| Description |
1 online resource (525 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| 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 |
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2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement -- 2.8 Body size and diet selection -- 2.9 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 |
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4.2 Dispersal -- 4.3 Dispersion -- 4.4 Distribution -- 4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse -- 4.6 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 |
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5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease -- 5.12 Summary -- Chapter 6 Competition and facilitation between species -- 6.1 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 |
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7.3 Definitions -- 7.4 The effect of predators on prey density -- 7.5 The behavior of predators -- 7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density -- 7.7 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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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8.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118348246 |
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1118348249 |
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