Books and Readings

Yet another list! The books and papers I need to get through over winter break include:

• Books:
  • Costa Rica
    • Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America by Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata
    • The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest by Elizabeth Royte
    • A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica by F. Gary Stiles, Alexander F. Skutch, and Dana Gardner
  • Little Cayman
    • Peterson's Field Guide to Coral Reefs: Caribbean and Florida by Eugene Kaplan, Susan Kaplan, and Roger Tory Peterson
• Papers:
  • Costa Rica
    • Using ecological criteria to design plant collection strategies for drug discovery
    • Diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs
    • Assessing representativeness of protected natural areas in Costa Rica for conserving biodiversity: a preliminary gap analysis
    • Riches from the rain forest
    • Tropical ecosystems into the 21st century
    • Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association (I have to prepare a critique of this one to present . . . yikes)
  • Little Cayman
    • The Ecology of Coral Reefs
    • Corals and Coral Reefs
    • Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef
    • Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs