Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes (Hardcover)

Introduction; Section I: Concepts;Review of Approaches to Assessing Habitat Quality; Importance of a Landscape Perspective; Methods for Population Viability Analysis; Factors Driving Landscape Change; Forest Planning on Federal Lands; Forest Planning for Private Industrial Lands; Human Dimensions of Landscape Change and Conservation Planning; Economic Principles of Conservation Planning; Multi-Species Conservation Planning; Section II: Methods; Analyzing Landscapes in GIS; Simulating Landscape Change Using LANDIS; Simluating Landscape Change Using LMS; Modeling Understory Vegetation; Determining Population viability; Landscape Visualization; Spatial and Temporal Optimization; Predicting Species Occurrence; Validation of a Landscape Simulation Model; Large Landscape HSI Models and Software; Section III: Applications; Hoosier and Mark Twain National Forest Planning; Habitat Networks for Terrestrial Wildlife in the Colubmia Basin; Habitat Conservation Plans for Spotted Owls; Partners in Flight and NABCI; Fire Application; Assessment of Wildlife Habitat; Section IV: Summary; Summary and Future Directions of Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes; Appendix: Software for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes