Restoring Wildlife

, by Morrison, Michael L.

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ISBN: 9781597264938 | 1597264938
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Copyright: 5/20/2009

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Restoring Wildlife is part of the series The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration, from the Society for Ecological Restoration International and Island Press. Book jacket.

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Restoring and Preserving Wildlife	p. 1
Fundamentals of Habitat Restoration	p. 3
Why a New Book?	p. 4
Operating Concepts	p. 6
Restoration Defined	p. 6
Time Frames and Historic Conditions	p. 7
Natural Versus Desired Conditions	p. 11
Wildlife Defined	p. 13
Approaches to Ecological Restoration	p. 14
Synthesis	p. 15
Populations	p. 17
Population Concepts and Habitat Restoration	p. 18
Population Dynamics and Viability	p. 21
Distribution Patterns of Populations	p. 24
Animal Movements and Habitat Management	p. 25
Stochastic Environments and Habitat Management	p. 28
Linking Populations and Restoration Ecology	p. 30
Exotic Species	p. 33
Roads to Recovery: Captive Breeding and Translocating Animals	p. 34
Metapopulation Structure	p. 49
Restoring a Population	p. 50
Synthesis	p. 56
Habitat	p. 58
Issues of Scale	p. 58
Avoiding Pitfalls	p. 59
When Models Fail: Conspecific Attraction	p. 60
Definitions	p. 61
When to Measure	p. 66
What to Measure	p. 67
Spatial Scale	p. 68
Measurements of the Animal	p. 68
Measurements of the Environment	p. 70
Focal Animal Approach	p. 73
How to Measure	p. 74
Synthesis	p. 83
Assemblages	p. 84
Assembly Rules	p. 85
Terminology	p. 87
Species Pool	p. 88
Restoration Implications	p. 94
Synthesis	p. 94
Desired Conditions	p. 96
Historical Assessments	p. 98
Fossils and Subfossils	p. 101
Literature	p. 102
Uncertainty	p. 103
Developing Desired Conditions	p. 104
Focal Species	p. 106
Implementation Steps	p. 110
Synthesis	p. 115
Design Concepts	p. 117
Habitat Heterogeneity	p. 117
Fragmentation	p. 119
Disturbance Ecology: Dynamics of Habitats in Landscapes	p. 123
Management Lessons	p. 125
Corridors	p. 127
Buffers	p. 134
Effects of Isolation	p. 135
The Landscape Matrix as a Planning Area	p. 137
Populations and Restoration: Management Implications	p. 139
Synthesis	p. 142
A Primer on Study Design	p. 145
Scientific Methods	p. 146
Terminology	p. 147
Sources of Variation	p. 149
Monitoring as Research	p. 150
Principles of Study Design	p. 150
Optimal and Suboptimal Study Designs	p. 153
Experimental Design	p. 153
Impact Assessment	p. 163
Applications to Restoration	p. 169
Power and Sample Size Analyses	p. 173
Synthesis	p. 178
Monitoring: Field Methods and Applications	p. 181
Definitions	p. 182
Inventory and Monitoring of Wildlife	p. 183
Sampling Considerations	p. 184
Adaptive Management	p. 188
Sampling Principles	p. 190
Types of Information	p. 191
Wildlife Sampling	p. 195
Amphibians and Reptiles	p. 195
Birds	p. 199
Mammals	p. 203
Synthesis	p. 211
Case Studies	p. 215
Four Case Studies	p. 217
Restoring a Rare Songbird in the Sierra Nevada	p. 217
Restoration of Highly Degraded Watersheds in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California	p. 232
Restoration of Endangereed Species on Private Lands: The Golden-Cheeked Warbler and Black-Capped Vireo in Texas	p. 257
Restoring Small and Isolated Populations: The San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat at Lemoore Naval Air Station	p. 273
Closing Comments	p. 286
Wildlife Restoration: Synthesis	p. 287
Major Messages from Conceptual Development	p. 288
Information Needs	p. 289
Working with Wildlife Scientists and Managers	p. 290
Synthesis	p. 291
In Closing	p. 300
Glossary	p. 301
Literature Cited	p. 313
Index	p. 339
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Restoring Wildlife

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