xxxiii, 398 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: the key role played by wolves in community ecology and wildlife management / Marco Musiani, Luigi Boitani and Paul C. Paquet Recent advances in the population genetics of wolf-like canids / Robert K. Wayne What, if anything, is a wolf? / Raymond Coppinger, Lee Spector and Lynn Miller Wolf community ecology: ecosystem effects of recovering wolves in Banff and Yellowstone National Parks / Mark Hebblewhite and Doug W. Smith Will the future of wolves and moose always differ from our sense of their past? / John A. Vucetich, Rolf O. Peterson and M.P. Nelson Influence of anthropogenically modified snow conditions on wolf predatory behaviour / Paul C. Paquet ... [et al.] The recolonizing Scandinavian wolf population: research and management in two countries / Olof Liberg ... [et al.] Synthesizing wolf ecology and management in Eastern Europe: similarities and contrasts with North America / Włodzimierz Je̜drzejewski ... [et al.] Wolf ecology and management in northern Canada: perspectives from a snowmobile wolf hunt / H. Dean Cluff ... [et al.] Livestock husbandry practices reduce wolf depredation risk in Alberta, Canada / Tyler Muhly ... [et al.]