| Description |
1 online resource (525 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the companion website; Chapter 1 Introduction: goals and decisions; 1.1 How to use this book; 1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management?; 1.3 Goals of management; 1.4 Hierarchies of decision; 1.5 Policy goals; 1.6 Feasible options; 1.7 Summary; Part 1 Wildlife ecology; Chapter 2 Food and nutrition; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Constituents of food; 2.3 Variation in food supply; 2.4 Measurement of food supply; 2.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement; 2.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion; 2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement |
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2.8 Body size and diet selection2.9 Indices of body condition; 2.10 Summary; Chapter 3 Home range and habitat use; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Estimating home range size and utilization frequency; 3.3 Estimating habitat availability and use; 3.4 Selective habitat use; 3.5 Using resource selection functions to predict population response; 3.6 Sources of variation in habitat use; 3.7 Movement within the home range; 3.8 Movement among home ranges; 3.9 Summary; Chapter 4 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Dispersal; 4.3 Dispersion; 4.4 Distribution |
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4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse4.6 Species reintroductions or invasions; 4.7 Summary; Chapter 5 Population growth and regulation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Rate of increase; 5.3 Geometric or exponential population growth; 5.4 Stability of populations; 5.5 The theory of population limitation and regulation; 5.6 Evidence for regulation; 5.7 Applications of regulation; 5.8 Logistic model of population regulation; 5.9 Stability, cycles, and chaos; 5.10 Intraspecific competition; 5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease; 5.12 Summary |
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Chapter 6 Competition and facilitation between species6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition; 6.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition; 6.4 The concept of the niche; 6.5 The competitive exclusion principle; 6.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection; 6.7 Competition in variable environments; 6.8 Apparent competition; 6.9 Facilitation; 6.10 Applied aspects of competition; 6.11 Summary; Chapter 7 Predation; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Predation and management; 7.3 Definitions; 7.4 The effect of predators on prey density; 7.5 The behavior of predators |
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7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density7.7 The total response; 7.8 Behavior of the prey; 7.9 Summary; Chapter 8 Parasites and pathogens; 8.1 Introduction and definitions; 8.2 Effects of parasites; 8.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology; 8.4 Determinants of spread; 8.5 Endemic pathogens; 8.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators; 8.7 Epizootic diseases; 8.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife; 8.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations; 8.10 Parasites and host communities; 8.11 Parasites and conservation |
| Summary |
There are several important areas of wildlife research and management that are inadequately covered in the second edition of this book. As a result, the authors have chosen to add four brand new chapters to this new edition, as well as updating several of the other chapters with more recent developments and examples. In current research there has been rapid acceptance of the non-commercial statistical software known as 'R'. In this edition the authors replace all of the programs and example code with their R equivalents. The authors have set up a server link to the textbook software example |
| Notes |
8.12 Parasites and control of pests |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-488) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wildlife management.
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Wildlife conservation.
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Animal ecology.
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Animal ecology
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Wildlife conservation
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Wildlife management
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sinclair, Anthony R. E
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Caughley, Graeme
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| ISBN |
9781118348246 |
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1118348249 |
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9781118291061 |
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1118291069 |
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9781306840910 |
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1306840910 |
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