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Wildlife Habitat Conservation - Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions (Paperback)
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Wildlife Habitat Conservation - Concepts, Challenges, and Solutions (Paperback)
Series: Wildlife Management and Conservation
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A book that emphasized the concept of wildlife habitat for a
generation of students and professionals is now available to even
more readers. "Habitat" is probably the most common term in
ecological research. Elementary school students are introduced to
the term, college students study the concept in depth, hunters make
their plans based on it, nature explorers chat about the different
types, and land managers spend enormous time and money modifying
and restoring habitats. Although a broad swath of people now have
some notion of what habitat is, the scientific community has by and
large failed to define it concretely, despite repeated attempts in
the literature to come to meaningful conclusions regarding what
habitat is and how we should study, manipulate, and ultimately
conserve it. Wildlife Habitat Conservation presents an
authoritative review of the habitat concept, provides a
scientifically rigorous definition, and emphasizes how we must
focus on those critical factors contained within what we call
habitat. The result is a habitat concept that promises long-term
persistence of animal populations. Key concepts and items in the
book include: * Rigorous and standard conceptual definitions of
wildlife and their habitat. * A discussion of the essential
integration of population demographics and population persistence
with the concept of habitat. * The importance of carryover and lag
effects, behavioral processes, genetics, and species interactions
to our understanding of habitat. * An examination of spatiotemporal
heterogeneity, realized through fragmentation, disruption to
eco-evolutionary processes, and alterations to plant and animal
assemblages. * An explanation of how anthropogenic effects alter
population size and distribution (isolation), genetic processes,
and species diversity (including exotic plants and animals). *
Advocacy of proactive management and conservation through
predictive modeling, restoration, and monitoring. Each chapter is
accessibly written in a style that will be welcomed by private
landowners and public resource managers at local, state, and
federal levels. Also ideal for undergraduate and graduate natural
resource and conservation courses, the book is organized perfectly
for a one-semester class. Published in association with The
Wildlife Society.
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