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Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012 Although healthy wildlife populations are often a goal of wildlife management, ambiguity over the meaning of the term health may limit its effectiveness in guiding management objectives. Health is a complex concept with empirical and normative qualities;
Shauna L. Hanisch +2 more
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, 2015 Releasing a Chinook Salmon at Kwethluk River weir, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, after measuring it and taking a scale for age analysis. Image taken in 2000.
U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
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Africa's Biodiversity Will Not Be Saved by Protected Areas Alone
Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
Luca Luiselli
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Partners or passengers? Revisiting the association between diatoms and aquatic animals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Numerous studies have revealed the importance of research on the communities capable of colonizing animal surfaces (epibionts) and the animals on which they live (basibionts). Very few studies have considered epizoic diatoms, and there are gaps and biases in our knowledge, including the choice of basibionts, the methods used, and the habitats ...
Gianluca Vacca +2 more
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DiversityThe Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a migratory game bird of ecological, cultural, and hunting importance in Europe. While globally listed as Least Concern, concerns remain over hunting pressure and limited ecological data.
Itumeleng Kwena Malatji +3 more
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Models for managing wildlife disease
Parasitology, 2016 SUMMARYModelling wildlife disease poses some unique challenges. Wildlife disease systems are data poor in comparison with human or livestock disease systems, and the impact of disease on population size is often the key question of interest. This review concentrates specifically on the application of dynamic models to evaluate and guide management ...
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Private Property Rights to Wildlife: The Southern African Experiment. [PDF]
In most nations around the world wildlife are owned and managed by the State. However, in the past 30 years Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have altered their legal regimes to give full control over the use of wildlife to the private owners of the ...
Robert H. Nelson, Kay Muir-Leresche
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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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The Science of Wildlife Disease Management
, 2009 In its widest sense disease can be regarded as any impairment of normal functions. However, for the purposes of this book we will mostly restrict our discussion to infectious diseases, the agents of which are often described as parasites or pathogens.
Delahay, RJ, Smith, GC, Hutchings, MR
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A vision for wildlife management [PDF]
Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, 2000 Author(s): Howard, Walter E. | Abstract: My vision that vertebrate pest control is applied ecology has come a long way since my first field baiting for rats in 1939. Three events are especially important. First, the Vertebrate Pest Conferences were established to provide published information and exchange of views about animal control.
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