Current Trends in Wildlife Research

✍ Scribed by Rafael Mateo, Beatriz Arroyo, Jesus T. Garcia (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Wildlife Research Monographs 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book, the first in the “Wildlife Research Monograph” series, defines “wildlife research” in a variety of contexts and reviews recent research trends. The authors present the current developments they have identified using bibliometric analyses of the most common, relevant and emerging topics in wildlife research over the last three decades. Diverse aspects of wildlife research are discussed, including wildlife demography, infections spread between wildlife, livestock and humans, habitat requirements and management, as well as the effects of renewable energy and pollutants on wildlife. Furthermore the authors explore topics like advances in the study of species distribution, invasive species, use of molecular markers in wildlife studies and the sustainability of wildlife exploitation and conservation conflicts. The book offers a comprehensive overview of advances in wildlife research in the last decades.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Trends in Wildlife Research: A Bibliometric Approach....Pages 1-28
Wildlife Demography: Population Processes, Analytical Tools and Management Applications....Pages 29-54
Research Priorities and Trends in Infections Shared with Wildlife....Pages 55-78
Wildlife Habitat Requirements: Concepts and Research Approaches....Pages 79-95
Effects of Renewable Energy Production and Infrastructure on Wildlife....Pages 97-123
An Overview of Recent Trends in Wildlife Ecotoxicology....Pages 125-150
New Developments in the Study of Species Distribution....Pages 151-175
Progresses and Controversies in Invasion Biology....Pages 177-200
High-Throughput DNA Sequencing and the Next Generation of Molecular Markers in Wildlife Research....Pages 201-223
Meat from the Wild: Extractive Uses of Wildlife and Alternatives for Sustainability....Pages 225-265
Conservation Conflicts: Future Research Challenges....Pages 267-282
Wildlife Research: Towards a Better Coexistence Between People and Wildlife....Pages 283-293

✦ Subjects

Animal Ecology; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management