IMPORTANT TEXTS IN THE FIELD OF WILDLIFE ECOLOGY   We compiled a list of texts that are considered to be valuable sources of information in the field of wildlife ecology. This list plays no official role in the requirements for the Department of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Instead, it is only a cursory resource  for undergraduate and graduate students who wish to learn more about this  field. Texts included in this list were tallied from the opinions of many  students, professors, and wildlife professionals.
-Compiled 8/97 by Chris Williams and Rebecca Christoffel HISTORICAL TEXTS *Bailey, J. A., W. Elder, and T. D. McKinney (eds.). 1974. Readings in Wildlife Conservation. The Wildlife
        Society, Bethesda, MD.722pp. (in print)
*Keith, L. B. 1963. Wildlife's Ten Year Cycle. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 201 pp. (out of print)
*Lack, D. 1954. The Natural Regulation of Animal Numbers. Claredon Press, Oxford. 343pp. (out of print)
*Leopold, A. 1949. A Sand County Almanac/ Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press. London. 226pp. (in print)
*Leopold, A. 1933. Game Management. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 48 1 pp. (in print) HISTORICAL OVERVIEWS *Knight, R. L. and S.F. Bates (eds.) 1995. A new century for natural resources management. Island Press,
        Washington, D.C. 432 pp. (in print)
*McIntosh, R.P. 1985. The background of ecology: concepts and theory, (Cambridge Series in Ecology),
        Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 383 pp. (in print)
*Real, L. A., and J. H. Brown (eds.). 1991. Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries
        The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL. 905pp (in print) GENERAL WILDLIFE ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT One general wildlife ecology text, for example:
*Bolen, E. G., and W. L. Robinson. 1995. Wildlife Ecology and Management (3 ^rd ed.).
        Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 620pp. (in print)
*Caughley, G., and A. R. E. Sinclair. 1994. Wildlife Ecology and Management. Blackwell
        Scientific Publications. Oxford. 334pp. (in print)
*Moen, A. N. 1973. Wildlife Ecology. W. H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco, CA. 458pp. (out of print) ECOLOGY TEXTS One general ecology text, for example:
*Begon. J., J.L. Harper, and C.R. Townsend. 1986. Ecology: individuals, populations and
        communities. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. (in print)
*Curtis, J. T. 1987. The Vegetation of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison,
        WI. 657pp. (in print)
*Fretwell, S.D. 1972. Populations in a seasonal environment. Princeton University Press,
        Princeton, N.J. 217 pp. (out of print)
*Krebs, C.J. Ecology: the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance. 1994. Harper Collins
        College Publishers, New York, NY (in print)
*MacArthur, R. H., and E. 0. Wilson. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography.
        Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Monographs in Population Biology #1. 203pp. (in print)
*May R.M. 1974. Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. (2' ed) Princeton
        University Press, Princeton, NJ. Monographs in Population Biology #6. 235 pp. (in print)
*May, R.M. 1981. Theoretical ecology: principles and applications. (2"' ed). Blackwel
        Scientific Publications, Boston, MA. 489 pp. (out of print)
*Odum, E. P. 1983. Basic Ecology. Saunders College Publishing,
        Philadelphia, PA. 613pp. (in print)
*Ricklefs, R. E. 1990. Ecology. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, NY. 896pp. (in print)
*Smith, R.L. 1996. Ecology and Field Biology. (5" ed.), Harper & Collins, New York, NY. (in print) COMMUNITY ECOLOGY *Wiens, J.A. 1989. The ecology of bird communities. Volumes 1-2. Cambridge
        University Press, Cambridge. (in print)
*Taylor, R.J. 1984. Predation. Chapman & Hall, NY. 166 pp. (out of print) RESEARCH TECHNIQUES *Bookhout, T. A. (ed.). 1994. Research and Management Techniques for Wildlife and Habitats
        (5' ed.), (Sections 1-3). The Wildlife Society. Bethesda, MD. 740pp. (in print)
*Hayek, L.C. and M.A. Buzas. 1997. Surveying natural populations. Columbia University
        Press, NY. 563 pp. (in print)
*Hilborn, R. and M. Mangel. 1997. The ecological detective: confronting models with data, Monographs
        in Population Biology, #28. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 315 pp. (in print)
*Krebs, C.J. 1989. Ecological methodology. Harper & Row, NY. 654 pp. (in print)
*Lehner, P.N. 1996. Handbook of ethological methods (2 nd ed.). Garland STPM Press, NY.
        672 pp. (in print) ,
*Starfield, A. M., and A. L. Bleloch. 1991. Building Models for Conservation and Management.
        Burgess International Group, Edina, MN. 253pp. (in print)
*White, G.C. and R.A. Garrott. 1990. Analysis of wildlife radio tracking data. Academic Press,
        San Diego, CA. 383 pp. (in print)
  STATISTICS *Snedecor, G.W. and W.G. Cochran. 1989. Statistical Methods, (8h ed.). Iowa State University
        Press, Ames, IA. 503 pp. (in print)
*Sokol, R.P. and F.J. Roh1f. 1987. Introduction to biostatistics, (2 nd ed.). Freeman, NY. 363 pp. (in print) HABITAT & HABITAT MANAGEMENT *Bookhout, T. A. (ed.). 1994. Research and Management Techniques for Wildlife and Habitats
        (5' ed.), (Section 4). The Wildlife Society. Bethesda, MD. 740pp. (in print)
*Cooperrider, A., R.J. Boyd and H.R. Stuart. 1986. Inventory and monitoring of wildlife habitat.
        Denver, CO: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management: Washington, D.C. 858 pp. (out of print)
*Mitsch, W. J., and J. G. Gosselink. 1993. Wetlands (2" ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishers,
        New York, NY. 722pp. (in print)
*Morrison, M. L., B. G. Marcot, R. W. Mannan. 1992. Wildlife-Habitat Relationships. University of
        Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 343pp. (in print)
*Payne, N.F. 1992. Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Wetlands. McGraw-Hill,
        New York, NY. 549 pp. (in print)
*Payne, N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands.
        McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. 840pp. (out of print) POPULATION DYNAMICS *Caughley, G. 1977. Analysis of vertebrate populations. Tom Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.
        234 pp. (out of print)
*Gotelli, N. J. 1995. A Primer of Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. 206pp. (in print)
*McCullough, D. R., and R. H. Barrett (eds.). 1992. Wildlife 2001: Populations. Elsevier Applied
        Science, London. 1163pp. (in print) PHYSIOLOGY *Robbins, C. T. 1993. Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition (2 d ed.). Academic Press,
        San Diego, CA. 352pp. (in print)
*Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1991. Animal Physiology (4' ed.). Cambridge University Press,
        Cambridge. 602pp. (in print) BEHAVIOR One general behavior text, for example:
*Alcock, J. 1997. Animal Behavior: an evolutionary approach (6" ed.). Sinauer Associates Inc
        Publishers, Sutherland, MA. (in print)
*Krebs, J. R., and N. B. Davis. 1993. Introduction to Behavioral Ecology (3rd ed.).
        Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. 420 pp. (in print)
*Wilson, E. 0. 1980. Sociobiology. Harvard University Press. Cambridge. MA. 366pp. (in print) CONSERVATION *Dobson, A.P. 1996. Conservation and Biodiversity. Scientific American Library #59,
        New York, NY. 264 pp. (in print)
*Meffe, G.K. and C.R. Carroll. 1997. Principles of Conservation Biology. Sinauer
        Associates, Sunderland, MA. 600 pp. (in print)
*Noss, R.F. and A. Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving Nature's Legacy, Island Press,
        Washington, D.C. 416 pp. (in print)
*Soule, M. E.(ed.) 1986. Conservation Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers,
        Sutherland, MA. 584pp. (out of print) WILDLIFE DISEASE *Friend, M. (ed.) 1987. Field Guide to Wildlife Diseases. US Department of the Interior,
        Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 167. Washington, D.C. 225 pp. (out of print)