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The double-crested cormorant : plight of a feathered pariah /
The tragic history of the cormorant's relations with humans and the implications for today's wildlife management policy The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. What are cormorants? Aristotle's raven : an introduction to cormorants
- The double-crested cormorant
- Part II. The populations and the perceptions, then and now. European colonization and the making of a pariah
- From Audubon to conservation : the first wave of recovery
- Reversal of fortunes : another decline and the second recovery
- Part III. The economic and political landscape of the cormorant, 1965 to the present. Fish ponds and reservoirs : the context for conflict on the wintering grounds
- Animal damage control and the first standing depredation order for cormorants
- Conflicts on the breeding grounds
- The second standing depredation order for cormorants
- A half million and counting : implementation of management policies in the United States
- Looking north to Canada : limitations to management beyond the 49th parallel
- Part IV. The science, management, and ethics of today : review and critique. Untangling the mysteries between predator and prey
- Adaptive management : a process gone awry
- Back to the wintering grounds : liberties with science and policy
- Engineer or destroyer : the case of the catastrophic ecosystem flip
- Opening Pandora's box : some ethical implications of cormorant management
- Afterword : what future for cormorants?