Introduction to wildlife population growth rates

This book takes a fresh approach to some of the classic questions in ecology. In particular, what determines where a species lives and what determines its abundance? Despite great progress in the twentieth century much more remains to be done before we can provide full answers to these questions so that reliable predictions can be made as to what will be found in unstudied areas or times. We believe that the methods described and deployed in this book point the way forward. The core message of the book is that key insights come from understanding what determines population growth rate (pgr). We believe that application of this approach will make ecology a more predictive science.