COURSE
SYLLABUS: PRIMATE ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
ANTH 4/58095 (call # 18668)
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: FALL, 2003
INSTRUCTOR:
Marilyn A. Norconk (mnorconk@kent.edu)
OFFICE: 236 Lowry Hall
PHONE: (330) 672-4123
BOOKS FOR THE
COURSE:
Primary text: Cowlishaw,
G., and Dunbar, R. 2000. Primate Conservation Biology. Chicago &
London: The University of Chicago Press.
Reader: Oates,
J.F. 1999. Myth and Reality in the Rainforest: How Conservation Strategies
are Failing in West Africa. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
SCHEDULE
OF LECTURES AND READINGS:
|
Date |
Topic |
Reading:
C&D = Cowlishaw & Dunbar
O = Oates |
|
Week 1- Aug 26 & 28 |
Intro
to Primates; Intro to Ecol & Evolution; Adaptive radiations |
C&D:
1 & 2.1 |
|
Week 2 - Sep 2 & 4 |
Intro
to continental regions; biomes; Pleistocene refugia concept; recent
climatic effects |
C&D:
2.2-2.3 |
|
Week 3 - Sep 9 & 11 |
Primate
diet, body mass, life histories; effects of predation |
C&D:
3.1-3.2 |
|
Week 4 - Sep 16 & 18 |
Primate
mating strategies; social org; species area curves; community richness. |
C&D:
3.3 to end of chapter & 4.1 (pp. 56-67); 9/16: primate identification
& geography quiz. |
|
Week 5 - Sep 23 & 25 |
Plant-animal
interactions; influences of primates on plant communities. |
C&D:
4.2 & 4.3 to end of chap |
|
Week 6 - Sep 30 & Oct 2 |
Primate
abundance, rarity and demography. |
C&D:
5 & 6 (6.1-6.3) |
|
Week 7 - Oct 7 & 9 |
Genetics
of inbreeding; heterzygosity, population health; extinctions. |
C&D:
6.4 & 7 |
|
Week 8 - Oct 14 & 16 |
Habitat
disturbance, the New World: dams, mining, logging, & ranching. |
Oct
14th take-home exam due;
Oct 16: C&D: 8
|
|
Week 9 - Oct 21 & 23 |
Habitat
disturbance, the Old World: human population growth, disease, bushmeat
trade. |
C&D:
8 & 9 |
|
Week 10 - Oct 28 & 30 |
Conservation
strategies: case study of West Africa (begin reading Oates) |
C&D:
10; O: 1-3 |
|
Week 11 - Nov4 & 6 |
West
Africa –How specific? How general? A look at East Africa for comparison. |
O:
4&5 |
|
Week 12 - Nov 13 |
Discussion:
Should people be first? |
O:
5&6 |
|
Week 13 - Nov 18 & 20 |
Conservation
tools: effectiveness of reintroductions & captive breeding |
C&D:
11; O:7 & 8 |
|
Week 14 - Nov 25 |
Film
day and discussion. |
Paper
due before Thanksgiving!! |
|
Week 15 - Dec 2 & 4 |
The
glass– half full? Half empty? Optimism and reality. What can you do? |
C&D:
12; O: 9 |
Brashares, J.S., Arcese, P., Sam, M.K. 2001. Human demography and reserve
size predict wildlife extinction in West Africa. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London 268:2473-2478.
Onderdonk, D.A., Chapman,
C.A. 2000. Coping with forest fragmentation: the primates of Kibale National
Park, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 21:587-611. |
