Introduction to Modeling in Wildlife and Resource Conservation

This book provides students with the skills to develop their ownmodels for application in conservation biology and wildlifemanagement. Assuming no special mathematical expertise, thecomputational models used are kept simple and show how to developmodels in both spreadsheet and programming language format. * * Develops thought-provoking applications which emphasize thevalue of modeling as a learning tool * Examines basic descriptive equations, matrix representations, consumer-resources interactions, applications in simulation, scenarios, harvesting, population viability, metapopulationdynamics, disease outbreaks, vegetation stage and state dynamics, habitat suitability assessment, and model selectionstatistics * Includes a wide range of examples relating to birds, fish, plants and large African mammals