Date	Topic	Readings
Jan 17	Introduction—What is Conservation Biology?
Jan 19	Conservation Biology: History, background, biodiversity	Groom, Ch. 1 & 4
Jan 22	Biodiversity, continued	Groom, Ch. 2
Jan 24	The Biodiversity Crisis	pg. 63-89 (Ch. 3)
Jan 26	Conservation Genetics I	Groom Ch. 11
Jan 29	Conservation Genetics II	Groom, Ch. 11
Jan 31	Effective Population Size-DISCUSSION	Example of Summary Paper Holt et al Roman, et al. Paper Instructions
Feb 2	Guest Lecture: Inbreeding (Nick Griffin, PhD Candidate)	Groom, Ch. 11
Feb 5	Conservation Genetics III	Groom, Ch. 11
Feb 7	Guest Lecture: Hybridization in Red Wolves (Todd Steury)	Groom, Ch. 11
Feb 9	Approaches to Conservation: Populations, species, ecosystems	Skim Groom Ch. 12 & 13
Feb 12	Approaches to Conservation-DISCUSSION	Simberloff Genetic Diversity
Feb 14	Population Viability Analysis (PVA)	Groom, pg. 432 (PVA section), pg. 433-435 (Essay 12.2)
Feb 16	Guest Lecture: PVA (Dr. Tiffany Knight)
Feb 19	EXAM #1
Feb 21	Community & Ecosystem Ecology	Groom, pg.435-438 (Essay 12.3), pg. 305-306 (Box 9.1)
Feb 23	Community & Ecosystem II	Groom, Ch. 13
Feb 26	Community & Ecosystem Management	Groom, Ch. 13
Feb 28	Restoration	Groom, Ch. 15
Mar 2	Community & Ecosystem-DISCUSSION	Donlan et al.
Mar 5	Landscape I	Groom, Ch. 12
Mar 7	Landscape II
Mar 9	Reserves Final essay/presentation topics due	Groom, pg. 509-531
Mar 12-16	Spring Break
Mar 19	Reserves—DISCUSSION	Daniel S. Simberloff and Lawrence G. Abele Diamond et al.
Mar 21	Adaptive Management	Groom, pg. 481-484 (reread)
Mar 23	EXAM #2
Mar 26	Missouri Botanical garden field trip Research Program Missouri Botanical Garden Studies of geographic ranges of taxa and spatial patterns of diversity	Groom, Ch. 6 & 7
Mar 28	Threats to biodiversity: Habitat loss
Mar 30	Threats: Habitat loss continued	Groom, Ch. 9
Apr 2	Threats: Invasive species
Apr 4	Threats: PAPER SUMMARIES	Chosen papers
Apr 6	Threats: with "PAPER SUMMARIES	Groom, Ch. 10
Apr 9	Guest Lecture: Disease (Brian Allan, PhD Candidate)
Apr 11	PAPER SUMMARIES	Groom, Ch. 8
Apr 13	Threats: Climate Change (Niki Miller, PhD Candidate)	Assigned paper
Apr 16	Threats: Exploitation	Groom, Ch. 17
Apr 18	Conservation Policy, Sustainable Devp., & The Future	Groom, Ch. 16
Apr 20	Work on papers/meet with instructors
Apr 23	Presentations
Apr 25	Presentations
Apr 27	Presentations
Apr 30	Review—Final essays due
May 7	FINAL EXAM 6:00-8:00PM McD 412