Game biology and hunting management
Wildlife Biology is primarily concerned with the biology and ecology of wild animals and their habitats . In contrast to wildlife ecology , wildlife biology focuses more on the biology of the individual species. The object of knowledge in wildlife biology includes those species that are subject to a specific interaction with humans. It deals primarily with species that are either subject to human use or that humans feel connected to in some other way, for example through their special responsibility in the context of species protection . For this reason, wildlife ecology deals primarily, but not exclusively, with vertebrates. As a scientific discipline, it is not limited to the narrow selection of species, which in Germany, for example, the Federal Hunting Act defines as " game ". However, the term “wild” is usually more narrowly defined in the German-speaking world than in Anglo-Saxon, where “wildlife” often also includes wild plants. Wildlife biology and wildlife ecology make use of scientific, more precisely biological and ecological methods.
Hunting science and the hunting economy, on the other hand, deal primarily with humans as hunters , so they are part of the human and human sciences .
Wildlife biology goes well beyond general or special zoology as a branch of biology .
In Germany, wildlife biology is currently primarily concerned with those mammals and birds that are the focus of various interest groups ( hunting , fishing , nature conservation , tourism , agriculture, forestry and water management, spatial planning, etc.). This also applies, but by no means exclusively, to game that can be hunted , endangered and protected species, “new citizens” or (re-) immigrants as well as wild animals with a high socio-political conflict potential. In addition to basic research on the choice of habitat, food ecology or population dynamics, the focus is also on practical and application-oriented aspects (e.g. monitoring concepts, management plans, sustainable hunting, game damage prevention).
Well-known German wildlife biologists and hunting experts are Fritz Nüßlein , Antal Festetics , Erhard Ueckermann , Wolfgang Schröder , Reinhold R. Hofmann and Sven Herzog and Michael Petrak .
literature
- H. Gossow: Wild ecology - terms, methods, results, consequences . Reprint of the last edition published by the BLV, Kessel Verlag, Remagen 1999, ISBN 3935638035
- F. Müller, DG Müller (Hrsg.): Wildlife information for the hunter
- Volume 1: Haarwild . Verlag Kessel, Remagen 2004, ISBN 3935638515 , 324 pp.
- Volume 2: Federwild , Verlag Kessel, Remagen 2006, ISBN 3935638604 , 729 pp.
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haseder p. 893
- ↑ defined in the Federal Hunting Act § 2