Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management

Exercises for Class, Field, and Laboratory (1^st Edition)

by James P. Gibbs, Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., and Eleanor J. Sterling

Support site for Second Edition of this book

This page only contains links to the Java Applet exercises. For all other exercises, please refer to the Problem-Solving in Conservation Biology PDF, located in the same directory as this interactive exercises page.

Note to instructors: Because the exercises Fragment, Disperse and Bandcoot are now Java applets and not executable downloads, the answers that students get will differ slightly from the answers in the instructors manual.

Exercise 4. Population Viability Analysis

Population Viability Analysis for the Eastern Barred Bandicoot

Exercise 8. Habitat Loss and Fragmentation

Exercise 9. Dispersal

Dispersal Through a Fragmented Landscape

Click on the landscape, then use the arrow keys to get the individual (the red dot) to the pink patch.

Please send any comments or suggestions to help us improve these exercises. Or submit an exercise that you have developed for possible inclusion in future editions of this book. To do so, send e-mail or regular mail to:

James P. Gibbs, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
350 Illick Hall, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA
(e-mail: jpgibbs <at> syr <dot> edu)

Thank you!