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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fryxell, John M., 1954- author.

Caughley, Graeme, author.

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

Series:

Wiley Desktop Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal ecology.

Wildlife conservation.

Wildlife management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (525 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

Professor John Fryxell currently teaches in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Canada, where he has worked closely with a number of university and government scientists to develop sustainable conservation strategies for elk, woodland caribou, wolves, and marten. Previous to this he worked at the University of British Columbia and as Wildlife Consultant for the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. His research has focused on the role of behavior in population and community dynamics of large mammals. He has a continuing interest in African wildlife, including long-term studies on the demography and spatial ecology of large herbivores and their predators in Serengeti National Park. Professor Anthony Sinclair is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He has been Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Research at the University, and a Professor at the Department of Zoology. He has researched Canadian subarctic ecosystems and worked on Canadian boreal forest ecosystems, in particular on cycles of snowshoe hares. He worked in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa, on ecology and conservation projects for over 40 years. He has conducted ecological research on the Serengeti ecosystem of Tanzania, documenting multiple states in Serengeti savanna and grassland communities. He has also worked on endangered marsupial mammal populations and predation by exotic carnivores in Australia and similar systems in New Zealand.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

About the companion website

Chapter 1 Introduction: goals and decisions

1.1 How to use this book

1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management?

1.3 Goals of management

1.4 Hierarchies of decision

1.5 Policy goals

1.6 Feasible options

1.7 Summary

Part 1 Wildlife ecology

Chapter 2 Food and nutrition

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Constituents of food

2.3 Variation in food supply

2.4 Measurement of food supply

2.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement

2.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion

2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement

2.8 Body size and diet selection

2.9 Indices of body condition

2.10 Summary

Chapter 3 Home range and habitat use

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Estimating home range size and utilization frequency

3.3 Estimating habitat availability and use

3.4 Selective habitat use

3.5 Using resource selection functions to predict population response

3.6 Sources of variation in habitat use

3.7 Movement within the home range

3.8 Movement among home ranges

3.9 Summary

Chapter 4 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Dispersal

4.3 Dispersion

4.4 Distribution

4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse

4.6 Species reintroductions or invasions

4.7 Summary

Chapter 5 Population growth and regulation

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Rate of increase

5.3 Geometric or exponential population growth

5.4 Stability of populations

5.5 The theory of population limitation and regulation

5.6 Evidence for regulation

5.7 Applications of regulation

5.8 Logistic model of population regulation

5.9 Stability, cycles, and chaos

5.10 Intraspecific competition

5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease

5.12 Summary.

Chapter 6 Competition and facilitation between species

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition

6.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition

6.4 The concept of the niche

6.5 The competitive exclusion principle

6.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection

6.7 Competition in variable environments

6.8 Apparent competition

6.9 Facilitation

6.10 Applied aspects of competition

6.11 Summary

Chapter 7 Predation

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Predation and management

7.3 Definitions

7.4 The effect of predators on prey density

7.5 The behavior of predators

7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density

7.7 The total response

7.8 Behavior of the prey

7.9 Summary

Chapter 8 Parasites and pathogens

8.1 Introduction and definitions

8.2 Effects of parasites

8.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology

8.4 Determinants of spread

8.5 Endemic pathogens

8.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators

8.7 Epizootic diseases

8.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife

8.9 Parasites and the regulation of host populations

8.10 Parasites and host communities

8.11 Parasites and conservation

8.12 Parasites and control of pests

8.13 Summary

Chapter 9 Consumer-resource dynamics

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Quality and quantity of a resource

9.3 Kinds of resource

9.4 Consumer-resource dynamics: general theory

9.5 Kangaroos and their food plants in semi-arid Australian savannas

9.6 Wolf-moose-woody plant dynamics in the boreal forest

9.7 Other population cycles

9.8 Summary

Chapter 10 The ecology of behavior

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Diet selection

10.3 Optimal patch or habitat use

10.4 Risk-sensitive habitat use

10.5 Social behavior and foraging

10.6 Summary.

Chapter 11 Climate change and wildlife

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Evidence for climate change

11.3 Wildlife responses to climate change

11.4 Mechanisms of response to climate change

11.5 Complex ecosystem responses to climate change

11.6 Summary

Part 2 Wildlife conservation and management

Chapter 12 Counting animals

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Total counts

12.3 Sampled counts: the logic

12.4 Sampled counts: methods and arithmetic

12.5 Indirect estimates of population size

12.6 Indices

12.7 Harvest-based population estimates

12.8 Summary

Chapter 13 Age and stage structure

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Demographic rates

13.3 Direct estimation of life table parameters

13.4 Indirect estimation of life table parameters

13.5 Relationships among parameters

13.6 Age-specific population models

13.7 Elasticity of matrix models

13.8 Stage-specific models

13.9 Elasticity of the loggerhead turtle model

13.10 Short-term changes in structured populations

13.11 Environmental stochasticity and age-structured populations

13.12 Summary

Chapter 14 Experimental management

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Differentiating success from failure

14.3 Technical judgments can be tested

14.4 The nature of the evidence

14.5 Experimental and survey design

14.6 Some standard analyses

14.7 Summary

Chapter 15 Model evaluation and adaptive management

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Fitting models to data and estimation of parameters

15.3 Measuring the likelihood of the observed data

15.4 Evaluating the likelihood of alternate models using AIC

15.5 Adaptive management

15.6 Summary

Chapter 16 Population viability analysis

16.1 Introduction

16.2 Environmental stochasticity

16.3 PVA based on the exponential growth model

16.4 PVA based on the diffusion model.

16.5 PVA based on logistic growth

16.6 Demographic stochasticity

16.7 Estimating both environmental and demographic stochasticity

16.8 PVA based on demographic and environmental stochasticity

16.9 Strengths and weaknesses of PVA

16.10 Extinction caused by environmental change

16.11 Extinction threat due to introduction of exotic predators or competitors

16.12 Extinction threat due to unsustainable harvesting

16.13 Extinction threat due to habitat loss

16.14 Summary

Chapter 17 Conservation in practice

17.1 Introduction

17.2 How populations go extinct

17.3 How to prevent extinction

17.4 Rescue and recovery of near-extinctions

17.5 Conservation in National Parks and reserves

17.6 Community conservation outside National Parks and reserves

17.7 International conservation

17.8 Summary

Chapter 18 Wildlife harvesting

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Fixed-quota harvesting strategy

18.3 Fixed-proportion harvesting strategy

18.4 Harvesting in practice: dynamic variation in quotas or effort

18.5 No-harvest reserves

18.6 Age- or sex-biased harvesting

18.7 Commercial harvesting

18.8 Bioeconomics

18.9 Game cropping and the discount rate

18.10 Summary

Chapter 19 Wildlife control

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Definitions

19.3 Effects of control

19.4 Objectives of control

19.5 Determining whether control is appropriate

19.6 Methods of control

19.7 Summary

Chapter 20 Evolution and conservation genetics

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Maintenance of genetic variation

20.3 Natural selection

20.4 Natural selection and life history tradeoffs

20.5 Natural selection due to hunting

20.6 Natural selection due to fishing

20.7 Selection due to environmental change

20.8 Ecological dynamics due to evolutionary changes

20.9 Heterozygosity.

20.10 Genetic drift and mutation

20.11 Inbreeding depression

20.12 How much genetic variation is needed?

20.13 Effective population size

20.14 Effect of sex ratio

20.15 How small is too small?

20.16 Summary

Chapter 21 Habitat loss and metapopulation dynamics

21.1 Introduction

21.2 Habitat loss and fragmentation

21.3 Ecological effects of habitat loss

21.4 Metapopulation dynamics

21.5 Territorial metapopulations

21.6 Mainland-island metapopulations

21.7 Source-sink metapopulations

21.8 Metacommunity dynamics of competitors

21.9 Metacommunity dynamics of predators and prey

21.10 Corridors

21.11 Summary

Chapter 22 Ecosystem management and conservation

22.1 Introduction

22.2 Definitions

22.3 Gradients of communities

22.4 Niches

22.5 Food webs and intertrophic interactions

22.6 Community features and management consequences

22.7 Multiple states

22.8 Regulation of top-down and bottom-up processes

22.9 Ecosystem consequences of bottom-up processes

22.10 Ecosystem disturbance and heterogeneity

22.11 Ecosystem management at multiple scales

22.12 Biodiversity

22.13 Island biogeography and dynamic processes of diversity

22.14 Ecosystem function

22.15 Summary

Appendices

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-118-34819-2

1-118-34824-9

OCLC:

881416170