Population Management and Exploitation - W 1400-215SPEP-W

Lecture. Demography: models of population growth (discrete generations and overlapping generations, logistic models, time-lag models). Demographic analyses - life tables, natality and mortality. The nature and consequences of intra-specific competition, density-dependent population processes, population regulation. Harvesting populations: natural exploitation - predation and herbivory, and populations exploited by humans - the concept of maximum sustained yield, logistic-type and dynamic pool models of exploitation. Exploitation of natural populations - forestry, agriculture, fisheries, wildlife management. Population management - species introductions, pest control, ecological restitutions. Management of small populations - rare and endangered species, the concept of Minimum Viable Population (MVP).