Biodiversity
Biol/Env St 304, Spring 2007
Male golden toad, Monteverde, Costa Rica, 1979, photo
by J. Raich.
Instructor:
Dr. Lynn Clark
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
345 Bessey Hall
Ames, Iowa 50011
phone: 515-294-8218; lgclark@iastate.edu
Office hours: T W 11-noon or by appointment
Syllabus (MS Word format)
Course Outline (MS Word format)
Biodiversity statement by Iowa
Academy of Science (pdf format)
Lecture Notes
Ecosystems [.pdf format]
Communities [.pdf format]
Species & Populations [.pdf format]
Genetic Diversity [.pdf format]
Tree of Life I [.pdf format]
Tree of Life II [.pdf format]
Tree of Life III [.pdf format]
Arthropod Overview (ppt format)
Mollusk Overview (ppt format)
Measuring Biodiversity [.pdf format]
Rarity & Extinction [.pdf format]
Iowa Biodiversity [.pdf format]
Disturbance [.pdf format]
Value & Maintenance [.pdf format]
Ethics & Policy [.pdf format]
Written Assignment (MS Word format)
Previous quizzes and final exam, pdf format
Quiz 1 [.pdf format]
Quiz 2 [.pdf format]
Final exam, 2004 [.pdf format]
Links to relevant web sites
Rediscovering the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
NOVA On-line How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Biodiversity and Biological Collections
Biodiversity and Conservation, a hypertext book
Convention on Biological Diversity
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