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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.Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/mills/wildlifepopulations.
Table des matières
List of boxes ix
Preface to second edition xi
Preface to first edition xii
List of symbols xiv
Acknowledgments for second edition xv
Acknowledgments for first edition xvi
PART I BACKGROUND TO APPLIED POPULATION BIOLOGY 1
1 The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology 3
2 Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? 14
3 Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology 33
4 Estimating population vital rates 54
PART II POPULATION PROCESSES: THE BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT 77
5 The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric
change 79
6 All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured
population-projection models 98
7 Density-dependent population change 126
8 Predation and wildlife populations 142
9 Genetic variation and fi tness in wildlife populations 154
10 Dynamics of multiple populations 175
PART III APPLYING KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION PROCESSES TO PROBLEMS OF DECLINING, SMALL, OR HARVESTABLE POPULATIONS 199
11 Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations 201
12 Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations 224
13 Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems 244
14 Population biology to guide sustainable harvest 251
Summary 266
Further Reading 267
Epilogue 269
References 271
Index 301
Colour Plates fall between page 160 and 1
Commentaire
"As a class text it offers an extremely useful and stimulating comprehensive integration of conservation and population biology, including clear, readable scientific basics." ( Austral Ecology , 19 May 2014)
"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. ( Choice , 1 November 2013)
