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Wildlife Fundamentals. Approaches to Wildlife Management : 1) Preservation (“hands off”) 2) Conservation (“use wisely”) 3) Management (“manipulate”). Wildlife Fundamentals. Goals of management : 1) population increase 2) population decrease 3) maintain population
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Wildlife Fundamentals • Approaches to Wildlife Management: • 1) Preservation (“hands off”) • 2) Conservation (“use wisely”) • 3) Management (“manipulate”)
Wildlife Fundamentals • Goals of management: • 1) population increase • 2) population decrease • 3) maintain population • 4) harvest population on sustained yield basis
“Land” to Manage 2.3 billion acres in U.S. 741 million acres in public ownership - 336 MA = BLM - 189 MA = USFS - 86 MA = USFWS - 68 MA = NPS - 13 MA = U.S. Army
Wildlife Fundamentals • Single-species vs. Ecosystem Mgt • Coarse-filter vs. Fine-filter adaptive resource management: given current scientific understanding, 1) implement mgt. strategy, but 2) monitor effects and adjust
Determine Goals & Desires of Public Understand Function & Operation of Nat. Syst. Consider Politics Form Mgt Plan Set Mgt Goals Manipulate Species or Population Manipulate Habitat Increase, Decrease, Stabilize Pop Evaluate Mgt Practices
Habitat • Habitat from an evolutionary perspective • Species distribution relative to habitat dist’n • Climatic events • Pleistocene Epoch & dist’n of modern species • Evolutionary underpinnings • Adaptation & Evolution for habitat
Concept of Habitat Selection • Wildlife perceiving correct configuration of habitat needed for survival – differences based on age/experience/chance? – hierarchy to decision process • Niche concept (time/place/functional role) & habitat selection
Testing the Hutchinsonian Niche Concept of Habitat Selection • James – work with birds in Arkansas…quantified habitat relationships • How do birds select habitat? • niche gestalt :
Scale Dependence of Habitat Selection Orders of Selection Macrohabitat vs. Microhabitat
Habitat Selection ProximateFactorsvs. UltimateFactors
habitat interspersion – Leopold’s Law of Interspersion
Managing for Biodiversity Paradigm of Wildlife Biology & Conservation Biology
Human-induced “heterogeneity”