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Conservation of Wildlife Populations L. Scott Mills

Conservation of Wildlife Populations von L. Scott Mills

Conservation of Wildlife Populations L. Scott Mills

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Zusammenfassung

Conservation of Wildlife Populations provides an accessible introduction to the most relevant concepts and principles for solving real-world management problems in wildlife and conservation biology.

Conservation of Wildlife Populations Zusammenfassung

Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics, and Management L. Scott Mills

Professor L. Scott Mills has been named a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow by the board of trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Conservation of Wildlife Populations provides an accessible introduction to the most relevant concepts and principles for solving real-world management problems in wildlife and conservation biology. Bringing together insights from traditionally disparate disciplines, the book shows how population biology addresses important questions involving the harvest, monitoring, and conservation of wildlife populations. * Covers the most up-to-date approaches for assessing factors that affect both population growth and interactions with other species, including predation, genetic changes, harvest, introduced species, viability analysis and habitat loss and fragmentation. * Is an essential guide for undergraduates and postgraduate students of wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, and environmental studies and an invaluable resource for practising managers on how population biology can be applied to wildlife conservation and management. Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at www.blackwellpublishing.com/mills. An Instructor manual CD-ROM for this title is available. Please contact our Higher Education team at [email protected] for more information.

Conservation of Wildlife Populations Bewertungen

...a well-balanced book that combines readable introductions to theory and (often fascinating) real-world examples in approximately equal measure. Bulletin of the British Ecological Society ... If you were to teach an introductory course on conservation biology that focused on the perspective of population biology, this is the text you would want... Journal of Wildlife Management ... a well-organized, well-written, and... entertaining introduction to the study of population biology... Ecology Scott Mills has written a valuable advanced text for those who will be practitioners of wildlife management ...a fresh and honest approach to several topics that impact wildlife management but are often ignored. Heredity With this book under their belt, students will have the foundation to pursue more advanced coursework and understand why they should. In doing this, Mills has succeeded in filling an important void. Conservation Biology

Über L. Scott Mills

L. Scott Mills is a Professor in the Wildlife Biology Program at the University of Montana. His research and teaching integrates field studies with population models and genetic analyses to understand effects of human perturbations on wildlife populations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of boxes. List of symbols. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I: Background to applied population biology. 1. The Big Picture: Human population dynamics meets 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. Estimating abundance and density. Survival estimation. Estimation of reproduction. Sex ratio. Summary. Further reading. PART II: POPULATION PROCESSES: THE BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT. 5. The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential and geometric change. Introduction. Fundamentals of geometric or exponential growth. Causes and consequences of variation in population growth. Quantifying population growth in a stochastic environment. Summary. Further reading. 6. Density dependent population change. Introduction. Negative density dependence. Positive density dependence. The logistic: one simple model of negative density-dependent population growth. Some counterintuitive dynamics: limit cycles and chaos. Summary. Further reading. 7. Accounting for age and sex-specific differences: population projection models. Introduction. Anatomy of a population-projection matrix. How timing of sampling affects the matrix. Projecting a matrix through time. Adding stochasticity to a matrix model. Sensitivity analysis. Case studies. Summary. Further reading. 8. Predation and wildlife populations. Does predation affect prey numbers?. Factors affecting how predation impacts prey numbers. Summary. Further reading. 9. Genetic Variation and Fitness of 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 lead to inbreeding depression?. What to do when faced with inbreeding depression?. General Rules. Summary. Further reading. 10. Dynamics of Multiple Populations. Introduction. Connectivity among populations. Measuring connectivity among wildlife populations. Multiple populations are not all equal. Options for restoring connectivity. Summary. Further reading. PART III: APPLYING KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION PROCESSES TO PROBLEMS OF DECLINING, SMALL, OR HARVESTABLE POPULATIONS. 11. Human Perturbations: Deterministic Factors Leading to Population Decline. Introduction. General effects of deterministic stressors on populations. Habitat loss and fragmentation. Introduced and invasive species. Pollution. Overharvest. Global climate change. Synergistic effects among deterministic stressors. 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: quantitative methods of assessing viability. Other approaches to assessing viability. Some closing thoughts about assessing viability. Summary. Further reading. 13. Bridging applied population and ecosystem ecology with focal species concepts. Introduction. Flagship species. Umbrella species. Indicator species. Keystone species and strong interactors. Summary. Further reading. 14. Population biology of harvested populations. Introduction. Effects of hunting on population dynamics. Long term effects: hunting as a selective force. Models to guide sustainable harvests. Waterfowl harvest and adaptive harvest management. Management of overabundant and pest populations. Summary. Further reading. Epilogue. References. Species lists. Subject index.

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GOR007639758
9781405121460
1405121467
Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics, and Management L. Scott Mills
L. Scott Mills
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2006-12-01
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