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Essential readings in wildlife management & conservation /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krausman, Paul R., 1946-, Leopold, Bruce D. (Bruce David)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Wildlife management.
Wildlife conservation.
Table of Contents:
  • Our philosophical roots. Wilderness as a form of land use / A. Leopold
  • The conservation ethic / A. Leopold
  • Wildlife in American culture / A. Leopold
  • The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlain
  • The tragedy of the commons / G. Hardin
  • Effectiveness-the hallmark of the natural resource management professional / J.W. Thomas
  • From clients to stakeholders: a philosophical shift for fish and wildlife management / D.J. Decker, et al.
  • Born in the hands of hunters: the North American model of wildlife conservation / J.F. Organ, et al. Animals, ecology, & populations. The role of the "accidental" / J. Grinnell
  • Periodic fluctuations in the numbers of animals: their causes and effects / C.S. Elton
  • The balance of animal populations / A. J. Nicholson
  • Some census methods for mammals / L.R. Dice
  • On the analysis of productivity in populations of higher vertebrates / P.L. Errington
  • The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology / R.L. Lindeman
  • Territoriality and home range concepts as applied to mammals / W.H. Burt
  • The population consequences of life history phenomena / L.C. Cole
  • The concept of carrying capacity / R.Y. Edwards and C.D. Fowle
  • The meanings of competition / L.C. Birch
  • The components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation of the European pine sawfly / C.S. Holling
  • The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle chthamalus stellatus / J.H. Connell
  • An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography / R.H. MacArthur and E.O. Wilson
  • Food web complexity and species diversity / R.T. Paine
  • Mortality patterns in mammals / G. Caughley
  • Rate of increase / G. Caughley and L.C. Birch
  • Bias in aerial survey / Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem / E.L. Charnov
  • Lessons from the George Reserve, Michigan / D.R. McCullough
  • Carrying capacity and related slippery shibboleths / J. Macnab
  • The biological diversity crisis / E.O. Wilson
  • Metapopulations and wildlife conservation: approaches to modeling spatial structure / M. Gilpin.
  • Habitat. Ecological succession. IV. Vegetation and the control of land animal communities / V.E. Shelford
  • Nature and structure of the climax / F.E. Clements
  • The point-observation-plot (square-foot density) method of vegetation survey / G. Stewart and S.S. Hutchings
  • The cover map in wildlife management / P.D. Dalke
  • The individualistic concept of the plant association / H.A. Gleason
  • Habitat selection / S.C. Wecker
  • The comparison of usage and availability measurements for evaluating resource preference / D.H. Johnson. Human dimensions. Perceptions of animals in American society / S.R. Kellert
  • Guidelines for authorship of scientific articles / J.G. Dickson, et al.
  • Biodiversity studies: science and policy / P.R. Ehrlich and E.O. Wilson
  • Human dimensions of living with wildlife- a management challenge for the 21st century / D.J. Decker and L.C. Chase
  • Public attitudes toward a suburban deer herd / D.J. Decker and T.A. Gavin.