Principles of wildlife conservation / Dr. Ankur Awadhiya, IFS.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Awadhiya, Ankur, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021.

Summary:

Wildlife tend our forests -- they pollinate flowers, disperse seeds, eat insects that harm trees, and keep herbivores and diseases in check. They keep our forests healthy and resilient -- ready and able to face and counter any challenges, such as global warming and climate change. They are the individual cogs that keep the forest machine functioning. And we desperately need our forests -- to sequester carbon, to purify our air and water, to protect our soils from getting eroded, and to save our dams and waterways. Wildlife do need our care, concern, and attention, but we also need our wildlife -- perhaps much more sincerely. A majority of wildlife arrived on this planet much before humans, and the Earth belongs to them as well. So how do we conserve wildlife? This is the question that Principles of Wildlife Conservation seeks to answer. It presents a lucid -- cogent, yet simple -- narration about the why's and how's of conserving wildlife. It begins with the first principles -- and thus requires no prerequisite other than an urge to seek knowledge. It is full of pictures and case studies from the field -- to facilitate easy grasping of the subject. The book builds a solid foundation of the theory of wildlife conservation, and tops that up with experiences from actually doing wildlife conservation. In this way, it equips the reader to master both the science -- and the art -- of conserving wildlife.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1. WHAT IS WILDLIFE?

1.2. WHAT IS CONSERVATION?

1.3. THE NEED FOR CONSERVING WILDLIFE

1.4. THE ORGANISATION OF THIS BOOK

Chapter 2: Organisation of life

2.1. WHAT IS ORGANISATION?

2.1.1. The hierarchical principle

2.1.2. The emergent principle

2.2. BIODIVERSITY

2.2.1. Biodiversity at genetic level

2.2.2. Biodiversity at species level

2.2.3. Biodiversity at ecosystem level

2.2.4. Spatial component of biodiversity

2.2.5. Why do some areas have more biodiversity, and some have less?

2.3. WILDLIFE ENERGETICS

2.3.1. Different kinds of food chains

2.3.2. Food webs and ecological pyramids

2.3.3. Primary production

2.3.4. Nutrients

2.3.5. Biogeochemical cycles

2.4. INTERACTIONS

2.4.1. Intraspecific harmonious interactions

2.4.2. Interspecific harmonious interactions

2.4.3. Intraspecific inharmonious interactions

2.4.4. Interspecific inharmonious interactions

Chapter 3: Population growth and community organisation

3.1. POPULATION AND CHANGES IN POPULATION

3.1.1. Do we need numbers or trends?

3.1.2. What demographic information are we interested in?

3.1.3. Population density

3.2. COMMUNITY ORGANISATION AND CHANGES

3.2.1. Community theories

3.2.2. Community stability

3.2.3. Community evolution: Ecological succession

3.3. CHANGES IN POPULATIONS IN A COMMUNITY

3.3.1. Exponential growth

3.3.2. Logistic growth

3.3.3. Lotka-Volterra equations

Chapter 4: Threats to wildlife resources

4.1. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES

4.1.1. Suitability of habitats for different organisms

4.1.2. Transplant experiments

4.2. KINDS OF THREATS TO SPECIES

4.2.1. Declining population paradigm and small population paradigm.

4.2.2. Red list classification

4.3. DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT

4.3.1. Habitat degradation

4.3.2. Habitat fragmentation

4.3.3. Habitat displacement

4.3.4. Habitat loss

4.4. POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS

4.5. CASE STUDY: ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF LINEAR INFRASTRUCTURE

Chapter 5: Wildlife monitoring

5.1. COUNTING WILDLIFE: ACCURACY, PRECISION &amp

BIAS

5.2. CENSUS VS. SAMPLING

5.3. DISTANCE SAMPLING

5.3.1. How is distance sampling different from plot sampling?

5.3.2. What does p depend on?

5.4. SIGN SURVEYING

5.5. RADIO-TELEMETRY

5.6. BEHAVIOURAL MONITORING

5.6.1. Animal behaviour as a tool for wildlife management

5.6.2. Understanding behaviour: The cost-benefit approach

5.6.3. Studying behaviour

Chapter 6: Wildlife disease management

6.1. HEALTH AND DISEASE

6.1.1. Kinds of diseases

6.1.2. Disease causation factors

6.1.3. Characterisation of disease at the level of population

6.1.4. Pathogen

6.1.5. Disease transmission

6.2. PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE MANAGEMENT

6.2.1. Epidemiology triangle

6.2.2. Host and host responses

6.2.3. Assessment of animal condition

6.2.4. Interventions for the control of infectious diseases

6.3. COMMON WILDLIFE DISEASES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT

6.3.1. Tuberculosis

6.3.2. Anthrax

6.3.3. Rabies

6.3.4. Ringworm

6.3.5. Tapeworm

Chapter 7: Animal restraint and immobilisation

7.1. WHAT IS RESTRAINT?

7.2. SOME SALIENT POINTS

7.3. MECHANICAL RESTRAINT

7.4. CHEMICAL RESTRAINT

7.5. MANAGEMENT OF EMERGENCIES

7.5.1. Animal safety

7.5.2. Human safety

7.6. CAPTURE MYOPATHY

7.7. TRANSPORTING CAPTIVE WILD ANIMALS

Chapter 8: Wildlife genetics

8.1. GENES AND GENETIC DISORDERS

8.1.1. Genetics

8.1.2. Mendel's laws of genetics

8.1.3. Variations to complete dominance

8.1.4. Chromosomal disorders.

8.1.5. Genetic disorders

8.2. POPULATION GENETICS

8.2.1. Relationship with evolution

8.2.2. Population variation and evolution

8.3. POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS

8.3.1. Three ways of doing population viability analysis

8.3.2. Utility of population viability analysis

8.4. INBREEDING AND OUTBREEDING MANAGEMENT

8.4.1. Inbreeding

8.4.2. Management of inbreeding

8.4.3. Outbreeding

8.4.4. Management of outbreeding

Chapter 9: Habitat management

9.1. HABITAT COMPOSITION AND IMPORTANCE

9.2. HABITAT MONITORING

9.3. HABITAT MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

9.3.1. Tools of habitat management

9.3.2. Activities taken up for habitat management

9.3.3. Options for improving habitat

Chapter 10: Ex-situ and in-situ conservation

10.1. PRIORITISING SPECIES TO CONSERVE

10.2. CONSERVATION OPTIONS

10.2.1. Ex-situ conservation

10.2.2. In-situ conservation

Chapter 11: Emerging aspects of wildlife management

11.1. PHOTOGRAMMETRY, REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

11.2. ECONOMIC VALUATION OF PROTECTED AREAS

11.2.1. Methods of valuation

11.2.2. Case study of Panna Tiger Reserve

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-303754-2

1-000-40411-0

1-003-03754-2

1-000-40407-2

9781003037545

OCLC:

1256258330