| Description |
xiii, 326 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Sensitivity Analysis in the Broad Sense to Help Evaluate Management Actions -- Fitness is Lambda, Selection is Management -- Case Studies Using Matrix Models to Guide Conservation Decision-Making -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 7.Density-dependent population change -- Introduction -- Negative Density Dependence -- The Logistic: One Simple Model of Negative Density-Dependent Population Growth -- Some Counterintuitive Dynamics: Limit Cycles and Chaos -- Positive Density Dependence -- Negative and Positive Density Dependence Operate Together -- Component Versus Demographic Outcomes of Density Dependence -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 8.Predation and wildlife populations -- Introduction -- Does Predation Affect Prey Numbers? -- Factor 1 Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Predation Rate -- Factor 2 Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Compensation -- Factor 3 Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Who Gets Killed -- |
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Contents note continued: Summary -- Further Reading -- 14.Population biology to guide sustainable harvest -- Introduction -- Effects of Hunting on Population Dynamics -- Long-Term Effects: Hunting as an Evolutionary Force -- Models to Guide Sustainable Harvest -- Waterfowl Harvest and Adaptive Harvest Management in the US -- Management of Overabundant and Pest Populations -- Summary -- Further Reading |
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Contents note continued: Summary -- Further Reading -- 9.Genetic variation and fitness in wildlife populations -- Introduction -- Long-Term Benefits of Genetic Variation -- What Determines Levels of Genetic Variation in Populations? -- Quantifying the Loss of Heterozygosity: The Inbreeding Coefficient -- When Does Inbreeding Due to Genetic Drift Lead to Inbreeding Depression? -- Outbreeding Depression and the Loss of Local Adaptation -- Genetic Rescue, Genetic Restoration, and Long-Term Population Recovery -- Appropriate Levels of Genetic Connectivity -- Case Studies Where Genetic Rescue Meets the Real World -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 10.Dynamics of multiple populations -- Introduction -- What Is Connectivity? -- Consequences of Connectivity for Wildlife Populations -- Measuring Connectivity Among Wildlife Populations -- Multiple Populations are not All Equal -- Options for Restoring Connectivity -- Summary -- Further Reading -- |
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Contents note continued: Survival Estimation -- Estimation of Reproduction -- Sex Ratio -- Summary -- Further Reading -- pt. II POPULATION PROCESSES: THE BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT -- 5.The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of Geometric or Exponential Growth -- Causes and Consequences of Variation in Population Growth -- Quantifying Exponential Population Growth in a Stochastic Environment -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 6.All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured population-projection models -- Introduction -- Anatomy of a Population-Projection Matrix -- How Timing of Sampling Affects the Matrix -- Projecting a Matrix Through Time Leads to Transient and Asymptotic Dynamics -- All Vital Rates are not Created Equal: Analytical Sensitivities and Elasticities -- Stochasticity in Age and Stage-Structured Populations -- |
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Contents note continued: pt. III APPLYING KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION PROCESSES TO PROBLEMS OF DECLINING, SMALL, OR HARVESTABLE POPULATIONS -- 11.Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations -- Introduction -- General Effects of Deterministic Stressors on Populations: Adapt, Move, or Die -- Habitat Loss and Fragmentation -- Introduced and Invasive Species -- Pollution -- Overharvest -- Global Climate Change -- Multiple Deterministic Stressors Occur Simultaneously -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 12.Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations -- Introduction -- Ecological Characteristics Predicting Risk -- The Extinction Vortex -- Predicting Risks in Small Populations -- Population Viability Analysis (PVA): Quantitative Methods of Assessing Viability -- Other Approaches to Assessing Viability -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 13.Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems -- Introduction -- The Four Categories of Focal Species -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I BACKGROUND TO APPLIED POPULATION BIOLOGY -- 1.The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology -- Introduction -- Population Ecology of Humans -- Extinction Rates of Other Species -- Humans and Sustainable Harvest -- The Big Picture -- Further Reading -- 2.Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Obtaining Reliable Facts Through Sampling -- Linking Observed Facts to Ideasmind Leads to Understanding -- Ethics and the Wildlife Population Biologist -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 3.Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology -- Introduction -- What Is Genetic Variation? -- Genetic Markers Used in Wildlife Population Biology -- Insights into Wildlife Population Biology Using Genetic Tools -- Summary -- Further Reading -- 4.Estimating population vital rates -- Introduction -- Estimating Abundance and Density -- |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-300) and index |
| Subject |
Animal populations.
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Wildlife management.
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| LC no. |
2012016373 |
| ISBN |
9780470671498 (paperback) |
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9780470671504 (cloth) |
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