Mills, L. Scott.

Conservation of wildlife populations : demography, genetics, and management / L. Scott Mills. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007. - xiv, 407 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.

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 -- Dynamics of multiple populations -- Human perturbations : deterministic factors leading to population decline -- Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations -- Bridging applied population and ecosystem ecology with focal species concepts -- Population biology of harvested populations.

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Wildlife management.
Animal populations.

SK355 / .M55 2007

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SK355 / .M55 2007