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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Restoring and Preserving Wildlife | |
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| Fundamentals of Habitat Restoration | |
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| Why a New Book? | |
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| Operating Concepts | |
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| Restoration Defined | |
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| Time Frames and Historic Conditions | |
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| Natural Versus Desired Conditions | |
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| Wildlife Defined | |
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| Approaches to Ecological Restoration | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Populations | |
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| Population Concepts and Habitat Restoration | |
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| Population Dynamics and Viability | |
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| Distribution Patterns of Populations | |
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| Animal Movements and Habitat Management | |
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| Stochastic Environments and Habitat Management | |
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| Linking Populations and Restoration Ecology | |
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| Exotic Species | |
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| Roads to Recovery: Captive Breeding and Translocating Animals | |
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| Metapopulation Structure | |
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| Restoring a Population | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Habitat | |
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| Issues of Scale | |
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| Avoiding Pitfalls | |
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| When Models Fail: Conspecific Attraction | |
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| Definitions | |
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| When to Measure | |
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| What to Measure | |
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| Spatial Scale | |
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| Measurements of the Animal | |
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| Measurements of the Environment | |
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| Focal Animal Approach | |
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| How to Measure | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Assemblages | |
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| Assembly Rules | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Species Pool | |
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| Restoration Implications | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Desired Conditions | |
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| Historical Assessments | |
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| Fossils and Subfossils | |
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| Literature | |
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| Uncertainty | |
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| Developing Desired Conditions | |
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| Focal Species | |
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| Implementation Steps | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Design Concepts | |
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| Habitat Heterogeneity | |
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| Fragmentation | |
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| Disturbance Ecology: Dynamics of Habitats in Landscapes | |
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| Management Lessons | |
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| Corridors | |
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| Buffers | |
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| Effects of Isolation | |
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| The Landscape Matrix as a Planning Area | |
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| Populations and Restoration: Management Implications | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| A Primer on Study Design | |
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| Scientific Methods | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Sources of Variation | |
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| Monitoring as Research | |
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| Principles of Study Design | |
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| Optimal and Suboptimal Study Designs | |
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| Experimental Design | |
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| Impact Assessment | |
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| Applications to Restoration | |
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| Power and Sample Size Analyses | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Monitoring: Field Methods and Applications | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Inventory and Monitoring of Wildlife | |
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| Sampling Considerations | |
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| Adaptive Management | |
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| Sampling Principles | |
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| Types of Information | |
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| Wildlife Sampling | |
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| Amphibians and Reptiles | |
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| Birds | |
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| Mammals | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| Four Case Studies | |
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| Restoring a Rare Songbird in the Sierra Nevada | |
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| Restoration of Highly Degraded Watersheds in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California | |
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| Restoration of Endangereed Species on Private Lands: The Golden-Cheeked Warbler and Black-Capped Vireo in Texas | |
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| Restoring Small and Isolated Populations: The San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat at Lemoore Naval Air Station | |
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| Closing Comments | |
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| Wildlife Restoration: Synthesis | |
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| Major Messages from Conceptual Development | |
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| Information Needs | |
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| Working with Wildlife Scientists and Managers | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| In Closing | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Literature Cited | |
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| Index | |