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I recently taught a full course on biodiversity.  A complete course
outline and most of the basic lecture material are compiled on my web
site.  I hope there will be some useful information for you there.

The evolutionary material you are interested in was covered in this
course.  The population biology you mentioned is covered very nicely in a
freely available software package (makes for good labs!) called Populus.
Economics and biodiversity and conservation ... Mendelsohn at the Yale
School of Forestry does a lot of this stuff, and has published broadly on
the subject.  Good reading.

Best wishes, and I hope these suggestions are useful for you.

Jeremy Kerr
Biology, York University
4700 Keele St, North York, ON
Canada M3J1P3
email: jtkerr@yorku.ca
URL: http://www.yorku.ca/academics/jtkerr

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Brendan Moyle wrote:

> I'm taking a grad course next semester.  One topic I want to cover is "An
> Economist's Guide to Biology".
>
> Given the rather tight constraints in terms of time, I'd like to seek some
> advice on the 'core' or absolutely 'essential' concepts from biology
> students should acquire.
>
> I want to cover some evolutionary theory (mechanisms of natural selection
> and speciation) plus some population ecology stuff (Lotka-Volterra etc.).
> What else should form part of this 'core'?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Brendan
> ________________________________________________________
>               Dr Brendan Moyle- Bioeconomist
>     Massey University (Albany), Auckland, New Zealand
>        Ph: 64-9-443-9619    Fax: 64-9-443-9732
>                 Email: B.J.Moyle@massey.ac.nz
>