Investigation of the Relationship between Land Use and Wildlife Abundance. Volume I. Literature Survey

摘要

This report is on the results of Phase I of a two-phase project on wildlife - land use relationships. The overall objective is to facilitate the evaluation of the influence of water resource development actions by the Corps on land use and terrestrial wildlife populations. In that habitat is dependent on land use, the project approach to the investigation of wildlife - land use relationships is by way of habitat evaluation. This report includes (1) a reivew of the literature on habitat evaluation methods and on the state-of-the-art for quantifying wildlife-habitat relationships, (2) a review of current data gaps in habitat evaluation and in wildlife studies, (3) a summary assessment of available habitat evaluation methods, and (4) a proposed plan for testing and comparing selected habitat evaluation methods under field conditions.