Conservation of Wildlife Populations: Demography, Genetics, and Management

by L. Scott Mills

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges.  And yet, much of the applied power of wildlife population ecology remains untapped because its broad sweep across disparate subfields has been isolated in specialized texts.  In this book, L. Scott Mills covers the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology, including genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling, predation, population projections, climate change and invasive species, harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal species concepts, and analyses of connectivity in fragmented landscapes. With a readable style, analytical rigor, and hundreds of examples drawn from around the world, Conservation of Wildlife Populations (2 nd ed) provides the conceptual basis for applying population ecology to wildlife conservation decision-making.  Although targeting primarily undergraduates and beginning graduate students with some basic training in basic ecology and statistics (in majors that could include wildlife biology, conservation biology, ecology, environmental studies, and biology), the book will also be useful for practitioners in the field who want to find - in one place and with plenty of applied examples - the latest advances in the genetic and demographic aspects of population ecology.

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Genres: Science

352 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2006

About the author

Dr. Mills is a wildlife population ecologist who combines wildlife biology field studies with molecular genetics and quantitative ecology modeling tools to evaluate large-scale conservation questions centered on wildlife population ecology processes. In 2002 he testified to the US Congress (House Committee on Natural Resources) regarding ethics in conservation biology and wildlife biology research. He has served on the Board of Governors for the North American Section of the Society for Conservation Biology, and was an invited contributor to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC) report. In 2009 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to help build capacity for ecological and conservation science in Bhutan. His research in population ecology, conservation genetics, and wildlife biology has been covered widely by media outlets including Newsweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, Discovery Channel, and National Public Radio. His website can be found at: http://research.cnr.ncsu.edu/sites/mi...

Reviews

[Elise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well I read about 5 chapters from this book and it was less boring than most textbooks.

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must-read textbook for anyone going into wildlife ecology.

[Jeannie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite good. Sassy! Anyone who quotes John Steinbeck and Gary Larson (among others) in a biology textbook is all right with me.