Restoring Wildlife

Author : Michael L. Morrison,Society for Ecological Restoration International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132193678

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Restoring Wildlife by Michael L. Morrison,Society for Ecological Restoration International Pdf

Restoration plans must take into account the needs of current or desired wildlife species in project areas. Restoring Wildlife gives ecologists, restorationists, administrators, and other professionals involved with restoration projects the tools they need to understand essential ecological concepts, helping them to design restoration projects that can improve conditions for native species of wildlife. It also offers specific guidance and examples on how various projects have been designed and implemented. The book interweaves theoretical and practical aspects of wildlife biology that are directly applicable to the restoration and conservation of animals. It provides an understanding of the fundamentals of wildlife populations and wildlife-habitat relationships as it explores the concept of habitat, its historic development, components, spatialtemporal relationships, and role in land management. It applies these concepts in developing practical tools for professionals. Restoring Wildlife builds on the foundation of material presented in Wildlife Restoration, published by Island Press in 2002, offering the basic information from that book along with much updated material in a reorganized and expanded format. Restoring Wildlife is the only single source that deals with wildlife and restoration, and is an important resource for practicing restorationists and biologists as well as undergraduate and graduate students in wildlife management, ecological restoration, environmental science, and related fields.

Author : Michael L. Morrison
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610911221

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Wildlife Restoration by Michael L. Morrison Pdf

Wildlife Restoration links restoration ecology and wildlife management in an accessible and comprehensive guide to restoring wildlife and the habitats upon which they depend. It offers readers a thorough overview of the types of information needed in planning a wildlife-habitat restoration project and provides the basic tools necessary for developing and implementing a rigorous monitoring program. The book: explains the concepts of habitat and niche: their historic development, components, spatial-temporal relationships, and role in land management reviews how wildlife populations are identified and counted considers captive breeding, reintroduction, and translocation of animals discusses how wildlife and their habitat needs can be incorporated into restoration planning develops a solid justification for monitoring and good sampling design in restoration projects discusses and critiques case histories of wildlife analysis in restoration projectsThe author does not offer a "cookbook" approach, but rather provides basic tools for understanding ecological concepts that can be used to design restoration projects with specific goals for wildlife. He focuses on developing an integrated approach to large-scale landscape restoration. In addition, he provides guidance on where more advanced and detailed literature can be found.Wildlife Restoration sets forth a clear explanation of key principles of wildlife biology for the restorationist, and will allow wildlife biologists to bring the insights of their field to restoration projects. It is an essential source of information for everyone involved with studying, implementing, or managing wildlife restoration projects, including students, ecologists, administrators, government agency staff, and volunteer practitioners.

Author : Roy Dennis
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008368821

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Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways by Roy Dennis Pdf

The RSPB's Book of the Season The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK's reintroduction agenda. Roy was instrumental in returning the Osprey, red kite and golden eagle to the British Isles, but the road to reintroduction isn't an easy one. In what will surely be the seminal book on British reintroductions, Roy details the painstaking process of returning the Goldeneye to Scotland, one duckling at a time, the die-hard determination needed to make a dazzling success of the red kite reintroduction and the leap of faith we will all need to make to accept sharing our forests and skies with large carnivores again. He also illustrates all that we have to gain by restoring our ecosystems to balance. Filled with a lifetime's worth of stories from the front lines of conservation, Reintroduction offers an eye-opening insight into the complexities of reintroducing extinct animals to Britain. It's also an intimate portrait of these apex predators and a reminder of why we need them.

Author : Damian Michael,Mason Crane,Daniel Florance,Emma Burns,David Lindenmayer
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781486309665

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Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife by Damian Michael,Mason Crane,Daniel Florance,Emma Burns,David Lindenmayer Pdf

Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and loss of native plant and animal species. Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practice approaches to restore farm woodlands for birds, mammals and reptiles. Based on 19 years of long-term research in temperate agricultural south-eastern Australia, this book addresses practical questions such as what, where and how much to plant, ways to manage plantings and how plantings change over time. It will be a key reference for farmers, natural resource management professionals and policy-makers concerned with revegetation and conservation.

Author : Michael L. Morrison,Society for Ecological Restoration International
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015080899712

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Restoring Wildlife by Michael L. Morrison,Society for Ecological Restoration International Pdf

Restoration plans must take into account the needs of current or desired wildlife species in project areas. Restoring Wildlife gives ecologists, restorationists, administrators, and other professionals involved with restoration projects the tools they need to understand essential ecological concepts, helping them to design restoration projects that can improve conditions for native species of wildlife. It also offers specific guidance and examples on how various projects have been designed and implemented. The book interweaves theoretical and practical aspects of wildlife biology that are directly applicable to the restoration and conservation of animals. It provides an understanding of the fundamentals of wildlife populations and wildlife-habitat relationships as it explores the concept of habitat, its historic development, components, spatialtemporal relationships, and role in land management. It applies these concepts in developing practical tools for professionals. Restoring Wildlife builds on the foundation of material presented in Wildlife Restoration, published by Island Press in 2002, offering the basic information from that book along with much updated material in a reorganized and expanded format. Restoring Wildlife is the only single source that deals with wildlife and restoration, and is an important resource for practicing restorationists and biologists as well as undergraduate and graduate students in wildlife management, ecological restoration, environmental science, and related fields.

Author : Harmon Kallman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCR:31210006336331

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Restoring America's Wildlife, 1937-1987 by Harmon Kallman Pdf

Fittingly, the Act's chief sponsors were a Senator from Nevada, Key Pittman, and a Representative from Virginia, A. Willis Robertson. The Pittman-Robertson Act, as it came to be called, sped through Congress and was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on September 2, 1937. From a modest beginning, the Pittman-Robertson program has grown with the economy and the human population of our country. By now it has channeled nearly $1.7 billion in Federal excise tax receipts, augmented by some $600 million from the States, into activities to restore wildlife. The projects include State acquisition of acreage needed to bring wildlife back, research into wildlife requirements and problems, active management of habitats, and development of scientific ways to enable wildlife and people to share our land in harmony. The program has strengthened State governments and built wildlife management into a respected profession.

Author : Dean Apostol,Marcia Sinclair
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610911030

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Restoring the Pacific Northwest by Dean Apostol,Marcia Sinclair Pdf

The Pacific Northwest is a global ecological "hotspot" because of its relatively healthy native ecosystems, a high degree of biodiversity, and the number and scope of restoration initiatives that have been undertaken there. Restoring the Pacific Northwest gathers and presents the best examples of state-of-the-art restoration techniques and projects. It is an encyclopedic overview that will be an invaluable reference not just for restorationists and students working in the Pacific Northwest, but for practitioners across North America and around the world.

Author : Canadian Parks Council
Publisher : National Parks Directorate Parks Canada Agency
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : UIUC:30112075777109

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Principles and Guidelines for Ecological Restoration in Canada's Protected Natural Areas by Canadian Parks Council Pdf

Author : Nathalie Pettorelli,Sarah M. Durant,Johan T. du Toit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108472678

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Rewilding by Nathalie Pettorelli,Sarah M. Durant,Johan T. du Toit Pdf

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Fishes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123639713

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Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Restoration by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045658296

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Wildlife Restoration and Conservation Proceedings of the North American Wildlife Conference Called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... February 3-7, 1936 by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources Pdf

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,Robert Murray RUTHERFORD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Game protection
ISBN : CORNELL:31924001589591

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Five Years of Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration, 1949-1953 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,Robert Murray RUTHERFORD Pdf

Author : Benedict Macdonald
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781784271886

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Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald Pdf

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize ‘splendid’ —Guardian ‘visionary’ —New Statesman Rebirding takes the long view of Britain’s wildlife decline, from the early taming of our landscape and its long-lost elephants and rhinos, to fenland drainage, the removal of cornerstone species such as wild cattle, horses, beavers and boar – and forward in time to the intensification of our modern landscapes and the collapse of invertebrate populations. It looks at key reasons why species are vanishing, as our landscapes become ever more tamed and less diverse, with wildlife trapped in tiny pockets of habitat. It explores how Britain has, uniquely, relied on modifying farmland, rather than restoring ecosystems, in a failing attempt to halt wildlife decline. The irony is that 94% of Britain is not built upon at all. And with more nature-loving voices than any European country, we should in fact have the best, not the most impoverished, wildlife on our continent. Especially when the rural economics of our game estates, and upland farms, are among the worst in Europe. Britain is blessed with all the space it needs for an epic wildlife recovery. The deer estates of the Scottish Highlands are twice the size of Yellowstone National Park. Snowdonia is larger than the Maasai Mara. The problem in Britain is not a lack of space. It is that our precious space is uniquely wasted – not only for wildlife, but for people’s jobs and rural futures too. Rebirding maps out how we might finally turn things around: rewilding our national parks, restoring natural ecosystems and allowing our wildlife a far richer future. In doing so, an entirely new sector of rural jobs would be created; finally bringing Britain’s dying rural landscapes and failing economies back to life.

Author : Michael L. Morrison,Heather A. Mathewson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421416113

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Wildlife Habitat Conservation by Michael L. Morrison,Heather A. Mathewson Pdf

A book that emphasized the concept of wildlife habitat for a generation of students and professionals is now available to even more readers. "Habitat" is probably the most common term in ecological research. Elementary school students are introduced to the term, college students study the concept in depth, hunters make their plans based on it, nature explorers chat about the different types, and land managers spend enormous time and money modifying and restoring habitats. Although a broad swath of people now have some notion of what habitat is, the scientific community has by and large failed to define it concretely, despite repeated attempts in the literature to come to meaningful conclusions regarding what habitat is and how we should study, manipulate, and ultimately conserve it. Wildlife Habitat Conservation presents an authoritative review of the habitat concept, provides a scientifically rigorous definition, and emphasizes how we must focus on those critical factors contained within what we call habitat. The result is a habitat concept that promises long-term persistence of animal populations. Key concepts and items in the book include: • Rigorous and standard conceptual definitions of wildlife and their habitat. • A discussion of the essential integration of population demographics and population persistence with the concept of habitat. • The importance of carryover and lag effects, behavioral processes, genetics, and species interactions to our understanding of habitat. • An examination of spatiotemporal heterogeneity, realized through fragmentation, disruption to eco-evolutionary processes, and alterations to plant and animal assemblages. • An explanation of how anthropogenic effects alter population size and distribution (isolation), genetic processes, and species diversity (including exotic plants and animals). • Advocacy of proactive management and conservation through predictive modeling, restoration, and monitoring. Each chapter is accessibly written in a style that will be welcomed by private landowners and public resource managers at local, state, and federal levels. Also ideal for undergraduate and graduate natural resource and conservation courses, the book is organized perfectly for a one-semester class. Published in association with The Wildlife Society.

Author : Michael L. Morrison,Heather A. Mathewson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421416106

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Wildlife Habitat Conservation by Michael L. Morrison,Heather A. Mathewson Pdf

Published in association with The Wildlife Society.