Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fryxell, John M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • About the companion website
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: goals and decisions
  • 1.1 How to use this book
  • 1.2 What is wildlife conservation and management?
  • 1.3 Goals of management
  • 1.4 Hierarchies of decision
  • 1.5 Policy goals
  • 1.6 Feasible options
  • 1.7 Summary
  • Part 1 Wildlife ecology
  • Chapter 2 Food and nutrition
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Constituents of food
  • 2.3 Variation in food supply
  • 2.4 Measurement of food supply
  • 2.5 Basal metabolic rate and food requirement
  • 2.6 Morphology of herbivore digestion
  • 2.7 Food passage rate and food requirement
  • 2.8 Body size and diet selection
  • 2.9 Indices of body condition
  • 2.10 Summary
  • Chapter 3 Home range and habitat use
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Estimating home range size and utilization frequency
  • 3.3 Estimating habitat availability and use
  • 3.4 Selective habitat use
  • 3.5 Using resource selection functions to predict population response
  • 3.6 Sources of variation in habitat use
  • 3.7 Movement within the home range
  • 3.8 Movement among home ranges
  • 3.9 Summary
  • Chapter 4 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Dispersal
  • 4.3 Dispersion
  • 4.4 Distribution
  • 4.5 Distribution, abundance, and range collapse
  • 4.6 Species reintroductions or invasions
  • 4.7 Summary
  • Chapter 5 Population growth and regulation
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Rate of increase
  • 5.3 Geometric or exponential population growth
  • 5.4 Stability of populations
  • 5.5 The theory of population limitation and regulation
  • 5.6 Evidence for regulation
  • 5.7 Applications of regulation
  • 5.8 Logistic model of population regulation
  • 5.9 Stability, cycles, and chaos
  • 5.10 Intraspecific competition
  • 5.11 Interactions of food, predators, and disease
  • 5.12 Summary
  • Chapter 6 Competition and facilitation between species
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Theoretical aspects of interspecific competition
  • 6.3 Experimental demonstrations of competition
  • 6.4 The concept of the niche
  • 6.5 The competitive exclusion principle
  • 6.6 Resource partitioning and habitat selection
  • 6.7 Competition in variable environments
  • 6.8 Apparent competition
  • 6.9 Facilitation
  • 6.10 Applied aspects of competition
  • 6.11 Summary
  • Chapter 7 Predation
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Predation and management
  • 7.3 Definitions
  • 7.4 The effect of predators on prey density
  • 7.5 The behavior of predators
  • 7.6 Numerical response of predators to prey density
  • 7.7 The total response
  • 7.8 Behavior of the prey
  • 7.9 Summary
  • Chapter 8 Parasites and pathogens
  • 8.1 Introduction and definitions
  • 8.2 Effects of parasites
  • 8.3 The basic parameters of epidemiology
  • 8.4 Determinants of spread
  • 8.5 Endemic pathogens
  • 8.6 Endemic pathogens: synergistic interactions with food and predators
  • 8.7 Epizootic diseases
  • 8.8 Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife

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