Animal behavior and wildlife conservation / / edited by Marco Festa-Bianchet and Marco Apollonio

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.9
• Soggetto topico: Animal behavior; Wildlife conservation
• Altri autori: Festa-BianchetMarco ApollonioMarco
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-368) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: About Island Press; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I; 1: General Information; 2: Adaptive Behavior and Population Viability; Part II; 3: Dispersal and Conservation; 4: Migration and Conservation; 5: Bridging the Gap; 6: Knowledge of Reproductiove Behavior Contributes to Conservation Programs; 7: Foraging Behavior, Habitat Suitability, and Translocation Success, with Special Reference to Large Mammalian Herbivores; Part III; 8: Variation in Life History Traits and Realistic Proplation Models for Wildlife Management; 9: Through the Eyes of Prey ; 10: Behavioral Aspects of Conservation and Managgement of European Mammals11: Implications of Sexually Selected Infanticide for the Hunting of Large Carnivores; 12: Exploitative Wildlife Management as a Selective Pressure for Life-History Evoluton of Large Mammals; Part IV; 13: Social Groups, Genetic Structure, and Conservation; 14: Pathogen-Driven Sexual Selection for ""Good Genes"" versus Genetic Variability in Small Populations; 15: Measuring Individual Quality in Conservation and Behavior; 16: Individual Quality, Environment and Conservation; Part V; 17: Where Do We Go From Here? ; Literature CitedList of Contributors; Index; Island Press Board of Directors 2003
• Sommario/riassunto: Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior.How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters?Do individual differences--in age, sex, size, past experience--affect how an animal reacts to a given situation?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal behavior and wildlife conservation
• ISBN: 1-59726-837-2; 1-4237-0261-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954267003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II