In this book, L. Scott Mills covers the full spectrum of applied wildlife population ecology, including genomic tools for non-invasive genetic sampling, predation, population projections, climate change and invasive species, harvest modeling, viability analysis, focal species concepts, and analyses of connectivity in fragmented landscapes.

Table of Contents

• List of boxes
• Preface to second edition
• Preface to first edition
• List of symbols
• Acknowledgments for second edition
• Acknowledgments for first edition
• PART I BACKGROUND TO APPLIED POPULATION BIOLOGY
• 1 The big picture: human population dynamics meet applied population biology
• 2 Designing studies and interpreting population biology data: how do we know what we know?
• 3 Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology
• 4 Estimating population vital rates
• PART II POPULATION PROCESSES: THE BASIS FOR MANAGEMENT
• 5 The simplest way to describe and project population growth: exponential or geometric change
• 6 All stage classes are not equal in their effects on population growth: structured population-projection models
• 7 Density-dependent population change
• 8 Predation and wildlife populations
• 9 Genetic variation and fitness in wildlife populations
• 10 Dynamics of multiple populations
• PART III APPLYING KNOWLEDGE OF POPULATION PROCESSES TO PROBLEMS OF DECLINING, SMALL, OR HARVESTABLE POPULATIONS
• 11 Human-caused stressors: deterministic factors affecting populations
• 12 Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations
• 13 Focal species to bridge from populations to ecosystems
• 14 Population biology to guide sustainable harvest
• Epilogue
• References