Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management / Anthony R.E. Sinclair, John M. Fryxell, Graeme Caughley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinclair, A. R. E. (Anthony Ronald Entrican)

Contributor:

Fryxell, John M., 1954-

Caughley, Graeme

Caughley, Graeme.

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife management.

Wildlife conservation.

Animal ecology.

Physical Description:

xii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Summary:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "worked examples ... [which allow] students to develop skills in computer modeling and practical problem solving."--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

1 Introduction: goals and decisions 1

1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management? 2

1.3 Goals of management 3

1.4 Hierarchies of decision 5

1.5 Policy goals 7

1.6 Feasible options 8

Part 1 Wildlife ecology 9

2 Biomes 11

2.2 Forest biomes 12

2.3 Woodland biomes 14

2.4 Shrublands 14

2.5 Grassland biomes 15

2.6 Semi-desert scrub 17

2.7 Deserts 17

2.8 Marine biomes 17

3 Animals as individuals 19

3.2 Adaptation 19

3.3 The theory of natural selection 19

3.4 Examples of adaptation 21

3.5 The effects of history 23

3.6 The abiotic environment 27

3.7 Genetic characteristics of individuals 27

3.8 Applied aspects 33

4 Food and nutrition 36

4.2 Constituents of food 36

4.3 Variation in food supply 40

4.4 Measurement of food supply 42

4.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement 46

4.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion 49

4.7 Food passage rate and food requirement 51

4.8 Body size and diet selection 52

4.9 Indices of body condition 53

5 The ecology of behavior 60

5.2 Diet selection 60

5.3 Optimal patch or habitat use 66

5.4 Risk-sensitive habitat use 69

5.5 Quantifying habitat preference using resource selection functions 70

5.6 Social behavior and foraging 72

6 Population growth 78

6.2 Rate of increase 78

6.3 Fecundity rate 82

6.4 Mortality rate 82

6.5 Direct estimation of life-table parameters 84

6.6 Indirect estimation of life-table parameters 85

6.7 Relationship between parameters 87

6.8 Geometric or exponential population growth 88

7 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution 90

7.2 Dispersal 90

7.3 Dispersion 92

7.4 Distribution 93

7.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse 98

7.6 Species reintroductions or invasions 99

7.7 Dispersal and the sustainability of metapopulations 104

8 Population regulation, fluctuation, and competition within species 109

8.2 Stability of populations 109

8.3 The theory of population limitation and regulation 111

8.4 Evidence for regulation 116

8.5 Applications of regulation 120

8.6 Logistic model of population regulation 121

8.7 Stability, cycles, and chaos 125

8.8 Intraspecific competition 131

8.9 Interactions of food, predators, and disease 134

9 Competition and facilitation between species 135

9.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition 136

9.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition 138

9.4 The concept of the niche 143

9.5 The competitive exclusion principle 146

9.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection 146

9.7 Competition in variable environments 153

9.8 Apparent competition 153

9.9 Facilitation 154

9.10 Applied aspects of competition 159

10 Predation 163

10.2 Predation and management 163

10.4 The effect of predators on prey density 164

10.5 The behavior of predators 165

10.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density 169

10.7 The total response 170

10.8 Behavior of the prey 176

11 Parasites and pathogens 179

11.2 Effects of parasites 179

11.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology 180

11.4 Determinants of spread 183

11.5 Endemic pathogens 184

11.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators 184

11.7 Epizootic diseases 186

11.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife 187

11.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations 188

11.10 Parasites and host communities 190

11.11 Parasites and conservation 191

11.12 Parasites and control of pests 194

12 Consumer-resource dynamics 196

12.2 Quality and quantity of a resource 196

12.3 Kinds of resources 196

12.4 Consumer-resource dynamics: general theory 197

12.5 Kangaroos and their food plants in semi-arid Australian savannas 200

12.6 Wolf-moose-woody plant dynamics in the boreal forest 207

12.7 Other population cycles 212

Part 2 Wildlife conservation and management 217

13 Counting animals 219

13.2 Estimates 219

13.3 Total counts 219

13.4 Sampled counts: the logic 221

13.5 Sampled counts: methods and arithmetic 226

13.6 Indirect estimates of population size 235

14 Age and stage structure 244

14.1 Age-specific population models 244

14.2 Stage-specific models 247

14.3 Sensitivity and elasticity of matrix models 248

14.4 Short-term changes in structured populations 251

15 Model evaluation and adaptive management 253

15.2 Fitting models to data and estimation of parameters 254

15.3 Measuring the likelihood of models in light of the observed data 256

15.4 Evaluating the likelihood of alternative models using AIC 258

15.5 Adaptive management 264

16 Experimental management 268

16.2 Differentiating success from failure 268

16.3 Technical judgments can be tested 269

16.4 The nature of the evidence 272

16.5 Experimental and survey design 274

16.6 Some standard analyses 279

17 Conservation in theory 289

17.2 Demographic problems contributing to risk of extinction 289

17.3 Genetic problems contributing to risk of extinction 291

17.4 Effective population size (genetic) 297

17.5 Effective population size (demographic) 298

17.6 How small is too small? 299

17.7 Population viability analysis 300

17.8 Extinction caused by environmental change 305

18 Conservation in practice 312

18.2 How populations go extinct 312

18.3 How to prevent extinction 321

18.4 Rescue and recovery of near extinctions 323

18.5 Conservation in national parks and reserves 324

18.6 Community conservation outside national parks and reserves 332

18.7 International conservation 332

19 Wildlife harvesting 335

19.2 Fixed quota harvesting strategy 335

19.3 Fixed proportion harvesting strategy 341

19.4 Fixed escapement harvesting strategy 344

19.5 Harvesting in practice: recreational 346

19.6 Harvesting in practice: commercial 346

19.7 Age- or sex-biased harvesting 347

19.8 Bioeconomics 347

19.9 Game cropping and the discount rate 352

20 Wildlife control 355

20.3 Effects of control 356

20.4 Objectives of control 356

20.5 Determining whether control is appropriate 357

20.6 Methods of control 358

21 Ecosystem management and conservation 365

21.3 Gradients of communities 366

21.4 Niches 366

21.5 Food webs and intertrophic interactions 366

21.6 Community features and management consequences 368

21.7 Multiple states 370

21.8 Regulation of top-down and bottom-up processes 371

21.9 Ecosystem consequences of bottom-up processes 373

21.10 Ecosystem disturbance and heterogeneity 374

21.11 Ecosystem management at multiple scales 376

21.12 Biodiversity 377

21.13 Island biogeography and dynamic processes of diversity 379

21.14 Ecosystem function 381.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of Wildlife ecology and management / Graeme Caughley, Anthony R.E. Sinclair.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-449) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Related Work:

Caughley, Graeme. Wildlife ecology and management.

ISBN:

1405107375

1405138068

9781405138062

9781405107372

140513805X

9781405138055

OCLC:

58526307

Publisher Number:

99947847045