Major reference books
Burgman, M.A., S. Ferson and H.R. Akcakaya. 1993. Risk assessment in conservation biology. Chapman and Hall. New York. 314 p.
Case, TJ. 2000. An illustrated guide to theoretical ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Caswell, H. 1986. Matrix Population Models: construction, analysis and interpretation. Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.
Hilborn, R. and M. Mangel. 1997. The Ecological Detective: confronting models with data. Princeton University Press. 315 P.
Hilborn, R. and Walters, C.J. 1992. Quantitative fisheries stock assessment: choice, dynamics and uncertainty. Chapman and Hall, NY 570 p.
Morris, W.F. and D.F. Doak. 2002. Quantitative conservation biology : theory and practice of population viability analysis. Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates,
Papers closely related to course material
Dennis, B., P.L. Munholland and J.M. Scott. 1991. Estimation of growth and extinction parameters for endangered species. Ecological Monographs, 6: 115-143.
Deriso, R. B. 1980. Harvesting strategies and parameter estimation for an age-structured model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 37: 268-282.
Fournier, D. A., and I. J. Doonan. 1987. A length-based stock assessment method utilizing a generalized delay--difference model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 44: 422-437.
Fowler, C. W., and J. D. Baker. 1991. A review of animal population dynamics at extremely reduced population levels. Rep. Int. Whal. Commn. 41: 545-554.
Gilbert, D. J. 1997. Towards a new recruitment paradigm for fish stocks. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 54: 969-977.
Hilborn. 1990. Determination of fish movement patterns from tag recoveries using maximum likelihood estimators. CJFAS 47: 635-643
Holling, C.S. 1965. The functional response of predators to prey density and its role in mimicry and population regulation. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 45: 1-60.
Mace, G.M. and R. Lande. 1991. Assessing extinction threats: towards a reevaluation of IUCN threatened species categories. Conservation Biology 5: 148-157
Myers, R. A., A. A. Rosenberg, P. M. Mace, N. Barrowman, and V. R. Restrepo. 1994. In search of thresholds for recruitment overfishing. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 51: 191-205.
Myers, R. A., N. J. Barrowman, J. A. Hutchings, and A. A. Rosenberg. 1995. Population dynamics of exploited fish stocks at low population levels. Science. 269: 1106-1108.
Polacheck, T., R. Hilborn and A. E. Punt. 1993. Fitting surplus production models: comparing methods and measuring uncertainty. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50: 2597-2607.
Schnute, J. 1985. A general theory for analysis of catch and effort data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42: 414-429.
Schnute, J. 1987. A general fishery model for a size-- structured fish population. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 44: 924-940.
Sinclair, ARE, Pech, RP Dickman, CR, Hik-D; Mahon-P; Newsome-A-E . 1998. Predicting effects of predation on conservation of endangered prey/ Conservation-Biology. 12 (3) 564-575..