HANDOUTS FOR LECTURES
Print handouts and bring to each lecture
Introduction To Course: What Is Conservation Biology?
Lecture outline in question format
What is Biodiversity? Why Preserve Biodiversity?
Lecture outline in question format
Terms you should already know -- Please review before lecture
Vulnerability to Extinction and Rarity.
Lecture outline in question format
Example of application of Rabinowitz’s classification of rarity to cats
Extinction Processes -- deterministic and stochastic
Lecture outline and table and figures
Additional overheads from Power Point lecture
Spatially Structured Populations, Source-Sinks and Spatial Regulation of Wildlife Harvest in Temperate and Tropical Systems
Lecture outline in question format plus some overheads
Metapopulations
Lecture outline in question format.
Population Viability Analysis/Minimum Viable Populations
Lecture outline in question format.
Habitat Fragmentation and Edge
Lecture outline in question format.
Ecosystem and Adaptive Management
Lecture outline in question format.
Diversity at the Community (alpha, beta, gamma diversity) and Ecosystem Levelsand Indicator Species
Compositional, Structural, and Functional Diversity and Focal Species
Lecture outline in question format (part 2 - composition, structural, and functional diversity)
Examples of indicators for composition, structure, and function in a long leaf pine ecosystem
Keystone Species, Foundation Species, and Ecologically Effective Population Densities
Lecture outline in question format.
Types of keystones (overhead from class) Note: for all the different types of keystone species, the species has to have a greater impact than expected from its biomass to be classified as a keystone
Invasive Species
Lecture outline in question format.
Conservation Planning I. Global trends in protected areas, types of protected areas, limits to conservation within protected areas.
Lecture outline in question format for Protected Areas Lecture 1.
Conservation Planning II. Reserve selection and GAP analysis.
Lecture outline in question format for Protected Areas Lecture 2
Conservation Planning III. MUMs, buffers, and landscape linkages.
Other lecture outline to be posted or handed out in class.
Conservation Planning IV. Conservation on Private Land.
Other lecture outline to be posted or handed out in class.
