Review Exam 1 - - ESRM 150 Wildlife in the Modern World
Human relationships with wildlife
• Hunter gatherers – agricultural revolution – industrial
revolution
• eras within American history (including Leopold’s role)
Hunting
• philosophies
• game management
• annual cycle
Non-consumptive use of wildlife
• trends
• ethics
• potential benefits and negative effects of wildlife watching
Wildlife ecology
• feeding and reproductive strategies
• variation – sources, loss
• natural selection
• populations
o cycles
o growth
o metapopulations
• competition
• predators
o responses to prey
o cycles
o lynx
o Isle Royale
o mesopredator release hypothesis
Habitat changes
• fragmentation
• loss
• degradation
• edge effects
• grizzly bear
• brown headed cowbirds
Forests
• uses
• Leopold’s view of forestry
• succession
• effects of forest age on wildlife: diversity and abundance
• old growth dependent species
• snags
• intact forests
Fire
• disturbances: intensity, frequency, severity, size
• role of fire
• Pacific Northwest forests: W vs E
• fire suppression
• fire management
• pyrophilic species
Guest lectures: Forest falcons, Carnivores of Brazil, Pacific
Northwest Bats
DVDs: Wolves, Seasonal Forests
Readings: Leopold, Peterson, Ferrets, Wolves
