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Wildlife Demography: Population Processes, Analytical Tools and Management Applications

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Part of the book series: Wildlife Research Monographs ((WIREMO,volume 1))

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The purpose of this text is to provide a broad overview of wildlife demography and explain how demographic approaches shed light on wildlife conservation and management issues. First, we summarize the main interactions between humans and wildlife and briefly review the history of research on wildlife demography and modern tools for wildlife demography. In a comparative perspective, we then show how the diversity of wildlife life cycles and demography is organized on a slow-fast continuum and how the theory of exploited populations can be used to understand different sensitivities to extra sources of mortality along this continuum. We then present some key aspects of variation in demographic parameters such as environmental variation and density-dependence. In a general discussion we will briefly present what we think are the dominant trends for future research on wildlife demography.

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Lebreton, JD., Gaillard, JM. (2016). Wildlife Demography: Population Processes, Analytical Tools and Management Applications. In: Mateo, R., Arroyo, B., Garcia, J. (eds) Current Trends in Wildlife Research. Wildlife Research Monographs, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27912-1_2

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