JCAhouse conservation questions

In the spring of 1988 Peggy Fiedler organized a Seminar Series (Conservation Biology, Bio 877) at San Francisco State University. I was her teaching assistant. One of the results of this seminar was a collection of over 200 questions, focusing on different aspects of conservation biology. These questions were intended to stimulate discussions during our seminar and I hope that they continue to do so.

These questions were initially given solely to the participants of the seminar, in the form of a HyperCard™ stack. Here they are for general consumption.

Larry D. Harris. University of Florida (February 3, 1988) Habitat Fragmentation: Consequence and Conservation

Robert Lacy. Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo (February 10, 1988) Genetics of Zoo Populations?

Stuart L. Pimm. University of Tennessee (February 17, 1988) Community Stability and Structure: Theoretical Applications in Great Britain and Hawaii

Michael E. Gilpin. University of California, San Diego (February 24, 1988) Population Vulnerability Analysis: The Concho Water Snake

Bruce Wilcox. Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford Univerisity (March 2, 1988) A Global Perspective on Tropical Deforestation: Strategies to Protect Biological Diversity

Peter S. Ashton. Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University (March 16, 1988) Site-Related Patterns of Tropical Forest Species in Light of Current Theories for the Maintenance of Species Richness

Peggy L. Fiedler. San Francisco State University (March 9, 1988) Hierarchies of Cause and Consequence: Toward an Understanding of Rarity in Vascular Plant Species

Miguel Altieri. University of California, Berkeley (March 23, 1988) The Role of Peasant Agriculture in Crop Plant Conservation

Lyndon C. Lee. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia (April 6, 1988) Cumulative Impact Assessment in Wetland and Riparian Ecosystem of the American West

Peter F. Brussard. Montana State University (April 13, 1988) Assessment and Monitoring of Biological Diversity

Subodh K. Jain. University of California, Davis (April 20, 1988) Population Genetics and Demography in Rare Plant Protection

Fred W. Allendorf. University of Montana (April 27, 1988) Heterozygosity and Fitness in Natural Animal Populations

C. Ron Carroll. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia (May 4, 1988) Sensitive Habitats: Threats to and Management of a Nature Reserve System

Mary Pearl. New York Zoological Society (May 11, 1988) Conservation Biologists in the Human Realm

Seminar Participants