Clark E. Adams

Urban Wildlife Management (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When the first edition of Urban Wildlife Management was published two years ago, it provided conservationists, ecologists, and wildlife professionals with a welcome shift in the way that interactions between humans and wildlife were viewed and managed. Instead of focusing on ways to evict or eradicate wildlife encroached on by urban development, th

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439882191
• Artikelnr.: 57160375

Autorenporträt

Clark E. Adams is an emeritus professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (WFSC) at Texas A&M University in College Station. He earned his PhD in zoology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and completed a 51-year teaching and research career on August 31, 2015. He chaired the Conservation Education Committee for The Wildlife Society (TWS), edited the newsletter for the Human Dimensions of Wildlife Study Group, was a member of the Urban Wildlife Management Working Group, and has chaired many committees for the Texas Chapter of TWS. He is a former president of the Texas Chapter of TWS and as well as the Southwest Section of TWS. Since 1981, he and his students have conducted and published many national, regional, and statewide studies on the public's activities, attitudes, expectations, and knowledge concerning wildlife. He developed the degree option in urban wildlife and fisheries management for the WFSC and developed and taught the senior-level urban wildlife management course. He received the 2015 Outstanding Achievement in Urban Wildlife Conservation award from the TWS Urban Wildlife Working Group. He is also the coauthor of Texas Rattlesnake Roundups.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A New Wildlife Management Paradigm. HUMAN-WILDLIFE INTERFACE
. Wildlife Management: Past and Present. Principal Components of Urban
Wildlife Management. URBAN ECOSYSTEMS. Ecological Principles in an Urban
Context. Urban Soils. Urban Aquatic Systems. Population Dynamics. URBAN
HABITATS AND HAZARDS. Urban Green Spaces. Urban Gray Spaces. URBAN WILDLIFE
SPECIES. Urban Herpetofauna (Amphibians and Reptiles). Urban Birds. Urban
Mammals. Urban Threatened, Endangered, and Extirpated Species. Urban
Introduced and Invasive Species. Resident Canada Geese and Urban
White-Tailed Deer. URBAN SOCIOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE. Human Dimensions of
Urban Wildlife Management. Legal Aspects of Urban Wildlife Management.
Zoonoses and Management Considerations. Appendix: Lists of Terrestrial
Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals by State Those Observed in
Urbanized Communities in the United States.