UID:
almafu_9959235865502883
Format:
1 online resource (599 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-770033-0
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1-280-45266-8
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9786610452668
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1-4237-4124-2
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0-19-535572-5
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1-60256-123-0
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Behavioural ecologists study how animals maximize their genetic representation, whilst conservation biologists study small populations & attempt to prevent species extinctions. This volume attempts to link these disciplines formally.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1998.
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Contents; Contributors; 1 The Significance of Behavioral Ecology for Conservation Biology; 2 The Role of Individual Identification in Conservation Biology; 3 Ecological Indicators of Risk for Primates, as Judged by Species' Susceptibility to Logging; 4 Future Prey: Some Consequences of the Loss and Restoration of Large Carnivores; 5 A Minimum Intervention Approach to Conservation: The Influence of Social Structure; 6 Contributions of Behavioral Studies to Captive Management and Breeding of Rare and Endangered Mammals; 7 Behavior as a Tool for Management Intervention in Birds
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8 Conspeciflc Aggregation and Conservation Biology9 Reproductive Ecology in the Conservation and Management of Fishes; 10 Social Organization and Effective Population Size in Carnivores; 11 Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation; 12 Conspecific Brood Parasitism, Population Dynamics, and the Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds; 13 The Importance of Mate Choice in Improving Viability in Captive Populations; 14 Mammalian Dispersal and Reserve Design; 15 Behavioral Ecology, Genetic Diversity, and Declining Amphibian Populations
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16 The Management of Subsistence Harvesting: Behavioral Ecology of Hunters and Their Mammalian Prey17 Indigenous Hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or Optimal Foraging?; 18 The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Decision-Making Is One Source of Environmental Problems; Afterword; Epilogue; Indexes
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-510490-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-510489-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195104899.001.0001
