Woodrow Wilson Biodiversity Reading List

1.      What is Biodiversity?

Ø      Dobson, Andrew P. Conservation and Biodiversity, Chapter 1, pages 7-31

Ø      Lovejoy, Thomas, Biodiversity: What is It? In Kudla, et.al, Biodiversity II, pages 7-14

Ø      Patrick, Ruth, Biodiversity: Why is it Important? In Kudla, pages 15-24

Ø      Perlman and Adelson, Biodiversity:Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation, chapter 2, pages 18-36

Ø      Wilson, The Diversity of Life, chapters 3 and 4, pages 35-71

Ø      Wilson, The current state of Biological Diversity, in Wilson and Peters, Biodiversity, pp 3-20

Ø      Myers, Norman. The Rich Diversity of Biodiversity Issues. In Kudla, pages 125-139

2.      How Do We Measure Biodiversity?

Ø      Stork, Nigel E. The Magnitude of Global Biodiversity and its Decline, in Cracraft, et.al.,The Living Planet in Crisis, pages 3-32

Ø      Platnick, Norman.  Dimensions of Biodiversity:Targeting Megadiverse Groups, in Cracraft, et.al., pages 33-52

Ø      MacPhee and Flemming, Requiem: The Last Five Hundred Years of Mammalian Species Extinction, in Cracraft, pages 73-121

Ø      Perlman, Dan.  Chapters 4 and 5, pages 52-101

Ø      Amos, William, Two Problems with the Measurement of Genetic Diversity and Genetic Distance, in  Landweber and Dobson, Genetics and the Extinction of Species, pages 75-100

Ø      Wilson, chapter 8.  The Unexplored Ecosystem, pages 131-162

Ø      Dobson, chapter 3, The Mathematics of Extinction, pages 59-85

3.      Calculating the Economic Value of Biodiversity

Ø      Ehrenfield, Daniel, Why Put a Value on Biodiversity? In Wilson and Peters, pp. 212-216

Ø      Haneman, W. Michael. Economics and the Preservation of Biodiversity. In Wilson and Peters, pp. 193-199

Ø      Wilson, chapter 13. Unmined Riches, pages 281-311

Ø      Dobson, chapter 10, The Wealth of Nature, pages 231-253

Ø      Dobson, Chapter 5, Wildlife in the Marketplace, pages 111-135

Ø      Burnett, John. Biodiversity, Agricultural Productivity, and People, in Cracraft, et. al., pages 173-196

Ø      Moran, Dominic and Pearce, David. The Economic Consequences of Biodiversity Loss, in Cracraft, et. al., 217-229

Ø      Artuso, Anthony, Capturing the Chemical Value of Biodiversity,: Economic Perspectives and Policy Prescriptions, in Grifo and Rosenthal, Biodiversity and Human Health, pages 184-203

Ø      Plotkin, Mark.  The Outlook for New Agricultural and Industrial Products from the Tropics, in Wilson and Peters, pp 106-118

4.      Selected Habitat Studies

Ø      Reaka-Kudla, Marjorie, The Global Diversity of Coral Reefs: a Comparison with Rainforests, in Kudla, pages 83-106

Ø      Wall, Donna. Perspective: Soil Biodiversity--Life in Soil.  In Cracraft, et. al., pages 124-127

Ø      Colwell, Rita.  Microbial Biodiversity and Biotechnology, in Kudla, pp. 279-288

Ø      Robbins and Opler, Butterfly Diversity and a Preliminary Comparison with Bird and Mammal Diversity, in Kudla, pp.  69-82

Ø      Wilson, chapter 10, Biodiversity Reaches the Peak, pp. 183-211

Ø      Erwin , Terry.  Biodiversity at its Utmost: Tropical Forest Beetles, in Kudla, pp. 27-40

Ø      Epstein, Dobson, and Vandermeer, Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Disease and Fatal Synergisms. In Grifo et.al., pp 60-110

Ø      Murphy, Dennis. Challenges to Biological Diversity in Urban Areas. In Wilson and Peters, Biodiversity.  Pp 71-78

Ø      Risser, Paul.  Diversity in and Among Grasslands, in Wilson and Peters, pp. 176-180

Ø      Grifo and Chivian, The Implications of Biodiversity Loss for Human Health, in Cracraft,  pp. 197-208

Ø      Grifo et.al., The Origins of Prescription Drugs, in Grifo et. al., pp 131-163

5.      Major Threats to Biodiversity

Ø      Dobson, Chapter 2.  Habitat Fragmentation and Loss, pp. 33-58

Ø      Steadman, Human Caused Extinction of Birds, in Kudla, et.al., pp. 139-162

Ø      Erlich, Paul. The Loss of Biodiversity:Causes and Consequences.  In Wilson and Peters, pp. 21-27

Ø      Wing, Scott. Global Warming and Plant Species Richness, in Kudla, et.al., pp 163-186

Ø      Wilson, chapter 12, Biodiversity Threatened, pp. 243-280

Ø      Raup, Douglas. Diversity Crises in the Geological Past.  In Wilson and Peters, pp

Ø      Cracraft, Joel: Regional and Global Patterns of Biodiversity Loss and Conservation Capacity, in Cracraft, et. al., pages 139-172

Ø      Lande, Russell, Extinction Risks from Anthropogenic, Ecological, and Genetic Factors, in Landweber and Dobson, pp. 1-22

6.      Genetics, Systematics, and Biodiversity

Ø      Patrick, Ruth.  Systematics: a Keystone to Understanding Biodiversity, in Kudla, pp. 213-216

Ø      Wheeler, Quintin, and Cracraft, Joel. Taxonomic Preparedness: Are we ready to Meet the Biodiversity Challenge? In Kudla, pp. 435--446.

Ø      Mehrhoff, Leslie.  Museums, Research Collections, and the Biodiversity Challenge.  In Kudla, pp. 447-465

Ø      Harvey, Paul, and Steers, Helen.  One Use of Phylogenies for Conservation Biologists: Inferring Population History from Gene Sequences, in Landweber and Dobson, pp. 101-120

Ø      Landweber, Laura.  Something Old for Something New: The Future of Ancient DNA in Conservation Biology, in Landweber and Dobson, pp 163-186

Ø    Woese, C.R., O. Kandler, adn M. L. Wheelis. 1990. Towards a natural system of organisms: Proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc. Natl. Acd.Sci. 87:4576-4579.

Ø      Bult, et. al; The Impact of Rapid Gene Discovery Technology on Studies of Evolution and Biodiversity. In Kudla, pp 289-300

7.      A Search for Solutions

Ø      Farr and Rossman, Integration of Data for Biodiversity Initiatives, in Kudla, pp. 475-490

Ø      Umminger and Young, A Proposed US National Biodiersity Information Center, in Kudla, pp. 491-505

Ø      Myers, Norman. Saving Biodiversity and Saving the Biosphere.  In Cracraft, pp. 237-254

Ø      Mulongoy, et.al., Convention on Biological Diversity:Program Priorities in the Early Stages of Implementation, in Cracraft, pp. 261-272

Ø      Peters, Charles, Sustainable Use of biodiversity: Myths, Realities, and Potential. In Grifo, pp. 312-333

Ø      Reid, Walter. Opprtunities for Collaboration between the Biomedical and Conservation Communities, in Grifo, pp. 334-352

Ø      Jordan, William, Ecological Restoration and the Conservation of Biodiversity in Kudla, pp. 371-389

Ø      Cairns, John. Increasing Diversity by Restoring Damaged Ecosystems., in Wilson and Peters, pp. 333-343

Ø      Ocana et.al., Alternatives to Destruction, in Wilson and Peters, pp. 370-376

Ø      Shen, Sinyan.  Biological Engineering for Sustainable Biomass Production in Wilson and Peters, pp. 377-389

Ø      Systematics Agenda 2000: 1994 Technical Report.