Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.

The big picture : human population dynamics meets applied population biology -- Designing studies and interpreting population biology data : how do we know what we know? -- Genetic concepts and tools to support wildlife population biology -- Estimating population vital rates -- The simplest way to describe and project population growth : exponential and geometric change -- Density dependent population change -- Accounting for age and sex-specific differences : population projection -- Predation and wildlife populations -- When does predation affect prey numbers? -- Factors affecting how predation impacts prey numbers -- Genetic variation and fitness of wildlife populations --

Dynamics of multiple populations -- Human perturbations : deterministic factors leading to population decline -- Predicting the dynamics of small and declining populations -- Bridging applied population and ecosystem ecology with focal species concepts -- Population biology of harvested populations.