Wildlife Management and Conservation: Contemporary Principles Practices

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781421409863
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421409863
• Author: Paul R Krausman, James W Cain III

Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. The relationship among these three components of wildlife management is explained in chapters written by leading experts and is designed to prepare wildlife students for careers in which they will be charged with maintaining healthy animal populations; finding ways to restore depleted populations while reducing overabundant, introduced, or pest species; and managing relationships among various human stakeholders.Topics covered in this book include- The definitions of wildlife and management

Table contents:

1. Defining Wildlife and Wildlife Management / Paul R. Krausman
2. The History of Wildlife Conservation in North America / Robert D. Brown
3. The Wildlife Professional / John F. Organ
4. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management / Daniel J. Decker, Shawn J. Riley, and William F. Siemer
5. Structured Decision Making / Michael C. Runge, J. Barry Grand, and Michael S. Mitchell
6. The Scale in Wildlife Management : The Difficulty with Extrapolation / John A. Bissonette
7. Wildlife Population Dynamics / L. Scott Mills and Heather E. Johnson
8. Diseases and Parasites / David A. Jessup
9. Hunting and Trapping / James R. Heffelfinger
10. Impacts of Weather and Accidents on Wildlife / Michael R. Conover, Jonathan B. Dinkins, and Michael J. Haney
11. Nutritional Ecology / Katherine L. Parker
12. Water and Other Welfare Factors / James W. Cain III, Paul R. Krausman, and Steven S. Rosenstock
13. Predator-Prey Relationships and Management / Clint Boal and Warren B. Ballard
14. Animal Behavior / John L. Koprowski and W. Sue Fairbanks
15. Habitat / R. William Mannan and Robert J. Steidl
16. Wildlife Restoration / Michael L. Morrison
17. Climate Change and Wildlife / Marta A. Jarzyna, Benjamin Zuckerberg, and William F. Porter
18. Conservation Planning for Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat / Susan P. Rupp, Anna M. Munoz, and Roel R. Lopez
19. Managing Populations / William P. Kuvlesky, Jr., Leonard A. Brennan, Bart M. Ballard, Tyler A. Campbell, David G. Hewitt, Charles A. Deyoung, Scott E. Henke, Fidel Hernandez, and Fred C. Bryant