Welcome to the Field Biogeography and Species Conservation website.  During the six-week spring terms of 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, Professors John Knox and Jim Warren taught a combined pair of courses in field biogeography and topics in environmental literature.  The course met three days a week from 8:30 in the morning till 4:30 in the afternoon.  Students received 7 credits for the two courses.  This website records the field experiences we had in the vicinity of Lexington, Virginia, the field journals, reading journals, and herbaria that the students compiled, sample "place papers" the students wrote, and the special guests we had as fellow travelers during the 2006 and 2007 terms.

On the left bar to this page, you will find useful links to general information about Field Biogeography 2006-2009.  The Class Documents link gives the syllabi for the two linked courses.  The next two links give the webpages for the two instructors.  Then come websites for Robin Kimmerer, who was our special guest professor in 2006, and Barry Lopez, who walked with us in the field and discussed both his own work and Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle in 2007.  The Smithsonian link takes you to the latest announcement for the 2008 Symposium of the Department of Botany at the Museum of Natural History; we attended that annual symposium in 2006 and 2008, and from the Botany website you can access the full program and abstracts of talks delivered in the April 2006 symposium on island biogeography and the April 2008 symposium on mutualism.  Finally, the Associated Colleges of the South link takes you to the Environmental Initiatives site.  Our 2006, 2007, and 2008 courses, as well as this website itself, were fundamentally supported by grants from the Faculty and Curriculum Development Initiative.  Our thanks to Barry Allen of Rollins College and to the other members of the initiative.

 The website is a work in progress, but we want to thank Ben Hartless for serving as our mentor and webmaster.

John Knox
Jim Warren
Lexington, VA