Conservation of Wildlife Populations : Demography, Genetics, and Management.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- List of symbols -- Acknowledgments for second edition -- Acknowledgments for first edition -- PART I: Background to Applied Population Biology -- CHAPTER 1: The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology -- Introduction -- Population Ecology of Humans -- Human population growth -- Human impacts on wildlife through effects other than population size -- Extinction Rates of Other Species -- Number of species on Earth: described and not yet described -- Historic versus current rates of extinction -- Humans and Sustainable Harvest -- The Big Picture -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 2: Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? -- Introduction -- Obtaining Reliable Facts Through Sampling -- Replication and randomization -- Controls -- Accuracy, error, and variation -- Linking Observed Facts to Ideasmind Leads to Understanding -- The hypothetico-deductive (HD) approach -- Three ways to test hypotheses -- Model selection based on information-theoreticmethods -- Bayesian statistics: updating knowledge withnew information -- Ethics and the Wildlife Population Biologist -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 3: Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology -- Introduction -- What Is Genetic Variation? -- Genetic Markers Used in Wildlife Population Biology -- Fragment analysis -- Microsatellite DNA -- Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) -- Genes that affect fitness: functional genomics, adaptive variation, and transcriptomics -- Insights into Wildlife Population Biology Using Genetic Tools -- Taxonomy and hybridization -- Determining species identity and distribution -- Determining gender and individual identity -- Summary.

Further Reading -- CHAPTER 4: Estimating population vital rates -- Introduction -- Estimating Abundance and Density -- Background: censusing, estimating, and indexing abundance -- Transect methods for estimating abundance -- Sightability or observation probability models -- Capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods for estimating abundance -- Robust design -- Density estimation in capture-mark-recapture studies -- Survival Estimation -- Known-fate models -- CMR using the Cormack-Jolly-Seber method -- Band-return approaches -- Other approaches -- Estimation of Reproduction -- Sex Ratio -- Sex ratios in the wild -- Summary -- Further Reading -- PART II: Population processes: the basis for management -- CHAPTER 5: The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change -- Introduction -- Fundamentals of Geometric or Exponential Growth -- Discrete (geometric) growth -- Continuous (exponential) growth -- Overview of λ and r -- Doubling time -- Causes and Consequences of Variation in Population Growth -- Factors that cause population growth to fluctuate -- Implications of variation in population growth -- Quantifying Exponential Population Growth in a Stochastic Environment -- Exponential growth with observation error only (EGOE) -- Exponential growth with process noise only (EGPN) -- Process noise and observation error occurring simultaneously (EGSS) -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 6: All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured population-projection models -- Introduction -- Anatomy of a Population-Projection Matrix -- How Timing of Sampling Affects the Matrix -- Projecting a Matrix Through Time Leads to Transient and Asymptotic Dynamics -- How to project the matrix -- Stable stage distribution, transient dynamics, and reproductive value.

All Vital Rates are not Created Equal: Analytical Sensitivities and Elasticities -- Stochasticity in Age and Stage-Structured Populations -- Sensitivity Analysis in the Broad Sense to Help Evaluate Management Actions -- Sensitivity analysis method 1: manual perturbation -- Sensitivity analysis method 2: analytical sensitivity and elasticity analysis -- Sensitivity analysis method 3: life-stage simulation analysis -- Fitness is Lambda, Selection is Management -- Case Studies Using Matrix Models to Guide Conservation Decision-Making -- Case study 1: what are the best management actions to recover an endangered species? -- Case study 2: prioritizing recovery actions in Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep using asymptotic and nonasymptotic sensitivity analysis -- Case study 3: what are the most efficient management actions to reduce a pest population? -- Case study 4: how should a harvested species be managed? -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 7: Density-dependent population change -- Introduction -- Negative Density Dependence -- The Logistic: One Simple Model of Negative Density-Dependent Population Growth -- Some Counterintuitive Dynamics: Limit Cycles and Chaos -- Positive Density Dependence -- Negative and Positive Density Dependence Operate Together -- Component Versus Demographic Outcomes of Density Dependence -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 8: Predation and wildlife populations -- Introduction -- Does Predation Affect Prey Numbers? -- Factor 1. Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Predation Rate -- Numerical responses of predators -- Functional responses of predators -- Total predation rate -- Factor 2. Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Compensation -- Factor 3. Determining How Predation Affects Prey Numbers: Who Gets Killed -- Summary -- Further Reading.

CHAPTER 9: Genetic variation and fitness in wildlife populations -- Introduction -- Long-Term Benefits of Genetic Variation -- Genetic variation allows long-term adaptation -- Genetic variation provides ecosystem services -- What Determines Levels of Genetic Variation in Populations? -- The big four: mutation, gene flow, natural selection, and genetic drift -- The genetic effective population size -- Genetic changes due to population fragmentation -- Quantifying the Loss of Heterozygosity: The Inbreeding Coefficient -- Defining inbreeding -- Estimating the inbreeding coefficient in wildlife populations -- When Does Inbreeding Due to Genetic Drift Lead to Inbreeding Depression? -- Inbreeding depression in wildlife populations -- Can wild populations adapt to inbreeding through purging? -- Another genetic mechanism that could reduce vital rates: mutations in mtDNA -- Inbreeding depression meets other concerns in fragmented populations -- Outbreeding Depression and the Loss of Local Adaptation -- Genetic Rescue, Genetic Restoration, and Long-Term Population Recovery -- Appropriate Levels of Genetic Connectivity -- Case Studies Where Genetic Rescue Meets the Real World -- Greater prairie chicken -- Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep -- Adder -- Wolves of several types: Scandinavian, Mexican, and US -- Florida panther -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 10: Dynamics of multiple populations -- Introduction -- What Is Connectivity? -- Consequences of Connectivity for Wildlife Populations -- Persistence and fluctuations of populations -- Colonization and recolonization of empty sites -- Abundance of populations providing dispersers -- Taxonomic designation -- Measuring Connectivity among Wildlife Populations -- Radiotelemetry and mark-recapture -- Genetic approaches -- Multiple Populations are Not All Equal -- Multiple isolated populations -- Metapopulations.

Source-sink populations -- Ecological traps -- Options for Restoring Connectivity -- Corridors and managing the intervening matrix -- Physically moving animals: translocations -- Summary -- Further Reading -- PART III: Applying Knowledge of Population Processes to Problems of Declining, Small, or Harvestable Populations -- CHAPTER 11: Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations -- Introduction -- General Effects of Deterministic Stressors on Populations: Adapt, Move, or Die -- Habitat Loss and Fragmentation -- Habitat loss can reduce populations -- Habitat fragmentation adds to the problems of habitat loss -- Habitat loss and fragmentation operate concurrently -- Introduced and Invasive Species -- Invasion by natives: human-subsidized species -- The special case of parasites and disease -- Pollution -- Overharvest -- Global Climate Change -- Adapt in place -- Phenologic shifts demonstrate at least partial adaptation in place -- Adapt by moving -- Failure to adapt in place or move means die and decline -- Multiple Deterministic Stressors Occur Simultaneously -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 12: Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations -- Introduction -- Ecological Characteristics Predicting Risk -- The Extinction Vortex -- Predicting Risks in Small Populations -- Population Viability Analysis (PVA): Quantitative Methods of Assessing Viability -- PVA defined -- Three components of PVA -- How to conduct a PVA -- Big-picture thoughts about PVA -- Other Approaches to Assessing Viability -- Rules of thumb -- Approaches based on habitat and other information -- Summary -- Further Reading -- CHAPTER 13: Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems -- Introduction -- The Four Categories of Focal Species -- 1 Flagship species -- 2 Umbrella species -- 3 Indicator species.

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