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Readings:
Jordan, Carl F. 1995. Chpt. 7 in "Conservation", pp. 228-254.
Bierregaard, R. O., Jr., T. E. Lovejoy, V. Kapos, A. A. dos Santos and R. W. Hutchings. 1992. The biological dynamics of tropical rainforest fragments. Bioscience 42: 859-866.
Questions:
What are some of the factors that affect how many species occur in a particular patch of habitat? How do they affect this?
What is alpha diversity? beta diversity? gamma diversity? Which should be concentrate on saving?
How do we currently approach preserving biological diversity? How might we better approach it?
What does the experiment in Brazil tell us about how to best design forest reserves? What factors most strongly affected their results?