The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution by MacDonald, David

The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198893592)

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The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution by MacDonald, David

The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution

$55.00
The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution by MacDonald, David

The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and Evolution

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and evolution. Through a mix of accessible, highly readable prose and cutting-edge science, the authors weave a riveting scientific story of the lives of these intriguing creatures, highlighting the insights offered to science more broadly through badgers as a model system. They provide a paradigm - from population down to molecule - for a deeper understanding of mammalian behaviour, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. The real value of this long-term study is particularly apparent with current and globally relevant challenges such as climate change, disease epidemics, and senescence. This unique dataset enables us to examine these issues in a context that only a half-century experiment can reveal.

The Badgers of Wytham Woods will appeal to a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and students at all levels, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and to the natural historian fascinated by wild animals and the remarkable processes of nature they exemplify.

Author: David MacDonald,Chris Newman
ISBN-10: 0198893590
ISBN-13: 9780198893592
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2025
Pages: 592
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.66h x 7.48w x 1.17d
By David MacDonald
By David MacDonald
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David Macdonald, Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK, Chris Newman, Independent Ecological Consultant, Wildlife Conservation Unit, University of Oxford, UK

Professor David Macdonald CBE has been Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University since founding it in 1986, and is also Senior Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He began research in Wytham Woods in 1972, and has been studying badgers since then. In 1986 he began the routine annual sampling of badgers which is the foundation of this book. A recent survey by BBC
Wildlife magazine listed him amongst the ten most influential living conservationists, and he has twice been awarded the Natural History Author of the Year.

Chris Newman joined the Wildlife Conservation Unit at Oxford University in 1991, spending 15 years living on-site in the heart of Wytham Woods which gave him unprecedented access to the 300 badgers that shared his garden. In 2019 he moved to Novia Scotia to work as an independent ecological consultant.

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