Principles of Managing Natural Diversity

Schneider, R.R. (2019) Biodiversity Conservation in Canada From Theory to Practice. Friesens Press. Edmonton, AB, Canada. 364 pg. Almost this entire textbook will be required reading (with the exception of Chapter 5 and some smaller sections)

Crawley, M.J. (2013) The R Book. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, West Sussex, UK

Hunter, Jr., M.L., & Gibbs J.P. (2007) Fundamentals of Conservation Biology. 3rd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell,

Malden, Massachusetts, USA. 516 pg

Primack, R.B. (2014) Essentials of Conservation Biology. 6th Edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA. 603 pg

Quammen, D. (1996) The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction. Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA. 702 pg

Materials discussed in class relate strongly to the topics covered in all these texts. The Quammen (1996) text is a popular science book that won a Pulitzer Prize and is written as a narrative of the history of much of the field (very good at introducing the history and key topics in conservation biology and is