Book description
Part of the Zoological Society of London's
Conservation Science and Practice Series,
Applied Population and Community Ecology
evaluates theory in population and community ecology using a case study
of feral pigs, birds and plants in the high country of south-eastern
Australia.
In sequence, the book reviews the relevant theory and
uses long-term research over a quarter of a century on the population
ecology of feral pigs and then community ecology of birds and plants,
to evaluate the theory. The book brings together into one volume,
research results of many observational, experimental and modelling
studies and directly compares them with those from related studies
around the world. The implications of the results for future wildlife
management are also discussed. Intended readers are ecologists,
graduate students in ecology and wildlife management and conservation
and pest managers.
Jim Hone
is an ecologist with the Institute for Applied Ecology and the Faculty
of Applied Science at the University of Canberra. He has published on
the ecology and management of many species including, feral pigs in
temperate, montane, tropical and arid Australia, lynx and snowshoe hares
in the Yukon, badgers, barn owls, red deer and Soay sheep in Britain and
diseases in wildlife in Britain, New Zealand and Pakistan. He has
supervised graduate students studying many species of reptiles, birds
and mammals.
