FW 426: Coastal Ecology and Resource Management Course Guide

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Essential information for a citation :

Authorship
Title & subtitle
Name of journal or book
Volume number
Inclusive page numbers
Year of publication
Month or number if volume is not paged consecutively

Resources for style & format:

University of Chicago Press. 1993. The Chicago manual of style. 14th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Examples from: Instructions to Authors in Journal of Mammalogy

Journal Article:
BROWN, J. S., AND N. B. PAVLOVIC. 1992a. Evolution in heterogeneous environments: effects of migration on habitat specialization. Evolutionary Ecology 6:360–382

Journal article with multiple authors:
NEVO, E., V. SIMOSEN, AND A. R. TEMPLETON. In press. Starch gel electrophoresis of enzymes—a compilation of recipes. Biochemical Genetics.

Book:
ANDERSON, D. A., AND W. A. SMITH. 1976. Forests and forestry. 2nd ed. Interstate Printers and Publishers, Inc., Danville, Illinois 3:1–798.

HALL, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York 1:1–600 + 90. [OR …2:601–1181 + 90.]

NEAL, E. G., AND C. CHEESEMAN. 1996. Badgers. Poyser Natural History, London, United Kingdom.

Chapter in a Book (also use for a paper in a conference proceeding):
PATTON, J. L., ET AL. 1977. Optimal habitat selection in two-species competitive systems. Pp. 282–293 in Population ecology (U. Halbach and J. Jacobs, eds.). Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, West Germany.

Technical Report:
GOODWIN, J. G., JR., AND C. R. HUNGERFORD. 1979. Rodent population densities and food habitats in Arizona ponderosa pine forests. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Research Paper RM-214:1–12.

Thesis or Dissertation:
STEWART, P. D. 1997. The social behaviour of the European badger, Meles meles. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Software:
SAS INSTITUTE INC. 1990. SAS/STAT user's guide. Release 6.03. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina.

Websites (use the article formats for online articles):
JAFFE, J.S. and NIERENBERG, W.A. 1997. Report to the Sloan Foundation: Technology Workshopfor the Census of the Fishes Oct 16-17, 1997. Available: http://core.ssc.erc.msstate.edu/censtech.html. Accessed: September 25, 2001.

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HMSC Housing (students will be staying in the Bunkhouses)

HMSC Events Calendar

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CERM Course Instructor

Chris Langdon
Office:
171 Newport Aquaculture Laboratory, HMSC
Office Hours:
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CERM Information

What you'll learn.

•    Describe the ecological systems that influence coastal and marine dynamic processes.
•    Evaluate human uses of these systems and the impacts that those uses have on natural resources.
•    Recognize and evaluate the validity of different viewpoints with regard to how resource management decisions are made.
•    Explain the process by which coastal and marine resource management decisions are made at the local, state, and federal level.
•    Apply their knowledge of biology and resource management in the production and presentation of their term projects.

FW Databases

AGRICOLA (USDA/NAL)
Index to journal articles, government reports and extension publications. Primarily focused on US agriculture.
Abstracts and index:
1979-present
Coverage Dates: 1979 - present
Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
Index to journal articles, government reports, books, dissertations and conference papers covering all biological and ecological aspects of marine and freshwater environments.
Abstracts and index: 1978-present
Coverage Dates: 1978 - present
Biosis Previews/Biological Abstracts (via ISI Web of Knowledge)
Life sciences and biomedical research from journals, meetings, patents, and books. * 5,000 journals, as well as non-journal literature * Over 500,000 records added annually Coverage: Index Only 1991-present
Coverage Dates: 1991 - present
Web of Science
The web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Science Citation Index 1970-present
Social Science Citation Index 1970-present

Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
Index to journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of wildlife research.
Index only: 1935-present
Coverage Dates: 1935 - present
Fish & Fisheries Worldwide
Index to journal articles, books, conference papers, government reports, theses and other literature covering all areas of fish and fisheries research.
Index only: 1971-present
Coverage Dates: 1971 - present
LexisNexis Academic
(Formerly Academic Universe)Comprehensive index to newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV news program transcripts, legal material and other reference sources. Primarily focused on news, business and legal topics.
Includes full-text.

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