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By
Byron Williams, U.S. Geological Survey, Cooperative Research Units, Reston, Virginia, U.S.A.
James Nichols, U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland, U.S.A.
Michael Conroy, Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Georgia, Athens, U.S.A.
Description
Analysis and Management of Animal Populations deals with the processes involved in making informed decisions about the management
of animal populations. It covers the modeling of population responses to management actions, the estimation of quantities needed in the
modeling effort, and the application of these estimates and models to the development of sound management decisions. The book synthesizes
and integrates in a single volume the methods associated with these themes, as they apply to ecological assessment and conservation of
animal populations.
Audience
Faculty, researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in animal ecology, biometrics, quantitative ecology, conservation
biology, fish and wildlife biology, wildlife policy, natural resource sciences, and land management.
Contents
Preface.
Part I: Framework for Modeling, Estimation, and Management of Animal Populations
Introduction to Population Ecology.
Scientific Process in Animal Ecology.
Models and the Investigation of Populations.
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Animal Ecology.
Survey Sampling and the Estimation of Population Parameters.
Design of Experiments in Animal Ecology.
Part II: Dynamic Modeling of
Animal Populations
Principles of Model Development and Assessment.
Traditional Models of Population Dynamics.
Model Identification
with Time Series Data.
Stochastic Processes in Population Models.
The Use of Models in Conservation and Management.
Part III: Estimation
Methods for Animal Populations
Estimating Abundance Based on Counts.
Estimating Abundance with Distance-Based Methods.
Estimating
Abundance for Closed Populations with Capture-Recapture Methods.
Estimation of Demographic Parameters.
Estimation of Survival Rates with
Band Recoveries.
Estimating Survival, Movement, and Other State Transitions with Mark-Recapture Methods.
Estimating Abundance and Recruitment
for Open Populations with Mark-Recapture Methods.
Combining Closed and Open Mark-Recapture Models: The Robust Design.
Estimation of Community
Parameters.
Part IV: Decision Analysis for Animal Populations
Optimal Decision Making in Population Biology.
Traditional Approaches
to Optimal Decision Analysis.
Modern Approaches to Optimal Decision Analysis.
Uncertainty, Learning, and Decision Analysis.
Case Study:
Management of the Sport Harvest of North American Waterfowl.
Appendix A: Conditional Probability and Bayes' Theorem.
Appendix B: Matrix
Algebra.
Appendix C: Differential Equations.
Appendix D: Difference Equations.
Appendix E: Some Probability Distributions and Their Properties.
Appendix F: Methods for Estimating Statistical Variation.
Appendix G: Computer Software for Population and Community Estimation.
Appendix
H: The Mathematics of Optimization
References.
Index.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 817 pages, publication date: APR-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-754406-9
ISBN-10: 0-12-754406-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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EUR 124
GBP 82
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Last update: 30 Aug 2008
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