Weekly reading assignments will be conveyed at the first class meeting;
readings for the first five weeks of class are listed below. Reading Assignments
Week 1. Section 1,
"Theory of Environmental Restoration" (pp. 1-26) in "Helping Nature Heal."
Read Marguerite Holloway's article "Nurturing Nature" (Sci. Amer., April,
1994; pp.98-198, and Jackson, Lopoukhine and Hillyard's (1995) "Commentary
on Ecological Restoration: A Definition and Comments;" my 1992 artice called
"Bioddiversity conservation in Europe and North America II: Shrublands
- In defense of disturbed lands" (on reserve in the Science Library; available
from Replica). Begin St. John's "Why habitat restoration projects fail"
(also on reserve). Lockwood, J.L. 1997. An Alternative to succession: Assembly
rules offer guide to restoration efforts. Restoration and Management Notes
15(1): 45-50.
Visit these websites:
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/EcologicalRestoration/
http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/global/sen_sem/gnatcat/index.htm
http://128.200.23.67/sjmr/
Week 2. Section 2,
"Environmental Restoration in the USA" (pp. 27-76) in "Helping Nature Heal."
Read my papers entitled (1991) "The challenge of living with growth in
a healthy environment" and (1994) "Transplantation of coastal sage scrub
seedlings from natural stands as a new technique in restoration" and Noss's
"California's Ecosystem Decline" (on reserve in the Science Library) Dobson,
A. P., A.D. Bradshaw, and A.J.M. Baker. 1997. Hopes for the future: Restoration
Ecology and Conservation Biology. Science 277: 515-522. (Available from
the reserve desk at the Science library; Replica, or www.science.org).
Bowler, P.A. 1992. Biodiversity Conservation in Europe and North America.
II. Shrublands - In Defense of Disturbed Lands. Restoration and Management
Notes 10(2): 144-149.
Week 3.
Pages 13-30 in "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants." Read Hartig
(1994) "The psychological ecology of ecological restoration" and my 1996
paper on "Coastal Sage Scrub restoration" (on reserve in the Science Library).
Week 4. Section 3,
"Restoration Around the World" (pp. 78-113) in "Helping Nature Heal;" material
given to the class by Tree of Life Nursery (also on reserve in the Science
Library). Noble, I.R. and R. Dirzo. 1997. Forests as Human-dominated ecosystems.
Science 277: 522-525. Week 5. Section 4, "The Practice of Environmental
Restoration" (pp.114-144) in "Helping Nature Heal." Bowler, P.A. 1996.
Toward Transpersonal Restorations. Guest Editorial. 2nd Interface symposium
proceedings (in press).
Readings after Week 5 will be assigned in class.
Society for Ecological Restoration Home Page The SER Home Page on the
World Wide Web can be found at (case is important): http://nabalu.flas.ufl.edu/ser/SERhome.html