(original lab syllabus from 25 Aug 2006)
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Last Updated 02 November 2006
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(original lab syllabus from 25 Aug 2006)
Most of the readings are saved
as .PDF files which require the Free Adobe
Acrobat Reader Software
01
Sept. No lab
(Labor Day Monday 04 Sept.)
08
Sept.
(talk about groups for food and planning for Los
Fresnos)
Sabino Canyon Readings:
1. General Sabino Canyon Information
Fire and Erosion
2. Tucson citizen article post-flooding in Sabino Canyon
optional: Fire and Erosion in AZ; Nature
Invasives/Native Fishes
3. Saving fish from Sabino Canyon during fire
4. Invasive Arizona Fish
5. Bioinvaders in the Sonoran Desert
optional: Invasive catfish in Arizona
optional: Arizona Fish Fauna; Colorado River
Mountain Lions
6. Mt. Lions in Tucson area
7. Article about guys who impeded mountain lion hunt in Sabino Canyon
8. General Mt. Lion info
optional: Profile on guy who impeded Mt. Lion hunt
optional: Earth First! article about Mt. Lion hunt in Sabino canyon
optional: more on Mt. Lions in Tucson area
optional: Sierra Club and Mt. Lions
optional: Mountain Lion Foundation
(10 points)
How should
15
Sept. No
lab
22-24
Sept.
Los Fresnos, Sonora, Mexico. 2.5 days,
VAN
We will plan to leave
campus at 1230 on Friday the 22rd.
Arrive late afternoon in
SAN
PEDRO:
Barbara Kingsolver, National Geographic, San Pedro
AZGF write-up on the San
Pedro
Troubled Waters, by Sandra Postel
2002 Economic Report on
Recreation in San Pedro drainage
Upper San
Pedro Partnership (peruse some of these documents to
get an idea about the issues surrounding San Pedro water)
BLM San
Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (optional:
some of the BLM info in a word
file)
(optional: Friends of the San
Pedro River)
RANCHING/GRAZING:
Floyd et al. 2003 (grazing)
Sheridan 2001 (ranching)
(optional:
Brogden
and Greenberg 2003 [ranching])
San Pedro
pre and post grazing (photos)
(50
points)
What was the most important lesson you learned on
this trip? How will it affect your life from here on out? How will this lesson
impact conservation biology more
generally?
29 Sept.
Computer
Time:
2006 word
file to bring with you to
lab.
Excel
Sheet to open in lab on Friday 29
Sept.
Island Biogeography, Species-Area Relationships
Island Biogeography:
interesting introduction and data sets
,
Species-area relationships
Barrett et al.
2003
(10
points)
How can computer models aid the field of Conservation
Biology?
What are the
limitations?
07
Oct.
Saturday,
leave campus 0700h from
south side BSE, return
1800h
PICTURES from 07 October 2005,
(Pictures from 02 October
2004)
Sonorensis
Publication 1989 (a great overview of Mt. Lemmon and
our Sky
Islands)
Guide to
Mt. Lemmon Highway (with mileage, elevation, and
checklists)
Miscellaneous Mt. Lemmon-related
information (including a
map)
Whittaker and Niering, 1965 (excerpts)
(optional discussion of life zones and vegetation on Mt.
Lemmon)
Cruising for
Timber! (optional details on how to quickly
calculate standing biomass)
Backer, Jensen,
McPherson 2004 (article on fire suppression and fire
effects)
Kauffman, 2004 (perceptions of fire, restoration
ecology)
Article on Rattlesnake Fire
(1994) in Chiricahuas (optional: short article on erosion
post fire in Chiricahuas)
(optional: LTRR Big Arizona Fires with links to newspaper
articles
etc.)
Rex Adams or graduate student representative from Lab of Tree-Ring
Research?
(20 points)
What was the most important lesson you learned on this trip?
How will it affect your life from here on out?
How will this lesson impact conservation biology more
generally?
13
Oct. No
lab
20
Oct.
Sewage Treatment /
(Pictures from 15 Oct
2004)
Troubled Waters, by
Sandra
Postel
How water management in
Tucson has affected desert
surroundings
Shutes
2001
Verhoeven and
Meuleman
1999
Constructed Wetland
details
(10 points)
How does
the sweetwater wetland mimic a sewage treatment plant?
(include specific
mechanisms)
Why is this
ironic?
27-29
Oct. Organ Pipe, Pinacate,
CEDO, 3 day, VAN 27-29 Oct.
leave campus 7am on Friday 27 Oct., return evening of Sunday
29 Oct.
(60 points)
Students will be asked to pay for some of the food and lodging
costs incurred in
Entry and Camping at Pinacate
$2
Lodging at CEDO $10
Dinner
at CEDO $8.50
(optional)
PHOTOS from 2005, or as 6
slides/page (smaller file); PHOTOS from
2004
Background
Reading:
Organ Pipe
Website (especially focus on the links under
"management
docs")
One of many
possible
links
Organ Pipe
issue
Finding of No Significant Impact re:
Vehicle
Barrier
Desert Invasion website
Judith Becerra (UA Entomology) research on
Bursera:
Short popular
article
Becerra 2003
PNAS
(Kathy Gerst did a research project on
Bursera).
CEDO
website (located in Puerto
Penasco)
WWF
Vaquita
Site
D'agrosa et al.
2000 (Vaquita Bycatch ...)
OR Rojas-Bracho and Taylor 1999 (Risk
Factors Affecting the
Vaquita)
Rodriguez et al.
2001 (Effects of Colorado River Diversion on
Estuarine Bivalve
Molluscs...)
Report on Northern Gulf
of California (please read: exec. summary, intro.,
1.2, 1.3.2, 2.4, 2.5, 5.3, and
6)
2002
State-of-Knowledge Workshop Summary RE: Colorado River Delta (interesting optional
reading)
Tentative Organ Pipe/Pinacate/CEDO itinerary:
Friday
27 October
0700 depart
1030 short hike
1200 lunch
picnic
1230 meeting with Organ Pipe
staff
1530
cross border into
1700 meet with Pinacate
staff
1800 set up camp in Pinacate, cook
dinner
Saturday 28 October
0600 explore pinacate, breakfast on the go
0830 break camp, explore pinacate by
vehicle
1200 leave Pinacate
1300 lunch in Puerto Penasco
($)
1400 explore beach and tide pools [check
tide charts]
1600 arrive
CEDO
1730 dinner at CEDO ($)
1900 evening presentation at CEDO
Sunday 29 October
0630 breakfast using CEDO kitchen and our
food
0800 explore
estuary
1100 leave CEDO, eat lunch on road in van
1130 stop at Dunes on way home
1830 arrive
How will it affect your life from here on out?
How will
this lesson impact conservation biology more generally?
03
Nov.
Computer Time: MVP, Sea Turtle Populations, COMPUTER LAB
(meet in
BSE328)
Turtle Lab (read first three pages before coming to lab)
Turtle Lab Spreadsheet (we will open this in lab)
(10
points)
What are the pros and cons of the MVP approach?
Explain which lifestages of sea turtles need more protection.
Why?
10
Nov. No
lab (Veteran’s Day Monday 13 Nov)
17
Nov.
(a few pictures from
2004)
Connell
1978
Species Area Curves
and Conservation
(10 points)
Why are diversity indices & species
area curves useful concepts in Conservation
Biology?
24
Nov. No
lab (Thanksgiving Holiday)
01
Dec.
(10 points)
Come to class with a potential writing assignment question.
We will decide as a group which to
answer.
For field trips
involving vans we will meet
at the appointed time on the south side of BSE (4th and
Short writing assignments worth 100 points (20 pts x 5/10 assignments)
over the course of the semester. Limited to one piece of paper for each (you may
use both sides of the paper). Due at the beginning of the next scheduled lab
meeting. Graded on content and writing. You may be asked to read aloud to your
peers and discuss and defend your point of view.
Link to Conservation Biology
Lecture Schedule 2006, Meets T,R 1230-1345h
RETURN TO ECOL 406/506, 2006 HOMEPAGE