Literature for Spring semester class readings

Jennifer Smith, Doug Emlen, and Dean Pearson – “Linking Native and Invader Traits Explains Native Spider Population Responses to Plant Invasion”

Simple calcuations of key diversity indices, comparing beetle diversity at the family level across three different sites in India over 12 months of the year: “Diversity and Composition of Beetles (Order: Coleoptera) of Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Asiatic Cheetahs Face Extinction in Iran; Conservationists Imprisoned (pdf)

Dave Wagner et al Proc Nat. Acad Sci:
Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts –

Myers 2000 paper on hotspotshttps://www.nature.com/articles/35002501