Conservation of wildlife populations: demography, genetics, and management / L. Scott Mills

Incluye bibliografía: páginas 271-300 e índice: páginas 301-326

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.. 1 The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology.. 2 Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know?.. 3 Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology.. 4 Estimating population vital rates.. PART II Population Processes: the Basis for Management.. 5 The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change.. 6 All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured population-projection models 7 Density-dependent population change.. 8 Predation and wildlife populations.. 9 Genetic variation and fitness in wildlife populations.. 10 Dynamics of multiple populations.. PART III Applying Knowledge of Population Processes to Problems of Declining, Small, or Harvestable Populations.. 11 Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations.. 12 Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations.. 13 Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems.. 14 Population biology to guide sustainable harvest.. Summary.. Further Reading.. Epilogue.. References.. Index.. Colour Plates fall between page 160 and 16

"Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much of the applied power of wildlife population ecology remains untapped because its broad sweep across disparate subfields has been isolated in specialized texts. In this book, L. Scott Mills covers the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology, including genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling, predation, population projections, climate change and invasive species, harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal species concepts, and analyses of connectivity in fragmented landscapes. With a readable style, analytical rigor, and hundreds of examples drawn from around the world, Conservation of Wildlife Populations (2nd ed) provides the conceptual basis for applying population ecology to wildlife conservation decision-making. Although targeting primarily undergraduates and beginning graduate students with some basic training in basic ecology and statistics (in majors that could include wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, environmental studies, and biology), the book will also be useful for practitioners in the field who want to find - in one place and with plenty of applied examples - the latest advances in the genetic and demographic aspects of population ecology." eng