Fryxell / Sinclair / Caughley Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management

3. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-34819-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 500 Seiten, E-Book

To understand modern principles of sustainable management andthe conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledgeabout demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics. Withemphasis on practical application and quantitative skilldevelopment, this book weaves together these disparate elements ina single
coherent textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students.It reviews analytical techniques, explaining the mathematical andstatistical principles behind them, and shows how these can be usedto formulate
realistic objectives within an ecological framework.
This third edition is comprehensive and up-to-date, andincludes:
* Brand new chapters that disseminate rapidly developing topics inthe field: habitat use and selection; habitat fragmentation,movement, and corridors; population viability. analysis, theconsequences of climate change; and evolutionary responses todisturbance
* A thorough updating of all chapters to present important areas ofwildlife research and management with recent developments andexamples.
* A new online study aid - a wide variety of downloadablecomputer programs in the freeware packages R and Mathcad, availablethrough a companion website. Worked examples enable readers topractice calculations explained in the text and to develop a solidunderstanding of key statistical procedures and population modelscommonly used in wildlife ecology and management.
The first half of the book provides a solid background in keyecological concepts. The second half uses these concepts to developa deeper understanding of the principles underlying wildlifemanagement and conservation. Global examples of real-lifemanagement situations provide a broad perspective on theinternational problems of conservation, and detailed case historiesdemonstrate concepts and quantitative analyses. This third editionis
also valuable to professional wildlife managers, park rangers,biological resource managers, and those
working in ecotourism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fryxell, John M.

Sinclair, Anthony R. E.

Caughley, Graeme

Über Autor(innen)

Professor John Fryxell currently teaches in theDepartment of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph,Canada, where he has worked closely with a number of university andgovernment scientists to develop sustainable conservationstrategies for elk, woodland caribou, wolves, and marten. Previousto this he worked at the University of British Columbia and asWildlife Consultant for the Provincial Government of Newfoundlandand Labrador. His research has focused on the role of behavior inpopulation and community dynamics of large mammals. He has acontinuing interest in African wildlife, including long-termstudies on the demography and spatial ecology of large herbivoresand their predators in Serengeti National Park.
Professor Anthony Sinclair is currently Professor Emeritusat the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He hasbeen Director of the Centre for Biodiversity Research at theUniversity, and a Professor at the
Department of Zoology. He has researched Canadian subarcticecosystems and worked on Canadian boreal forest ecosystems, inparticular on cycles of snowshoe hares. He worked in the SerengetiNational Park, Tanzania, Africa, on ecology and conservationprojects for over 40 years. He has conducted ecological research onthe
Serengeti ecosystem of Tanzania, documenting multiple states inSerengeti savanna and grassland communities. He has also worked onendangered marsupial mammal populations and predation by exoticcarnivores in Australia and similar systems in New Zealand.