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Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management. Cover Image Book Book

Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management.

Fryxell, John M., 1954- (Author). Sinclair, A. R. E. (Anthony Ronald Entrican) (Added Author). Caughley, Graeme. (Added Author).

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  • 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-488) and index.
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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.

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Preface xi
About the companion website xiii
1 Introduction: goals and decisions
1(8)
1.1 How to use this book
1(1)
1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management?
2(1)
1.3 Goals of management
3(3)
1.4 Hierarchies of decision
6(1)
1.5 Policy goals
7(1)
1.6 Feasible options
7(1)
1.7 Summary
8(1)
Part 1 Wildlife ecology 9(194)
2 Food and nutrition
11(24)
2.1 Introduction
11(1)
2.2 Constituents of food
11(3)
2.3 Variation in food supply
14(3)
2.4 Measurement of food supply
17(3)
2.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement
20(3)
2.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion
23(3)
2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement
26(1)
2.8 Body size and diet selection
27(1)
2.9 Indices of body condition
28(5)
2.10 Summary
33(2)
3 Home range and habitat use
35(18)
3.1 Introduction
35(1)
3.2 Estimating home range size and utilization frequency
36(2)
3.3 Estimating habitat availability and use
38(2)
3.4 Selective habitat use
40(2)
3.5 Using resource selection functions to predict population response
42(1)
3.6 Sources of variation in habitat use
42(3)
3.7 Movement within the home range
45(3)
3.8 Movement among home ranges
48(3)
3.9 Summary
51(2)
4 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution
53(16)
4.1 Introduction
53(1)
4.2 Dispersal
53(2)
4.3 Dispersion
55(1)
4.4 Distribution
56(5)
4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse
61(1)
4.6 Species reintroduction or invasions
62(5)
4.7 Summary
67(2)
5 Population growth and regulation
69(26)
5.1 Introduction
69(1)
5.2 Rate of increase
69(4)
5.3 Geometric or exponential population growth
73(1)
5.4 Stability of populations
73(3)
5.5 The theory of population limitation and regulation
76(5)
5.6 Evidence for regulation
81(4)
5.7 Applications of regulation
85(1)
5.8 Logistic model of population regulation
86(2)
5.9 Stability, cycles, and chaos
88(2)
5.10 Intraspecific competition
90(3)
5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease
93(1)
5.12 Summary
93(2)
6 Competition and facilitation between species
95(28)
6.1 Introduction
95(1)
6.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition
96(2)
6.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition
98(5)
6.4 The concept of the niche
103(3)
6.5 The competitive exclusion principle
106(1)
6.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection
106(7)
6.7 Competition in variable environments
113(1)
6.8 Apparent competition
113(1)
6.9 Facilitation
114(5)
6.10 Applied aspects of competition
119(3)
6.11 Summary
122(1)
7 Predation
123(16)
7.1 Introduction
123(1)
7.2 Predation and management
123(1)
7.3 Definitions
123(1)
7.4 The effect of predators on prey density
124(1)
7.5 The behavior of predators
125(4)
7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density
129(1)
7.7 The total response
130(6)
7.8 Behavior of the prey
136(2)
7.9 Summary
138(1)
8 Parasites and pathogens
139(18)
8.1 Introduction and definitions
139(1)
8.2 Effects of parasites
139(1)
8.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology
140(3)
8.4 Determinants of spread
143(1)
8.5 Endemic pathogens
144(1)
8.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators
144(2)
8.7 Epizootic diseases
146(1)
8.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife
147(3)
8.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations
150(1)
8.10 Parasites and host communities
151(1)
8.11 Parasites and conservation
152(3)
8.12 Parasites and control of pests
155(1)
8.13 Summary
156(1)
9 Consumer-resource dynamics
157(20)
9.1 Introduction
157(1)
9.2 Quality and quantity of a resource
157(1)
9.3 Kinds of resource
157(1)
9.4 Consumer-resource dynamics: general theory
158(3)
9.5 Kangaroos and their food plants in semi-arid Australian savannas
161(6)
9.6 Wolf-moose-woody plant dynamics in the boreal forest
167(5)
9.7 Other population cycles
172(3)
9.8 Summary
175(2)
10 The ecology of behavior
177(14)
10.1 Introduction
177(1)
10.2 Diet selection
177(6)
10.3 Optimal patch or habitat use
183(3)
10.4 Risk-sensitive habitat use
186(1)
10.5 Social behavior and foraging
187(3)
10.6 Summary
190(1)
11 Climate change and wildlife
191(12)
11.1 Introduction
191(1)
11.2 Evidence for climate change
191(1)
11.3 Wildlife responses to climate change
192(4)
11.4 Mechanisms of response to climate change
196(3)
11.5 Complex ecosystem responses to climate change
199(2)
11.6 Summary
201(2)
Part 2 Wildlife conservation and management 203(216)
12 Counting animals
205(28)
12.1 Introduction
205(1)
12.2 Total counts
205(2)
12.3 Sampled counts: the logic
207(5)
12.4 Sampled counts: methods and arithmetic
212(8)
12.5 Indirect estimates of population size
220(7)
12.6 Indices
227(1)
12.7 Harvest-based population estimates
228(3)
12.8 Summary
231(2)
13 Age and stage structure
233(18)
13.1 Introduction
233(1)
13.2 Demographic rates
233(2)
13.3 Direct estimation of life table parameters
235(1)
13.4 Indirect estimation of life table parameters
236(2)
13.5 Relationships among parameters
238(1)
13.6 Age-specific population models
239(3)
13.7 Elasticity of matrix models
242(1)
13.8 Stage-specific models
243(2)
13.9 Elasticity of the loggerhead turtle model
245(1)
13.10 Short-term changes in structured populations
246(1)
13.11 Environmental stochasticity and age-structured populations
246(3)
13.12 Summary
249(2)
14 Experimental management
251(22)
14.1 Introduction
251(1)
14.2 Differentiating success from failure
251(1)
14.3 Technical judgments can be tested
252(3)
14.4 The nature of the evidence
255(2)
14.5 Experimental and survey design
257(5)
14.6 Some standard analyses
262(9)
14.7 Summary
271(2)
15 Model evaluation and adaptive management
273(12)
15.1 Introduction
273(1)
15.2 Fitting models to data and estimation of parameters
274(2)
15.3 Measuring the likelihood of the observed data
276(2)
15.4 Evaluating the likelihood of alternate models using AIC
278(3)
15.5 Adaptive management
281(3)
15.6 Summary
284(1)
16 Population viability analysis
285(20)
16.1 Introduction
285(1)
16.2 Environmental stochasticity
285(1)
16.3 PVA based on the exponential growth model
286(1)
16.4 PVA based on the diffusion model
287(3)
16.5 PVA based on logistic growth
290(1)
16.6 Demographic stochasticity
291(3)
16.7 Estimating both environmental and demographic stochasticity
294(2)
16.8 PVA based on demographic and environmental stochasticity
296(1)
16.9 Strengths and weaknesses of PVA
296(2)
16.10 Extinction caused by environmental change
298(1)
16.11 Extinction threat due to introduction of exotic predators or competitors
298(2)
16.12 Extinction threat due to unsustainable harvesting
300(2)
16.13 Extinction threat due to habitat loss
302(1)
16.14 Summary
302(3)
17 Conservation in practice
305(20)
17.1 Introduction
305(1)
17.2 How populations go extinct
305(10)
17.3 How to prevent extinction
315(1)
17.4 Rescue and recovery of near-extinctions
316(1)
17.5 Conservation in National Parks and reserves
317(5)
17.6 Community conservation outside National Parks and reserves
322(1)
17.7 International conservation
323(1)
17.8 Summary
324(1)
18 Wildlife harvesting
325(22)
18.1 Introduction
325(1)
18.2 Fixed-quota harvesting strategy
325(4)
18.3 Fixed-proportion harvesting strategy
329(3)
18.4 Harvesting in practice: dynamic variation in quotas or effort
332(2)
18.5 No-harvest reserves
334(1)
18.6 Age- or sex-biased harvesting
335(5)
18.7 Commercial harvesting
340(1)
18.8 Bioeconomics
340(4)
18.9 Game cropping and the discount rate
344(2)
18.10 Summary
346(1)
19 Wildlife control
347(10)
19.1 Introduction
347(1)
19.2 Definitions
347(1)
19.3 Effects of control
348(1)
19.4 Objectives of control
348(1)
19.5 Determining whether control is appropriate
349(1)
19.6 Methods of control
350(6)
19.7 Summary
356(1)
20 Evolution and conservation genetics
357(24)
20.1 Introduction
357(1)
20.2 Maintenance of genetic variation
358(1)
20.3 Natural selection
359(2)
20.4 Natural selection and life history tradeoffs
361(2)
20.5 Natural selection due to hunting
363(2)
20.6 Natural selection due to fishing
365(2)
20.7 Selection due to environmental change
367(5)
20.8 Ecological dynamics due to evolutionary changes
372(2)
20.9 Heterozygosity
374(1)
20.10 Genetic drift and mutation
375(1)
20.11 Inbreeding depression
376(1)
20.12 How much genetic variation is needed?
377(1)
20.13 Effective population size
378(1)
20.14 Effect of sex ratio
379(1)
20.15 How small is too small?
380(1)
20.16 Summary
380(1)
21 Habitat loss and metapopulation dynamics
381(18)
21.1 Introduction
381(1)
21.2 Habitat loss and fragmentation
381(3)
21.3 Ecological effects of habitat loss
384(2)
21.4 Metapopulation dynamics
386(3)
21.5 Territorial metapopulations
389(1)
21.6 Mainland-island metapopulations
390(1)
21.7 Source-sink metapopulations
391(1)
21.8 Metacommunity dynamics of competitors
392(1)
21.9 Metacommunity dynamics of predators and prey
393(1)
21.10 Corridors
394(4)
21.11 Summary
398(1)
22 Ecosystem management and conservation
399(20)
22.1 Introduction
399(1)
22.2 Definitions
400(1)
22.3 Gradients of communities
400(1)
22.4 Niches
400(1)
22.5 Food webs and intertrophic interactions
400(2)
22.6 Community features and management consequences
402(2)
22.7 Multiple states
404(1)
22.8 Regulation of top-down and bottom-up processes
405(2)
22.9 Ecosystem consequences of bottom-up processes
407(1)
22.10 Ecosystem disturbance and heterogeneity
408(2)
22.11 Ecosystem management at multiple scales
410(1)
22.12 Biodiversity
411(2)
22.13 Island biogeography and dynamic, processes of diversity
413(2)
22.14 Ecosystem function
415(2)
22.15 Summary
417(2)
Appendices 419(4)
Glossary 423(12)
References 435(54)
Index 489

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