Exercises for Class, Field, and Laboratory

by James P. Gibbs, Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., and Eleanor J. Sterling

This website and an Instructor's Manual both accompany the book Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management. They present information useful for making each of the book's exercises succeed. The Instructor's Manual can be obtained from the Publisher or in electronic form from the authors (see below). The website provides updates on each exercise, Internet links useful to each exercise, and downloads of the software needed to complete several exercises.

Note to instructors: Because the exercises Fragment, Disperse and Bandcoot are now Java applets and not executable downloads, the answers that students get will differ slightly from the answers in the instructors manual.

Exercise 1. Natural Resource Management and Conservation Biology

Exercise 2. Conservation Values

Exercise 3. Regional Biodiversity

Exercise 10. Population Genetics

Exercise 11. Genetic Drift

Exercise 22. Restoration Ecology

Exercise 23. Land Use Planning

Exercise 27. Conservation Policy

Please send any comments or suggestions to help us improve these exercises. Or submit an exercise that you have developed for possible inclusion in future editions of this book. To do so, send e-mail or regular mail to:

James P. Gibbs, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
350 Illick Hall, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA (e-mail: jpgibbs@syr.edu)

Thank you!