Obtaining environmental measures to facilitate vertebrate habitat modeling
Wildlife Society Bulletin
By: J.W. Karl, N.M. Wright, P.J. Heglund, and J. M. Scott
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Abstract
Published literature generally lacks habitat information needed to adequately model the habitats of most wildlife species at large scales (>1:100,000). We searched in primary and secondary literature for occurrence of several potentially useful habitat measures for 20 species of interest to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. We found adequate information for modeling only the habitats of certain game species and species of special interest. We suggest that many more researchers could collect simple habitat information regarding vegetation composition and structure, topographic features, soils, temperature, and distance to special landscape features such that current research expenses would not be increased significantly. We recommend that habitat data be consistently reported in peer-reviewed literature or deposited into a central data repository. This will not only help fill the gaps in our current knowledge of wildlife but also place it in a format that is readily accessible by the scientific community.
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Karl, J., Wright, N., Heglund, P., and Scott, J.M., 1999, Obtaining environmental measures to facilitate vertebrate habitat modeling: Wildlife Society Bulletin, v. 27, no. 2, p. 357-365.
ISSN: 1938-5463 (online)
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Obtaining environmental measures to facilitate vertebrate habitat modeling |
| Series title | Wildlife Society Bulletin |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 1999 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Wildlife Society Bulletin |
| First page | 357 |
| Last page | 365 |