Animal behavior and wildlife conservation
By: edited by Marco Festa-Bianchet and Marco Apollonio
Contributors: Festa-Bianchet, Marco; Apollonio, Marco
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Animal behavior; Wildlife conservation
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-368) and index
Table of contents: title: Adaptive behavior and population viability / Leonard Morris Gosling; title: Dispersal and conservation: a behavioral perspective on metapopulation persistence / Rosie Woodroffe; title: Migration and conservation: the case of sea turtles / Paolo Luschi; title: Bridging the gap: linking individual bird movement and territory establishment rules with their patterns of distribution in fragmented forests / André Desrochers; title: Knowledge of reproductive behavior contributes to conservation programs / Isabelle M. Côté; title: Foraging behavior, habitat suitability, and translocation success, with special reference to large mammalian herbivores / Norman Owen-Smith; title: Variation in life history traits and realistic population models for wildlife management: the case of ungulates / Jean-Michel Gaillard, Anne Loison, and Carole Toïgo; title: Through the eyes of prey: how the extinction and conservation of North America's large carnivores alter prey systems and biodiversity / Joel Berger ... [et al.]; title: Behavioral aspects of conservation and management of European mammals / Marco Appollonio, Bruno Bassano, and Andrea Mustoni; title: Implications of sexually selected infanticide for the hunting of large carnivores / Jon E. Swenson; title: Exploitative wildlife management as a selective pressure for the life-history evolution of large mammals / Marco Festa-Bianchet; title: Social groups, genetic structure, and conservation / F. Stephen Dobson and Bertram Zinner; title: Pathogen-driven sexual selection for "good genes" versus genetic variability in small populations / Claus Wedekind; title: Measuring idividual quality in conservation and behavior / Brian M. Steele and John T. Hogg; title: Individual quality, environment, and conservation / Peter Arcese; title: Where do we go from here? / Marco Festa-Bianchet