Predation and vertebrate populations
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Vertebrates |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Vertebrates |
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Author | : Bogumila Jedrzejewska |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3662353644 |
Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of interrelationships, and shows them against the background of their biotic and abiotic settings. It is based on long-term research conducted in the best preserved woodland of Europe's temperate zone. The role of predation, whether limiting or regulating prey (ungulate, rodent, shrew, bird, and amphibian) populations, is quantified and compared to parts played by other factors: climate, food resources for prey, and availability of other potential resources for predators.
Author | : Vadim Sidorovich |
Publisher | : Tesey |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Predation (Biology) |
ISBN | : 9854634566 |
This monograph is about predation in vertebrate animal community. The studies were done in the seminatural terrains with transitional mixed forest within the European forest zone in Belarus. The result part was organised as a top-down flow: First, the community characteristics related to predators were estimated. I presented data on predator species richness, population density and biomass with special attention paid to the changes in predator species diversity occurred during the last two centuries and particularly in connection with the American mink and raccoon dog naturalization. Then, the main features of predator food niches were given, and the structure of various predator guilds and size structure in predators were analysed. The next part of the monograph was devoted to examining of community-important factors acting in semi-natural terrains. Such factors affected either the whole community or its marked fragment. The last quite a large part of the monograph consisted of many chapters which present more or less essential results on different predator species, and stresses hot questions of their population ecology.
Author | : Bo Ebenman |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642740014 |
At last both ecology and evolution are covered in this study on the dynamics of size-structured populations. How does natural selection shape growth patterns and life cycles of individuals, and hence the size-structure of populations? This book will stimulate biologists to look into some important and interesting biological problems from a new angle of approach, concerning: - life history evolution, - intraspecific competition and niche theory, - structure and dynamics of ecological communities.
Author | : Graeme Caughley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
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This book was first published in 1977 and is widely recognized as a classic in the field. It is the ôbibleö for wildlife managers everywhere.
Author | : Fabian Miguel Jaksic |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1982 |
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Author | : D.R. McCullough |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1156 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9401128685 |
In 1984, a conference called Wildlife 2000: Modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, was held at Stanford Sierra Camp at Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The conference was well-received, and the published volume (Verner, J. , M. L. Morrison, and C. J. Ralph, editors. 1986. Wildlife 2000: modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA) proved to be a landmark publication that received a book award by The Wildlife Society. Wildlife 2001: populations was a followup conference with emphasis on the other major biological field of wildlife conservation and management, populations. It was held on July 29-31, 1991, at the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel in Oakland, California, in accordance with our intent that this conference have a much stronger international representation than did Wildlife 2000. The goal of the conference was to bring together an international group of specialists to address the state of the art in wildlife population dynamics, and set the agenda for future research and management on the threshold of the 21st century. The mix of specialists included workers in theoretical, as well as practical, aspects of wildlife conservation and management. Three general sessions covered methods, modelling, and conservation of threatened species.
Author | : Pedro Barbosa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2005-08-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0195171209 |
This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue of predation effects on communities.
Author | : W. D. Bowen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Predation (Biology) |
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Ecologists have known for some time that predators can have significant effects on terrestrial and aquatic prey populations. Culling is widely practiced as a means to limit predation on livestock and game. Changes in species' distributions and abundance illustrate that culling programs can be very effective at reducing predator density. Culling has also been used to reduce marine mammal populations in many parts of the world. Coastal pinniped species have usually been the target of such programs, but dolphins and large cetaceans have also been culled. The extent of marine mammal population reduction and the response of targeted prey populations to culls have rarely been evaluated. There are several conclusions that can be drawn from experimental studies in terrestrial systems and more model-based approaches in aquatic systems. First, predator removal can increase productivity and population size of target prey populations, but not always. Second, these studies typically have involved large proportional reduction (>50%) in predator populations, presumably to increase effect size and the statistical power to detect a significant effect. Third, the effects of culling are typically dependent on continued control, and in the absence of control the benefits rapidly disappear. This underscores the need for predator removal to be a long-term management strategy. Fourth, at least in the case of marine mammals, few studies have clearly articulated measurable objectives for prey population recovery or increase and most have not evaluated the success of the control program with respect to those objectives. Fifth, culling predators often has non-intuitive and unintended consequences for both target and other predator and prey species. Despite their prevalence, the effectiveness, efficiency and the benefit: cost ratio of culling, programs have been poorly studied.
Author | : R. J. Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400955545 |
When assuming the task of preparing a book such as this, one inevitably wonders why anyone would want to read it. I have always sympathized with Charles Elton's trenchant observation in his 1927 book that 'we have to face the fact that while ecological work is fascinating to do, it is unbearably dull to read about . . . ' And yet several good reasons do exist for producing a small volume on predation. The subject is interesting in its own right; no ecologist can deny that predation is one of the basic processes in the natural world. And the logical roots for much currently published reasoning about predation are remarkably well hidden; if one must do research on the subject, it helps not to be forced to start from first principles. A student facing predator-prey interactions for the first time is confronted with an amazingly diverse and sometimes inaccessible literature, with a ratio of wheat to chaff not exceeding 1: 5. A guide to the perplexed in this field does not exist at present, and I hope the book will serve that function. But apart from these more-or-Iess academic reasons for writing the book, I am forced to it by my conviction that predators are important in the ecological scheme. They playa critical role in the biological control of insects and other pests and are therefore of immediate economic concern.