Book
Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781118291078 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781118291061 (cloth)
- Physical Description: xiii, 509 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
- Edition: 3rd ed. / John M. Fryxell, Anthony R.E. Sinclair, Graeme Caughley.
- Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-488) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : goals and decisions -- Food and nutrition -- Home range and habitat use -- Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution -- Population growth and regulation -- Competition and facilitation between species -- Predation -- Parasites and pathogens -- Consumer-resource dynamics -- The ecology of behavior -- Climate change and wildlife -- Counting animals -- Age and stage structure -- Experimental management -- Model evaluation and adaptive management -- Population viability analysis -- Conservation in practice -- Wildlife harvesting -- Wildlife control -- Evolution and conservation genetics -- -- Habitat loss and metapopulation dynamics -- Ecosystem management and conservation. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Wildlife management. Wildlife conservation. Animal ecology. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar Campus Library | SK 355 C38 2014 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
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B001536796 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Blackwell UK
To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics. With emphasis on practical application and quantitative skill development, this book weaves together these disparate elements in a single
coherent textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students. It reviews analytical techniques, explaining the mathematical and statistical principles behind them, and shows how these can be used to formulate
realistic objectives within an ecological framework.This third edition is comprehensive and up-to-date, and includes:
Brand new chapters that disseminate rapidly developing topics in the field: habitat use and selection; habitat fragmentation, movement, and corridors; population viability. analysis, the consequences of climate change; and evolutionary responses to disturbance
A thorough updating of all chapters to present important areas of wildlife research and management with recent developments and examples.
A new online study aid – a wide variety of downloadable computer programs in the freeware packages R and Mathcad, available through a companion website. Worked examples enable readers to practice calculations explained in the text and to develop a solid understanding of key statistical procedures and population models commonly used in wildlife ecology and management.
also valuable to professional wildlife managers, park rangers, biological resource managers, and those
working in ecotourism. - Book News
In this guide to wildlife management, the authors examine how managing wildlife populations enmeshes with ecology as a whole. Intended as a textbook for an undergraduate or graduate level class, this book looks at how quantitative analysis techniques are used in the wildlife management decision-making process. The authors argue that quantitative analysis can and should be used to maintain a sustainable and dynamic ecosystem. The authors define value versus technical judgments, the possible goals of wildlife management, identifying the problems in an ecosystem, and how to gauge the success of management policies and procedures. This, the third edition, contains new chapters covering habitat use and fragmentation, wildlife movement and corridors, evolutionary responses to disturbance, population viability analysis, and climate change. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - WILEY
To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics. With emphasis on practical application and quantitative skill development, this book weaves together these disparate elements in a single coherent textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students. It reviews analytical techniques, explaining the mathematical and statistical principles behind them, and shows how these can be used to formulate realistic objectives within an ecological framework.
This third edition is comprehensive and up-to-date, and includes:
- Brand new chapters that disseminate rapidly developing topics in the field: habitat use and selection; habitat fragmentation, movement, and corridors; population viability. analysis, the consequences of climate change; and evolutionary responses to disturbance
- A thorough updating of all chapters to present important areas of wildlife research and management with recent developments and examples.
- A new online study aid ? a wide variety of downloadable computer programs in the freeware packages R and Mathcad, available through a companion website. Worked examples enable readers to practice calculations explained in the text and to develop a solid understanding of key statistical procedures and population models commonly used in wildlife ecology and management.
