Abstract
Resource managers must respond to legislative and societal demands to manage wildlife habitats in a cost-effective manner. To be successful, managers need a methodology:
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to predict the composition or the biodiversity of the wildlife community that can occur on a unit of landscape at a given time;
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to plan management strategies to enhance the future status of the wildlife community or of selected species of special interest;
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to evaluate the impacts that proposed developments might have on the wildlife community;
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to provide a means to predict trends in the status of the wildlife community over time.
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Short, H.L., Hestbeck, J.B., Tiner, R.W. (1996). Ecosearch: a new paradigm for evaluating the utility of wildlife habitat. In: DeGraaf, R.M., Miller, R.I. (eds) Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes. Conservation Biology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1521-3_16
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