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| List of boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Background to applied population biology | |
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| The big picture: human population dynamics meets applied population biology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Population ecology of humans | |
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| Extinction rates of other species | |
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| Humans and sustainable harvest | |
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| The big picture | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Obtaining reliable facts through sampling | |
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| Linking observed facts to ideas[subscript mind] leads to understanding | |
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| Ethics and the wildlife population biologist | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is genetic variation? | |
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| Genetic markers used in wildlife population biology | |
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| Insights into wildlife population biology using genetic tools | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Estimating population vital rates | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Estimating abundance and density | |
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| Survival estimation | |
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| Estimation of reproduction | |
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| Sex ratio | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Population processes: the basis for management | |
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| The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential and geometric change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamentals of geometric or exponential growth | |
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| Causes and consequences of variation in population growth | |
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| Quantifying population growth in a stochastic environment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Density-dependent population change | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Negative density dependence | |
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| Positive density dependence | |
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| The logistic: one simple model of negative density-dependent population growth | |
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| Some counterintuitive dynamics: limit cycles and chaos | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Accounting for age- and sex-specific differences: population-projection models | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anatomy of a population-projection matrix | |
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| How timing of sampling affects the matrix | |
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| Projecting a matrix through time | |
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| Adding stochasticity to a matrix model | |
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| Sensitivity analysis | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Predation and wildlife populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Does predation affect prey numbers? | |
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| Factors affecting how predation impacts prey numbers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Genetic variation and fitness of wildlife populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Long-term benefits of genetic variation | |
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| What determines levels of genetic variation in populations? | |
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| Quantifying the loss of heterozygosity: the inbreeding coefficient | |
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| When does inbreeding lead to inbreeding depression? | |
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| What to do when faced with inbreeding depression? | |
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| General rules | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Dynamics of multiple populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Connectivity among populations | |
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| Measuring connectivity among wildlife populations | |
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| Multiple populations are not all equal | |
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| Options for restoring connectivity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Applying knowledge of population processes to problems of declining, small, or harvestable populations | |
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| Human perturbations: deterministic factors leading to population decline | |
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| Introduction | |
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| General effects of deterministic stressors on populations | |
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| Habitat loss and fragmentation | |
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| Introduced and invasive species | |
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| Pollution | |
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| Overharvest | |
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| Global climate change | |
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| Synergistic effects among deterministic stressors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ecological characteristics predicting risk | |
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| The extinction vortex | |
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| Predicting risks in small populations | |
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| Population viability analysis: quantitative methods of assessing viability | |
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| Other approaches to assessing viability | |
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| Some closing thoughts about assessing viability | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Bridging applied population and ecosystem ecology with focal species concepts | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Flagship species | |
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| Umbrella species | |
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| Indicator species | |
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| Keystone species and strong interactors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Population biology of harvested populations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Effects of hunting on population dynamics | |
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| Long-term effects: hunting as a selective force | |
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| Models to guide sustainable harvest | |
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| Waterfowl harvest and adaptive harvest management | |
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| Management of overabundant and pest populations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| References | |
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| Species lists | |
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| Subject index | |