Learning Resource and Development

Harvest of fish and wildlife : new paradigms for sustainable management /

Harvest of fish and wildlife : new paradigms for sustainable management / edited by Kevin L. Pope and Larkin A. Powell. - First edition. - xxiii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Setting regulations -- Section IA. Harvest management paradigms -- Some perspectives on the development of a paradigm for modern harvest management -- The social and political context of harvest management -- Linking social and ecological components to spatial and temporal components of harvest -- Hunter and angler behavior in harvest management -- Expanding participation in recreational fishing through multiple license markets -- Marketing and ecological models to predict permit-purchasing behavior of sportspersons -- Section IIB. Harvest management decision processes -- A decision-analytical framework for developing harvest regulations -- Engaging hunters in selecting duck season dates using decision science: problem framing, objective setting, devising management alternatives -- Using structured decision making to incorporate ecological and social values into harvest decisions: case studies of white-tailed deer and walleye -- Structured decision making provides insight when selecting population-monitoring programs -- Making harvest management decisions robust to uncertainty -- Section II. Harvest outcomes -- Section IIA. Evolutionary and population dynamics for harvested species -- How regulations can affect the evolutionary impacts of recreational harvests on fish and mammals -- Harvest regulations in evolving fisheries -- Individual heterogeneity in annual survival: quantifying the "doomed surplus" -- Section IIB. Efficacies of harvest regulations -- Direct and indirect effects of harvest regulations on wildlife populations -- What to exploit when you're exploiting: angling rates and size selection responses to changing bag limits -- Shifting angler harvest behaviors: a case study using largemouth bass -- Harvest as a tool to manage populations of undesirable or overabundant fish and wildlife -- The efficacy of antler harvest regulations in meeting management objectives -- Section III. Management alternatives -- Section IIIA. Harvest regulation paradigms for wildlife and fisheries -- Harvest management of migratory game birds -- Upland game bird harvest management -- The future of managing ungulate species: white-tailed deer as a case study -- Harvest management of furbearers -- Harvest regulations for inland recreational fisheries.

"Harvest of Fish and Wildlife: New Paradigms for Sustainable Management unites experts in wildlife and fishery sciences for an interdisciplinary overview of harvest management. This book presents unique insights for embracing the complete social-ecological system to ensure a sustainable future. It educates users on evolutionary and population dynamics; social and political influences; hunter and angler behavior; decision processes; impacts of regulations; and stakeholder involvement"--



9781032002002

2020053905


Wildlife management.
Sustainable fisheries.
Fishing.
Hunting.
Adaptive harvest management.

SK355 / .H28 2021

639.9 / H262