Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Study Area Map x
4. A Note on Accompanying Video and Individual Interviews xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Preface xv
7. PART 1 History and Reintroduction
8. 1 Historical and Ecological Context for Wolf Recovery 3
9. BOX 1.1 Wolf History and Surveys in Yellowstone National Park 6
10. 2 How Wolves Returned to Yellowstone 13
11. BOX 2.1 To Reintroduce or Not to Reintroduce, That Is the Question 19
12. Guest Essay: Why Are Yellowstone Wolves Important? 26
13. PART 2 Behavioral and Population Ecology
14. 3 Essential Biology of the Wolf Foundations and Advances 31
15. 4 Ecology of Family Dynamics in Yellowstone Wolf Packs 42
16. BOX 4.1 Naming Wolf Packs 45
17. 5 Territoriality and Competition between Wolf Packs 61
18. BOX 5.1 Auditory Profile: The Howl of the Wolf 64
19. 6 Population Dynamics and Demography 77
20. Guest Essay: Yellowstone Wolves Are Important Because They Changed Science 93
21. PART 3 Genetics and Disease
22. 7 Yellowstone Wolves at the Frontiers of Genetic Research 97
23. 8 The K Locus Rise of the Black Wolf 108
24. 9 Infectious Diseases in Yellowstone’s Wolves 121
25. Guest Essay: Why Are Yellowstone Wolves Important? A European Perspective 134
26. PART 4 Wolf-Prey Relationships
27. 10 How We Study Wolf-Prey Relationships 139
28. BOX 10.1 Nine-Three- Alpha 140
29. BOX 10.2 The Bone Collectors 144
30. 11 Limits to Wolf Predatory Performance 149
31. BOX 11.1 Tougher Times for Yellowstone Wolves Reflected in Tooth Wear and Fracture 155
32. 12 What Wolves Eat and Why 157
33. BOX 12.1 Bison in Wood Buffalo National Park 167
34. 13 Wolf Predation on Elk in a Multi-Prey Environment 169
35. BOX 13.1 Generalizing Wolf-Prey Dynamics across Systems: Yellowstone, Banff, and Isle Royale 171
36. BOX 13.2 The Predator’s Perspective: Biomass of Prey 173
37. BOX 13.3 Lessons from Denali National Park: Stability in Predator-Prey Dynamics Is a Pause on the Way to Somewhere Else 182
38. 14 Population Dynamics of Northern Yellowstone Elk after Wolf Reintroduction 184
39. BOX 14.1 Wolves and Elk in the Madison Headwaters 189
40. BOX 14.2 Ecology of Fear 196
41. Guest Essay: The Value of Yellowstone’s Wolves? The Power of Choice 200
42. PART 5 Ecosystem Effects and Species Interactions
43. 15 Indirect Effects of Carnivore Restoration on Vegetation 205
44. BOX 15.1 Long-Term Trends in Beaver, Moose, and Willow Status in the Southern Portion of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness 211
45. 16 Competition and Coexistence among Yellowstone’s Meat Eaters 223
46. Guest Essay: Old Dogs Taught Old Lessons 242
47. PART 6 Conservation, Management, and the Human Experience
48. 17 Wolves and Humans in Yellowstone 247
49. 18 The Wolf Watchers 257
50. BOX 18.1 Bob Landis’s Yellowstone Wolves Documentaries 258
51. BOX 18.2 Seeing Wolves 261
52. 19 Conservation and Management A Way Forward 265
53. Guest Essay: Making Better Sense of Wolves 277
54. Afterword 281
55. Acknowledgments 285
56. Appendix: Species Names Used in the Text 287
57. Literature Cited 289
58. Contributors 321
59. Name Index 327
60. Subject Index 331