| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Wildlife Management and Conservation
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Wildlife Management and Conservation.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- Historical Perspectives -- Ungulate Characteristics and Relevant Aspects of Their Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation -- Distribution, Habitats, and Body Size -- Diets and Digestive Systems -- Mating Systems -- Life-History Characteristics, Population Dynamics, and Movements -- Predator Pits, Apparent Competition, and Territorial Regulation of Populations -- Effects on Plants, Animals, and Nutrient Cycling -- Trophic Cascades |
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Cultural and Historical Relationships with Ungulates -- Challenges Today and Future Unknowns -- Sexual Segregation in Plants and Animals -- 2. Differences between the Sexes -- Definitions of Sexual Segregation -- Sexual Differences in Morphology, Physiology, and Foraging Behavior -- Sexual Dimorphism -- Teeth Morphology and Diet -- Gastrointestinal Characteristics and Related Physiology of Ruminants -- The Role of Resources and Predation Risk in Gregariousness -- Resources and Topography -- Predation -- 3. Temporospatial Patterns -- Defining Social Groups -- Attributes of Groups |
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Types of Social Groups -- Temporal Patterns of Sexual Segregation and Aggregation -- Spatial Patterns of Sexual Segregation -- Patterns on the Landscape -- Forage and Habitat Use, Selection, and Quality -- Density Effects -- 4. Detection and Measurement -- Detecting Sexual Segregation -- Measuring Sexual Segregation -- Segregation Coefficients -- Sexual Segregation and Aggregation Statistic -- Tests of Ratios and Proportions -- Multi-response Permutation Procedures -- Information-Theoretic and Machine-Learning Approaches -- Effects of Scale -- Habitat Selection, Home Ranges, and Scale |
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A Synthetic Approach -- 5. Failed Concepts -- Setting Aside Rejected Hypotheses -- Social Hypotheses -- Ecological Hypotheses -- Limiting Overutilization of Habitats -- Problematical Speculations -- Reproductive-Strategy Hypothesis -- Forage-Selection Hypothesis -- Proximate Causations -- Avoiding More Speculation -- 6. The Role of Social Behavior -- Social Aggression and Sexual Affinities -- Activity Patterns -- A Case Study of Mule Deer -- Criticisms of the Activity-Pattern Hypothesis -- The Social-Constraints Hypothesis -- 7. Ecological Aspects of Sexual Segregation -- Competition Hypothesis |
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Gastrocentric Hypothesis -- Niche-Partitioning Hypothesis -- Predation-Risk Hypothesis -- Multiple Causations and Tradeoffs -- 8. Consequences of Sexual Segregation for Theory and Management -- Paternal Investment and Sexual Selection -- Population Dynamics -- 9. Failing to Consider Sexual Segregation -- Moose -- North American Elk -- White-Tailed Deer -- Bighorn Sheep -- 10. The Future -- Defining Sexual Segregation -- Why Is Sexual Segregation Overlooked? -- Future Questions and Directions -- Relevance to Other Organisms -- Literature Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I |
| Summary |
This book is essential reading for scientists, science students, and those interested in the conservation and management of species, including wildlife professionals, hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, and naturalists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ungulates -- Behavior.
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Ungulates -- Behavior. |
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Spatial behavior in animals.
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Spatial behavior in animals. |
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Sex discrimination.
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Sex discrimination. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowyer, R. Terry Sexual Segregation in Ungulates Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2022 9781421445069 |
| ISBN |
1421445077 |
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9781421445076 (electronic book) |
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