Wildlife Management and Conservation by Paul R. Krausman,James W. Cain
By Paul R. Krausman,James W. Cain
Wildlife administration and Conservation offers a transparent evaluation of the administration and conservation of animals, their habitats, and the way humans effect either. the connection between those 3 elements of natural world administration is defined in chapters written through top specialists and is designed to organize natural world scholars for careers during which they are going to be charged with keeping fit animal populations; discovering how you can fix depleted populations whereas lowering overabundant, brought, or pest species; and coping with relationships between a number of human stakeholders.
Topics coated during this booklet include
• The definitions of flora and fauna and administration• Human dimensions of natural world administration• Animal habit• Predator–prey relationships • based choice making• problems with scale in flora and fauna administration• natural world healthiness• historic context of flora and fauna administration and conservation• searching and trapping• Nongame species• foodstuff ecology• Water administration• weather switch• Conservation planning
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