Lombard, H.A. Mooney, A.R. Mosier, S. Naeem, S.W. Pacala, J. Roy, W.L. Steffen, D. Tilman. 1998. Ecosystem consequences of changing biodiversity: experimental evidence and a research agenda for the future BioScience 48:45-52. link

Clark, J. S. 2003. Uncertainty and variability in demography and population growth: a hierarchical approach. Ecology 84:1370-1381. link

Clark, T. W. 1987. Black-footed ferret recovery: a progress report. Conservation Biology 1:8-11 link

Costanza, R. d'Arge, R. de Groot, S. Farber, M. Grasso, B. Hannon, K. Limburg, S. Naeem, R.V. O'Neill, J. Paruelo, R.G. Raskin, P. Sutton, and M. van den Belt. 1997. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253-260. link

Czech, B., P.R. Krausman, and R. Borkhataria. 1998. Social construction, political power, and the allocation of benefits to endangered species. Conservation Biology 12:1103-1112. link

Daily, G.C., T. Söderqvist, S. Aniyar, K. Arrow, P. Dasgupta, P.R. Ehrlich, C. Folke, A. Jansson, B.-O. Jansson, N. Kautsky, S. Levin, J. Lubchenco, K.-G. Mäler, D. Simpson, D. Starrett, D. Tilman, and B. Walker. 2000. The value of nature and the nature of value. Science 289:395-396. 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

Dimmick, W.W.., M.J. Ghedotti, M.J. Grose, A.M. Maglia, D.J. Meinhardt, and D.S. Pennock. 1999. The importance of systematic biology in defining units of conservation. Conservation Biology 13:653-660 link

Dobson, A., and A. Lyles. 2000. Black-footed ferret recovery. Science 288:985+987-988 link

Donlan, C. J., J. Berger, C. E. Bock, J. H. Bock, D. A. Burney, J. A. Estes, D. Foreman, P. S. Martin, G. W. Roemer, F. A. Smith, M. E. Soulé, and H. W. Greene. 2006. Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation. American Naturalist 168:660-681 link

Donlan, J., H. W. Greene, J. Berger, C. E. Bock, J. H. Bock, D. A. Burney, J. A. Estes, D. Foreman, P. S. Martin, G. W. Roemer, F. A. Smith, and M. E. Soulé. 2005. Re-wilding North America. Nature 436:913-914. link

Fahrig, L. 2003. Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 34:487-515. link

Gaston, K. J. 2005. Biodiversity and extinction: species and people. Progress in Physical Geography 29:239-247 link

Goldstein, P.Z. 1999. Functional ecosystems and biodiversity buzzwords. Conservation Biology 13:247-255. link

Gompert, Z., C. C. Nice, J. A. Fordyce, M. L. Forister, and A. M. Shapiro. 2006. Identifying units for conservation using molecular systematics: the cautionary tale of the Karner blue butterfly. Molecular Ecology 15:1759-1768. link

Grace, J. B., T. M. Anderson, M.D. Smith, E. Seabloom, S. J. Andelman, G. Meche, E. Weiher, L. K. Allain, H. Jutila, M. Sankaran, J. Knops, M. Ritchie, and M. R. Willig. 2007. Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities? Ecology Letters 10:680-689. link

Grady, J. M., and J.M. Quattro. 1999. Using character concordance to define taxonomic and conservation units. Conservation Biology 13:1004-1007 link

Grenier, M. B., D. B. McDonald, and S. W. Buskirk. 2007. Rapid population growth of a critically endangered carnivore. Science 317:779. link

Grumbine, R. E. 1994. What is ecosystem management? Conservation Biology 8:27-38 link

Grumbine, R. E. 1997. Reflections on "What is ecosystem management?" Conservation Biology 11:41-47 link

Gutiérrez, D. 2005. Effectiveness of existing reserves in the long-term protection of a regionally rare butterfly. Conservation Biology 19:1586-1597 link

Harwell, M. A. 1997. Ecosystem management of south Florida. BioScience 47:499-512. link

Hillman, C. N., and T. W. Clark. 1980. Mustela nigripes. Mammalian species 126:1-3. link

Hobbs, R.J., and H.A. Mooney. 1998. Broadening the extinction debate: population deletions and additions in California and western Australia. Conservation Biology 12:271-283. link

Hoekstra, J. M., T. M. Boucher, T. M. Ricketts, and C. Roberts 2005. Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection. Ecology Letters 8:23-29. link

Hoffmeister, T.S., L. E. M. Vet, A. Biere, K. Holsinger, and J. Filser. 2005. Ecological and evolutionary consequences of habitat fragmentation. Ecosystems 8:657-667 link

Holsinger, K. E. 1995. Population biology for policy makers. BioScience 45(Supplement):S10-S20 link

Ives, A. R., and S. R. Carpenter. 2007. Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems. Science 317:58-62. 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

Lackey, R. T. 2001. Values, policy, and ecosystem health. BioScience 51:437-443 link

Lande, R. 1993. Risks of population extinction from demographic and environmental stochasticity and random catastrophes. American Naturalist 142:911-927 link

Laurance, W.F., S.G. Laurance, L.V. Ferreira, J.M. Rankin de Merona, G. Gascon, and T.E. Lovejoy. 1997. Biomass collapse in Amazonian forest fragments. Science 278:1117-1118 link

Luck, G. W., T. H. Ricketts, G. C. Daily, and M. Imhoff. 2004. Alleviating spatial conflict between people and biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101:182-186 link

Mayer, A. L., P. E. Kauppi, P. K. Angelstam, Y. Zhang, and P. M. Tikka. 2005. Importing timber, exporting ecological impact. Science 308:359-360 link

McGarrahan, E. 1997. Much-studied butterfly winks out on Stanford preserve. Science 275:479-480. link

McKinney, M.L., and J.L. Lockwood. 1999. Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14:450-453. link

Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis Island Press, Washington, DC link

Murphy, D..D., K.E. Freas, and S.B. Weiss. 1990. An environment-metapopulation approach to population viability analysis for a threatened invertebrate. Conservation Biology 4:41-51. link

Myers, N., R. A. Mittermeier, C. G. Mittermeier, G. A. B. da Fonseca, and J. Kent. 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

Noon, B.R., and K.S. McKelvey. 1996. Management of the spotted owl: a case history in conservation biology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 27:135-162. link

Odling-Smee, L. 2005. Dollars and sense. Nature 437:614-616 link

Olson, D. M., E. Dinerstein, E. D. Wikramanayake, N. D. Burgess, G. V. N. Powell, E. C. Underwood, J. A. D'Amico, I. Itoua, H. E. Strand, J. C. Morrison, C. J. Loucks, T. F. Alnutt, T. H. Ricketts, Y. Kura, J. F. Lamoreux, W. W. Wettengel, P. Hedao, K. R. Kassem. 2001. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth. BioScience 51:933-938. link

Pennock, D.S., and W.W. Dimmick. 1997. Critique of the evolutionarily significant unit as a definition for "distinct population segments" under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 11:611-619 link

Pritchard, P. C. H. 1999. Status of the black turtle. Conservation Biology 13:1000-1003. link

Ricciardi, A. 2007. Are Modern Biological Invasions an Unprecedented Form of Global Change? Conservation Biology 21:329-336. link

Ringsby, T. H., B.-E. Saether, H. Jensen, and S. Engen. 2006. Demographic characteristics of extinction in a small, insular population of house sparrows in northern Norway. Conservation Biology 20:1761-1767. link

Risser, P.G. 1999. Examining relationships between ecosystem function and biodiversity: Reply to Goldstein. Conservation Biology 13:438-439 link

Rojstaczer, S., S. M. Sterling, and N. J. Moore. 2001. Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science 294:2549-2552 link

Rubinoff, D. 2006. Utility of mitochondrial DNA barcodes in species conservation. Conservation Biology 20:1026-1033 link

Russell, W. C., E. T. Thorne, R. Oakleaf, and J. D. Ballou. 1994. The genetic basis of black-footed ferret re-introduction. Conservation Biology 8:263-266. link

Sala, O., F. S. Chapin III, J. J. Armesto, E. Berlow, J. Bloomfield, R. Dirzo, E. Huber-Sanwald, L F. Huenneke, R. B. Jackson, A. Kinzig, R. Leemans, D. M. Lodge, H. A. Mooney, M. Oesterheld, N. L. Poff, M. T. Sykes, B. H. Walker, M. Walker, and D. H. Wall. 2000. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287:1770-1774 link

Seabloom, E.W., A.P. Dobson, and D.M. Stoms. 2002. Extinction rates under nonrandom patterns of habitat loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 99:11229-11234. link

Shrader-Frechette, K., and E. D. McCoy. 1999. Molecular systematics, ethics, and biological decision making under uncertainty. Conservation Biology 13:1008-1012 link

Tatem, A. J., and S. I. Hay. 2007. Climatic similarity and biological exchange in the worldwide airline transportation network. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:1489-1496. link

Thomas, C.D., M.C. Singer, and D.A. Boughton . 1996. Catastrophic extinction of population sources in a butterfly metapopulation. American Naturalist 148:957-975. link

Thullier, W. 2007. Biodiversity: climate change and the ecologist. Nature 448:550-552. link

Van Houtan, K. S. 2006. Conservation as virtue: a scientific and social process for conservation ethics. Conservation Biology 20:1367-1372. link

Vitousek, P.M., H.A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J.M. Melillo. 1997. Human domination of earth's ecosystems. Science 277:494-499 link

Walker, B. 1999. The ecosystem approach to conservation: Reply to Goldstein. Conservation Biology 13:436-437. link

Waples, R.S. 1998. Evolutionarily significant units, distinct population segments, and the endangered species act: reply to Pennock and Dimmock. Conservation Biology 12:718-721. link

Warren, W. A. 2007. What is a healthy forest? Definitions, rationales, and the lifeworld. Society & Natural Resources 20:99-117. link

Weiss, S.B. 1999. Cars, cows, and checkerspot butterflies: nitrogen deposition and management of nutrient-poor grasslands for a threatened species. Conservation Biology 13:1476-1486. link

Whitlock, R. A. J., J. P. Grime, R. Booth, and T. Burke. 2007. The role of genotypic diversity in determining grassland community structure under constant environmental conditions. Journal of Ecology 95):895-907. link

Willis, K. J. and H. J. B. Birks 2006. What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science 314:1261-1265. link

Witt, J. D. S., D. L. Threloff, and P. D. N. Hebert. 2006. DNA barcoding reveals extraordinary cryptic diversity in an amphipod genus: implications for desert spring conservation. Molecular Ecology 15:3073-3082. link

Yaacobi, G., Y. Ziv, and M. L. Rosenzweig. 2007. Habitat fragmentation may not matter to species diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274:2409-2412. link