Conservation of wildlife populations : demography, genetics, and management /

Main Author: Mills, L. Scott
Corporate Author: Blackwell
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • The big picture : human population dynamics meets applied population biology
  • Designing studies and interpreting population biology data : how do we know what we know?
  • Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology
  • Estimating population vital rates
  • The simplest way to describe and project population growth : exponential and geometric change
  • Density dependent population change
  • Accounting for age and sex-specific differences : population projection
  • Predation and wildlife populations
  • When does predation affect prey numbers?
  • Factors affecting how predation impacts prey numbers
  • Genetic variation and fitness of wildlife populations