Modelling space use and dispersal of mammals in real landscapes: A tool for conservation

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 607-620

  Macdonald, David W ^a   Rushton, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

American mink; Conservation; Dormice; Geographical information systems; Individual based models; Mammals; Pine marten; Water vole

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; GIS; HABITAT USE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MAMMAL;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLA; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; MAMMALIA; MARTES; MARTES AMERICANA; MARTES MARTES; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; MUSCARDINUS AVELLANARIUS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; MYOXIDAE;

EID: 0038025484     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00874.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Akcakaya, H.R., Mccarthy, M.A. & Pearce, J.L. (1995) Linking landscape data with population viability analysis: management options for the helmeted honey eater. Biological Conservation, 73, 169-176.
2. van Apeldoorn, R.C., Celada, C. & Nieuwenhuizen, W. (1994) Distribution and dynamics of the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in a fragmented habitat. Landscape Ecology, 9, 227-235.
3. Balharry E.A., McGowan G.M., Kruuk H. & Halliwell E. (1994) Distribution of pine martens in Scotland as determined by field survey and questionnaire. Scottish Natural Heritage Research, Survey and Monitoring Report No. 48. Scottish Natural Heritage, Perth.
4. Barreto, G.R., Rushton, S.P., Strachan, R. & Macdonald, D.W. (1998). The role of habitat and mink predation in determining the status and distribution of declining populations of water voles in England. Animal Conservation 1, 129-137.
5. Bart, J. (1995) Acceptance criteria for using individual-based models to make management decisions. Ecological Applications, 5, 411-420.
6. Boyce, M.S. (1992) Population viability analysis. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23, 481-506.
7. Bright, P.W. & Harris, S. (1994) Reintroduction of the pine marten: feasibility study. English Nature Research Report No. 84. English Nature, Peterborough.
8. Bright, P.W. & Morris, P.A (1992) Ranging and nesting behaviour of the dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius in coppice-with-standard woodland. Journal of Zoology, London, 226, 589-600.
9. Bright, P.W. & Morris, P.A. (1996) Why are dormice rare - a case study in conservation biology. Mammal Review, 26, 189-195.
10. Bright, P.W., Mitchel, P. & Morris, P.A. (1994) Dormouse distribution: survey techniques, insular ecology and selection of sites for conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 31, 329-339.
11. Bright, P.W., Morris, P.A. & Mitchell-Jones, A.J. (1996) A new survey of the dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius in Britain, 1993-94. Mammal Review, 26, 189-195.
12. Caswell, H. (1989) Matrix Population Models. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, USA.
13. Celada, C., Bogliani G., Gariboldi, A. & Maracci, A. (1994) Occupancy of isolated woodlots by the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in Italy. Biological Conservation, 69, 177-183.
14. Dunstone, N. (1993). The mink. Poyser, London.
15. Dunning, J.B., Stewart, D.J., Danielson, B.J., Noon, B.R., Root, T.L., Lamberson, R.H. & Stevens, E.S. (1995) Spatially explicit population models: current forms and future uses. Ecological Applications, 5, 3-11.
16. FitzGibbon, C.D. (1997) Small mammals in farm woodlands: the effects of habitat, isolation and surrounding land use patterns. Journal of Applied Ecology 34, 530-539.
17. Geffen, E., Hefner, R., Macdonald, D.W. & Ucko, M. (1992). Habitat selection and home range in the Blanford's fox, Vulpes cana: compatibility with the resource dispersion hypothesis. Oecologia, 91, 75-81.
18. Gough, M.C. & Rushton, S.P. (2000) The use of GIS in modelling the landscape ecology of mustelids. Mammal Review, 30, 197-217
19. Kareiva, P. & Wennergren, U. (1995) Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes. Nature, 373, 299-302.
20. Lawton, J.H. & Woodroffe, G.L. (1991) Habitat and the distribution of water voles: why are there gaps in a species' range? Journal of Animal Ecology 60, 79-91.
21. Lima, S.L. & Zollner, P.A. (1996) Towards a behavioural ecology of ecological landscapes. Trends in Research in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 131-135.
22. Macdonald, D.W., Bunce, R.G.H. & Bacon, P.J. (1981) Fox populations, habitat characterization and rabies control. Journal of Biogeography, 8, 145-151.
23. Macdonald, D.W. & Smith, H. (1990) Dispersal, dispersion and conservation in the agricultural ecosystem. Species dispersal in agricultural habitats (eds. R.G.H. Bunce and D.C. Howard), pp. 18-64. Belhaven Press, London, England.
24. Macdonald, D.W. & Smith, H. (1991) New perspectives on agro-ecology: between theory and practice in the agricultural ecosystem. The ecology of temperate cereal fields (32nd Symposium of the British Ecological Society)(eds. L. Firbank, N. Carter, J.F. Darbyshire and G.R. Potts), pp. 413-448. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
25. Macdonald, D.W. & Strachan, R. (1999) Mink and water vole: analyses for conservation. Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Oxford University, Oxford.
26. Macdonald, D.W. & Tattersall, F.H. (1999) Beavers in Britain: planning reintroduction. Beaver production, management and utilisation(eds P.E. Busher and R.M. Dziȩciołowski), pp. 77-102. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, London.
27. Macdonald, D.W. & Johnson, D.D.P. (2001) Dispersal in theory and practice: consequences for conservation biology. Dispersal(eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt and J.D. Nichols),pp. 358-372. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
28. Macdonald, D.W., Mace, G. & Rushton, S. (1998). Proposals for future monitoring of British mammals. DETR, London.
29. Macdonald, D.W., Johnson, P.J., Feber, R.E. & Tattersall, F.H. (2000a) Habitat heterogeneity on farmland. Ecological consequences of habitat heterogeneity (ed. M. Hutchings), pp. 357-378. Blackwell Scientific Publishing, Oxford.
30. Macdonald, D.W., Tattersall, F.H., Johnson, P.J., Carbone, C., Reynolds, J.C., Langbein, J., Rushton, S.P. & Shirley, M.D.F. (2000b) Managing British mammals: case studies from the hunting debate. WildCRU, Oxford.
31. Macdonald, D.W., Tattersall, F.H., Rushton, S.P., South, A.B., Rao, S., Maitland, P. & Strachan, R. (2000c) Reintroducing the beaver (Castor fiber) to Scotland: a protocol for identifying and assessing suitable release sites. Animal Conservation 3, 125-133.
32. Rushton, S.P., Lurz, P.W.W., Fuller, R. & Garson, P.J.G. (1997) Modelling the distribution of the red squirrel at the landscape scale; a combined GIS and population dynamics approach. Journal of Applied Ecology, 34, 1137-1154.
33. Rushton, S.P., Barreto, G.R., Cormack, R.M., Macdonald, D.W. & Fuller, R. (2000) Modelling the effects of mink and habitat fragmentation on the water vole. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37, 475-490.
34. Rushton, S.P., Gurnell, J., Lurz, P.W.W. & Fuller, R. (2002) Modelling impacts and costs of gray squirrel control regimes on the viability of red squirrel populations. Journal of Wildlife Management, 66, 683-697.
35. Shaw, G. & Livingstone, J. (1992) The pine marten - its reintroduction and subsequent history in the Galloway Forest Park. Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, third Series, 67, 1-7.
36. South, A.B., Rushton, S.P., Kenward, R.E. & Macdonald, D.W. (2002) Modelling vertebrate dispersal and demography in real landscapes: how does uncertainty regarding dispersal behaviour influence predictions of spatial population dynamics?Dispersal Ecology (eds Bullock, J.M, Kenward, R.E and Hails, R.S), pp. 327-349. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
37. Spencer, J.W. & Kirby, K.J. (1992) An inventory of ancient woodland for England and Wales. Biological Conservation, 62, 77-93.
38. Strachan, R. & Jefferies, D. (1993) The water vole Arvicola terrestris in Britain 1989-1990: its distribution and changing status. The Vincent Wildlife Trust, London.
39. Strachan, C., Strachan, R. & Jefferies, D.J. (2000) Preliminary report on the changes in the water vole population of Britain as shown by the National Surveys of 1989-90 and 1996-98. The Vincent Wildlife Trust, London.
40. Strickland, M.A. & Douglas, C.W. (1987) Status of fishes in North America, Wild furbearer management and conservation in North America (eds M. Novak, J. A. Barker, M.E. Obbard and B. Malloch), pp. 1443-1459. Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario.
41. Vose, D. (1996) Quantitative risk analysis: a guide to Monte Carlo simulation modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
42. Wiens, J. (2001) The landscape context of dispersal. Dispersal (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt and J.D. Nichols), pp. 96-109.Oxford University Press, Oxford.
43. Westervelt, J.M., Shapiro, M., Goran, W. & Gerdes, D. (1990) Geographic Resource Analysis Support System, Version 4.0 User's Reference manual, USACERL ADP Report N-87/22, USACERL.
44. Yamaguchi, N. & Macdonald, D.W. (2003) The burden of co-occupancy: Intraspecific resource competition and spacing patterns of American mink, Mustela vision. Journal of Mammalogy, 84(3), in press.
45. Yamaguchi, N., Rushton, S. & Macdonald, D.W. (2003) Habitat requirements of feral American mink in the upper Thames. Journal of Mammalogy, 84(3), in press.