Focuses on the ecology and management of wildlife, with an emphasis on mammals and birds. The book takes the reader through the basic principles of ecology necessary for an understanding of wildlife management. It also covers the practical problems experienced in wildlife management.

This new edition of Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management provides a succinct and clear introduction to general ecological principles, and then goes on to show how those principles can be applied to wildlife management and conservation. The unique feature of this book is that general ecology is explained first, allowing those students who do not have an ecology background to get to grips quickly with applications to real world situations. This said, the book is appropriate to both undergraduate and graduate classes in applied ecology, conservation, and natural resource management. The book will also be valuable to professional wildlife biologists in developing their research and management. This edition includes new chapters on foraging, and on community and ecosystem ecology. Recent developments in the use of computer modelling is explored in several of the chapters and an overview of how to choose between different models is provided in a separate new chapter.

Publisher:

Blackwell Publishing Professional

ISBN:

9781405107372

Publication date:

January 2006

Length:

242mm

Width:

193mm

Thickness:

27mm

Weight:

953g

Edition:

2nd Edition

Pages:

469

Illustrations:

Illustrated

Readership:

Tertiary education; Professional & scholarly

Prescribed at:

UNISA 2012

Subject / Course:

RMM461T

Subject / Course:

RMM451U

Subject / Course:

CVM111Y

Illustrated:

Illustrated

"This is a most excellent book ... The authors manage to pull the best out of the lessons that wildlife ecology, conservation biology, and habitat management should have taught us over the past 30 years, and present the results in clear, insightful prose."John Anderson, College of the Atlantic "This book has one very interesting feature: it comes with a CD Rom complete with exercises and an evaluation copy of a mathematical calculating/drawing program called Mathcad... Overall, a comprehensive text, well designed, aimed at the more experienced student/conservationist."Teaching Ecology Group Newsletter "The scope of the book is broad and the subject matter logically presented and well-explained."Bulletin of the British Ecological Society

• Preface 1 Introduction 2 Biomes 3 Animals as individuals 4 Population growth 5 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution 6 Food and feeding 7 The ecology of behavior 8 Population regulation, fluctuation and competition within species 9 Competition and facilitation between species 10 Predation 11 Consumer-resource dynamics 12 Parasites and pathogens 13 Communities and ecosystems 14 Counting animals 15 Experimental management 16 Model evaluation and adaptive management 17 Conservation in theory 18 Conservation in practice 19 Wildlife harvesting 20 Wildlife control References Appendices Index