Community Ecology and Macroecology (BISC 879, Spring 2011)
1) The class meets on Tuesdays from 1:30-4:30;
2) We start the first Tuesday of the term (Jan. 11) in B8271;
3) Info about the course (format, coverage, assignments) is available on the course website, which is mostly complete:
http://www.sfu.ca/biology/courses/bisc879/
Marine Biology and Oceanography (BISC 472, Spring 2011)
1) The class meets for lectures on Tuesdays from 8:30-10:20 & Thursday 8:30 in AQ 3003;
2) We start the first Tuesday of the term (Jan. 11) in AQ 3003;
3) Info about the course (format, coverage, assignments) will become available on a webCT page soon.
Conservation Biology (BISC 309, Spring 2012) David Green is teaching this course in Spring 2011
The course begins with an overview of the rational for Conservation Biology, including an examination of the nature and value of biodiversity, the drivers of global change and threats to biodiversity and the decline of species into an extinction vortex. The second half of the course will concentrate on population viability, the spatial dynamics of habitat loss and the fragmentation consequences for species persistence. The final section will focus on solutions, including protected areas, restoration and species reintroduction. The course will be split into two lecture series: a 2 hour theory lecture on Tuesday, with shorter guest lectures on Thursday from conservation scientists on the conservation threats, problems and solutions.
