Conservation Biology, North Carolina Botanical Garden

November-December 2009

Welcome to Conservation Biology!

Class Roster is HERE.

As you review the presentations, email the instructors, Peter White and Johnny Randall, with your questions and uncertainties!

1. October 31^st: Week 1, Peter White, Instructor

Introduction to conservation biology

Biodiversity and its threats, the equality and inequality of species, the role of top predators, SLIDES

Island Biogeography and general approaches to preserve design, the species-area and species-loss equations, Scale (grain and extent) and the distribution of biodiversity, SLIDES1, SLIDES2

2. November 21^st, Peter White, Instructor

Fragmentation and edges

North Carolina’s plant diversity, Narrow endemism in the southeast, Slipping through the cracks

Communities, ecosystems, and landscapes, Species interactions, Top down and bottom Up control, Disturbance ecology and succession

Invasive species

3. December 5^th, Johnny Randall, Instructor

In situ conservation

Ecosystem restoration and management

Preserve design

4. December 12^th, Johnny Randall, Instructor

Conservation genetics and ex situ conservation

Populations and metapopulations

Climate change and assisted migration

Mason Farm Biological Reserve field trip (weather permitting)

Take Home Test Distributed After the Last Class. The exam will be open notes, open library, open google…

HERE IS THE EXAM!