Wildlife Ecology, Conservation and Management

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 within species 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 is a most excellent book ... The authors manage to pull the best out of the lessons that wildlife ecology, conservation biology, and habitat management should have taught us over the past 30 years, and present the results in clear, insightful prose. John Anderson, College of the Atlantic "This book has one very interesting feature: it comes with a CD Rom complete with exercises and an evaluation copy of a mathematical calculating/drawing program called Mathcad... Overall, a comprehensive text, well designed, aimed at the more experienced student/conservationist." Teaching Ecology Group Newsletter "The scope of the book is broad and the subject matter logically presented and well-explained." Bulletin of the British Ecological Society

Tony Sinclair is former Director of the Centre for Biodiversity 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 also carries out research in Canadian subartic ecosystems, as well as being 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), and Conserving National Diversity (2000). John Fryxell is currently at the Department of Integrative Biology, at the University of Guelph, Canada, having previously worked at the University of British Columbia and as Wildlife Consultant for the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. His current research focuses on the role of behavior in population and community dynamics of large mammals. He is the author of Individual behaviour and Community Dynamics (1998) and the forthcoming title Serengeti III with Tony Sinclair.