Modelling Pygmy Hog Habitat to Inform Habitat Management

With increased emphasis on environmental quality objectives in water resources planning and management, past practices of simply considering water quality as the only environmental quality objective are inappropriate. Expanded environmental quality objectives include maintenance of high quality aquatic habitat. Water resource systems must provide both physical and chemical conditions appropriate for the propagation and maintenance of healthy diverse aquatic communities. Managing water resources to provide high quality habitat involves planning to meet both water quality and water quantity objectives. Existing technology based water quality controls and stream based water quality criteria can now be supplemented by aquatic habitat management. An approach to aquatic habitat management is illustrated by use of the Incremental Methodology developed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Incremental Methodology uses measures of aquatic habitat to assess instream flows required for by aquatic life. Thus the range of environmental quality objectives in resources planning and management is expanded by application of these methods to include aquatic habitat as well as water quality management. Methods used to determine instream flow needs for rivers in Illinois are reviewed, and the use of this information in developing regulations limiting water extraction for off stream use are described. Aquatic habitat based management is shown to provide workable methods to meet expanded environmental quality objectives in water resources planning and management.

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Integrated Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques for Elk Habitat Management

Journal of Environmental Systems ◽

10.2190/ayqn-f963-ljnk-9grj ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 325-339

Author(s):

Thomas P. Huber

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Habitat Management ◽

Remote Sensing And Gis ◽

Gis Techniques

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The First Half of the Twentieth Century

10.1093/oso/9780198819516.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Gillespie

Keyword(s):

Habitat Management ◽

Social Economic ◽

Chemical Pollution ◽

Freshwater Conservation ◽

The Great Depression ◽

Negative Results ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The One ◽

The Welfare State

The years between 1900 and 1945 were very difficult for humanity. In this period, not only were there two world wars to survive but also some of the worst parts of the social, economic, and environmental challenges of sustainable development all began to make themselves felt. The one area in which progress was made was in the social context, in which the rights of workers and the welfare state expanded. The idea of ‘development’, especially for the developing world, also evolved in this period. In the economic arena, the world went up, and then crashed in the Great Depression, producing negative results that were unprecedented. In environmental terms, positive templates were created for some habitat management, some wildlife law, and parts of freshwater conservation. Where there was not so much success was with regard to air and chemical pollution.

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Incorporating Environmental Uncertainty into Species Management Decisions: Kirtland's Warbler Habitat Management as a Case Study

Conservation Biology ◽

10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96468.x ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 975-985 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Elizabeth Marshall ◽

Robert Haight ◽

Frances R. Homans

Keyword(s):

Habitat Management ◽

Environmental Uncertainty ◽

Management Decisions ◽

Kirtland's Warbler ◽

Kirtland’S Warbler ◽

Species Management

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Seasonal distribution of the Indo‐Pacific humpback dolphins: Implications for coastal habitat management

Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ◽

10.1002/aqc.3479 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chun‐Chieh Wang ◽

Youhou Xu ◽

Na Li ◽

Chongwei Peng ◽

Haiping Wu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Habitat Management ◽

Seasonal Distribution ◽

Coastal Habitat

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Fire, land cover, and temperature drivers of bat activity in winter

Fire Ecology ◽

10.1186/s42408-021-00105-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Marcelo H. Jorge ◽

Sara E. Sweeten ◽

Michael C. True ◽

Samuel R. Freeze ◽

Michael J. Cherry ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Cover ◽

Habitat Management ◽

Deciduous Forest ◽

Pinus Palustris ◽

Growing Season ◽

Early Spring ◽

Bat Activity ◽

White Nose Syndrome ◽

Dormant Season ◽

Wind Energy Development

Abstract Background Understanding the effects of disturbance events, land cover, and weather on wildlife activity is fundamental to wildlife management. Currently, in North America, bats are of high conservation concern due to white-nose syndrome and wind-energy development impact, but the role of fire as a potential additional stressor has received less focus. Although limited, the vast majority of research on bats and fire in the southeastern United States has been conducted during the growing season, thereby creating data gaps for bats in the region relative to overwintering conditions, particularly for non-hibernating species. The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) ecosystem is an archetypal fire-mediated ecosystem that has been the focus of landscape-level restoration in the Southeast. Although historically fires predominately occurred during the growing season in these systems, dormant-season fire is more widely utilized for easier application and control as a means of habitat management in the region. To assess the impacts of fire and environmental factors on bat activity on Camp Blanding Joint Training Center (CB) in northern Florida, USA, we deployed 34 acoustic detectors across CB and recorded data from 26 February to 3 April 2019, and from 10 December 2019 to 14 January 2020. Results We identified eight bat species native to the region as present at CB. Bat activity was related to the proximity of mesic habitats as well as the presence of pine or deciduous forest types, depending on species morphology (i.e., body size, wing-loading, and echolocation call frequency). Activity for all bat species was influenced positively by either time since fire or mean fire return interval. Conclusion Overall, our results suggested that fire use provides a diverse landscape pattern at CB that maintains mesic, deciduous habitat within the larger pine forest matrix, thereby supporting the diverse bat community at CB during the dormant season and early spring.

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Seasonal food habits of the four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis de Blainville, 1816) in tropical deciduous forests of Aravalli mountain range, Rajasthan, Western India

The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology ◽

10.1186/s41936-020-00193-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Ramchandra Meghwal ◽

Chhaya Bhatnagar ◽

Vijay Kumar Koli

Keyword(s):

Plant Species ◽

Forest Fires ◽

Habitat Management ◽

Fleshy Fruit ◽

Feeding Strategies ◽

Western India ◽

Mountain Range ◽

Local Pressure ◽

Dendrocalamus Strictus ◽

Helicteres Isora

Abstract Background Feeding strategies assessment of endangered species during food limited seasons is important in order to understand their niche and advise effective habitat management steps. We assessed the four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis) seasonal diet from April 2014 to March 2015, in three wildlife sanctuaries in western India, namely, Sitamata, Kumbhalgarh, and Phulwari-ki-nal Wildlife Sanctuaries. Opportunistic focal animal sampling method was used in five 1 km paths in each sanctuary to take feeding observations. Each transect was walked three times a day (morning 06:00-10:00 h; mid-day 10:00-14:00 h; evening 15:00-18:00 h), 1 day a month, during 12 months, with a total of 540 surveys divided between 15 paths. The diet data was categorized into different plant categories. Results A total of 532 feeding records from 85 animal sightings were noted with a mean (± SD) of 14.78 ± 10.04 feeding records/month. Feeding was observed on 63 plant species belonging to 23 families. The highest feeding records noted were on trees (60.91%) in the diet followed by shrubs (20.49%), grasses (16.92%), forbs (1.50%), and climbers (0.18%) respectively. Most of the plant species consumed were from Fabaceae (n = 17) and Poaceae (n = 12) families. The overall browse-grass ratio was 83.08-16.92% (88.02-11.98% for Sitamata WLS; 82.11-17.89% for Kumbhalgarh WLS; 79.10-20.90% for Phulwari-ki-nal WLS). Leaves were the most consumed part of the plants (64.10%), followed by dry fruit (16.55%), fleshy fruit (13.34%), flowers (2.82%), buds (2.06%), and twigs (1.13%) respectively. Use of fleshy fruits, dry fruits, and trees showed significant seasonal dietary difference (P < 0.05) in all three sanctuaries. Conclusions Tetracerus quadricornis was found to consume more browse species than grasses. We recommend conservation and promotion of natural plant regeneration, in particular for the plant species that were the most consumed by four-horned antelope, namely, Aristida adscensionis, Dendrocalamus strictus, Dichrostachys cinerea, Acacia leucophloea, Butea monosperma, Helicteres isora, Ziziphus nummularia, and Ziziphus xylopyrus. Conservation of grassland patches, minimizing local pressure, and planning, construction, and maintenance of fire lines prior to timing of forest fires would help to protected T. quadricornis habitat in all three sanctuaries.

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