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A Regional Technique to Address Land-use Changes and Animal Habitats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Jeffrey M. Klopatek  and
J. Thomas Kitchings
Jeffrey M. Klopatek
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Botany, Department of Botany and Microbiology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
J. Thomas Kitchings
Affiliation:
Environmental and Occupational Safety Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA.
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Many of the federal agencies of the United States (e.g. US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management) are involved in making decisions that alter land-use on a massive scale. Subsequently, these land-use changes may have deleterious or beneficial effects on wildlife habitat and its ability to support wildlife species, both plant and animal. There exists an urgent need to develop methodologies that are capable of predicting the consequences, for wildlife species, of regional land-use changes. This study develops one such methodology to predict the distribution and abundance of animal species at a regional level.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , Winter 1985 , pp. 343 - 350
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1985

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