Conservation of wildlife populations demography, genetics, and management
In this book, L. Scott Mills covers the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology, including genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling, predation, population projections, climate change and invasive species, harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal species concepts, and analyses...
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Chichester, West Sussex, [England]
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
2013.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Background to applied population biology: 1. The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology; 2. Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? 3. Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology; 4. Estimating population vital rates
- Part II. Population processes: the basis for management: 5. The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change; 6. All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured population-projection models; 7. Density-dependent population change; 8. Predation and wildlife populations; 9. Genetic variation and fitness in wildlife populations; 10. Dynamics of multiple populations
- Part III. Applying knowledge of population processes to problems of declining, small, or harvestable populations: 11. Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations; 12. Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations; 13. Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems; 14. Population biology to guide sustainable harvest.