Mike’s Graduate Reading List
Essential:
Anderson, D. R., K. P. Burnham, and William L. Thompson. 2000. Null hypothesis testing: problems,
prevalence and an alternative. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:912-923.
Belovsky, G. E., D. B. Botkin, T. A. Crowl, K. W. Cummins, J. F. Franklin, M. L. Hunter Jr., A. Joern, D.
B. Lindenmayer, J. A. Macmahon, C. R. Margules, and J. M. Scott. 2004. Ten suggestions to
strengthen the science of ecology. Bioscience 54: 345-351.
Boyles, J. G., D. P. Aubrey, B. S. Cooper, J. G. Cox, D. R. Coyle, R. J. Fisher, J. D. Hoffman, and J. J.
Storm. 2008. Statistical confusion among graduate students: sickness or symptom. Journal of
Wildlife Management 72:1869-1871.
Doak, D.F., J.A. Estes, B.S. Halpern, U. Jacob, D.r. Lindberg, J. Lovvorn, D.H. Monson, M.T. Tinker, T.M.
Williams, J.T. Wootton, I. Carroll, M. Emmerson, F. Micheli, and M. Novak. 2008. Understanding
and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable? Ecology 89:952-961.
Fox, C. W., D. A. Roff, and D. J. Fairbairn. 2001. Evolutionary ecology: concepts and case studies. Oxford
University Press, New York.
Fraser, D. 1985. Piggery perspectives on wildlife management and research. Wildlife Society Bulletin
13:183-187.
Gauch, H. G. 2003. Scientific method in practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Gavin, T. A. 1991. Why ask “why?”: the importance of evolutionary biology in wildlife science.
Journal of Wildlife Management 55:760-766.
Gill, R. B. 1985. Wildlife research– an endangered species. Wildlife Society Bulletin 13:580-587.
Hilborn, R. and M. Mangel. 1997. The ecological detective. Monographs in Population Biology 28.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Hurlburt, S. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of field ecology experiments. Ecological
Monographs 54:187-211.
Johnson, D. H. 1999. The insignificance of statistical significance testing. Journal of Wildlife
Management 63:763-772.
Macnab, J. 1983. Wildlife management as scientific experimentation. Wildlife Society Bulletin
11:397-410.
Macnab, J. 1985. Carrying capacity and other slippery shibboleths. Wildlife Society Bulletin
13:403-410.
Nudds, T. D., and M. L. Morrison. 1991. Ten years after “Reliable Knowledge”: are we gaining?
Journal of Wildlife Management 55:757-760.
Platt, J. R. 1964. Strong inference. Science 146:347-352.
Romesburg, H. C. 1981. Wildlife science: gaining reliable knowledge. Journal of Wildlife
Management 45: 293-313.
Schwartz, M. A. 2008. The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science 121:1771.
Strunk, Jr., W., and E. B. White. 1979. The elements of style. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA.
Thomas, J. W. 1986. Effectiveness– the hallmark of the natural resource professional. Transactions of
the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 51:27-38.
Williams, B. K. 1997. Logic and science in wildlife biology. Journal of Wildlife Management
61:1007-1015.
Important:
Bonar, S. A. 2007. The conservation professional's guide to working with people. Island Press,
Washington, USA.
Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 1998. Model selection and inference: a practical
information-theoretic approach. Springer-Verlag, New York, USA.
Caswell, H. 2001. Matrix population models: construction, analysis, and interpretation.
Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA, USA.
Caughley, G. 1977. Analysis of vertebrate populations. Wiley, New York, NY.
Darwin, C. 1859. The origin of the species. New American Library, New York, NY.
Errington, P. L. 1967. Of predation and life. Iowa State University Press, IA.
Gould, S. J. 1980. The panda’s thumb. W. W. Norton and Company, New York, NY.
Hutchinson, G. E. 1953. The concept of pattern in ecology. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural
Sciences 105:1-12.
Hutchinson, G. E. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative
Biology 22:415-427.
Krebs, J. R., and N. B. Davies. 1993. An introduction to behavioural ecology, 3rd edition. Blackwell
Science, Ltd., Oxford, UK.
Leopold, A. 1949. A sand county almanac. Ballentine Books, NY.
Matthews, C. 1999. Hardball. Free Press, New York, NY.
Mayr, E. 1982. The growth of biological thought. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, MA.
Real, L. A., and J. H. Brown, editors. 1991. Foundations of Ecology. University of Chicago Press,
Chicago.
Stephens, D. W., and J. R. Krebs. 1986. Foraging theory. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Williams, B. K., J. D. Nichols, and M. J. Conroy. 2001. Analysis and management of animal populations.
Academic Press, New York, NY.