Course Packet of Supplemental Readings

1. Anon. 1997. Republic of Costa Rica. Brigham Young University. Provo Utah.
2. Anon. Sunlight and Stratification. (Xerox copy only) 26 pp.
3. Anon. Evolution of Species Diversity in Tropics. (Xerox copy only) 22 pp.
4. Ayers, H., C. E. Little, and J. Hager. 1998. An Appalachian Tragedy : Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America. Sierra Club Books.
5. Baker, C. 1996. Costa Rica Handbook. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Internet source: swissnet.al.mit.edu/cr/)
6. Beletsky, L. 1998. Ecotravelers' Wildlife Guide to Costa Rica. (Sections on Conservation in Costa Rica and Geography and Climate). Academic Press. New York.
7. Blair, R. 1996. Armed and Dangerous: Cattle, Campesinor and Contragate in the Remilitarization of Costa Rica. (Honors paper written for a United States - Latin American Relations course at Va Tech).
8. Brokaw, N. V. L. 1985. Treefalls, Regrowth, and Community Structure in Tropical Forests. In Pickett, S. T. A. And P. S. White (Eds.) The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics. Academic Press. New York.
9. Brown, S. And A. E. Lugo. 1990. Tropical secondary forests. J. Trop. Ecol. 6:1-32
10. Connell, J. H. 1978. Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs. Science. 199: 1302 1310.
11. Denslow, J. S., and G. S. Hartshorn. 1994. Tree-fall Gap Environments and Forest Dynamics. Pp. 120-127. In. L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide and G. S. Hartshorn.. La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
12. Durwood Dunn. 1988. Cades Cove : The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville TN.
13. Echeverria, J., M. Hanrahan and R. Solorzano. 1995. Valuation of non-priced amenities provided by the biological resources within the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, Costa Rica. Ecol. Econ. 13: 43-52.
14. Faaborg, J. Brittingham, M. T. Donovan, and J. Blake. 1995. Habitat Fragmentation in the Temperate Zone. pp. 357-380. In. T. E. Martin and D. M. Finch (eds.) Ecology and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds. Oxford University Press. New York.
15. Forsyth, A. And K. Miyata. 1984. Tropical Nature. Simon and Schuester. New York.
16. Gottfried, R. R., C. D. Brockett, and W. C. Davis. 1994. Models of sustainable development and forest resource management in Costa Rica. Ecol. Econ. 9: 107-120.
17. Harris, L. D. 1984. The Fragmented Forest: Island Biogeography Theory and the Preservation of Biotic Diversity. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
18. Harris, L. D., and G. Silva-Lopez. 1992. Forest fragmentation and the conservation of biological diversity. pp. 197-237. In. P L. Fiedler and S. K. Jain (eds.) Conservation Biology: the Theory and Practice of Nature Conservation, Preservation and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York.
19. Holdridge, L. R. 1971. Forest environments in tropical life zones; a pilot study. Pergamon Press
20. Holdridge, L. R. 1977. Life zone ecology. San Jose, Costa Rica : Tropical Science Center (microfiche).
21. Hubbell, S. P., et. Al. 1999. Light-gap Distances, Recruitment Limitation, and Tree Diversity in a Neotropical Forest. Science
22. Jones, L. 1993. Appalachian Values. pp.101-105. In B. Ergood and B Kuhre (eds.) Appalachia: Social Context Past and Present. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. Dubuque Iowa (book is out of print.)
23. Kuenzler, E. J. 1974. Mangrove Swamp Systems. Pp. 346-371. In. H. T. Odum, B. J. Copeland and E. A. McMahan. (Eds.) Coastal ecological systems of the United States. Conservation Foundation. Washington.
24. Lewis, R. L. 1995. Railroads, Deforestation, and the Transformation of Agriculture in the West Virginia Back Counties, 1880-1920. Pp. 297-320. In. M. B. Pudup, D. B. Billings and A. L. Waller. Appalachia in the making: the Mountain south in the Nineteenth Century. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC.
25. Levey, D. J., and F. G. Stiles. 1994. Birds: Ecology, Behavior and Taxonomic Affinities. pp. 217-228.
26. Lieberman, M., and D. Lieberman. 1994. Patterns of Density and Dispersion of Forest Trees. pp 106-119. In. L. A. McDade, K. S. Bawa, H. A. Hespenheide and G. S. Hartshorn.. La Selva: Ecology and Natural History of a Neotropical Rain Forest. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
27. Martin, T. E. And D. M. Finch. 1995. Importance of knowledge and its application in Neotropical Migratory Birds. pp. xiii-xvi. In. T. E. Martin and D. M. Finch (eds.) Ecology and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds. Oxford University Press. New York.
28. McNeely, et al. 1990. The Values of Biological Diversity. Pp. 25-35. In. McNeely et al. Conserving the World-s Biological Diversity. UICN, WRI, CI World Bank
29. Moore, F. R., S. A. Gauthreaux, Jr., P. Kerlinger and T. R. Simons. 1995. Habitat Requirements During Migration: Important Link in Conservation. pp 121-144. In. T. E. Martin and D. M. Finch (eds.) Ecology and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds. Oxford University Press. New York.
30. Newell, N. D. 1972. The Evolution of Reefs. Sci. Amer. 226: 54-65.
31. Olson, T. 1998. Blue Ridge Folklife. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS. 211 pp.
32. Palmer, P., J. Sanchez and G. Mayorga. 1991. Taking care of Sibo's Gifts.: An Environmental Treatise from Costa Rica's KeKoldi Indigenous Reserve, Asociacion de Desarrollo Integral de la Reserva. San Jose, Costa Rica.
33. Petit, D. R., J. F. Lynch, R. L. Hutto, J. G. Blake, and R. B Waide. 1995. Habitat Use and Conservation in the Neotropics. pp. 145-200. In. T. E. Martin and D. M. Finch (eds.) Ecology and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds. Oxford University Press. New York.
34. Plotkin, M. J. 1993. Tales of the Shaman's Apprentice. Penguin Books
35. Rutzler, K., and C. Feller. 1987. Mangrove Swamp Communities. Oceanus 30(4): 17-24.
36. Schakelford, L. And B. Weinberg. 1988. Our Appalachia: An Oral History. University Press of Kentucky.
37. Shapiro, H. D. 1978. Appalachia on Our Mind. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. Pages 157-243.
38. Shifflett, C. 1991. Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville TN.
39. Stadtmuller, T. 1987. Cloud Forests in the Humid Tropics. United Nationes University.
40. Yahner, R. H. 1995. Forest Fragmentation. Pp. 85-124. In R. H. Yahner. Eastern Deciduous Forest. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis MN.
41. Whitmore, T. C. 1998. An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests. 2nd Ed. Oxford University Press. New York.
42. Wilson, E. O. 1993. Biophilia and the Conservation Ethic. pp. 31-40. In. S. R. Kellert and E. O. Wilson (Eds.) The Biophilia Hypothesis. Harvard University Press.
43. Plus others that are found on specific organisms