This serves as an online forum for a weekly journal club focused on conservation biology and applied ecology.
Heather will lead a discussion of the effects of big predators on their prey, asking the question: how scared are the prey when the predators are gone, and then come back. A good topic for Halloween, I think!
Berger, J. 2007. Carnivore repatriation and holarctic prey: Narrowing the deficit in ecological effectiveness. Conservation Biology 21:1105-1116.
Here is a link to the article:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118487792/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
I’m sorry to do this, but I need to cancel reading group this week. We will postpone the discussion of this paper until another date. Stay tuned…
Sarah Spencer will lead discussion of the topic of “ecological ethics.” The reading will be:
Minteer, B. and J. Collins. 2005. Why we need “ecological ethics.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(6): 332-337.
The link to the article is:
We have the following reading this week:
A. D. Bright & S. C. Barro 2000. Integrative Complexity and Attitudes: A Case Study of Plant and Wildlife Species Protection. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 5:30-47.
A change of focus for this week. I thought we should capitalize on the presence of the NRC department’s visiting speaker, Amanda Rodewald. Her seminar is at 12:20 in room 305 Holdsworth. We’ll be meeting right afterward (1:30pm) in our usual location, 306 Holdsworth.
We’ll read her recent paper:
Rodewald, A. D., and D. P. Shustack. 2008. Urban flight: understanding individual and population-level responses of Nearctic-Neotropical migratory birds to urbanization. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:83-91
Here is the link to the article:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119391888/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0