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A definitive textbook for students of wildlife management.

Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. The relationship among these three components of wildlife management is explained in chapters written by leading experts and is designed to prepare wildlife students for careers in which they will be charged with maintaining healthy animal populations; finding ways to restore depleted populations while reducing overabundant, introduced, or pest species; and managing relationships among various human stakeholders.

Topics covered in this book include

? The definitions of wildlife and management
? Human dimensions of wildlife management
? Animal behavior
? Predator?prey relationships
? Structured decision making
? Issues of scale in wildlife management
? Wildlife health
? Historical context of wildlife management and conservation
? Hunting and trapping
? Nongame species
? Nutrition ecology
? Water management
? Climate change
? Conservation planning

Wildlife Management and Conservation: Contemporary Principles and Practices does a great job introducing readers to the wildlife management triad. . . and provides an excellent overview of the wildlife profession for students. . . Although it is an introductory wildlife management text, the information supplied in the book is detailed enough to be of value to professionals.
?Kory Gann, Journal of Wildlife Management

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Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Defining Wildlife and Wildlife Management
Chapter 2. The History of Wildlife Conservation in North America
Chapter 3. The Wildlife Professional
Chapter 4. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management
Chapter 5. Structured Decision Making
Chapter 6. Scale in Wildlife Management: The Difficulty with Extrapolation
Chapter 7. Wildlife Population Dynamics
Chapter 8. Diseases and Parasites
Chapter 9. Hunting and Trapping
Chapter 10. Impacts of Weather and Accidents on Wildlife
Chapter 11. Nutritional Ecology
Chapter 12. Water and Other Welfare Factors
Chapter 13. Predator?Prey Relationships and Management
Chapter 14. Animal Behavior
Chapter 15. Habitat
Chapter 16. Wildlife Restoration
Chapter 17. Climate Change and Wildlife
Chapter 18. Conservation Planning for Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Chapter 19. Managing Populations
Index

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