Dynamic habitat and population analysis: An approach to resolve the biodiversity manager's dilemma

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1459-1476

  Hansen, A J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Gap Analysis; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; Management; Population viability; Risk assessment; Species prioritization

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

AVES;

EID: 0032748243     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1459:DHAPAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (90)

1. Akaike, H. 1973. Information theory an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. Pages 267-281 m B. N. Petran and F. Csaki, editors. International Symposium on Information Theory. Second edition. Adakemial iadi, Budapest, Hungary.
2. Allendorf, F., \V. D. Bayles, D. L. Bottom, K. P. Currens, C. A. Frissell, D. Hankin, J. A. Lichatowich, W. Nehlsen, P. C. Trotter, and T. H. Williams. 1997. Prioritizing Pacific salmon stocks for conservation. Conservation Biology 11(1):140-152.
3. Avery, M., D. W. Gibbons, R. Porter, T. Tew, G. Tucker, and G.Williams. 1994. Revising the British Red Data List for Birds: the biological basis of U.K. conservation priorities. Ibis 137:5232-5239.
4. Bent, A. C. 1953. Life histories of North American wood warblers. U.S. National Museum Bulletin 203.
5. Boyce, M. S. 1991. Natural regulation or the control of nature? Pages 183-208 in R. B. Keiter and M. S. Boyce, editors. Yale Unis'ersity Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
6. 1992. Population viability analysis. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:481-506.
7. 1997. Population viability analysis: adaptive management for threatened and endangered species. Pages 226236 I'H M. S. Boyce and A. Haney, editors. Ecosystem management: applications for sustainable forest and wildlife resources. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
8. Brown, J. H., and A. Kodric-Brown. 1977. Turnover rates in insular biogeography: effect of immigration on extinction. Ecology 58:445-449.
9. Brownie, C., D. R. Anderson, K. P. Burnham, and D. S. Robson. 1985. Statistical inference from band recovery data: a handbook. Second edition. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 156.
10. Burgman, M. A., S. Person, and H. R. Akcakaya. 1993. Risk assessment in conservation biology. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York, USA.
11. Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson. 1992. Data-based selection of an appropriate biological model: the key (o modern data analysis. Pages 16-30 in D. R. McCullough and B. H. Barren, editors. Wildlife 2001: populations. Elsevier Scientific, New York, New York, USA.
12. Burt, W. H., and R. P. Grossenheider. 1976. A field guide to the mammals. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
13. Capen, D. E., editor. 1981. The use of multivariate statistics in studies of wildlife habitat. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report RM-87.
14. Carroll, R., C. Augspurger, A. Dobson, J. Franklin, G. Orians, W. Reid, R. Tracey, D. Wilcove, and J. Wilson. 1996. Strengthening the use of science in achieving the goals of the Endangered Species Act: an assessment by the Ecological Society of America. Ecological Applications 6: 1-11.
15. Caswell, H. 1990. Matrix population models: construction, analysis and interpretation. Sinauer, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.
16. Cissel, J. H., F. J. Swanson, W. A. McKee, and A. L. Burditt. 1994. Using the past to plan the future in the Pacific Northwest. Journal of Forestry 92(8):30-31, 46.
17. Collar, N.J., and P. Andrew. 1988. Birds to watch: achecklist of the world's threatened birds. International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, UK.
18. Conroy, M. J., and B. R. Noon. 1996. Mapping of species richness for conservation of biological diversity: conceptual and methodological issues. Ecological Applications 6: 763-773.
19. Despain, D. 1990. Yellowstone vegetation. Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
20. Dunning, J. B., D. J. Stewart, B. J. Danielson, B. R. Noon, T. L. Root, R. H. Lamberson, and E. E. Stevens. I995. Spatially explicit population models: current forms and future uses. Ecological Applications 5:3-11.
21. Eberhardt, L. L. 1987. Population projections from simple models. Journal of Applied Ecology 24:103-118.
22. Ehrlich, P. R., D. S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birder's handbook. A field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, USA.
23. Ellis, J., C. Jones, D. Center, J. Reichel, B. Spettigue, and D.Sullivan. 1996. P. D. Skaar's Montana bird distribution. Fifth edition. Montana Natural Heritage Program Special Publication Number 3.
24. Freitag, S., and A. S. Van Jaarsveld. 1997. Relative occupancy, endemism, taxonomic distinctiveness and vulnerability: prioritizing regional conservation actions. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:211-232.
25. Fretwell, S. D., and H. L. Lucas, Jr. 1970. On territorial behavior and other factors influencing habitat distribution in birds. I. Theoretical development. Acta Biotheoretica 19: 16-36.
26. Ginzburg, L. R., L. B. Slobodkin, K. Johnson, and A. G. Bindman. 1982. Quasiextinction probabilities as a measure of impact on population growth. Risk Analysis 21:171 -181.
27. Given, D. R., and D. A. Norton. 1993. A multivariate approach to assessing threat and for priority setting in threatened species conservation. Biological Conservation 64:5766.
28. Green, R. E., and G. J. M. Hirons. 1991. The relevance of population studies to the conservation of threatened birds. Pages 594-633 in C. M. Perrins, J.-D. Lebreton, and G. J. M. Hirons, editors. Bird population studies: relevance to conservation and management. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA.
29. Hall, A. V. 1993. Setting conservation priorities for threatened species: a joint grouping and sequencing method. South African Journal of Botany 59(6):581-591.
30. Hansen, A. J., S. L. Garman, B. Marks, and D. L. Urban. 1993. An approach for managing vertebrate diversity across multiple-use landscapes. Ecological Applications 3(3):481-96.
31. Hansen, A. J., S. L. Garman, J. F. Weigand, D. L. Urban, W. C. McComb, and M. G. Raphael. 1995. Alternative silvicultural regimes in the Pacific Northwest: simulations of ecological and economic effects. Ecological Applications 5:535-554.
32. Hansen, A. J., and J. J. Rotella. 1999. Abiotic factors. Pages 161-207 in M. L. Hunter, Jr., editor. Maintaining biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
33. Hansen, A. J., and D. L. Urban. 1992. Avian response to landscape pattern: the role of species' life histories. Landscape Ecology 7(3):163-I80.
34. Hanski, I., and M. E. Gilpin. 1991. Metapopulation dynamics: a brief history and conceptual domain. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 42:3-16.
35. Hedenas, L. 1996. How do we select species for conservation? Anales del Instituto de Biologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Serie Botanica 67(1): 129-145.
36. Henderson, S. 1997. Birds, vegetation, and fire in dry Douglas-fir habitats of southwest Montana. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
37. Hensler, G. L., and J. D. Nichols. 1981. The Mayfield method of estimating nest success: a model, estimators and simulation results. Wilson Bulletin 93:42-53.
38. Hitchcock, C. L., and C. Gratto-Trevor. 1997. Diagnosing a shorebird local population decline with a stage-structured population model. Ecology 78:522-534.
39. Huffman, N. 1997. Distribution of Picoides woodpeckers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Thesis. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
40. Hunter, M. L. 1990. Wildlife, forests, and forestry: principles of managing forests for biological diversity. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
41. 1996. Fundamentals of conservation biology. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, UK.
42. Hunter, W. C, M. F. Carter, D. N. Pashley, and K. Barker. 1993. The Partners In Flight Prioritization Scheme. Proceedings of the Symposium on Status and Management of Neotropical Migratory Birds, Estes Park, Colorado. U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Range and Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-229.
43. Johnson, D. H. 1994. Population analysis. Pages 419-444 in T. A. Bookhout, editor. Research and management techniques for wildlife and habitats. Fifth edition. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
44. Laurance, W. F. 1991. Ecological correlates of extinction proneness in Australian tropical rain forest mammals. Conservation Biology 5(1): 1-11.
45. Lebreton, J. D., K. P. Burnham, J. Clobert, and D. R. Anderson. 1992. Modeling survival and testing biological hypotheses using marked animals: a unified approach with case studies. Ecological Monographs 62:67-118.
46. Legendre, S., and J. Clobert. 1995. ULM, a software for conservation and evolutionary biologists. Journal of Applied Statistics 22:817-834.
47. Liu, J. 1992. ECOLECON: A spatially-explicit model for ecological economics of species conservation in complex forest landscapes. Dissertation. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
48. Luce, B., B. Oakleaf, A. Cerovski, L. Hunter, and J. Friday. 1997. Atlas of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians in Wyoming. Wyoming Game and Fish Department Nongame Program, Lander, Wyoming, USA.
49. Lunney, D., A. Curtin, D. Ayers, H. G. Cogger, and C. R. Dickman. 1996. An ecological approach to identifying the endangered fauna of New South Wales. Pacific Conservation Biology 2:212-231.
50. Mace, G. M. 1994. Classifying threatened species: means and ends. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 344:91-97.
51. Mace, G. M., and N. J. Collar. 1994. Extinction risk assessment for birds through quantitative criteria. Ibis 137: S240-S246.
52. Mann, C. C., and M. L. Plummer. 1992. The butterfly problem. Atlantic Monthly 269(January):47-70.
53. Martin, T. E. 1995. Avian life history evolution in relation to nest sites, nest prédation, and food. Ecological Monographs 65:101-127.
54. Martin, T. E., andG.R. Guepel. 1993. Nest-monitoring plots: methods for locating nests and monitoring success. Journal of Field Ornithology 64:507-519.
55. Masters, L. L. 1991. Assessing threats and setting priorities for conservation. Conservation Biology 5(4):559-563.
56. Maurer, B. A. 1994. Geographical population analysis. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, U.K.
57. Mills, L. S., S. G. Hayes, C. Baldwin, M. J. Wisdom, J. Citta, D. J. Mattson, and K. Murphy. 1996. Factors leading to different viability predictions for a grizzly bear data set. Conservation Biology 10:863-873.
58. Millsap, B. A. 1995. Wildlife conservation priorities for Florida: the State's perspective. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 60: 466-472.
59. Millsap, B. A., J. A. Gore, D. E. Runde, and S. I. Cerulean. 1990. Setting priorities for the conservation of fish and wildlife species in Florida. Wildlife Monographs HI.
60. Morrison, M. L., B. G. Marcot, and R. W, Mannan. 1992. Wildlife-habitat relationships: concepts and applications. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
61. Murphy, D. D., and B. R. Noon. 1992. Integrating scientific methods with habitat conservation planning: reserve design for Northern Spotted Owls. Ecological Applications 2:3-17.
62. Nature Conservancy. 1982. Natural heritage program operations manual. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia USA.
63. Noss, R. F., and A. Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving nature's legacy: protecting and restoring biodiversity. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
64. Parent, S., and L. M. Schriml. 1995. A model for the determination of fish species at risk based upon life-history traits and ecological data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52:1768-1781,
65. Pimm, S. L., H. L. Jones, and J. Diamond. 1988. On the risk of extinction. American Naturalist 132(6):757-785.
66. Pulliam, H. R. 1988. Sources, sinks and population regulation. American Naturalist 132:652-661.
67. 1996. Sources and sinks: empirical evidence and population consequences. Pages 45-70 in O. E. Rhodes, R. K. Chesser, and M. H. Smith, editors. Population dynamics in ecological space and time. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
68. Pulliam, H. R., and B. J. Danielson. 1991. Sources, sinks, and habitat selection: a landscape perspective on population dynamics. American Naturalist 137:550-566.
69. Ralph, C. J., G. R. Geupel, P. Pyle, T. E. Martin, and D. F. DeSante. 1993. Handbook of field methods for monitoring landbirds. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-144.
70. Reed, J. M. 1995. Relative vulnerability to extirpation of montane breeding birds in the Great Basin. Great Basin Naturalist 55(4):342-351.
71. Renshaw, E. 1991. Modelling biological populations in space and time. Cambridge University Press, New York, New York, USA.
72. Robbins, C. S., D. Bystrals, and P. H. Geissler. 1986. The Breeding Bird Survey: the first fifteen years, 1965-1979. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 157.
73. Rodman, A., H. Shovic, and D. Thoma. 1996. Soils of Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, YCR-NRSR-96-2.
74. Scott, J. M., B. Csuti, J. D. Jacobi, and J. E. Estes. 1987. Species richness: a geographic approach to protecting future biological diversity. BioScience 37:782-788.
75. Scott, J. M., F. Davis, B. Csuti, R. Noss, B. Butterfield, C. Groves, H. Anderson, S. Caicco, F. D'Erichia, T. C. Edwards, J. Ulliman, and R. G. Wright. 1993. GAP Analysis: a geographic approach to protection of biological diversity. Wildlife Monographs 123:1-41.
76. Scott, J. M., T. H. Tear, and F. W. Davis. 1996. Gap Analysis: a landscape approach to biodiversity planning. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
77. Shaffer, M. L. 1981. Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience 31:131-134.
78. Starfield, A. M., and A. L. Bleloch. 1986. Building models for conservation and wildlife management. Macmillan, New York, New York, USA.
79. Stephens, D. A., and S. H. Stuns. 1991. Idaho bird distribution. First edition. Idaho Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 11.
80. Sutherland, W. J. 1996. Ecological census techniques: a handbook. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
81. Tucker, G., M. Heath, L. Tomialojc, and R. Grimmett. 1994. Birds in Europe: their conservation status. Birdlife International BirdLife Conservation Series Number 3.
82. Tuljapurkar, S. 1990. Population dynamics in variable environments. Lecture notes in Biomathematics 85.
83. Van Home, B. 1983. Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. Journal of Wildlife Management 47:893901.
84. Verner, J., M. L. Morrison, and C. J. Ralph, editors. 1986. Wildlife 2000: modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
85. Vitousek, P. M., H. A. Mooney, J. Lubchenco, and J. M. Melillo. 1997. Human domination of Earth's ecosystems. Science 277:494-499.
86. Walters, C. 1986. Adaptive management of renewable resources. McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, USA.
87. Whitcomb, R. F., C. S. Robbins, J. F. Lynch, B. L. Whitcomb, K. Klimkiewicz, and D. Bystrak. 1981. Effects of forest fragmentation on avifauna of the Eastern Deciduous Forest. Pages 125-205 in R. L. Burgess and D. M. Sharpe, editors. Forest island dynamics in man-dominated landscapes. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
88. White, D., P. G. Minotti, M. J. Barczak, J. C. Sifneos, K. E. Freemark, M. V. Santelmann, C. F. Steinitx, A. R. Kiester, and E. M. Preston. 1997. Assessing risks to biodiversity from future landscape change. Conservation Biology 11(2): 349-360.
89. Wisdom, M. J., and L. S. Mills. 1997. Sensitivity analysis to guide population recovery: prairie chickens as an example. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:302-312.
90. Zar, J. H. 1974. Biostatistical analyses. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.