Chapter VII.3: Wildlife Management.

Wildlife populations occur within both protected areas and human-dominated ecosystems. In both cases, populations are monitored to ensure they coexist with other species in their habitats in a stable way or are harvested as a resource in a sustainable fashion. Management may be limited to monitoring or it may involve active change in the ecosystem. Conditions that require active management include altering competition and predation effects, adjusting habitats, and counteracting effects of exotic species. Ecosystems exhibit complex behavior such as the rapid switch from one set of species to another when the environment changes gradually, a phenomenon called multiple states. Such rapid changes may require active management to ensure the persistence of valued species. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]