Deals with a variety of biological problems involving resource management, conservation and environmental quality using the principles of population biology. This book emphasizes several principles and common themes and discusses strengths and potential sources of uncertainty in applications.

An increasing variety of biological problems involving resource management, conservation and environmental quality have been dealt with using the principles of population biology (defined to include population dynamics, genetics and certain aspects of community ecology). There appears to be a mixed record of successes and failures and almost no critical synthesis or reviews that have attempted to discuss the reasons and ways in which population biology, with its remarkable theoretical as well as experimental advances, could find more useful application in agriculture, forestry, fishery, medicine and resource and environmental management.This book provides examples of state-of-the-art applications by a distinguished group of researchers in several fields. The diversity of topics richly illustrates the scientific and economic breadth of their discussions as well as epistemological and comparative analyses by the authors and editors. Several principles and common themes are emphasized and both strengths and potential sources of uncertainty in applications are discussed. This volume will hopefully stimulate new interdisciplinary avenues of problem-solving research.

Population biology and its application to practical problems, L. Botsford and S. Jain
the biology of land restoration, A.D. Bradshaw
genetic conservation in captive populations and endangered species, P. Hedrick
population biology and conservation of rare plants, R. Kesseli
genetics of weed invasions, S. Barrett
population management in new plant breeding approaches, S. Jain
population dynamics of red grouse and trichostrongyle nematodes, A. Dobson and P. Hudson
population biology of helminth infections of veterinary importance and its relevance to control, G. Smith
ecological theory and biological control, W. Murdock
habitat fragmentation, species diversity, extinction and the design of nature reserves, J.F. Quinn and G.R. Robinson
cyclic dominance and adaptive management of salmonid populations, C. Walters
applying the principles of population biology - assessment and recommendations, L. Botsford and S. Jain.