"Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New Wo…
Focusing on the ecology and management of wildlife, with an emphasis on mammals and birds, this text takes the reader through the basic principles of ecology necessary for an understanding of wildlife management.
Introduction to The Elephant Tourism Business / John Koldowski, Eric Laws, Noel Scott and Xavier Font -- Section 1. Personal Experiences of Elephant Tourism -- Section 2. Expectations and Experiences of Interactions with Elephants -- Section 3. Ethical and Moral Perspectives -- …
Introduction and global perspective of animal collecting and menageries -- Zoological collecting at the Medici court: practices of exchange -- And processes of procurement -- Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence -- The sport of the chase: "exotic hunts" at the Medici cou…
While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of pa…
"Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. T…
Helps biologists understand state-of-the-art statistical methods for analyzing capture-recapture data. This book introduces the methods for data analysis while explaining the theory behind those methods. It is useful for biologists, biometricians, and statisticians, students in …
Handbook of capture-recapture analysis
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