ABSTRACT
Population management encompasses a wide variety of activities, ranging from species conservation and recovery, to the control of pests and invasive species, to the sustainable harvest of wild populations. In all cases, however, the fundamental goal is to manipulate demographic processes so as to influence a population's trajectory to meet some specific objective. At its most basic, this means altering the number of juveniles that are recruited into the breeding population or changing the rate at which breeders are lost from the population. In this chapter we focus on the first of these processes and provide an overview of the ways in which an understanding of reproductive biology can be used to increase the number of recruits.
