Biological Report


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Master's Theses Directories


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"Education, arts and social sciences, natural and technical sciences in the United States and Canada".




A Field Guide to the Natural Communities of Michigan


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Small enough to carry in a backpack, this comprehensive guide explores the many diverse natural communities of Michigan, providing detailed descriptions, distribution maps, photographs, lists of characteristic plants, suggested sites to visit, and a dichotomous key for aiding field identification. This is a key tool for those seeking to understand, describe, document, conserve, and restore the diversity of natural communities native to Michigan.




Wildlife and Recreationists


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Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including: wildlife responses to disturbance, and the origins of these responses how specific recreational activities affect diverse types of wildlife the human dimensions of managing recreationists the economic importance of outdoor recreation how wildlife and recreationists might be able to coexist The book is a useful synthesis of what is known concerning wildlife and recreation. More important, it addresses both research needs and management options to minimize conflicts.




The State Water Plan


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Wildlife Ecology and Management


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What is wildlife management. Neglect and exploitation. SOme successes in managing wildlife. Ecosytems and natural communities. Population ecology. Animal behavior and wildlife management. Food and cover. Wildlife and water. Wildlife, sols, and farmlands. Wildlife and rangelands. Forest management and wildlife. Wildlife diseases. Predators and predation. Hunting and trapping. Wildlife in parks. Urban wildlife. Exotic wildlife. Nongame and endangered wildlife. Economics of wildlife. Wildlife as a public trust.







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