The emphasis of the book and of its examples is on populations of large mammals,
especially ungulates, but the author also assesses research on other groups of vertebrates …

The effort necessary to measure the differences in lifetime reproductive success in nature
has already been described convincingly (20). All impregnations, births, and deaths that …

The mammals and their populations which are the topic of this discussion presumably have
evolved adequate means of adapting to their environment and possess sufficient …

A sequence of changes in vital rates observed as populations approach maximal levels has
been used as the basis for a “paradigm” for population analysis. Previous work indicates that …

The growth rate of a population at time t is defined as the change in numbers per unit
population at that time period (rt= dn/Ntd). The rate usually changes with time as the …

The measurement of the size of animal populations is a popular and important field in
ecology and in wildlife management. There has been considerable advance in recent years …

[en] Five principles for population density determination are proposed which, hopefully,
provide a conceptual basis on which to discuss real disagreements and future directions …

The study of population regulation has been central to much of the work on the population
biology of both animals and plants, as seen in much of the literature (for example, Lack …

A discrete unstructured population model with nonoverlapping generations is used to
calculate the probability of extinction as a function of the number of generations elapsed and …

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, VOL. 2, No. 3, JULY 1938 121 considerable
proportion of the members of the species may be wanderers with no fixed home. Due …