Lab Meeting Spring 2007

Reading List

Week of February 5

U.S. Congress. 1973. Endangered Species Act. 16 US Code §1531-§1544 et seq.

Wilcove, D. S., M. McMillan, and K. C. Winston. 1993. What Exactly Is an Endangered Species - an Analysis of the United-States Endangered Species List - 1985-1991. Conserv. Biol. 7:87-93.

Norris, S. 2004. Only 30: A portrait of the endangered species act as a young law. Bioscience 54:288-294.

Week of February 12

Five Plants From the San Bemardino Mountains In Southern California Determined to be Threatened or Endangered. Final Rule. 50 CFR 17

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Arenaria ursina (Bear Valley sandwort), Castilleja cinerea (ash-gray Indian paintbrush), and Eriogonum kennedyi var. austromontanum (southern mountain wild-buckwheat); Proposed Rules.

Week of February 19

Kroeger, T. and F. Casey. 2006. Economic impacts of designating critical habitat under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: Case study of the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis). Human Dimensions of Wildlife 11:437-453.

Laband, D. N., and M. Nieswiadomy. 2006. Factors affecting species' risk of extinction: An empirical analysis of ESA and NatureServe listings. Contemporary Economic Policy 24:160-171.

NatureServe Ranking Criteria

IUCN Red List Ranking Criteria

Week of February 26

Recovery Plan for Mitracarpus maxwelliae, Mitracarpus polycladus, and Eugenia woodburyana

Recovery Plan for Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

Week of March 5

Elphick CS, Reed JM, Bonta JM. 2001. Correlates of population recovery goals in endangered birds. Conservation Biology 15:1285-1291.

Boersma, P. D., P. Kareiva, W. F. Fagan, J. A. Clark, and J. M. Hoekstra. 2001. How good are endangered species recovery plans? Bioscience 51:643-649.

Clark, J. A., J. M. Hoekstra, P. D. Boersma, and P. Kareiva. 2002. Improving U.S. Endangered Species Act recovery plans: key findings and recommendations of the SCB recovery plan project. Conserv. Biol. 16:1510-1519.

Week of March 12

Redding D.W., A.O. Mooers. 2006. Incorporating evolutionary measures into conservation prioritization. Conservation Biology 20:1670-1678.

Schemske, D. W., B. C. Husband, M. H. Ruckelshaus, C. Goodwillie, I. M. Parker, and J. G. Bishop. 1994. Evaluating approaches to the conservation of rare and endangered plants. Ecology 75:584-606.

Halpern, B. S., C. R. Pyke, H. E. Fox, J. C. Haney, M. A. Schlaepfer, and P. Zaradic. 2006. Gaps and mismatches between global conservation priorities and spending. Conservation Biology 20:56-64.

Week of March 19

Spring Break - No Meeting

Week of March 26

Dr. Helen Regan from San Diego State University will be visiting the lab and will give a short talk on some work she and her colleagues have been doing on developing a threats based monitoring prioritization system.

Janet Franklin, Lauren A. Hierl, Douglas H. Deutschman, and Helen M. Regan. 2006. Grouping and Prioritizing Natural Communities for the San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program.

Helen M. Regan, Lauren A. Hierl, Janet Franklin, and Douglas H. Deutschman. 2006. Draft MSCP Covered Species Prioritization.

Week of April 2

Gerber, L. R., and L. T. Hatch. 2002. Are we recovering? An evaluation of recovery criteria under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Ecol. Appl. 12:668-673.

Svancara, L. K., R. Brannon, J. M. Scott, C. R. Groves, R. F. Noss, and R. L. Pressey. 2005. Policy-driven versus evidence-based conservation: A review of political targets and biological needs. Bioscience 55:989-995.

Tear, T. H., P. Kareiva, P. L. Angermeier, P. Comer, B. Czech, R. Kautz, L. Landon, D. Mehlman, K. Murphy, M. Ruckelshaus, J. M. Scott, and G. Wilhere. 2005. How much is enough? The recurrent problem of setting measurable objectives in conservation. Bioscience 55:835-849.

Week of April 9 and April 16

Pimm, S.L., L. Dollar, and O.L. Bass, Jr. 2006. The genetic rescue of the Florida panther. Animal Conservation 9:116-122.

John, D. 2007. Like it or not, politics is the solution. Conservation Biology 21:287-288.

Taylor, M. F. J., K. F. Suckling, and J. J. Rachlinski. 2005. The effectiveness of the endangered species act: A quantitative analysis. Bioscience 55:360-367.

Week of April 23

Olden, J. D., N. L. Poff, and M. L. McKinney. 2006. Forecasting faunal and floral homogenization associated with human population geography in North America. Biological Conservation 127:261-271.

Sjostrom, A., and C. L. Gross. 2006. Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms. Journal of Biogeography 33:271-290.

Week of April 30

Murray, B. R., P. H. Thrall, A. M. Gill, and A. B. Nicotra. 2002. How plant life-history and ecological traits relate to species rarity and commonness at varying spatial scales. Austral Ecology 27:291-310.

Kunin, W. E., and A. Shmida. 1997. Plant reproductive traits as a function of local, regional, and global abundance. Conservation Biology 11:183-192.