Table of Contents
Contents Foreword / Edward O. Wilson Background and Concepts 1. Ecological Process Management / P. J. White, Robert A. Garrott, and Glenn E. Plumb 2. Understanding the Past: The History of Wildlife and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Area / S. Thomas Olliff, Paul Schullery, Glenn E. Plumb, and Lee H. Whittlesey 3. Scale and Perception in Resource Management: Integrating Scientific Knowledge / Matthew S. Becker, Robert A. Garrott, and P. J. White Population Dynamics and Interactions Among Species 4. Popluation Dynamics: Influence of Resources and Other Factors on Animal Denistry / P.J. White and Kerry A. Gunther 5. Predation: Wolf Restoration and the Transition of Yellowstone Elk / P. J. White and Robert A. Garrott 6. Competition and Symbiosis: The Indirect Effect of Predation / Robert A. Garrott, Daniel R. Stahler, and P. J. White 7. Omnivory and the Terrestrial Food Web: Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Diets / Charles C. Schwartz, Mark A. Haroldson, Kerry A. Gunther, and Charles T. Robbins Communities and Landscape-Scale Processes 8. Natural Disturbance Dynamics: Shaping the Yellowstone Landscape / David B. McWethy, Wyatt F. Cross, Colden V. Baxter, Cathy Whitlock, and Robert E. Gresswell 9. Climate and Vegetation Phenology: Predicting the Effects of Warming Temperatures / Christopher C. Wilmers, Karthik Ram, Fred G. R. Watson, P. J. White, Douglas W. Smith, and Taal Levi 10. Migration and Dispersal: Key Processes for Conserving National Parks / P. J. White, Glenn E. Plumb, Rick L. Wallen, and Lisa M. Baril 11. Have Wolves Restored Riparian Willows in Northern Yellowstone? / N. Thompson Hobbs and David J. Cooper 12. Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Wolf Restoration on Grassland Processes / Douglas A. Frank, Rick L. Wallen, and P. J. White Invasive, Non-Native Species 13. Altered Processes and the Demise of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in Yellowstone Lake / Robert E. Gresswell and Lusha M. Tronstad 14. Balancing Bison Conservation and Risk Management of the Non-Native Disease Brucellosis / John J. Treanor, P. J. White, and Rick L. Wallen 15. Exotic Fugus Acts with Natural Disturbance Agents to Alter Whiteback Pine Communities / S. Thomas Olliff, Roy A. Renkin, Daniel P. Reinhart, Kristin L. Legg, and Emily M. Wellington Conclusion 16. The Future of Ecological Process Management / P. J. White, Robert A. Garrott, and Glenn E. Plumb Reference List Acknowledgments Contributors Index