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Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology

Current price: $72.00
Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology
Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology

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Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology

Current price: $72.00

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Practical guidance for wildlife professionals working to improve study design, data analysis, and the application of results to habitat and population management.
Winner of the Wildlife Society Publications Book Award by The Wildlife Society
Despite major advances in sampling techniques and analytical methods, many animal ecologists conduct research that is primarily relevant to a specific time and place. They also tend to focus more on the statistical analyses and nuances of modeling than actual study design. Arguing that studies of animal ecology should always begin with a focus on the behaviors and characteristics of individual organisms, including how they form into distinct biological populations,
Applications for Advancing Animal Ecology
takes a fresh and critical look at the field.
Building from its companion volume,
Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology
, this practical book presents readers with the principal methods used to observe animal behavior. Teaching them to assess resource abundance categories of species-environmental relationships models, it also explores
• major aspects of measuring animal habitat: what to measure and how to measure it;• common sampling and estimation methods to assess population parameters;• when to measure and how to analyze data;• problems that will confront ecologists in the coming years—and how to gather information to adequately address them; and• how the experimental approach can be used to advance the science of animal ecology.
Throughout the book, the authors stress the importance of speaking a common and well-defined language. Avoiding vague and misleading terminology, they assert, will help ecologists translate science into meaningful and lasting actions in the environment. Taking the perspective of the organism of interest in developing concepts and applications, the authors always keep the potentially biased human perspective in focus. They also provide a selection of suggested research projects, cautions, and caveats. A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife–habitat relationships,
will be an invaluable resource to natural resource management professionals and practitioners, including state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and environmental consultants.

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