Species Conservation And Management: Case Studies Includes CD-ROM

Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies includes CD-ROM

This edited volume is a collection of population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, including plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each chapter of the book describes the application of RAMAS GIS 4.0 to one species, with the aim ofdemonstrating how various life history characteristics of the species are incorporated into the model, and how the results of the model has been or can be used in conservation and management of the species. The book comes with a CD that includes a demo version of the program, and the data files foreach species. About the Author H. Resit Akcakaya is at Applied Biomathematics, Inc.. Mark Burgman is at University of Melbourne.