This serves as an online forum for a weekly journal club focused on conservation biology and applied ecology.
Our first reading of the semester will be a recent review of wildlife diseases and urbanization:
Bradley, C. A. and S. Altizer (2007). “Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseases.” Trends In Ecology & Evolution 22(2): 95-102
A link to the article can be found at:
Welcome back to the Conservation Biology Journal Club! As in the past, this group is open and available to anyone who would like to participate. That includes faculty, postdocs, students, and both on and off-campus professionals. For those who do not register for it as a course, the reading group is open to “drop-in’s.” We had some great discussions last semester with various drop-in participants. To keep track of what we are reading, just check here on the journal’s blog.
This semester, we will meet on Tuesdays at 11:15am in 306 Holdsworth. Due to various constraints, this is the only time I could host the group this semester. If you were hoping to participate and this time does not work for you, please contact me ASAP. I may have a little bit of flexibility on the timing, though not the day of the week.
The focus this semester will be on topics in conservation and ecology related to urbanization, but we can include other topics as participant interest dictates.
Students are not required to register in order to participate, but I encourage any who can to do so. It’s listed as a 1-credit pass-fail seminar course in SPIRE: WFCON 697AA (82297) Conservation Biology.
As before, this will be an informal discussion group in which participants will take turns choosing recent papers from prominent journals. I am particularly interested in rigorous examination of the recommendations for management provided in papers in such journals as Ecological Applications, Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation.
Please forward this to any folks who might be interested. All are welcome.