20-04-09: Presentation: David Frank "Modeling Conservation Conflicts with Game Theory."
13-04-09: Reading: Johansson et al. "Local and Global Effects of Climate on Dengue Transmission in Puerto Rico." PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 3 (2009): 1 - 5.
06-04-09: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "The Balcones Canyonlands."
30-03-09: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Community assembly, stability and food web structure."
23-03-09: Presentation: Haley Gillespie, "Ecology of the Barton Springs Salamander."
09-03-09: Reading: Patz et al. "Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence." Environmental Health Perspectives 112 (2004): 1092-1098.
02-03-09: Reading: Rodder, D. et al. "Environmental gradients explaining the prevalence and intensity of infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus: the host's perspective." Animal Conservation 11 (2008): 513-17. and Rohr, Jason R. et al. "Evaluating the links between climate, disease spread, and amphibian declines." PNAS 105 (2008): 17436-17441.
23-02-09:
Reading: Pounds, J. A. et al. "Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming." Nature 429 (2006): 161-67, Lips, Karen R. et al. "Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines." PLoS Biology 6 (2008): 441-54.
16-02-09: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "Systematic Conservation Planning"
09-02-09: Presentation: Kumar Mainali, "How do ephemeral extreme temperature events affect plant-soil links in tall grass prairie?"
02-02-09: Presentation: Nathan Bendik, "The Jollyville Plateau Salamander."
26-01-09: Presentation: Ophelia Wang, "Preliminary spatial data analysis using tree plot data in the Ecuadorian Amazon."
24-11-08: Reading: Ostfeld et al. "Climate, Deer, Rodents, and Acorns as Determinants of Variation in Lyme-Disease Risk." PLoS Biology, e145 (4) 2006: 1058 - 1068.
17-11-08: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Basic Statistics and Regressions."
10-11-08: Reading: Eisen, R. J., Lane, R. S., Fritz, C. L., Eisen, L. 2006. "Spatial patterns of lyme disease risk in California based on disease incidence data and modeling of vector-tick exposure." Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 75(4): 669 - 676.
03-11-08: Presentation: Rowena Cerro, "Coastal-Marine Conservation: The Case of the Central Peru Ecoregion."
27-10-08: Reading: Savage, V. M., Webb, C. T., Norberg, J. 2007. "A general multi-trait-based framework for studying the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning." Journal of Theoretical Biology, 247: 213-229.
13-10-08: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Stochastic population dynamics and population viability analysis."
06-10-08: Reading: Margheri, A., Rebelo, C. 2003. "Some examples of persistence in epidemiological models." J. Math. Biol. 46: 564-570
29-09-08: Presentation: George Livingston, "Community assembly and the tropical landscape mosiac: arboreal ants and agroecosystems as model systems."
22-09-08: Reading: Chettri, N., Shakya, B., Thapa, R., Sharma, E. 2008. "Status of a protected area system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: An analysis of PA coverage." International Journal of Biodiversity Science and Management, 4: 1-15
15-09-08: Reading: Failing, L. and Gregory, R. 2003. "Ten Common Mistakes in Designing Biodiversity Indicators for Forest Policy." Journal of Environmental Management, 68: 121-132
08-09-08: Presentation: Taylor Quedenslay, "Phylogeny and Biogeography of Telanthophora (Senecioneae: Asteraceae) and its Placement Among Closely Related Genera of the Central American Tussilaginiae."
12-05-08: Reading: Phillips, S. J., Dudik, M. 2007. "Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation." Ecography 31: 161-175
05-05-08: Reading: Davis Bowles, B., Sanders, M. S., Hansen, R. S. 2006. "Ecology of the Jollyville Plateau salamander (Eurycea tonkawae: Plethodontidae) with an assessment of the potential effects of urbanization" Hydrobiologia 553: 111-120.
28-04-08: Reading: Kremen, C., Cameron, A., Moilanen, A., Phillips, J., Thomas, C. D., Beentje, H., Dransfield, J., Fisher, B. L., Glaw, F., Good, T. C., Harper, G. J., Hijmans, R. J., Lees, D. C., Louis, E. Jr., Nussbaum, R. A., Raxworthy, C. J., Razafimpahanana, A., Schatz, G. E., Vences, M., Vieites, D. R., Wright, P. C., Zjhra, M. L. 2008. "Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools." Science 320: 222-226.
21-04-08: Reading: "ConsNet Brief 1" by Michael Ciarleglio.
14-04-08: Reading: Kalipeni, E., Zulu, L. 2008. "Using GIS to Model and Forecast HIV/AIDS Rates in Africa, 1986-2010." The Professional Geographer 60(1): 33-53.
07-04-08: Reading: Jones, K., Patel, N., Levy, M., Storeygard, A., Balk, D., Gittleman, J., Daszak, P. 2008. "Global Trends in Emerging Infectious Diseases." Nature 451: 990-994.
31-03-08: Presentation: Nelson Guda, "One Man's Obsession With Overcoming Limitations To Geographic Data on the Web."
24-03-08: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "The Balcones Canyonland Project."
17-03-08: Presentation: Rowena Cerro, "Prioritizing Areas for Restoration Agriculture-Dominated Landscapes: A Case Study from Bioko, Equatorial Guinea."
03-03-08: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "From Individuals to Population Interaction Networks: Disentangling the Entangled Bank."
25-02-08: Readings: Drake, J. M., Randin, C., Guisan, A. 2006. "Modelling Ecological Niches with Support Vector Machines." Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 424-432.
Kelly, M., Guo, Q., Liu, D., Shaari, D. 2007. "Modeling the Risk for a New Invasive Forest Disease in the United States: An Evaluation of Five Environmental Niche Models." Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems 31: 689-710.
18-02-08: Presentation: Alexander Moffett, "Optimal Intervention Strategies for Malaria Treatment and Prevention."
11-02-08: Presentation: Michael Ciarleglio, "Modular Abstract Self-Learning Tabu Search (MASTS): Metaheuristic Search Theory and Practice."
04-02-08: Reading: Egeo, A. N. 2003. "National Protected Areas and Social Marginalization in Mexico." IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics, and Social Policy. Issue 1.
14-01-08: Presentation: James Justus, "A Theory of Stability."
19-11-07: Reading: Peralvo, M., Sierra, R., Young, K. R., Ulloa-Ulloa, C. 2007. "Indentification of Biodiversity Conservation Priorities Using Predictive Modeling: An Application for the Equatorial Pacific Region of South America." Biodiversity Conservation 16: 2649-2675.
12-11-07: Reading: Haight, R. G., Travis, L. E. 1997. "Wildlife Conservation Planning Using Stochastic Optimization and Importance Sampling." Forest Science 43: 129-139.
05-11-07: Readings: Moilanen, A., Wintle, B. A., Elith, J., Burgman, M. 2006. "Uncertainty Analysis for Regional-Scale Reserve Selection." Conservation Biology 20: 1688-1697.
Moilann, A., Runge, M., Elith, J., Tyre, A., Carmel, Y., Fegraus, E., Wintle, B., Burgman, M., Ben-Haim, Y. 2006. "Planning for Robust Reserve Networks Using Uncertainty Analysis." Ecological Modeling 199: 115-124.
29-10-07: Report: Michael Ciarleglio on ConsNet and the wiki developed for it.
22-10-07: Reading: Araujo, M., Luoto, M. (2007), "The Importance of Biotic Interactions for Modelling Species Distributions under Climate Change." Global Ecology and Biogeography.
15-10-07: Reading: Martin, T. G., Chadés, I., Arcese, P., Marra, P. P., Possingham, H. P., Noris, D. R. (2007), "Optimal Conservation of Migratory Species." PLoS ONE 2(8) e751.
08-10-07: Reading: Lobo, J. M., Jiménez-Valverde, A., Real, R. (2007), "AUC: A Misleading Measure of the Performance of Predictive Distribution Models." Global Ecology and Biogeography.
01-10-07: Readings: Callicott, J. B., Rozzi, R., Delgado, L., Monticino, M., Acevedo, M., Harcombe, P. (2006), "Biocomplexity and Conservation of Biodiversity Hotspots: Three Case Studies from the Americas." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 1989;
Rozzi, R., Armesto, J. J., Goffinet, B., Buck, W., Massardo, F., Silander, J., Arroyo, M. T. K., Russell, S., Anderson, C. B., Cavieres, L., Callicott, J. B. (2007), "Changing Lenses to Assess Biodiversity: Patterns of Species Richness in Sub-Antarctic Plants and Implications for Global Conservation." Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment.
24-09-07: Reading: Linquist, S. (2007), "But Is It Progress? On the Alleged Advances of Conservation Biology over Ecology." Biology and Philosophy.
17-09-07: Reading: Arponen, A., Moilanen, A., Ferrier, S. (2007), "Successful Environmental Surrogate Strategies for Conservation Prioritization." Ecology Letters.
10-09-07: Documentary: "What Good Is a Warbler?"
27-08-07: Presentation: Michael Ciarleglio, "Modular Abstract Self Learning Tabu Search (MASTS) - Metaheuristic Optimization Theory and Practice."
20-08-07: Reading: Kincaid, Rex K., Easterling, Catherine, Jeske, Meagan (2008), "Computational Experiments with Heuristics for Two Nature Reserve Site Selection Problems." Computers and Operations Research 35: 499-512.
13-08-07: Reading: Wagner, L. D., Ross, J. V., Possingham, H. P. (2007), "Catastrophe Management and Inter-Reserve Distance for Marine Reserve Networks." Ecological Modeling 201: 82-88.
06-08-07: Presentation: James Justus, "The Stability-Diversity-Complexity Debate of Theoretical Community Ecology: A Philosophical Analysis."
30-07-07: Presentation: Alexander Moffett, "A Global Database of Disease Vector Distributions."
16-07-07: Presentation: Trevon Fuller, "A Comparison of the MaxEnt and Random Forest Methods for Modeling Endangered Species' Habitat."
09-07-07: Presentation: Chris Kelley, "Simulations of Plant Dispersal Involving Self-incompatibility."
02-07-07: Reading: Nel, J. L., Roux, D. J., Cowling, R. M., Abell, R., Thieme, M., Higgins, J. V., Viers, J. H. "Emerging Trends in Freshwater Conservation Planning."
25-06-07: Reading: Vanderkam, R. P. D., Wiersma, Y. F., King, D. J. 2007. "Heuristic Algorithms vs. Linear Programs for Designing Efficient Conservation Reserve Networks: Evaluation of Solution Optimality and Processing Time." Biological Conservation 137: 349-358.
18-06-07: Reading: Smith, R. J., Goodman, P. S., Matthews, W. S. 2006. "Systematic Conservation Planning: A Review of Perceived Limitations and an Illustration of the Benefits, Using a Case Study from Maputaland, South Africa." Oryx 40: 400-410.
07-05-07: Reading: Lefshy, M. A., Cohen, W. B., Parker, G. G., Harding, D. J. 2002. "Lidar Remote Sensing for Ecosystem Studies." Bioscience 52: 19-30.
30-04-07: Presentation: Jennifer Miller, "The Effects of Impervious Surface Cover and Forest Riparian Buffer Width on Stream Salamanders in Raleigh, NC."
23-04-07: Reading: Koleff, P., Gaston, K. J., Lennon J. J. 2003. "Measuring Beta Diversity for Presence-Absence Data." Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 367-382.
16-04-07: Report: Trevon Fuller and Sahotra Sarkar on the Balcones Canyonlands Project.
09-04-07: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "The Structure and Dynamics of Population Interaction Networks."
02-04-07: Presentation: José Nicolas Urbina-Cardona (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Zoologia), "Edge Effect, Herpetofauna Diversity, and Microenvironment Correlates in a Highly Fragmented Tropical Rainforest at Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz-Mexico."
26-03-07: Presentation: Alex Moffett, "Malaria in Africa: Vector Distribution Niche Models and a Preliminary Relative Risk Map."
19-03-07: Reading: Schwartz, M. Z., Iverson, L. R., Prasad, A. M., Matthews, S. N., O'Connor, R. J. 2006. "Predicting Extinctions as a Result of Climate Change." Ecology 87: 1611-1615.
05-03-07: Presentation: Sasha Mikheyev (University of Texas, Department of Ecological and Evolutionary Biology), "Barcoding Using DNA Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism: A Cost-Effective Tool for Rapid Biodiversity Assessments of Hyper-Diverse Taxa."
26-02-07: Presentation: Maria Cecilia Londoño (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Departamento de Zoologia), "Bat Assemblage Structure and Diversity at the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Valley, Mexico."
19-02-07: Report: Alexander Moffett on the NCEAS Environmental Decision Making Group.
12-02-07: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "The Effects of Environmental Stochasticity on Population Interaction Webs."
05-02-07: Reading: Grundt, H., Kjolner, S., Borgen, L., Rieseberg, L., Brochmann, C. 2006. "High Biological Species Diversity in the Arctic Flora." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 972-975.
29-01-07: Presentation: Nancy Shackelford, "Chiapas: A Review of the State and an Analysis of Select Disease Risk in the Region."
22-01-07: Presentation: Trevon Fuller, "The Effect of Oil Development on Threatened Birds, Caribou, and Polar Bears of the Arctic Coastal Plain."
15-01-07: Presentation: James Justus, "Defining Ecological Stability."
11-12-06: Reading: Soule, M., Estes, J., Millier, B., and Honnold, D. 2005. "Strongly Interacting Species: Conservation Policy, Management, and Ethics." BioScience 55: 168-176.
04-12-06: Reading: Van Dyck, H., Baguette, M. 2005. "Dispersal Behavior in Fragmented Landscapes: Routine or Special Movements?" Basic and Applied Ecology 6: 535-545.
27-11-06: Reading: Moilann, A., Runge, M., Elith, J., Tyre, A., Carmel, Y., Fegraus, E., Wintle, B., Burgman, M., Ben-Haim, Y. 2006. "Planning for Robust Reserve Networks Using Uncertainty Analysis." Ecological Modeling 199: 115-124.
20-11-06: Readings: Illoldi-Rangel, P., Sanchez-Cordero, V., and Peterson, A. T. 2005. "Predicting Distributions of Mexican Mammals Using Ecological Niche Modeling." Journal of Mammalogy 85: 658-662.
Lawler, J., White, D., Neilson, R., and Blaustein, A. 2006. "Predicting Climate-Induced Range Shifts: Model Differences and Model Reliability." Global Change Biology 12: 1568-1584.
13-11-06: Presentation: Trevon Fuller, "Biodiversity Assessment of the Arctic Coastal Plain."
06-11-06: Reading: Chan, K., Shaw, M. R., Cameron, D. R., Underwood, E. C., Daily, G. C. 2006. "Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services." PLOS Biology 4: e379.
30-10-06: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "Systematic Conservation Planning: Rapid Assessment."
23-10-06: Presentation: Michael Ciarleglio, "A Preview of ConsNet."
16-10-06: Presentation: Chris Kelley and Alex Moffett, "A Critique of Current Approaches to Conservation Planning in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea."
09-10-06: Presentation: Louisa Wood (Fisheries Centre, British Columbia), "Achieving Global Marine Protection Targets: Developing Baselines and Prioritising Action."
02-10-06: Presentation: Rowena Cerro, "Population Density, Heat Stress, and Habitat Availability as Determinants of Pupping Site Selection in the South American Fur Seal at Punta San Juan, Peru."
25-09-06: Reading: Dowie, M. 2005. "Convervation Refugees." Orion (November/December): 16-27.
18-09-06: Presentation: Taylor Sultan Quedensley, "The Asteraceae of Pico Zunil, Guatemala."
11-09-06: Presentation: Sze Huei Yek, "Leaf Litter Ants as Surrogates for Establishing Conservation Priorities in the Australian Wet Tropics."
28-08-06: Presentation: Samraat Pawar, "Conservation Assessment and Prioritization of Areas in Northeast India: Priorities for Amphibians and Reptiles."
21-08-06: Reading: Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., and Kassem, K. R. 2001. "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth." BioScience 51: 933-938.
10-05-06: Reading: Elith, J., Graham, C., Anderson, R., Dudik, M., Ferrier, S., Guisan, A., Hijmans, R., Huettmann, F., Leathwick, J., Lehmann, A., Li, J., Lohmann, G., Loiselle, B., Manion, G., Mortiz, C., Nakamura, M., Nakazawa, Y., Overton, J., Peterson, A., Phillips, S., Richardson, K., Scachetti-Pereira, R., Schapire, R., Soberon, J., Williams, S., Wisz, M., and Zimmermann, N. 2006. "Novel Methods Improve Prediction of Species' Distributions from Occurrence Data." Ecography 29: 129-151.
02-05-06: Reading: Conservation International. 2004. Conserving Earth's Living Heritage: A Proposed Framework for Designing Biodiversity Conservation Strategies. Chapter Two: Designing Strategies to Achieve Conservation Outcomes.
26-04-06: Reading: Conservation International. 2004. Conserving Earth's Living Heritage: A Proposed Framework for Designing Biodiversity Conservation Strategies. Chapter One: Defining Global Priorities and Conservation Outcomes.
19-04-06: Presentation: Chris Kelley and Sahotra Sarkar, "The Lavaca Bay Oyster Reef Restoration Project."
12-04-06: Readings: Fischer, D. and Church, R. 2005. "The SITES Reserve Selection System: A Critical View." Environmental Modeling and Assessment 10: 215-228.
Chvatal, V. 1979."A Greedy Heuristic for The Set-Covering Problem." Mathematics of Operations
Research 4:233-235.
05-04-06: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "Multiple Agents, Multiple Criteria: Exploiting the Formal Isomorphism."
29-03-06: Presentation: Natalie Chan and Chris Kelley, "Taiwan Bird Data Analysis: Using MaxEnt and ResNet."
22-03-06: Reading: Whitham, T., Young, W., Martinsen, G., Gehring, C., Schweitzer, J., Shuster, S., Wimp, G., Fischer, D., Bailey, J., Lindroth, R., Woolbright, S., and Kuske, C. 2003. "Community and Ecosystem Genetics: A Consequence of the Extended Phenotype." Ecology 84(3): 559-573.
08-03-06: Presentation: Sahotra Sarkar, "Creationism Then and Now."
28-02-06: Presentation: Heather Keil, "The Difference between Marine and Terrestrial Conservation."
15-02-06: Reading: Moritz, C. 2002. "Strategies to Protect Biological Diversity and the Evolutionary Processes That Sustain It." Syst. Biol. 51(2): 238-254.
01-02-06: Reading: Carmel, Y., and Stoller-Cavari, C. 2006. "Comparing Environmental and Biological Surrogates for Biodiversity at a Local Scale."
24-01-06: Presentation: Chris Margules (Sustainable Ecosystems, CSIRO, Australia), "Biological Models for Monitoring Species Decline: The Construction and Use of Data Bases."