Development of Landscape-level Habitat Suitability Models for Ten Wildlife Species in the Central Hardwoods Region

Newtown Square

2007

47 S.

31 Abb., zahlr. Lit. Ang.

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Reports landscape-level habitat suitability models for 10 species in the Central Hardwoods Region of the Midwestern United States: American woodcock, cerulean warbler, Henslow?s sparrow, Indiana bat, northern bobwhite, ruffed grouse, timber rattlesnake, wood thrush, worm-eating warbler, and yellow-breasted chat. All models included spatially explicit variables and relationships based on the best available empirical data and expert opinion. Also includes overview of habitat characteristics for each species, a discussion of the habitat variables used in each model, and supporting reference materials for all assumed relationships between quantity of a resource and quality for each species modeled. The models are included in a stand-alone software package, Landscape HSImodels version 2.1, available from the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station (www.nrs.fs.fed.us/hsi). These models provide a general approach for evaluating habitat suitability at large spatial scales.