Readings

Required Texts:

1) Mills, L. S. 2007. Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics, and Management. Blackwell Publishing.

2) Akcakaya, H.R., Burgman, M.A., and L.R. Ginzburg. 1999. Applied Population Ecology. Second edition. (PDF available here).

Required Readings:

Jan 20-22	Mills. Preface, Chapter 1, Chapter 5 (pp. 91-99). OPTIONAL: Kingsland, SE. Modeling Nature. Introduction [PDF].
Jan 27–29	Mills. Chapter 5 (pp. 99-113), Chapter 6. Akcakaya (pp. 33-54)
Feb 3-5	Mills. Chapter 7 OPTIONAL: Krebs, CJ. 2002. Beyond population regulation and limitation. Wildlife Research 29:1-10 [PDF].
Feb 10-12	Akcakaya (pp. 157-166, 128-133). Kareiva, P. 2001. When one whale matters. Nature 414:493-494 [PDF]. Fujiwara, M., and H. Caswell. 2001. Demography of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. Nature 414:537-541 [PDF].
Feb. 17-19	Mills. Chapter 11.
Feb 24-26	Mills. Chapter 10 (pp. 199-202, 211-222). Baguette, M. 2004. The classical metapopulation theory and the real, natural world: a critical appraisal. Basic and Applied Ecology 5:213-224. [PDF] Hanksi, I. 2004. Metapopulation theory, its use and misuse. Basic and Applied Ecology 5:225-229. [PDF] DISCUSSION: Ferreras, P. 2001. Landscape structure and asymmetrical inter-patch connectivity in a metapopulation of the endangered Iberian lynx. Biological Conservation 100:125-136. [PDF]
Mar 3-5	Beier, P and RF Noss. 1998. Do habitat corridors provide connectivity? Conservation Biology 12:1241-1252. [PDF] Haddad, NM, DK Rosenberg, and BR Noon. 2000. On experimentation and the study of corridors: response to Beier and Noss. Conservation Biololgy 14:1543-1545. [PDF] Noss, RF and P Beier. 2000. Arguing over little things: response to Haddad et al. Conservation Biology 14:1546-1548. [PDF]
Mar 10-12	Battin, J. 2004. When good animals love bad habitats: ecological traps and the conservation of animal populations. Conservation Biology 18:1482-1491. [PDF] Mills. Chapter 9. OPTIONAL: Gilroy, JJ, and WJ Sutherland. 2007. Beyond ecological traps: perceptual errors and undervalued resources. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22:351-356. [PDF] OPTIONAL: Mills. Chapter 3.
Mar 17-19	Mills. Chapter 12. DISCUSSION: Novaro, AJ et al. 2005. An empirical test of source-sink dynamics induced by hunting. Journal of Applied Ecology 32:910-920. [PDF] DISCUSSION: Spear, SF, CR Peterson, MD Matocq, and A Storfer. 2005. Landscape genetics of the blotched tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum). Molecular Ecology 14:2553-2564. [PDF] OPTIONAL: Saccheri et al. 1998. Inbreeding and extinction in a butterfly metapopulation. Nature 392:491-494. [PDF]
Mar 24-26	Spring Break
Mar 31- Apr 2	Daszak, P. et al. 2000. Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife--threats to biodiversity and human health. Science 287:443-449 [PDF]. Suarez, AV and TJ Case. 2002. Bottom-up effects on persistence of a specialist predator: ant invasions and horned lizards. Ecological Applications 12:291-298. [PDF] OPTIONAL: Conrad, PA et al. 2005. Transmission of Toxoplasma: Clues from the study of sea otters as sentinels of Toxoplasma gondii flow into the marine environment. International Journal of Parasitology 35:1155-1168. [PDF]
April 7-9	Mills. Chapter 8. DISCUSSION: Crooks, KR and ME Soule. 1999. Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system. Nature 400:563-566. [PDF] DISCUSSION: Estes, JA et al. 1998. Killer whale predation on sea otters linking oceanic and nearshore ecosystems. Science 282:473-476. [PDF]. DISCUSSION: Springer et al. 2003. Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An ongoing legacy of industrial whaling? PNAS 100:12223-12228. [PDF]
April 14-16	Mills. Chapter 14. Redpath SM et al. 2006. Testing the role of parasites in driving the cyclic population dynamics of a gamebird. Ecology Letters 9:410-418. [PDF]. Kausrud, KL et al. 2008. Linking climate change to lemming cycles. Nature 456:93-97. [PDF]
April 21-23	Mills. Chapters 2 and 4.
April 28-30	Mills. Chapter 10 (pp. 202-211). Chapter 13. Lindenmayer, DB et al. 2007. The complementarity of single-species and ecosystem-oriented research in conservation research. Oikos 116:1220-1226. [PDF]

Other Relevant Books:

Gotelli, NJG. A Primer of Ecology. Sinauer.

Vandermeer, JH, and DE Goldberg. 2003. Population Ecology: First Principles. Princeton Univ. Press.

Turchin, P. 2003. Complex Population Dynamics: a Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis. Princeton Univ. Press.

Kingsland, SE. 1995. Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology. Univ. of Chicago Press.

Begon, M., JL Harper, and CR Townsend. 2005. Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems. Blackwell.

Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix Population Models. Sinauer.

Stearns, SC. 1992. The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford Univ. Press.

Roff, DA. 2001. Life History Evolution. Sinauer.

McCullough, DR. (ed.). 1996. Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation. Island Press.

Hanski, I, and OE Gaggiotti. (eds.). 2004. Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution of Metapopulations. Elsevier Academic Press.

Morris, WF, and DF Doak. 2002. Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis. Sinauer.

Beissinger, SR, and DR McCullough (eds.). 2002. Population Viability Analysis. Univ. Chicago Press.

Clobert, J, E. Danchin, AA Dhondt, and JD Nichols (eds.). 2001. Dispersal. Oxford University Press.

Bullock, JM, RE Kenward, and RS Hails (eds.). 2002. Dispersal Ecology. Blackwell.

Thompson, WL, GC White, and C. Gowan. 1998. Monitoring Vertebrate Populations. Academic Press.

Williams, BK, JD Nichols, and MJ Conroy. 2002. Analysis and Management of Animal Populations. Academic Press.

Amstrup, SC, TL McDonald, and BF Manley (eds.). 2005. Handbook of capture-recapture analysis. Princeton Univ. Press.

MacKenzie, DI. et al. 2006. Occupancy Estimation and modeling. Elsevier Academic Press.

Thompson, WL (ed.). 2004. Sampling rare or elusive species. Island Press.