Habitat modeling for biodiversity conservation.

Abstract

Habitat models address only 1 component of biodiversity but can be useful in addressing and managing single or multiple species and ecosystem functions, for projecting disturbance regimes, and in supporting decisions. I review categories and examples of habitat models, their utility for biodiversity conservation, and their roles in making conservation decisions. I suggest the use of influence diagrams in structuring causal webs and structural equation modeling to quantify relations, as a general framework for building models of habitat from which a known degree of inference can be made to biodiversity variables.

Parent Publication

• Biodiversity conservation—a place holder: introduction to papers in this issue.

Citation

Marcot, Bruce G. 2006. Habitat modeling for biodiversity conservation. In: Olson, Deanna H., editor. Northwestern Naturalist, Vol. 87(1): 56-65