Krausman / Cain Wildlife Management and Conservation

Contemporary Principles and Practices
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0987-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm

A definitive textbook for students of wildlife management.

Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. The relationship among these three components of wildlife management is explained in chapters written by leading experts and is designed to prepare wildlife students for careers in which they will be charged with maintaining healthy animal populations; finding ways to restore depleted populations while reducing overabundant, introduced, or pest species; and managing relationships among various human stakeholders.

Topics covered in this book include

• The definitions of wildlife and management
• Human dimensions of wildlife management
• Animal behavior
• Predator–prey relationships
• Structured decision making
• Issues of scale in wildlife management
• Wildlife health
• Historical context of wildlife management and conservation
• Hunting and trapping
• Nongame species
• Nutrition ecology
• Water management
• Climate change
• Conservation planning

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krausman, Paul R.

Cain III, James W.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Defining Wildlife and Wildlife Management
Chapter 2. The History of Wildlife Conservation in North America
Chapter 3. The Wildlife Professional
Chapter 4. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management
Chapter 5. Structured Decision Making
Chapter 6. Scale in Wildlife Management: The Difficulty with Extrapolation
Chapter 7. Wildlife Population Dynamics
Chapter 8. Diseases and Parasites
Chapter 9. Hunting and Trapping
Chapter 10. Impacts of Weather and Accidents on Wildlife
Chapter 11. Nutritional Ecology
Chapter 12. Water and Other Welfare Factors
Chapter 13. Predator–Prey Relationships and Management
Chapter 14. Animal Behavior
Chapter 15. Habitat
Chapter 16. Wildlife Restoration
Chapter 17. Climate Change and Wildlife
Chapter 18. Conservation Planning for Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Chapter 19. Managing Populations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cain III, James W.
James W. Cain III (LAS CRUCES, NM) is the assistant unit leader of the US Geological Survey, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at New Mexico State University, where he is an affiliate professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology.

Krausman, Paul R.
Paul R. Krausman (SANTA FE, NM) is an emeritus professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona. The past president of The Wildlife Society, he is the coeditor of Becoming a Wildlife Professional and Essential Readings in Wildlife Management and Conservation.

Paul R. Krausman is the Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana and past president of The Wildlife Society. James W. Cain III is Assistant Unit Leader, U.S. Geological Survey–New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology at New Mexico State University.