Table of Contents

0. Speaker Introduction
1. Designing Nature Reserves: past, present and future.
   
   
   0. Periods of mass extinctions:
   1. A comment on human birth rates...
   2. Causes of mass extinctions:
   3. Deterministic factors:
   4. Nature reserves as protection against extinction:
   5. European hunting preserves:
   6. African areas:
   7. North America:
   8. Grizzly bears as an umbrella species:
      
      
      0. Methods for designing reserves to protect biodiversity...
      
      
   9. Grizzly Bear and human travels:
   10. Humans, 1; Bears, 0:
   11. Protected areas for spectacular natural features:
   12. Continued extinction of grizzlies:
   13. Demographic effects on small bear populations:
   14. Species area relationships...
   15. Today's story...
   16. Problems with small populations:
   17. Migration waves:
   18. Dispersal routes connecting core areas:
   19. Examining possible corridors:
   20. Physical parameters:
       
       
       0. Vegetation...
       1. Roads...
       2. Humans
       
       
   21. The bottom line...
   22. It's not rocket science and there's a lot of art to this...
   23. Dispersal is for the males...
   24. Male dispersers are efficient agents of gene flow...
   25. Barriers presented by towns and cities:
   26. This is how we need to start thinking about large scale conservation:
   27. An even wider vision is embodied in the Wildlands Project...
   28. Concluding thoughts...
   
   
   0. Narrative Index
   1. Slide Index
   2. Web Index