Selected Habitat Suitability Index Model Evaluations

Papers published in this series record the significant findings resulting from USGS/BRD-sponsored and cospon-sored research programs. They may include extensive data or theoretical analyses. These papers are the in-house counterpart to peer-reviewed journal articles, but with less stringent restrictions on length, tables, or raw data, for example. We encourage authors to publish their findings in the most appropriate journal possible. However, the Biological Science Reports represent an outlet in which BRD authors may publish papers that are difficult to publish elsewhere due to the formatting and length restrictions of journals. At the same time, papers in this series are held to the same peer-review and high quality standards as their journal counterparts. These reports are intended for the publication of book-length-monographs; synthesis documents; compilations of conference and workshop papers; important planning and reference materials such as strategic plans, standard operating procedures, protocols, handbooks, and manuals ; and data compilations such as tables and bibliographies. Papers in this series are held to the same peer-review and high quality standards as their journal counterparts. Results of this program are dispersed among various journals, theses, dissertations, and unpublished reports. In order to simplify use of this scattered information, this publication provides referenced summaries of unpublished HSI model evaluations that were initiated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For a limited number of species, published HSI model evaluations are summarized. All of the authors of the individual synopses were involved in the development and testing of HSI models. Except for Janelle Corn (who is in the final stages of completing a Ph.D. program at Colorado State University), all of the authors currently work for the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.