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Reading list
Dorothy has copies of individual papers/chapters in the BIOLS Library. Books are in the
Main Library. ** - Strongly recommended reading, * - Recommended reading
Extinction
 Diamond, J., 1989. Overview of recent extinctions. Chapter 4 (pp37-41) in:
Western, D. & Pearl, M. Conservation for the Twenty-first Century, Oxford
University Press. **
 Olson, S., 1989. Extinction on islands: Man as a catastrophe. Chapter 6 (pp 50-53) in: Western, D. & Pearl, M. Conservation for the Twenty-first Century, Oxford
University Press. **
 Reid, W.V., 1992. How many species will there be? Pp 55-74 in Whitmore, T.C. & Sayer,
J.A. (eds) Tropical deforestation and species extinction. Chapman & Hall, London.
The Diamond and Olson chapters are short, and easy to read. Reid considers some of the problems involved in estimating extinction rates.
Species numbers, Biodiversity, Hotspots
Books
 Bibby, C.J. et al., 1992. Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation. ICPB, Cambridge, U.K.
 Gaston, K.J. & Spicer, J.I., 1998. Biodiversity: an introduction. Blackwell Science,
Oxford.*
Papers
 May, R.M., 1988. How many species are there on earth? Science, 241:1441-1449.
 Mittermeier, R. A., Myers, N. &, Mittermeier, C. G., 1998. Biodiversity hotspots and major tropical wilderness areas: approaches to setting conservation priorities.
Conservation Biology, 12(3):516-520.
 Mittermeier, R.A. et al., 2003. Wilderness and biodiversity conservation. Proc. Nat. Ac.
Sci. 100(18):10309-10313. **
 Pearce, F., 1995. Rockall mud richer than rainforest. New Scientist, 147 (1995): 8. **
 Pain, S., 1996. Mud, glorious mud. New Scientist, Supplement to 152 (2054): 4-7.
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 Wilson, E.O., 1989. Threats to biodiversity. Scientific American, 261: 60-66.
Wilson (1989) and May (1988) are old papers, but worth a look. Gaston & Spicer give a range of examples of patterns of species richness. Pearce (1995) and Pain (1996) are articles in New Scientist, so remember they are journalism rather than science writing, but they raise some interesting points.
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Tropical Rainforest
Books
 Park, C.C., 1992. Tropical rainforests. Routledge, London.
 Whitmore, T. C. 1998. An introduction to tropical rain forests. 2nd Ed Oxford
University Press, Oxford.
Papers
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Repetto, R. (1990) Deforestation in the tropics. Scientific American 262, 18 – 24.
Johns, A.D. (1992) Species conservation in managed tropical forest. In: Tropical deforestation and species extinction. (eds) Whitmore, T.C., Sayer, J.A. Chapman &
Hall.
Fynbos
 Trinder-Smith, T.H.; Cowling, R.M. & Linder, H.P., 1996. Profiling a besieged flora: endemic and threatened plants of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Biodiversity
and Conservation, 5:575-589. *
Coral Reefs
 Green, E.P. & Bruckner, A.W., 2000. The significance of coral disease epizootiology for coral reef conservation. Biological Conservation, 96: 347-361. *
 Parry-Jones, R. & Lau, P.P.F., 1999. Hong Kong's live reef fish trade. TRAFFIC Bulletin,
18: 7-8. **
 McClanahan TR, Muthiga NA, Kamukuru AT, et al., 1999. The effects of marine parks and fishing on coral reefs of northern Tanzania Biological Conservation, 89: 161-182. **
Tutorial
 Wilson, E.O. (2000) A global biodiversity map. Science 289, 2279.
 Myers, N., R.A. Mittermeier, C.G. Mittermeier, G.A.B. da Fonseca, and J. Kent. (2000)
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities. Nature 403, 853-858.
 Roberts, C.M., McClean, C.J., Veron, J.E., Hawkins, J.P., Allen, G.R., McAllister, D.E.,
Mittermeier, C.G., Schueler, F.W., Spalding, M., Wells, F., Vynne, C., Werner, T.B. (2002)
Marine biodiversity hotspots and conservation priorities for tropical reefs. Science 295,
1280-1284.
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