Useful Information

Essay Assignment Tutorial

Course Material

Readings

Referencing

John Lavas
Subject Librarian:
Biological Sciences

Science Information Services 
General Library
The University of Auckland Library
Ph 09 3737599 ext. 85772
j.lavas@auckland.ac.nz

Locations

• Tamaki Campus Library opening hours (includes Short Loan Collection)
• General Library opening hours
• Short Loan Collection (City Campus) information, opening hours, use etc.
• Information Commons Help Desk
• Kate Edger Information Commons | Ururangi

Resources

• Using electronic journals via Find Full Text
• Primary, Review and Popular Journals, what are the differences?
• InfoQuest: the Online Guide to Finding Journal Articles
• Understanding your Reading List
• Readings & Exams - on-line versions of past exam papers, great for study and revision!
• FREE Library Workshops - the Catalogue, Internet Searching, Databases and much more....
• The Confused Undergrads Guide to Getting Good Marks in Biology (Prepared for the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland by Paul Barnett and Emma Marks)

Essay Assignment Tutorial 

An optional combined Literature Search Skills tutorial has been offered in past years for all BIOSCI 320, BIOSCI 396, and BIOSCI 394 students.  The tutorial showed you how to carry out a literature search the easy way using a variety of literature sources. It may not be held in 2009.

• The essay assignment requires you to conduct research using Library databases, electronic journals, print journals, electronic books and print books to find peer reviewed literature relevant to your essay topic - this is called a Literature Search.  [Primary, Review and Popular Journals, what are the differences?]

When:  TBA
Where: City Campus, Kate Edger Information Commons: Room TBA

If this course is offered, please make sure that you Book for this course. Thank you.

Course Material - Short Loan Collection 

There are a number of items available for BIOSCI 394 in the Tamaki Campus Library but most resources are electronic and can be accessed from anywhere.

To see the full list of items, go to the  Course Materials  search page on the library page, scroll down the alphabetical list of courses to find the entry for BIOSC394 and click on the Search tab.

The items are in alphabetical order by title and may include books and individual articles. 

Lecture Readings

Course readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.

• Copies of all readings are available in the Short Loan Collection at the Tamaki Campus Library. 
• All readings are listed in Voyager the library catalogue.  Performing a course materials search under BIOSCI 394 in Voyager will display this list of readings.  Please note that readings are not listed in lecture order, but rather in article or book title order.
• Some readings are also available as online journal articles, and where possible links have been included below to the online versions of articles.
• In order to gain access to the electronic readings you will need to enter in your NetID and Password after clicking on the reading links below.

Blaschke, P. M., Trustrum, N. A., & DeRose, R. C. (1992). Ecosystem processes and sustainable land use in New Zealand steeplands. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 41, 153-178.

Bormann, F. H., & Likens, G. E. (1970). The Nutrient Cycles of an Ecosystem. Scientific American. 223(4), 1970, 92-102.

Carlton, J. T. (1989). Man's role in changing the face of the ocean : biological invasions and implications for conservation of near-shore environments. Conservation biology, 3(3), 265-73.

Clout, M. N., Elliott, G. E., & Robertson, B. C. (2002). Changes in the offspring sex ratio of kakapo given supplementary food: a dliemma for the conservation of a polygynous parrot. Biological Conservation, 107, 13-18.

Clout, M. N., & Merton, D. V. (1998). Saving the Kakapo: the conservation of the world's most peculiar parrot. Bird conservation international, 8, 281-296.

DeRose, R. C., Trustrum, N. A. & Blaschke, P. M. (1993). Post-deforestation soil loss from steepland hillslopes in Taranaki, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 18, 131-144.

Fahey, B. D., & Rowe, L. K. (1992). Land-Use Impacts. In M. Paul Mosley (Ed.). Waters of New Zealand (pp. 265-284). Wellington, N.Z.: New Zealand Hydrological Society.

Lafferty, K. D., & Kuris, A. M. (1996). Biological control of marine pests, Ecology, 77(7), 1989-2000.

Lodge, D. M. (1993). Biological invasions : lessons for ecology. Trends in ecology & evolution, 8(4), 133-6.

Murphy, D. D., & Duffus, D. A. (1996). Conservation biology and marine biodiversity. Conservation biology, 10(2), 311-2.

National Water and Soil Conservation Organisation (N.Z.). Farming the hills : mining or sustaining the resource? Streamland, 62, 1987.

Ogden, J., Braggins, J., Stretton, K., & Anderson, S. (1997). Plant species richness under pinus radiata stands on the central north island volcanic plateau, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 21(1), 17-29.

Slooten, E., & Dawson, S. M. (1995). Conservation of marine mammals in New Zealand. Pacific conservation biology, 2, 64-76.

Westoby, M. (1986). The self-thinning rule. Advances in ecological research, 14, 1986, 167- 225.