Wildlife Ecology, Conservation and Management second edition

CONTENTS

Preface
1 Introduction
2 Biomes
3 Animals as individuals
4 Population growth
5 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution
6 Food and feeding
7 The ecology of behavior
8 Population regulation, fluctuation and competition within species
9 Competition and facilitation between species
10 Predation
11 Consumer-resource dynamics
12 Parasites and pathogens
13 Communities and ecosystems
14 Counting animals
15 Experimental management
16 Model evaluation and adaptive management
17 Conservation in theory
18 Conservation in practice
19 Wildlife harvesting
20 Wildlife control
References
Appendices
Index

The second edition of Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management provides a thorough introduction to general ecological principles and examines how they can be applied to wildlife management and conservation.

• Expanded and updated, this second edition includes new chapters on understanding ecosystems and the use of computer models in wildlife management.
• Gives a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ecology including the latest theories on population dynamics and conservation.
• Reviews practical applications and techniques and how these can be used to formulate realistic objectives with in an ecological framework.
• Examples of real-life management situations from around the world provide a broad perspective on the international problems of conservation.
• Worked examples on CD enable students to practice calculations explained in the text.
  
  
  
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