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Wildlife Demography—Analysis of Sex, Age, and Count Data

As Ken Pollock writes in the Foreword to this new synthesis of demographic methods, the literature on wildlife techniques is replete with capture-recapture studies, yet much less attention has been given to studies with similar aims that do not involve marking the subjects. Although hundreds of research papers have described and promoted non-invasive methods for studying population dynamics, no recent work has reviewed these methods in detail. The classic treatise by Seber, and the recent work by Williams and co-authors, both focus on capture-recapture methods. The Wildlife Techniques Manual covers only some of the non-invasive methods and only briefly. The same can be said of other recent books on quantitative methods in wildlife biology. The current volume, with its clear, comprehensive, and authoritative account of observational methods for studying animal populations is thus a welcome addition to the literature on quantitative methods for wildlife and fisheries biologists.