Population Management for Survival and Recovery: Analytical Methods and Strategies in Small Population Conservation (Issues, Cases, and Methods in Biodiversity Conservation)

Places the converging disciplines of wildlife management and captive management in the context of the developing field of population and habitat viability analysis. The contributors explore the science of the demographic management of small populations, both in zoos and in the wild.

Jonathan D. Ballou is population manager at the National Zoological Park of the Smithsonian Institution.

Michael Gilpin teaches in the department of biology at the University of California, San Diego.

Thomas J. Foose is program director of the International Rhino Foundation.