Conservation of Wildlife Populations Demography, Genetics, and Management.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mills, L. Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of boxes
  • Preface to second edition
  • Preface to first edition
  • List of symbols
  • Acknowledgments for second edition
  • Acknowledgments for first edition
  • PART I: Background to Applied Population Biology
  • CHAPTER 1: The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology
  • Introduction
  • Population Ecology of Humans
  • Human population growth
  • Human impacts on wildlife through effects other than population size
  • Extinction Rates of Other Species
  • Number of species on Earth: described and not yet described
  • Historic versus current rates of extinction
  • Humans and Sustainable Harvest
  • The Big Picture
  • Further Reading
  • CHAPTER 2: Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know?
  • Introduction
  • Obtaining Reliable Facts Through Sampling
  • Replication and randomization
  • Controls
  • Accuracy, error, and variation
  • Linking Observed Facts to Ideasmind Leads to Understanding
  • The hypothetico-deductive (HD) approach
  • Three ways to test hypotheses
  • Model selection based on information-theoreticmethods
  • Bayesian statistics: updating knowledge withnew information
  • Ethics and the Wildlife Population Biologist
  • Summary
  • Further Reading
  • CHAPTER 3: Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology
  • Introduction
  • What Is Genetic Variation?
  • Genetic Markers Used in Wildlife Population Biology
  • Fragment analysis
  • Microsatellite DNA
  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
  • Genes that affect fitness: functional genomics, adaptive variation, and transcriptomics
  • Insights into Wildlife Population Biology Using Genetic Tools
  • Taxonomy and hybridization
  • Determining species identity and distribution
  • Determining gender and individual identity
  • Summary
  • Further Reading
  • CHAPTER 4: Estimating population vital rates
  • Introduction
  • Estimating Abundance and Density
  • Background: censusing, estimating, and indexing abundance
  • Transect methods for estimating abundance
  • Sightability or observation probability models
  • Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods for estimating abundance
  • Robust design
  • Density estimation in capture-mark-recapture studies
  • Survival Estimation
  • Known-fate models
  • CMR using the Cormack-Jolly-Seber method
  • Band-return approaches
  • Other approaches
  • Estimation of Reproduction
  • Sex Ratio
  • Sex ratios in the wild
  • Summary
  • Further Reading
  • PART II: Population processes: the basis for management
  • CHAPTER 5: The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change
  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals of Geometric or Exponential Growth
  • Discrete (geometric) growth
  • Continuous (exponential) growth

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