Additional Readings

Bright, Christopher. 1999. "Invasive Species: Pathogens of Globalization." Foreign Policy. Fall 1999. With increased world trade, invasive species have become a policy issue as well as an ecological threat.

Cappuccino, Naomi, and Peter W. Price, eds. 1995. Population dynamics: New Approaches and synthesis. New York: Academic Press. A good blend of population biology and economic applications.

Case, Ted J., Martin L. Cody, and Exequiel Ezcurra (eds). 2002. Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortez II. Oxford Univ. Press. Ecology in an area rich in biodiversity.

Caswell, Hal. 2001. Advances in Ecological Research (Vol 32). Academic Press. An anthology of articles on the current state of ecological research.

Dobbs, David. 2000. The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery. Covelo, CA: Island Press. A fascinating description of the collapse of the New England cod fishery and the controversy between commercial fishermen and government regulators about how to count wild fish.

Driscoll, Don A. 1998. "Genetic Structure, Metapopulation Processes and Evolution Influence the Conservation Strategies for Two Endangered Frog Species." Biological Conservation 83(1): 43-54 Gives an example of the importance of population genetics in conservation.

Ebert, Thomas A. 1998. Plant & Animal Populations: Methods in Demography. Academic Press. Application of population data and life cycle analysis in biological conservation.

Fahrig, Lenore. 1997. "Relative Effects of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on Population Extinction." The Journal of Wildlife Management. 61: 603-610. Presents information that indicates that habitat loss has a greater effect on species extinction than does habitat fragmentation.

Ford, Andrew. 1999. Modeling the Environment. Island Press. Presents basic concepts in modeling and system dynamics.

Gotelli, N. J. 1995. A Primer of Ecology. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, Inc. 206pp. A general text on population ecology.

Gurney, W. S. C. and R. M. Nisbet. 1998. Ecological Dynamics. Oxford Univ. Press. An introductory text on mathematical modeling and population biology.

Hanski, Iikka. 1999. Metapopulation Ecology. Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press. A comprehensive synthesis of population biology.

Hanski, I. (ed), 1997. Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution. A collection of articles on population biology.

Hastings, Alan. 1994. Population Biology: Concepts and Models. Berlin: Springer Verlag. A general text on the subject.

Hubbell, Stephen P. 2001. The Unified Neutral Theory of biodiversity and Biogeography (Monographs in Population Biology No 32). Princeton Univ. Press. Presents a theory to explain the origin, maintenance, and loss of biodiversity in a biogeographic context.

Hughes, J.B., G.C. Daily, and P.R. Ehrlich. 1997. "Population Diversity: Its Extent and Extinction." Science 278(5338): 689-692. An attempt to estimate the losses of distinct populations within species.

Kot, Mark. 2001. Elements of Mathematical Ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. An introduction to classical and modern population biology.

MacArthur, Robert H. and Edward O. Wilson. 2001. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. A new edition of an ecological classic.

McCullough, Dale R., ed. 1996. Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation. Covelo, CA: Island Press. Metapopulation theory is an important development in both conservation biology and wildlife management.

Meffe, G. K. and C. R. Carroll. 1997. Principles of Conservation Biology (2^nd ed.). An excellent introduction to conservation biology and population ecology.

Miller, P. S. 1995. "Selective Breeding Programs for Rare alleles: Examples from the Przewalski's Horse and California Condor Pedigrees." Conservation Biology 9(5): 1262-1273. Application of population genetics to the conservation of rare species.

Moritz, C., et al. 1997. "Genetic Population Structure of the Greater Bilby Macrotis Lagotis, a Marsupial in Decline." Molecular Ecology 6(10): 925-936.

Peterson, Rolf O. 1995. Wolves of Isle Rroyale: A Broken Balance. Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press. A fascinating story of a isolated population of top carnivores.

Pletcher, Daniel H., et al. 1997. "Population Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population." The Journal of Wildlife Management 61: 459-465. A detailed example of population changes within a group of gray wolves.

Rosenzweig, M. L. 1995. Species Diversity in Space and Time. Cambridge Univ. Press. What factors determine biological diversity?

Roughgarden, Jonathan. 1997. Primer of Ecological Theory. New York: Prentice Hall. An overview of ecological modeling as it relates to population biology and current ecological theory.

Schwartz, Michael K., et al. 2002. "DNA reveals high dispersal synchronizing the population dynamics of Canada lynx." Nature 415, 520-522 (31 January 2002). Even across distances greater than 3,000 km, there is high gene flow between core and peripheral lynx populations.

Smith, R. L. 1990. Ecology and Field Biology (4th ed.) New York: Harper and Row. A classic field ecology text.

Soulé, M. E., ed. 1987. Viable Populations in Conservation. Cambridge, MA.: Cambridge University Press. A good discussion of the role of population biology in conservation.

Stiassny, M. L. J. and A. Meyer. 1999. "Cichlids of the Rift Lakes." Scientific American 280(2): 64-69. These fish exhibit some of the fastest speciation of any biological group, but human changes in their native lakes threatens their amazing diversity.

Tilman, D. and P. Kareiva (eds). 1997. Spatial Ecology. Princeton Univ. Press. Discusses the structure, dynamics, diversity, and stability of multispecies communities.

Tilman, D. 1999. "Diversity and Production in European Grasslands." Science (US) 286: 1099-1100 ( November 5,1999). Contrary to predictions from simple models, diversity can protect biological communities from disturbance.

Whittaker, Robert J. 1999. Island Biogeography: Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. An excellent introduction to the science of island biogeography and its conservation implications.

Wilson, E. O. and W. H. Bossert. 1971. Primer of Population Biology. Sinauer. A classic in the field.