I will be teaching a course on Biodiversity and Conservation for non-science majors and I need to decide on what textbook to use. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions people might have. Many of the students in my class will not have any prior biological knowledge, so the text should explain even the most basic concepts, but I would also like the book to have sections on current issues that non-majors might find more interesting and to which they might relate more easily. I am considering the possibility of assigning a Conservation textbook and then a separate book on Biodiversity, or even give the students different articles to complement the Biodiversity lectures. Again, I would welcome any suggestions. Please contact me off list; I'll summarize the suggestions I receive and send them on a separate e-mail to the list for anyone that might also be interested.
Thank you, Valentina -- Valentina Ferretti, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Dept. of Biology Villanova University 800 Lancaster Ave Villanova, PA 19085 Visiting Fellow Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd Ithaca NY 14850 "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ~Samuel Beckett
