Course weblog for BIO 697, a 3-credit graduate level course for the Fall 2004 semester at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Professor: Dr. Jennifer Forman Orth

Friday, October 29, 2004

Reading Assignments for 11/2 - 11/4

Tuesday, Nov. 2 - Negative Impacts: Economic
  • "ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH NON-INDIGENOUS SPECIES IN THE UNITED STATES" By David Pimentel, Lori Lach, Rodolfo Zuniga, and Doug Morrison. (1999) Link]
  • Article handed out in class about Economics of Invasions, from the book Invasive Species in a Changing World (extra copies in the Biology Copy Room)

Thursday, Nov. 4 - Negative Impacts: Ecological
  • Impact and Extinction [.pdf on Prometheus]
  • Impact of Trout [.pdf on Prometheus]