Wildlife habitat relationships in forested ecosystems

Abstract

Originally published in 1992 and welcomed both by professors of forestry and working forest managers, Wildlife Habitat Relationships in Forested Ecosystems has been revised and updated to include new material on adaptive resource management, the eco-regions of the United States, and forest wildlife habitat relationships in Canada and Mexico and on U.S. Indian reservations. It proposes a systems analysis approach to management of habitat relationships, making a convincing case for the importance of using computer-maintained databases and computer models in ecosystem management. The author provides problem-solving techniques for forest managers and decision makers, using an interdisciplinary approach unique to this book. Part of the author's innovation is his development of a specially designed relational data model for microcomputers which helps to organize habitat relationships for decision making by forest managers. He shows the reader how to set up a similar model in a database to store wildlife information for use in evaluating any given local habitat.