Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Restoring and Preserving Wildlife -- Fundamentals of Habitat Restoration -- Why a New Book? -- Chatper 2: Operating Concepts -- Restoration Defined -- Time Frames and Historic Conditions -- Natural Versus Desired Conditions -- Wildlife Defined -- Approaches to Ecological Restoration -- Synthesis -- Chapter 3: Populations -- Population Concepts and Habitat Restoration -- Population Dynamics and Viability -- Distribution Patterns of Populations -- Animal Movements and Habitat Management -- Stochastic Environments and Habitat Managment -- Linking Populations and Restoration Ecology -- Exotic Species -- Roads to Recovery: Captive Breeding and Translocating Animals -- Metapopulation Structure -- Restoring a Population -- Synthesis -- Chapter 4: Habitat -- Issues of Scale -- Avoiding Pitfalls -- When Models Fail: Conspecific Attraction -- Definitions -- When to Measure -- What to Measure -- Spatial Scale -- Measurements of the Animal -- Measurements of the Environment -- Focal Animal Approach -- How to Measure -- Synthesis -- Chapter 5: Assemblages -- Assembly Rules -- Terminology -- Species Pool -- Restoration Implications -- Synthesis -- Chapter 6: Desired Conditions -- Historical Assessments -- Fossils and Subfossils -- Literature -- Uncertainty -- Developed Desired Conditions -- Focal Species -- Implementation Steps -- Synthesis -- Chapter 7: Design Concepts -- Habitat Heterogeneity -- Fragmentation -- Disturbance Ecology: Dynamics of Habitats in Landscapes -- Management Lessons -- Corridors -- Buffers -- Effects of Isolation -- The Landscape Matrix as a Planning Area -- Populations and Restoration: Management Implications -- Synthesis -- Chapter 8: A Primer on Study Design -- Scientific Methods -- Terminology -- Sources of Variation.

Monitoring as Research -- Principles of Study Design -- Optimal and Suboptimal Study Designs -- Experimental Design -- Impact Assessment -- Applications to Restoration -- Power and Sample Size Analyses -- Synthesis -- Chapter 9: Monitoring: Field Methods and Applications -- Definitions -- Inventory and Monitoring of Wildlife -- Sampling Considerations -- Adaptive Management -- Sampling Principles -- Types of Information -- Wildlife Sampling -- Amphibians and Reptiles -- Birds -- Mammals -- Synthesis -- Chapter 10: Case Studies -- Four Case Studies -- Restoring a Rare Songbird in the Sierra Nevada -- Willow Flycatcher Natural History -- Management History and Threats -- Approach -- Desired Conditions -- Design -- Monitoring -- Bird Surveys -- Synthesis -- Restoration of Highly Degraded Watersheds in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California -- Goals and Objectives -- Study Area -- Approach -- Design -- Monitoring -- Synthesis -- Restoration of Endangered Species on Private Lands: The Golden-Cheeked Warbler and Black-Capped Vireo in Texas -- Vegetation in the Lampasas Watershed -- Natural History -- Management on Private Lands in Central Texas -- Approach -- Monitoring -- Synthesis -- Restoring Small and Isolated Populations: The San Joaquin Kangaroo Rat at LeMoore Naval Air Station -- Approach -- Design -- Monitoring -- Synthesis -- Closing Comments by Author -- Chapter 11: Wildlife Restoration: Synthesis -- Major Messages from Conceptual Development -- Information Needs -- Working with Wildlife Scientists and Managers -- Synthesis -- In Closing -- Glossary -- Literature Cited -- Index.