Conservation of wildlife populations [[electronic resource] ] : demography, genetics, and management / / L. Scott Mills

• Autore: Mills L. Scott
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.9
• Soggetto topico: Wildlife management; Animal populations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; 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; CHAPTER 1: The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology; Introduction; Population Ecology of Humans; Human population growth; Human impacts on wildlife through effects other than population size; Extinction Rates of Other Species; Number of species on Earth: described and not yet described ; Historic versus current rates of extinctionHumans and Sustainable Harvest; The Big Picture; Further Reading; CHAPTER 2: Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know?; Introduction; Obtaining Reliable Facts Through Sampling; Replication and randomization; Controls; Accuracy, error, and variation; Linking Observed Facts to Ideasmind Leads to Understanding; The hypothetico-deductive (HD) approach; Three ways to test hypotheses; Model selection based on information-theoreticmethods; Bayesian statistics: updating knowledge withnew information ; Ethics and the Wildlife Population BiologistSummary; Further Reading; CHAPTER 3: Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology; Introduction; What Is Genetic Variation?; Genetic Markers Used in Wildlife Population Biology; Fragment analysis; Microsatellite DNA; Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs); Genes that affect fitness: functional genomics, adaptive variation, and transcriptomics; Insights into Wildlife Population Biology Using Genetic Tools; Taxonomy and hybridization; Determining species identity and distribution; Determining gender and individual identity ; SummaryFurther Reading; CHAPTER 4: Estimating population vital rates; Introduction; Estimating Abundance and Density; Background: censusing, estimating, and indexing abundance; Transect methods for estimating abundance; Sightability or observation probability models; Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods for estimating abundance; Robust design; Density estimation in capture-mark-recapture studies; Survival Estimation; Known-fate models; CMR using the Cormack-Jolly-Seber method; Band-return approaches; Other approaches; Estimation of Reproduction; Sex Ratio; Sex ratios in the wild; Summary ; Further ReadingPART II: Population processes: the basis for management; CHAPTER 5: The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change; Introduction; Fundamentals of Geometric or Exponential Growth; Discrete (geometric) growth; Continuous (exponential) growth; Overview of λ and r; Doubling time; Causes and Consequences of Variation in Population Growth; Factors that cause population growth to fluctuate; Implications of variation in population growth; Quantifying Exponential Population Growth in a Stochastic Environment ; Exponential growth with observation error only (EGOE)
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 anal
• Titolo autorizzato: Conservation of wildlife populations
• ISBN: 1-118-40667-2; 1-78539-349-9; 1-283-64456-8; 1-118-40669-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461914203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II