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Foreword | p. xii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Evolution and genetics | p. 5 |
Description | p. 5 |
Dwarfism and the island syndrome | p. 7 |
Evolution of the island fox | p. 8 |
Island foxes in the paleoenvironment | p. 12 |
The peculiar generic status of the island fox | p. 13 |
Genetic management of captive island foxes | p. 15 |
Future of wild populations | p. 20 |
Social structure, reproduction, mortality and survivorship, and population dynamics | p. 21 |
Social organization and reproductive behavior | p. 22 |
Mortality and survivorship | p. 24 |
Population abundance and dynamics | p. 27 |
Factors affecting population dynamics | p. 30 |
Modeling island fox population dynamics | p. 32 |
Summary | p. 33 |
Food habits, habitat use, activity patterns, and dispersal | p. 34 |
Food habits | p. 34 |
Dispersal and travel | p. 38 |
Home range | p. 39 |
Habitat use | p. 40 |
Activity patterns | p. 41 |
Summary | p. 42 |
Golden eagles and the decline on the northern islands | p. 43 |
Detecting change | p. 43 |
Determining the cause | p. 47 |
Golden eagle colonization of the northern islands | p. 50 |
The vulnerability of island foxes to diurnal aerial predators | p. 56 |
Ecosystem recovery: Predators and prey on the northern Channel Islands | p. 58 |
Golden eagle removal | p. 58 |
Long-term ecosystem recovery actions | p. 66 |
Summary | p. 71 |
Disease and decline on Santa Catalina Island | p. 73 |
Declining populations | p. 73 |
Initial results | p. 75 |
Was disease the cause of the decline? | p. 75 |
Recommendations for population recovery | p. 76 |
Testing CDV vaccine | p. 77 |
Recovery actions: Captive breeding of island foxes | p. 81 |
Captive breeding efforts on the northern islands | p. 81 |
Methodology and techniques | p. 82 |
Demographic and genetic objectives of captive breeding | p. 92 |
Low reproductive success | p. 93 |
Summary | p. 98 |
Recovery actions: Reintroduction and translocation | p. 100 |
Translocation on Santa Catalina | p. 100 |
Reintroduction on Santa Catalina | p. 102 |
Reintroduction program on the northern islands | p. 103 |
Success of reintroduction | p. 111 |
Summary | p. 113 |
Reproductive biology, by Cheryl Asa | p. 115 |
Reproductive cycles | p. 116 |
Captive breeding | p. 117 |
Results of the monitoring study | p. 123 |
Summary | p. 127 |
Diseases of island foxes, by Linda Munson | p. 129 |
Disease in island populations | p. 130 |
Could viral disease explain the population declines? | p. 131 |
Do other viruses infect island foxes? | p. 133 |
Do non-viral pathogens infect island foxes? | p. 134 |
Parasites infecting island foxes | p. 134 |
Non-infectious diseases in island foxes | p. 138 |
Genetic diversity versus disease resistance | p. 140 |
Disease as a cause of death | p. 141 |
Overall health of the island fox populations | p. 142 |
Zoos, education, and public participation | p. 144 |
Public advocacy | p. 144 |
The role of zoos | p. 146 |
Tachi and Finnegan | p. 149 |
Environmental education | p. 152 |
Summary | p. 152 |
Managing recovery: Cooperative conservation, politics, and the Endangered Species Act | p. 154 |
Stakeholders and recovery | p. 154 |
A model for management: the Island Fox Conservation Working Group | p. 156 |
Listing the island fox as endangered | p. 158 |
Changes in island fox management due to listing | p. 159 |
The benefits and challenges of ESA listing | p. 163 |
Conclusion | p. 165 |
The ecological role of island foxes | p. 167 |
Introduction | p. 167 |
Background | p. 167 |
Prey response | p. 169 |
Competitors | p. 174 |
Island communities without foxes | p. 176 |
Implications for research and management | p. 177 |
Conclusion | p. 180 |
Status | p. 180 |
Future | p. 181 |
References | p. 185 |
Index | p. 207 |
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