Northeastern Ontario Forest Ecosystem Classification as a tool for managing marten habitat

Habitat Simulation Technique as a Powerful Tool for Instream Flow Needs Assessment and River Ecosystem Management

Instream flow needs (IFN) assessment studies are performed to provide guidelines for stream water management and to assess the impacts of different water projects such as weirs, dams and stream diversions on the available fish habitat. The physical habitat simulation is one of the IFN assessment methods and also a powerful tool in management of river ecosystem that has not become a common metho...

Forest Thinning Changes Movement Patterns and Habitat Use by Pacific Marten

Simplifying stand structure to reduce fuel density is a high priority for forest managers; however, affects to Pacific marten (Martes caurina) movement and connectivity are unknown. We evaluated whether thinning forests to reduce fuels influenced movements of Pacific marten. We collected movement paths from 22 martens using global positioning system telemetry to evaluate habitat selection and d...

Riparian Forest as Habitat for the Least

--Data are presented on vegetation structure in Least Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) breeding habitats. A discussion of vegetation and several o"ther fac­ tors relevant to breeding success of this endangered species is presented. Recommendations are made for actions to en­ sure the future of the subspecies as a breeding inhabitant of riparian forests.

Assessing the use of forest ecosystem services analyses as a national policy-making tool in Peru

Forest Ecosystem Services As Production Inputs

Are we cutting down tropical forests too rapidly and too extensively? If so, why? Answers to both questions are obscured in some ways by insufficient and unreliable data on the economic worth of forest ecosystem services. It is clear, however, that rapid, excessive cutting of forests can irreversibly and substantively impair ecosystem functions, thereby endangering the flow of several socially ...