Wildlife Ecology, Conservation and Management (eBook)

Tony Sinclair is former Director of the Centre forBiodiversity Research at the University of British Columbia,Canada. Working in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, Africa,on ecology and conservation projects for over 40 years, he alsocarries out research in Canadian subartic ecosystems, as well asbeing involved in conservation issues in Australia and New Zealand.Previous publications include: Wildlife Ecology (1994),African Buffalo (1977), Serengeti (1979),Serengeti II (1995), Serengeti III (forthcoming), andConserving National Diversity (2000). John Fryxell is currently at the Department ofIntegrative Biology, at the University of Guelph, Canada, havingpreviously worked at the University of British Columbia and asWildlife Consultant for the Provincial Government of Newfoundlandand Labrador. His current research focuses on the role of behaviorin population and community dynamics of large mammals. He is theauthor of Individual behaviour and Community Dynamics (1998)and the forthcoming title Serengeti III with TonySinclair.

Preface.

1 Introduction.

2 Biomes.

3 Animals as individuals.

4 Population growth.

5 Dispersal, dispersion, and distribution.

6 Food and feeding.

7 The ecology of behavior.

8 Population regulation, fluctuation and competition withinspecies.

9 Competition and facilitation between species.

10 Predation.

11 Consumer-resource dynamics.

12 Parasites and pathogens.

13 Communities and ecosystems.

14 Counting animals.

15 Experimental management.

16 Model evaluation and adaptive management.

17 Conservation in theory.

18 Conservation in practice.

19 Wildlife harvesting.

20 Wildlife control.

References.

Appendices.

Index

"This book has one very interesting feature: it comes with a CD Romcomplete with exercises and an evaluation copy of a mathematicalcalculating/drawing program called Mathcad.... Overall, acomprehensive text, well designed, aimed at the more experiencedstudent/conservationist." (Teaching Ecology GroupNewsletter)

"The scope of the book is broad and the subject matter logicallypresented and well-explained." (Bulletin of the BritishEcological Society)"This is a most excellent book.... The authors manage to pull thebest out of the lessons that wildlife ecology, conservationbiology, and habitat management should have taught us over the past30 years, and present the results in clear, insightfulprose."
--John Anderson, College of the Atlantic