1. Introduction
1.1. Wildlife – Definition and Scope
1.2. Wildlife Ecology and Management
1.3. Biomes of the World
1.4. Biogeographic Zones of India
1.5. Ecology of Natural Communities
1.6. Niche in Wildlife Ecology
1.7. Ecological Succession
1.8. Association between Species
1.9. Diversity, Stability and Resilience
2. Wildlife Populations and Habitats
2.1. Types of Habitats
2.2. Habitat and Food Resources for Wildlife
2.3. Habitat Association of Wildlife
2.4. Disturbances in Natural Habitats
2.5. Climate Change and its Effects on Wildlife
2.6. Ozone Depletion
3. Predator–Prey Interactions
3.1. Behavioural Ecology
3.2. Food and Feeding
3.3. Foraging as a Major Activity of Animals
3.4. Predation and Predator–Prey Interactions
3.5. Lotka-Volterra Model of Predator–Prey Interactions
3.6. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT)
3.7. Aggregation in Response to the Availability of Food
3.8. Food as a Factor Responsible for Distribution of Animals
3.9. Mammalian Foraging and Seed Dispersal
3.10. Feeding Behaviour of Animals as a Factor Responsible for
Maintaining Healthy Habitats
4. Ecological Principles in Wildlife Management and Conservation
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Goal of Wildlife Management
4.3. Human Interactions in Natural Habitats
4.4. Habitat Loss and Fragmentation
4.5. Habitat Restoration
4.6. Population Structure and Regulation
4.7. Wildlife Stocking
4.8. Competition between Wildlife and Livestock
4.9. Wildlife Harvest
4.10. Reintroduction
4.11. Wildlife Conservation and Management
4.12. Behavioural Biology and Wildlife Management
4.13. Communication
4.14. Scent-Marking
4.15. Problems and Prospects in Wildlife Management
4.16. Urban Wildlife
5 Conservation of Threatened Wildlife in India and Neighbouring Countries
5.1. Introduction
5.2. India
5.3. Nepal
5.4. Sri Lanka
5.5. Pakistan
5.6. Future Prospects
6. Human–Wildlife Conflict
6.1. Human–Wildlife Conflicts (HWCs)
6.2. Cattle Lifting and Crop Raiding by Wildlife
6.3. Case studies
6.4. Wildlife-related Conflicts in African Wildlife Foundation (AWF)
Heartlands
6.5. Measures to Mitigate HWCs
6.6. Physical Barriers
6.7. Visual, Auditory and Olfactory Stimuli to Scare Wild Animals
6.8. Compensation and Benefit Sharing
6.9. Highway Traffic through Forests
7. Wildlife Farming and Hunting
7.1. Farming Wild Animals
7.2. Crocodile Farming
7.3. Ostrich Farming
7.4. Deer Farming
7.5. Rangelands
7.6. Behaviour of Farm Animals and Farm Management
7.7. Game Hunting
8. Ecomomic Benefits of Wildlife
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Assessing Economic Benefits of Wildlife
8.3. Non-consumptive Value of Wildlife
8.4. Consumptive Value of Wildlife
8.5. Wildlife as Pests
8.6. Civet as Economically-important Wildlife
8.7. Economics of Wildlife Conservation
8.8. Hidden and Unknown Features of Wildlife and Wildlife Habitats
8.9. Carbon Sequestration
9. Protected Areas and Wildlife Conservation
9.1. Wildlife Conservation and Protected Areas
9.2. History of Protected Area System
9.3. World Coverage of PAs
9.4. Megadiversity Countries and Hotspots
9.5. Protected Areas and Conservation Initiatives
9.6. Features of Areas to be Conserved
9.7. Categories of Protected Areas
9.8. IUCN revised categories of PAs – 1994
9.9. In-situ Gene banks: A New Category of PA
9.10. Types of Utilization
9.11. Criteria for the Selection of PAs
9.12. Protected Area Management/Park Management
9.13. Local People and Protected Area Management
10 Conservation Biology
10.1. Conservation Biology as a New Discipline in Biology
10.2. Aims of Conservation Biology
10.3. An Overview of Extinction
10.4. A Major Extinction Spasm
10.5. IUCN Threatened Species Categories
10.6. Concept of Keystone Species, Umbrella Species and Flagship Species
10.7. Conservation Perspectives for the Future
10.8. Conservation Strategies
10.9. Conservation Agenda
10.10. Application of Conservation Activities
10.11. The World Conservation Strategy 1980 and Since Then
11. International Conventions on Wildlife and Nature Conservation
11.1. Reasons for International Collaboration
11.2. Organizations and Institutions
11.3. Conventions (Treaties and Agreements)
12. Traditional Methods in Wildlife Ecology
12.1. Ecological Monitoring
12.2. Species–Area Curve
12.3. Population Studies
12.4. Population Estimation
12.5. Population Indices
12.6. Estimating Biodiversity
12.7. Trapping Wild Animals
13 Modern Techniques in Wildlife Ecology and Habitat Analysis
13.1. Camera-Trapping
13.2. Biotelemetry and Radio-tracking
13.3. Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
13.4. Ecological and Conservation Genetics
13.5. DNA Fingerprinting
References
Subject Index
Author Index
