| Description |
1 online resource (354 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- List of symbols -- Acknowledgments for second edition -- Acknowledgments for first edition -- PART I: Background to Applied Population Biology -- CHAPTER 1: The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology -- Introduction -- Population Ecology of Humans -- Human population growth -- Human impacts on wildlife through effects other than population size -- Extinction Rates of Other Species |
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Number of species on Earth: described and not yet described -- Historic versus current rates of extinction -- Humans and Sustainable Harvest -- The Big Picture -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 2: Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Obtaining Reliable Facts Through Sampling -- Replication and randomization -- Controls -- Accuracy, error, and variation -- Linking Observed Facts to Ideasmind Leads to Understanding -- The hypothetico-deductive (HD) approach -- Three ways to test hypotheses |
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Model selection based on information-theoreticmethods -- Bayesian statistics: updating knowledge withnew information -- Ethics and the Wildlife Population Biologist -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 3: Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology -- Introduction -- What Is Genetic Variation? -- Genetic Markers Used in Wildlife Population Biology -- Fragment analysis -- Microsatellite DNA -- Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) -- Genes that affect fitness: functional genomics, adaptive variation, and transcriptomics |
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Insights into Wildlife Population Biology Using Genetic Tools -- Taxonomy and hybridization -- Determining species identity and distribution -- Determining gender and individual identity -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 4: Estimating population vital rates -- Introduction -- Estimating Abundance and Density -- Background: censusing, estimating, and indexing abundance -- Transect methods for estimating abundance -- Sightability or observation probability models -- Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods for estimating abundance -- Robust design |
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Density estimation in capture-mark-recapture studies -- Survival Estimation -- Known-fate models -- CMR using the Cormack-Jolly-Seber method -- Band-return approaches -- Other approaches -- Estimation of Reproduction -- Sex Ratio -- Sex ratios in the wild -- Summary -- Further Reading -- PART II: Population processes: the basis for management -- CHAPTER 5: The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of Geometric or Exponential Growth -- Discrete (geometric) growth -- Continuous (exponential) growth |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118406694 |
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1118406699 |
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