Mills Conservation of Wildlife Populations

Demography, Genetics, and Management
2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-40667-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science withastonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlifeconservation and management challenges. And yet, much of theapplied power of wildlife population ecology remains untappedbecause its broad sweep across disparate subfields has beenisolated in specialized texts. In this book, L. Scott Millscovers the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology,including genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling,predation, population projections, climate change and invasivespecies, harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal speciesconcepts, and analyses of connectivity in fragmented landscapes.With a readable style, analytical rigor, and hundreds of examplesdrawn from around the world, Conservation of WildlifePopulations (2nd ed) provides the conceptual basisfor applying population ecology to wildlife conservationdecision-making. Although targeting primarily undergraduatesand beginning graduate students with some basic training in basicecology and statistics (in majors that could include wildlifebiology, conservation biology, ecology, environmental studies, andbiology), the book will also be useful for practitioners in thefield who want to find - in one place and with plenty of appliedexamples - the latest advances in the genetic and demographicaspects of population ecology.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/mills/wildlifepopulations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, L. Scott

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of boxes ix
Preface to second edition xi
Preface to first edition xii
List of symbols xiv
Acknowledgments for second edition xv
Acknowledgments for first edition xvi
PART I BACKGROUND TO APPLIED POPULATION BIOLOGY 1
1 The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology 3
2 Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? 14
3 Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology 33
4 Estimating population vital rates 54
PART II POPULATION PROCESSES: THE BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT 77
5 The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric
change 79
6 All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured
population-projection models 98
7 Density-dependent population change 126
8 Predation and wildlife populations 142
9 Genetic variation and fi tness in wildlife populations 154
10 Dynamics of multiple populations 175
PART III APPLYING KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION PROCESSES TO PROBLEMS OF DECLINING, SMALL, OR HARVESTABLE POPULATIONS 199
11 Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations 201
12 Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations 224
13 Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems 244
14 Population biology to guide sustainable harvest 251
Summary 266
Further Reading 267
Epilogue 269
References 271
Index 301
Colour Plates fall between page 160 and 1

Über Autor(innen)

L. Scott Mills is a Professor in the Wildlife BiologyProgram at The University of Montana. He was a 2009 John SimonGuggenheim Fellow, has received multiple NSF Awards, served on theBoard of Governors for the North American Section of the Societyfor Conservation Biology, and has testified to Congress about therole of ethics in wildlife population biology research. Mills wasan invited contributor to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change Report (IPCC) report, and to the WesternGovernors' Association Climate Change Working Group.His research and teaching integrates field studies with populationmodels and genetic analyses to understand effects of humanperturbations on wildlife populations. Mills' research on wildlifearound the world - from snowshoe hares to marmots, mice tocoyotes, bighorn sheep to snow leopards and tigers - has beencovered in media outlets including Newsweek, NationalGeographic, The New York Times, Discovery Channel Canada, ScienceNews, National Public Radio, Nature, Science, and The Natureof Things with David Suzuki.