Wildlife-Habitat Relationships: Concepts and Applications

By Bruce G. Marcot, R. William Mannan, Michael L. Morrison

Anyone working with wildlife must be concerned with its habitat--its identification, measurement, and analysis. Wildlife-Habitat Relationships goes beyond introductory wildlife biology texts and specialized studies of single species to provide a broad but advanced understanding of habitat relationships applicable to all terrestrial species. It also includes coverage of spatial analysis, landscape ecology, animal populations and their quantification, behavioral studies, and resources available to the wildlife professional.
Completely updated with the latest research results and literature, this Second Edition provides new sections on:
- vegetation ecology and its role in animal distribution and habitat use;
- factors driving animal population dynamics;
- approaches to study design and experimental methodologies;
- ecosystem management and other new initiatives in habitat management;
- reviews research and concepts of habitat corridors, fragmentation, and connectivity, for maintaining metapopulations and population viability;
- the advancement of wildlife education.

This edition also offers greatly expanded coverage of the growing field of landscape ecology, including new chapters on habitat heterogeneity and responses of wildlife and on habitat isolation, dynamics, and monitoring. Behavioral ecology and habitat measurement are covered in greater depth, as well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299156400
• ISBN13: 9780299156404
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Good overview of traditional concepts and techniques

Morrison et al.'s second edition of Wildlife-Habitat Relationships: Concepts and Applications is a welcome overview of the state of the art in the mid-1990s. The authors examine their subject from three complementary viewpoints: basic concepts, measurement and analysis, and management. Individual concepts are presented very clearly and the writing is first-rate. The authors provide a level of detail appropriate to an introductory overview.While this text is suitable for an undergraduate course and provides an excellent basic reference, seasoned professionals may find it lacking. For example, more recent numerical techniques (such as resource selection functions) are beyond the book's scope. Nevertheless, "Wildlife-Habitat Relationships" is admirably up-to-date in many respects, including excellent discussions of experimental approaches and scale, and I've referred to it many times during the course of my own Ph.D. work.