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Description: |
xxxi, 463 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-448) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Pumas Past and Present -- Puma Phylogeny -- Puma Distribution and Status -- Pumas in the Southwest -- Taxonomy -- Description -- Statistic -- Our Outdoor Laboratory -- Physiography and Geology -- Climate -- Flora -- Fauna -- History of Human Use -- History of Puma Exploitation -- Studying Wild Pumas -- Life Afield -- To Catch a Puma -- Monitoring Desert Mule Deer and Desert Bighorn Sheep -- Radiotelemetry -- Investigating the Dead -- Overview of Analytical and Statistical Methods -- Puma Life History Strategies and Population Dynamics -- A Puma Population in the Desert -- Research Hypotheses and Predictions -- Terms for Pumas -- Counting Pumas -- Puma Population Structure -- Sex Structure -- Cubs -- Subadults -- Adults -- Age Structure -- The Population -- Adult Pumas -- Statistics -- Reproduction -- Natality -- Timing of Births -- Mating, Gestation, and Birth Intervals -- Puberty and First Litters -- Parental Investment -- Reproductive Success -- Females -- Males -- Statistics -- Mortality and Survival -- Human-Caused Mortality -- Natural Mortality -- Cubs -- Subadults -- Adults -- Why Do Pumas Kill Other Pumas? -- Statistics -- Independence of Puma Progeny, and Philopatry, Emigration, and Immigration -- Independence of Progeny -- Philopatry and Dispersal -- Emigration -- Recruitment of Progeny and Immigrants -- Puma Population Density, Growth, and Metapopulation Structure -- Experimentally Removing Pumas -- Density -- Rates of Population Increase -- Metapopulation Dynamics. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Logan and Sweanor (scientists with the Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, U. of California-Davis) present the results of ten years of study devoted to pumas in the desert of New Mexico. The five main sections of the volume cover background issues and describe the basis of the study; puma life history strategies and population dynamics; puma behavior and social organization; puma-prey relationships; and the relationship between pumas and people. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Logan, Kenneth A. Desert puma. Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)645922484 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10064671 |