Species Conservation and Management

1. Introduction; SECTION I. PLANTS; 2. Strategies for Plant Population Viability Modeling; 3. Using Population Viability Analysis for Management of an Endangered Australian Shrub, Grevillea caleyi; 4. Whitebark Pine Pinus albicaulis in Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA; 5. The Monkey Puzzle Tree in Southern Chile; 6. Banksia goodii in Western Australia Martin Drechsler; 7. Erodium paularense in Spain: relevance of microhabitats in population; 8. Population viability analysis of the endangered Australian heath shrub, Epacris barbata, subject to recurring fires and disease epidemics; SECTION II. INVERTEBRATES; 9. Modelling invertebrates: an overview; 10. A carnivorous land snail Tasmaphena lamproides in Tasmania; 11. Bush cricket Metrioptera bicolor in Sweden; 12. Evaluating habitat management and translocation alternatives for the Puritan Tiger Beetle; 13. Giant Velvet Worm Tasmanipatus barretti (Onychophora) in Tasmania, Australia; 14. The occupancy pattern of a saproxylic beetle, Osmoderma eremita, in a fragmented landscape predicted from a RAMAS metapopulation model; 15. Woodland Brown Butterfly Lopinga achine in Sweden; 16. Transmission dynamics of the parasite Echinococcus multilocularis in a patchy environment; SECTION III. FISHES; 17. Introduction; 18. Population dynamics of the European Mudminnow in the Austrian floodplain of the River Danube: Empirical and modeling studies as a basis for species conservation; 19. How many populations are needed for persistence of listed salmon species? Prioritising rehabilitation efforts for the endangered trout cod in the Murray River, southeast Australia using RAMAS Metapop; 20. Metapopulation Analysis of Yellowtail Flounder off the Northeastern United States; 21. Simulating the dynamics of an Atlantic herring population complex under several harvest regimes; 22. A generic framework for evaluating conservation limits and harvest strategies in fisheries management for Pacific Herring; SECTION IV. AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES; 23. Modeling amphibians and reptiles: an overview; 24. Population viability analysis of great crested newts (Triturus cristatus): the effects of metapopulation structure and juvenile dispersal; 25. Houston toad Bufo houstonensis in Bastrop County, Texas; 26. Edge effects and population viability of eastern indigo snakes; 27. Fire management for the Frill-necked Lizard Chlamydosaurus kingii in northern Australia; 28. Modelling juvenile reintroduction and spatial management strategies for metapopulation establishment of the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis); 29. Exploring the metapopulation dynamics of the southern Great Barrier Reef green sea turtle stock and the possible consequences of sex biased local harvesting; SECTION V. BIRDS; 30. Modeling Birds: An Overview; 31. Conservation and management of the yellow-shouldered parrot (Amazona barbadensis) on the islands of Margarita and La Blanquilla, Venezuela; 32. Golden-cheeked Warbler Dendroica chrysoparia in Central Texas; 33. Capercaillie Tetrao urogallus in western Switzerland; 34. Projected Effects Of Sea-Level Rise On The Population Viability Of Seaside Sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus); 35. Assessing options for establishing a new wild population of the helmeted honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix); 36. Wandering Albatross Metapopulation in the Southern Oceans; SECTION VI. MAMMALS; 37. Mammal Population Viability Modelling; 38. Snowshoe Hares in a dynamic, managed landscape; 39. Conservation of Florida Key Deer; 40. Harvesting of Turkish Mouflon Ovis gmelinii anatolica in Central Anatolia; 41. Sindh Ibex in Kirthar National Park, Pakistan; 42. Biological uncertainty and extinction risk for Steller sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus); 43. Using Models to Guide Recovery Efforts for the Florida Panther; Appendix: Using RAMAS GIS