As no single text is adequate for this course, there is no standard textbook. The documents that you need will be provided by the instructors. Lecture notes will be placed on reserve in the library.
We have also placed on reserve a number of books that can be consulted in order to supplement the lectures:
Ridley M. 1986. Evolution
and classification. Longman, London.
Wiley, E.O. 1981. Phylogenetics. Wiley, New York.
Groombridge B. 1992. Global Biodiversity. Chapman & Hall, London.
Harvey P. & Pagel M. 1991. The comparative method in evolutionary biology.
OUP.
Hawksworth D. 1995. Biodiversity: measurement and estimation. Chapman
& Hall, London.
Miller, R.I. 1994. Mapping the diversity of nature. Chapman & Hall,
London.
Rosenzweig, M.L. 1995. Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge
University Press.
Gaston, K.J. 1996. Biodiversity: a Biology of Numbers and Difference.
Blackwell Science, Oxford.
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Lecture notes will be made available in the reserves section of the library after each lecture.
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There are several web sites that can be useful for this course:
The Redpath Museum's Quebec
Biodiversity Website
The Natural History Museum's site on Biodiversity
Environment Canada's Green Lane,
which leads to all manner of Canadian environmental sites
The Tree of Life,
a site that fills most of your phylogenetic and biodiversity needs
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A program is also available this year for those of you working on a final project based on Professor Bell's material. This program is called the "Statistical Analysis of Biological Surveys" program (abbreviated SABS), and can be downloaded by clicking the button below. The downloaded file is a self-extracting zip file, so just double-click on it once it is downloaded and it will uncompress itself.
Two
files are included that are necessary to run the program, sabs.exe
(the SABS program itself, which can go anywhere you'd like it to) and
msvbvm60.dll (which is needed for the program to run and should
automatically be placed in c:\windows\system for you); a folder entitled
documentation is also included, which contains a paper elaborating
on the reasoning and methods behind SABS. If you have problems with the
installation, read the readme.txt file that is also included in
the sabs.zip file. If things still aren't working right, email
Torsten Bernhardt.
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Data sets will also be available
for the final project. They will be given out in class on diskette when
data sets are chosen.
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