Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation: Critical Information for Ecological Risk Assessment, Land-Use Management Activities, and Biodiversity Enhancement
Kapustka L
This STP contains papers presented at a symposium on Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation: Critical Information for Ecological Risk Assessment, Land-Use Management Activities, and Biodiversity Enhancement Practices held in April 2003.
The symposium was designed to explore contemporary knowledge of theoretical and applied ecology, especially embodied in landscape ecology and population dynamics, especially as they relate to characterizing environmental risks to wildlife and requirements of environmental managers addressing current situations and predicting consequences of actions.
The papers contained in this STP explored theoretical aspects of landscape ecology, population dynamics affected by landscape conditions, and tools and approaches in various stages of development that can be used in assessing environmental risks over different temporal and spatial scales. Several papers cover real-world applications of different tools and approaches.
Some of the specific topics addressed by papers contained in this STP include
- predicting biodiversity potential
- landscape characterization
- habitat ranking
- Preble’s meadow jumping mouse
- riparian wildlife habitat
- risk evaluation
- habitat suitability index (HIS) models
- mining, minerals and sustainable development
- land-use planning
- ecological risk assessment
- spatially explicit exposure assessment
- ecological indicators for resource management
- estimating functional connectivity of wildlife habitat
- landscape responses by forest birds
- quantitative habitat analysis
The papers in this STP provide useful information to scientists and other professionals working in the areas of land use planning, ecological impact analysis, risk assessment, and environmental management.