Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums write by John A. Wiens. This book was released on 2016-02-23. Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short, compelling, but mostly thought-provoking essys that encompass many of the central issues shaping ecology and conservation in the changing world Collected essays from one of the best known ecologists and conservationists in the world Includes all issues at the cutting edge of the interface between ecology and conservation Attractive to a broad audience of ecologists, conservationists, natural resource managers, policy makers, and naturalists
Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology
Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology write by Michael L. Morrison. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife-habitat relationships, Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an invaluable resource to professionals and practitioners in natural resource management in public and private sectors, including state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and environmental consultants.
The Cougar Conundrum
The Cougar Conundrum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cougar Conundrum write by Mark Elbroch. This book was released on 2020-08-13. The Cougar Conundrum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationship between humans and mountain lions has always been uneasy. A century ago, mountain lions were vilified as a threat to livestock and hunted to the verge of extinction. In recent years, this keystone predator has made a remarkable comeback, but today humans and mountain lions appear destined for a collision course. Its recovery has led to an unexpected conundrum: Do more mountain lions mean they’re a threat to humans and domestic animals? Or, are mountain lions still in need of our help and protection as their habitat dwindles and they’re forced into the edges and crevices of communities to survive? Mountain lion biologist and expert Mark Elbroch welcomes these tough questions. He dismisses long-held myths about mountain lions and uses groundbreaking science to uncover important new information about their social habits. Elbroch argues that humans and mountain lions can peacefully coexist in close proximity if we ignore uninformed hype and instead arm ourselves with knowledge and common sense. He walks us through the realities of human safety in the presence of mountain lions, livestock safety, competition with hunters for deer and elk, and threats to rare species, dispelling the paranoia with facts and logic. In the last few chapters, he touches on human impacts on mountain lions and the need for a sensible management strategy. The result, he argues, is a win-win for humans, mountain lions, and the ecosystems that depend on keystone predators to keep them in healthy balance. The Cougar Conundrum delivers a clear-eyed assessment of a modern wildlife challenge, offering practical advice for wildlife managers, conservationists, hunters, and those in the wildland-urban interface who share their habitat with large predators.
Shepherding Nature
Shepherding Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shepherding Nature write by J. Michael Scott. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Shepherding Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With stories about species on the brink, this book explores the causes and consequences of conservation reliance and its implications.
Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology
Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology write by Michael L. Morrison. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Practical guidance for wildlife professionals working to improve study design, data analysis, and the application of results to habitat and population management. Winner of the Wildlife Society Publications Book Award by The Wildlife Society Despite major advances in sampling techniques and analytical methods, many animal ecologists conduct research that is primarily relevant to a specific time and place. They also tend to focus more on the statistical analyses and nuances of modeling than actual study design. Arguing that studies of animal ecology should always begin with a focus on the behaviors and characteristics of individual organisms, including how they form into distinct biological populations, Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology takes a fresh and critical look at the field. Building from its companion volume, Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology, this practical book presents readers with the principal methods used to observe animal behavior. Teaching them to assess resource abundance categories of species-environmental relationships models, it also explores • major aspects of measuring animal habitat: what to measure and how to measure it; • common sampling and estimation methods to assess population parameters; • when to measure and how to analyze data; • problems that will confront ecologists in the coming years—and how to gather information to adequately address them; and • how the experimental approach can be used to advance the science of animal ecology. Throughout the book, the authors stress the importance of speaking a common and well-defined language. Avoiding vague and misleading terminology, they assert, will help ecologists translate science into meaningful and lasting actions in the environment. Taking the perspective of the organism of interest in developing concepts and applications, the authors always keep the potentially biased human perspective in focus. They also provide a selection of suggested research projects, cautions, and caveats. A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife–habitat relationships, Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an invaluable resource to natural resource management professionals and practitioners, including state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and environmental consultants.
