William Z. Lidicker Jr.

William Z. Lidicker Jr.

Dr. William Lidicker is an ecologist, conservation biologist, and vertebrate biologist. His research interests include population dynamics, social behavior, population genetics, mammalian systematics, evolution, and landscape ecology. During his tenure at the University of California Berkeley, he has published extensively and taught courses encompassing these and other interests. He has served as president of the American Society of Mammalogists and the International Federation of Mammalogists, and chaired IUCN committees. He is currently Professor of Integrative Biology and Curator of Mammals (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology) Emeritus.

Corridor Ecology, Second Edition

Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation

Migrating wildlife species across the globe face a dire predicament as their traditional migratory routes are cut off by human encroachment. Forced into smaller and smaller patches of habitat, they must compete more aggressively for dwindling food resources and territory. This is more than just an unfortunate side effect of human progress. As key species populations dwindle, ecosystems are losing resilience and face collapse, and along with them, the ecosystem services we depend on. Healthy ecosystems need healthy wildlife populations. One possible answer?

Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation

Development of rural landscapes is converting once-vast expanses of open space into pockets of habitat where wildlife populations exist in isolation from other members of their species. The central concept of metapopulation dynamics -- that a constellation of partially isolated patches can yield overall stability to a system that is chaotic at the level of the individual patch -- offers an important new way of thinking about the conservation and management of populations dispersed among small habitat fragments.