ESM 270 Course Readings

Conservation planning theory, methods and case studies

Ahern, Jack. 2006. Theories, methods and strategies for sustainable landscape planning”. In From Landscape Research to landscape Planning: Aspects of Integration, Education and Application. B. Tress, G. Tress, G. Fry, and P. Opdam, Editors. Springer. Pp. 119-131.

Andelman, S. J., and W. F. Fagan. 2000. Umbrellas and flagships: Efficient conservation surrogates or expensive mistakes? Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97:5954-5959.

Armsworth, P. R., G. C. Daily, P. Kareiva, and J. N. Sanchirico. 2006. Land market feedbacks can undermine biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:5403-5408.

Cabeza, M., and A. Moilanen. 2001. Design of reserve networks and the persistence of biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16:242-248

Noss, R. F., C. Carroll, K. Vance-Borland, and G. Wuerthner. 2002. A multicriteria assessment of the irreplaceability and vulnerability of sites in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conservation Biology 16:895-908.

Chan, K. M. A., M. R. Shaw, D. R. Cameron, E. C. Underwood, and G. C. Daily. 2006. Conservation planning for ecosystem services. Plos Biology
4:2138-2152.

Davis, F. W., C. Costello, and D. Stoms. 2006. Efficient conservation in a utility-maximization framework. Ecology and Society 11.

Forman, R. T. T., and S. K. Collinge. 1997. Nature conserved in changing landscapes with and without spatial planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 37:129-135.

Groves, C. R., D. B. Jensen, L. L. Valutis, K. H. Redford, M. L. Shaffer, J. M. Scott, J. V. Baumgartner, J. V. Higgins, M. W. Beck, and M. G. Anderson. 2002. Planning for biodiversity conservation: Putting conservation science into practice. Bioscience 52:499-512.

Jennings, M. D. 2000. Gap analysis: concepts, methods, and recent results. Landscape Ecology 15:5-20.

Kaiser, E.J. and D.R. Godschalk. 1995. 20th-Century land use planning - a stalwart family tree. Journal of the American Planning Association 61 (3): 365-385.

Kleiman, D.G., R.P. Reading, B.J. Miller, T.W. Clark, J.M. Scott, J., Robinson, R.L. Wallace, R.J. Cabin, and F. Felleman. 2000. Improving the
evaluation of conservation programs. Conservation Biology 14(2): 356-365.

Knight, A. T., R. M. Cowling, and B. M. Campbell. 2006. An operational model for implementing conservation action. Conservation Biology 20:408-419.

Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature (London) 405:243-253.Noss, R. F. 1990. Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity - a Hierarchical Approach. Conservation Biology 4:355-364.

Moilanen, A., and M. Cabeza. 2002. Single-species dynamic site selection. Ecological Applications 12:913-926.

Noss, R. F. 1990. Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity - a Hierarchical Approach. Conservation Biology 4:355-364.

Noss, R. F., C. Carroll, K. Vance-Borland, and G. Wuerthner. 2002. A multicriteria assessment of the irreplaceability and vulnerability of sites in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conservation Biology 16:895-908.

Oliver, I., A. Holmes, J. M. Dangerfield, M. Gillings, A. J. Pik, D. R. Britton, M. Holley, M. E. Montgomery, M. Raison, V. Logan, R. L. Pressey, and A. J. Beattie. 2004. Land systems as surrogates for biodiversity in conservation planning. Ecological Applications 14:485-503.

Santelmann, M. V., D. White, K. Freemark, J. I. Nassauer, J. M. Eilers, K. B. Vache, B. J. Danielson, R. C. Corry, M. E. Clark, S. Polasky, R. M. Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. Rustigian, C. Coiner, J. Wu, and D. Debinski. 2004. Assessing alternative futures for agriculture in Iowa, USA. Landscape Ecology 19:357-374.

Simberloff, D. 1998. Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: Is single-species management passe in the landscape era? Biological Conservation 83:247-257.

Theobald, D. A., and N. T. Hobbs. 2002. A framework for evaluating land use planning alternatives: Protecting biodiversity on private land. Conservation Ecology 6:art. no.-5.

Yaffee, S. L. 1999. Three faces of ecosystem management. Conservation Biology 13:713-725.

Background readings

Bernhardsen, T. 2002. From the real world to GIS. Chapter 3 in Geographic Information Systems: An Introduction, J. Wiley.

What is a GIS?  http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/    http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/whatisgis.pdf

ArcGIS tutorials http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/egrets/tutorials/arcmap1.asp

                           http://libinfo.uark.edu/gis/tutorial.asp

                            http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/gis/tutorials.html

Public Land Survey System    http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/boundaries/a_plss.html