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Description: |
xii, 682 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
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. |
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Contents: 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. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Prepared by two of the leading figures in wildlife biology, this book gathers in one volume the most influential articles published in the field. Paul R. Krausman and Bruce D. Leopold have collected the forty-two papers that every wildlife student should read. Each piece is introduced with a commentary that explains why it is important and a brief listing of papers that inspired or were inspired by the classic. Practical and conceptual topics consider every aspect of the wildlife profession, including ethics. Ideal for use as a textbook, Essential Readings in Wildlife Management and Conservation is divided into four sections: the philosophical roots of wildlife management, biology, habitat, and human dimensions. |