Wildlife management specialists and landscape ecologists offer a new
perspective on the important intersection of these fields in the
twenty-first century.
It's been clear for decades that landscape-level patterns and processes,
along with the tenets and tools of landscape ecology, are vitally
important in understanding wildlife-habitat relationships and sustaining
wildlife populations. Today, significant shifts in the spatial scale of
extractive, agricultural, ranching, and urban land uses are upon us,
making it more important than ever before to connect wildlife management
and landscape ecology. Landscape ecologists must understand the
constraints that wildlife managers face and be able to use that
knowledge to translate their work into more practical applications.
Wildlife managers, for their part, can benefit greatly from becoming
comfortable with the vocabulary, conceptual processes, and perspectives
of landscape ecologists.
In Wildlife Management and Landscapes, the foremost landscape ecology
experts and wildlife management specialists come together to discuss the
emerging role of landscape concepts in habitat management. Their
contributions
- make the case that a landscape perspective is necessary to address
management questions
- translate concepts in landscape ecology to wildlife management
- explain why studying some important habitat-wildlife relationships is
still inherently difficult
- explore the dynamic and heterogeneous structure of natural systems
- reveal why factors such as soil, hydrology, fire, grazing, and timber
harvest lead to uncertainty in management decisions
- explain matching scale between population processes and management
- discuss limitations to management across jurisdictional boundaries and
balancing objectives of private landowners and management agencies
- offer practical ideas for improving communication between
professionals
- outline the impediments that limit a full union of landscape ecology
and wildlife management
Using concrete examples of modern conservation challenges that range
from oil and gas development to agriculture and urbanization, the volume
posits that shifts in conservation funding from a hunter constituent
base to other sources will bring a dramatic change in the way we manage
wildlife. Explicating the foundational similarity of wildlife management
and landscape ecology, Wildlife and Landscapes builds crucial bridges
between theoretical and practical applications.
Contributors: Jocelyn L. Aycrigg, Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau, Jon P.
Beckmann, Joseph R. Bennett, William M. Block, Todd R. Bogenschutz,
Teresa C. Cohn, John W. Connelly, Courtney J. Conway, Bridgett E.
Costanzo, David D. Diamond, Karl A. Didier, Lee F. Elliott, Michael E.
Estey, Lenore Fahrig, Cameron J. Fiss, Jacqueline L. Frair, Elsa M.
Haubold, Fidel Hernández, Jodi A. Hilty, Joseph D. Holbrook, Cynthia A.
Jacobson, Kevin M. Johnson, Jeffrey K. Keller, Jeffery L. Larkin,
Kimberly A. Lisgo, Casey A. Lott, Amanda E. Martin, James A. Martin,
Darin J. McNeil, Michael L. Morrison, Betsy E. Neely, Neal D. Niemuth,
Chad J. Parent, Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso, Ronald D. Pritchert,
Fiona K. A. Schmiegelow, Amanda L. Sesser, Gregory J. Soulliere, Leona
K. Svancara, Stephen C. Torbit, Joseph A. Veech, Kerri T. Vierling, Greg
Wathen, David M. Williams, Mark J. Witecha, John M. Yeiser
