Essential readings in wildlife management & conservation

Our philosophical roots. Wilderness as a form of land use / A. Leopold

The conservation ethic / A. Leopold

Wildlife in American culture / A. Leopold

The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlain

The tragedy of the commons / G. Hardin

Effectiveness-the hallmark of the natural resource management professional / J.W. Thomas

From clients to stakeholders: a philosophical shift for fish and wildlife management / D.J. Decker, et al.

Born in the hands of hunters: the North American model of wildlife conservation / J.F. Organ, et al. Animals, ecology, & populations. The role of the "accidental" / J. Grinnell

Periodic fluctuations in the numbers of animals: their causes and effects / C.S. Elton

The balance of animal populations / A. J. Nicholson

Some census methods for mammals / L.R. Dice

On the analysis of productivity in populations of higher vertebrates / P.L. Errington

The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology / R.L. Lindeman

Territoriality and home range concepts as applied to mammals / W.H. Burt

The population consequences of life history phenomena / L.C. Cole

The concept of carrying capacity / R.Y. Edwards and C.D. Fowle

The meanings of competition / L.C. Birch

The components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation of the European pine sawfly / C.S. Holling

The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle chthamalus stellatus / J.H. Connell

An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography / R.H. MacArthur and E.O. Wilson

Food web complexity and species diversity / R.T. Paine

Mortality patterns in mammals / G. Caughley

Rate of increase / G. Caughley and L.C. Birch

Bias in aerial survey / Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem / E.L. Charnov

Lessons from the George Reserve, Michigan / D.R. McCullough

Carrying capacity and related slippery shibboleths / J. Macnab

The biological diversity crisis / E.O. Wilson

Metapopulations and wildlife conservation: approaches to modeling spatial structure / M. Gilpin.

Habitat. Ecological succession. IV. Vegetation and the control of land animal communities / V.E. Shelford

Nature and structure of the climax / F.E. Clements

The point-observation-plot (square-foot density) method of vegetation survey / G. Stewart and S.S. Hutchings

The cover map in wildlife management / P.D. Dalke

The individualistic concept of the plant association / H.A. Gleason

Habitat selection / S.C. Wecker

The comparison of usage and availability measurements for evaluating resource preference / D.H. Johnson. Human dimensions. Perceptions of animals in American society / S.R. Kellert

Guidelines for authorship of scientific articles / J.G. Dickson, et al.

Biodiversity studies: science and policy / P.R. Ehrlich and E.O. Wilson

Human dimensions of living with wildlife- a management challenge for the 21st century / D.J. Decker and L.C. Chase

Public attitudes toward a suburban deer herd / D.J. Decker and T.A. Gavin.