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MSU wildlife specialist co-edits big game book
A wildlife educator and researcher at Mississippi State University is co-editor of a new one-stop reference covering this continent's most important mammals.
"Ecology and Management of Large Mammals in North America" is the culmination of three years work by Stephen Demarais and Paul R. Krausman.
Demarais is an associate professor in MSU's Forest and Wildlife Research Center's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Krausman is a professor of wildlife and fisheries science at the University of Arizona.
Containing almost 800 pages and some 3,800 references, the Prentice-Hall publication is designed to replace "Big Game of North America," the highly regarded, but long out-of-print, classic.
"This book extends coverage beyond that in the earlier text by including full chapters on population modeling and dynamics, human dimensions, jaguars, and hybridization," Demarais said.
"All North American large mammals are covered," he added.
Each of the book's 33 chapters is written by an authority on the particular species or topic covered. Demarais authored the chapter on white-tailed deer; Krausman, bighorn sheep.
Demarais holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and master's and doctoral degrees from Mississippi State. He joined the Starkville university faculty in 1997.
To find out more about research on white-tailed deer at Mississippi State, click here.
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