| Description |
xv, 582 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Significance of behavioral ecology for conservation biology / Tim Caro -- Role of individual identification in conservation biology / Peter McGregor & Tom Peake -- Ecological indicators of risk for primates, as judged by species' susceptibility to logging / Alexander Harcourt -- Future prey : some consequences of the loss and restoration of large carnivores / Joel Berger -- Minimum intervention approach to conservation : the influence of social structure / Sarah Durant -- Contributions of behavioral studies to captive management and breeding of rare and endangered mammals / Nadja Wielebnowski -- Behavior as a tool for management intervention in birds / Eberhard Curio -- Conspecific aggregation and conservation biology / Andy Dobson & Joyce Poole -- Reproductive ecology in the conservation and management of fishes / Amanda Vincent & Yvonne Sadovy -- Social organization and effective population size in carnivores / Scott Creel -- Animal breeding systems, hunter selectivity, and consumptive use in wildlife conservation / Correigh Greene ... [et al.] -- Conspecific brood parasitism, population dynamics, and the conservation of cavity-nesting birds / John Eadie, Paul Sherman, & Brad Semel -- Importance of mate choice improving viability in captive populations / Mats Grahn, Åsa Langefors, & Torbjörn von Schantz -- Mammalian dispersal and reserve design / Dirk Van Vuren -- Behavioral ecology, genetic diversity, and declining amphibian populations / Bruce Waldman & Mandy Tocher -- Management of subsistence harvesting : behavioral ecology of hunters and their mammalian prey / Clare FitzGibbon -- Indigenous hunting in the neotropics : conservation or optimal foraging? / Michael Alvard -- Evolved psychological apparatus of decision-making is one source of environmental problems / Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, & Stephen Gordon -- Behavioral ecology and conservation policy : on balancing science, applications, and advocacy / Daniel Rubenstein -- How do we refocus behavioral ecology to address conservation issues more directly? / Tim Caro. |
| Subject |
Animal behavior.
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Animal ecology.
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Conservation biology.
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| Added Author |
Caro, T. M. (Timothy M.)
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| ISBN |
0195104897 (acid-free paper) |
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0195104900 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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