Science and the Endangered Species Act – *Draft* syllabus

Week of:

Topic

Main readings

Leader

27 Jan

History and overview of the Act

 

·  Czech & Krausman 2001. Ch. 2 & 3.

Brian B.

3 Feb

Endangered species

 

·  Beissinger & Perrine 2001.

 

Ken

10 Feb

What is a “species” under the Act?

 

·  NRC.1995. Ch. 3.

·  DeWeerdt. 2002. Cons. in Practice.

Nic

12 Feb

TEALE LECTURE

Kaiulani Lee: A sense of wonder: A one act play based on the life and works of Rachel Carson

 

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17 Feb

What gets listed?

 

·  Wilcove et al. 1993. Cons. Biol.

·  Easter-Pilcher 1996. BioScience.

 

Brian H.

24 Feb

Recovery planning

·  Hoekstra et al. 2002a Ecol. Appl.

·  Boersma et al. 2001 BioScience

 

Krissa

2 Mar

NO MEETING

 

Check out abstracts for Species At Risk Conference: http://www.speciesatrisk2004.ca/

 

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8 Mar

SPRING BREAK

 

READ THE ACT! (if you haven’t already)

 

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16 Mar

Use of Population Viability Analysis

·  Reed et al. 2002. Cons. Biol.

·  Morris et al. 2002. Ecol. Apps.

 

Martha

23 Mar

Critical habitat

·  Taylor et al. 2003. unpubl. Report.

·  Hoekstra et al. 2002b. Ecol. Appl.

 

Kate

30 Mar

Multiple species

·  Clark and Harvey 2002. Ecol. Appl.

·  Jewell 2000. End. Species. Bull.

 

Elisabeth

6 Apr

Recovery criteria

·  Doremus and Pagel 2001 Cons. Biol.

·  Elphick et al. 2001 Cons. Biol.

 

Erin

8 Apr

TEALE LECTURE

Dee Boersma: Penguins, people, pollution, and politics: When science is not enough.

 

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13 Apr

Implementing recovery

·  Abbitt and Scott 2001. Cons. Biol.

·  Lundquist et al. 2002. Ecol. Appl

 

Brad

20 Apr

Prioritization and costs

·  Restani and Marzluff 2002 BioScience.

·  Miller et al. 2002 BioScience.

 

Barbara

27 Apr

Other endangered species protection

·  Goble et al. 1999 Env Sci & Policy

·  http://www.speciesatrisk.gc.ca/default_e.cfm

 

Roslyn

29 Apr

TEALE LECTURE

Jason Shogren: Economic incentives for spatial habitat design to protect endangered species

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