Principles of Wildlife Management

Bailey, James A.

Principles of Wildlife Management James A. Bailey - New York John Wiley and Sons - x,373p.: ill.; 24cm

Table of contents

Part I: Wildlife Conservation 2

1. An Introduction to Wildlife management and Conservation 4

2. Resource Conservation and the Quality of Life 22

3. Wildlife Values 34

Part II: Wildlife Biology 52

4. Wildlife Biology: An Overview 54

5. Wildlife and Soils 68

6.Wildlife foods, Nutrition, and water Requirements 79

7. Wildlife cover Requirements 109

8.Wildlife Movements125

9. Wildlife Reproduction 142

10. Wildlife Behavior and Physiology 155

11. Wildlife Mortality 166

Summary of Wildlife Biology 194

Part III: Wildlife Ecology 196

12. Habitat Factors 198

13. Ecological Succession and Wildlife 213

14. Weather, climate, and Wildlife 239

Part IV: Population Dynamics 254

15. Population Dynamics 256

16. Carrying Capacity 279

17.Perennial Patterns of Abundance 289

Part V: Wildlife management 304

18.Data bases of Wildlife Management 306

19. The Art of Wildlife management 333

Index 367


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