This new edition of Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management provides a succinct and clear introduction to general ecological principles, and then goes on to show how those principles can be applied to wildlife management and conservation. The unique feature of this book is that general ecology is explained first, allowing those students who do not have an ecology background to get to grips quickly with applications to real world situations. This said, the book is appropriate to both undergraduate and graduate classes in applied ecology, conservation, and natural resource management. The book will also be valuable to professional wildlife biologists in developing their research and management. This edition includes new chapters on foraging, and on community and ecosystem ecology. Recent developments in the use of computer modelling is explored in several of the chapters and an overview of how to choose between different models is provided in a separate new chapter.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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)