Habitat Models for Land-Use Planning: Assumptions and Strategies for Development

Authors

Adrian H. Farmer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Michael J. Armbruster, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
James W. Terrell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Richard L. Schroeder, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Date of this Version

1982

Comments

Published in TRANSACTIONS OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONFERENCE, ed. Kenneth Sabol (Washington, DC, 1982).

Abstract

Wildlife managers have long recognized that management goals must be constrained by the availability and suitability of habitat. This recognition, combined with ever increasing land development pressures, has resulted in environmental legislation emphasizing systematic approaches to collection and analysis of habitat information. Wildlife planners have responded with a variety of approaches to the development of models that quantify habitat requirements.