HD - SLE220 Wildlife Ecology

Description

Content includes: - Definitions page - Populations - statistics, growth and limits, - Populations - demographics, life tables, life histories - Competition - intraspecific, interspecific, animal behavior, case studies - Dispersal and Metapopulations - breeding, translocation, demographic accidents, source & sink models, case studies - Predation - functional & numerical, case studies - Behavioral ecology of Victoria's largest possum - Niches - patterns of distribution, fundamental vs realized, case studies - Importance of behavior in understanding population - Measuring wildlife populations & associated formulas - Long-term ecological studies - Conservation strategies in wildlife management - Conservation Genetics - Harvesting wildlife populations for sustainability - Predicting population declines & associated formulas - Assessing human impacts on populations using fossils - Ecological roles of predators - Integrated wildlife management & case studies - Controversies in wildlife management Typed up, neat, detailed, includes diagrams and pictures, color coordination, includes readings from the course and outside reading.