Wildlife Science: Linking Ecological Theory and Management Applications

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Timothy E. Fulbright, David G. Hewitt
CRC Press, 20/06/2007 - 384 páginas
Consciously or not, wildlife managers generally act from a theoretical basis, although they may not be fully versed in the details or ramifications of that theory. In practice, the predictions of the practitioners sometimes prove more accurate than those of the theoreticians. Practitioners and theoreticians need to work together, but this proves di

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Insights from Population Data and Theory in the Case of the WhiteWinged Dove
3
Applying Metapopulation Theory to Grassland Bird Conservation
21
We Need More Managers and Better Theorists
43
Linking Theory and Practice in South Texas
65
Chapter 5 An Ecological Basis for Management of Wetland Birds
79
A Texas Coast Perspective
95
A Review
111
Chapter 8 Effects of Drought on Bobcats and Ocelots
123
Chapter 13 From the Management of Single Species to Ecosystem Management
225
The Altering Effects of Climate
241
Chapter 15 The Introduction and Emergence of Wildlife Diseases in North America
261
An Insurmountable Challenge?
279
Chapter 17 Conservation Genetics of Marine Turtles 10 Years Later
295
Using Genetic Methods to Solve Emerging Wildlife Management Problems
317
Exploring the Emerging New Order in Wildlife Conservation
339
From Externality to Profit Center
355

Chapter 9 Seeing the World through the Nose of a Bear Diversity of Foods Fosters Behavioral and Demographic Stability
139
Bear Management in Northern Mexico
165
Chapter 11 Ecology Evolution Economics and Ungulate Management
183
Relevance for Management in Variable Environments
203
Index
365
Back cover
373
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Página 228 - Act are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved...
Página 47 - The amount of food for each species of course gives the extreme limit to which each can increase ; but very frequently it is not the obtaining food, but the serving as prey to other animals, which determines the average numbers of a species.
Página 56 - It has been experimentally proved, that if a plot of ground be sown with one species of grass, and a similar plot be sown with several distinct genera of grasses, a greater number of plants and a greater weight of dry herbage can be raised in the latter than in the former case.
Página 47 - ... of a species. Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin. If not one head of game were shot during the next twenty years...

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