Landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation : critical information for ecological risk assessment, land-use management activities, and biodiversity enhancement

Selecting a Suite of Ecological Indicators for Resource Management-- VIRGINIA H. DALE, PATRICK J. MULHOLLAND, LISA M. OLSEN, JACK W. FEMINELLA, KELLY O. MALONEY, DAVID C. WHITE, AARON PEACOCK, AND THOMAS FOSTER Integrating Mineral Development and Biodiversity Conservation into Regional Land-Use Planning--DAVID G. RICHARDS SESSION II Estimating Functional Connectivity of Wildlife Habitat and Its Relevance to Ecological Risk Assessment--ALAN R. JOHNSON, CRAIG R. ALLEN, AND KRISTI A. N. SIMPSON Hierarchical Scales in Landscape Responses by Forest Birds---GERALD J. NIEMI, JOANN M. HANOWSKI, NICK DANZ, ROBERT HOWE, MALCOLM JONES, JAMES LIND, AND DAVID M. MLADENOFF Type, Scale, and Adaptive Narrative: Keeping Models of Salmon, Toxicology and Risk Alive to the WoFld--RONALD J. MCCORMICK, AMANDA J. 71r MER, AND TIMOTHY F. H. ALLEN Population Dynamics in Spatially and Temporally Variable Habitats-- MARK C. ANDERSEN Quantitative Habitat Analysis: A New Tool for the Integration of Modeling, Planning, and Management of Natural Resources---4~uRA K. MARSH AND TIMOTHY HAARMANN Predicting Biodlversity Potential Using a Modified Layers of Habitat Model--- LAWRENCE A. KAPUSTKA, ~OR GALBRAITH, MATT LUXON, JOAN M. YOCUM, AND WILLIAM J. ADAMS vii 18 41 56 69 84 94 107 V vi CONTENTS Habitat Ranking System for the Threatened Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) in Eastern Colorado---THOMAS R. RYON, MIKE J. BONAR, KIRSTA L. SHERFF-NORRIS, AND ROBERT A. SCHORR Development of HSI Models to Evaluate Risks to Riparian Wildlife Habitat from Climate Change and Urban Sprawl HECTOR GALBRArrH, mR PRICE, MARK DIXON, AND JULIE STROMBERG Application of Habitat Suitability Index Values to Modify Exposure Estimates in Characterizing Ecological Risk--LAWRENCE A. KAPUSTKA, HECTOR GALBRAITH, MATT LUXON, JOAN M. YOCUM, AND WILLIAM J. ADAMS Sunflower Depredation and Avicide Use: A Case Study Focused on DRC-1339 and Risks to Non-Target Birds in North Dakota and South Dakota-- GREG LINDER, ELIZABETH HARRAHY, LYNNE JOHNSON, LARRY GAMBLE, KEVIN JOHNSON, JOY GOBER, AND STEPHANIE JONES GIS-Based Localization of Impaired Benthic Communities in Chesapeake Bay: Associations with Indicators of Anthropogenic Stress-- BENJAMIN L. PRESTON Estimating Receptor Sensitivity to Spatial Proximity of Emissions Sources-- VLADIMIR P. RESHET1N 129 148 169 202 221 242 SESSION III Toward an Ecological Framework for Assessing Risk to Vertebrate Populations from Brine and Petroleum Spills in Exploration and Production Sites-- REBECCA A. EFROYMSON, TINA M. CARL.SEN, HENRIETrE I. JAGER, TANYA KOSTOVA, ERIC A. CARR, WILLIAM W. HARGROVE, JAMES KERCHER, AND TOM L. ASHWOOD Risk-Trace: Software for Spatially Explicit Exposure Assessment--IGOR LINKOV, ALEXANDRE GREBENKOV, ANATOLI ANDRIZHIEVSKI, ALEXEI LOUKASHEVICH, AND ALEXANDER TRIFONOV Incorporating Spatial Data into Ecological Risk Assessments: The Spatially Explicit Exposure Module (SEEM) for ARAMS--w. T. WlCKWIRE, CHARLES A. MENZIE, DMITR1Y BURMISTROV, AND BRUCE K. HOPE Approaches to Spatially-Explicit, Multi-Stressor Ecological Exposure Estimation-- BRUCE K. HOPE INDEX 261 286 297 311 325