HABITAT MODELING FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Bruce G Marcot
2006 Northwestern Naturalist  
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
more » ... framework for building models of habitat from which a known degree of inference can be made to biodiversity variables.
doi:10.1898/1051-1733(2006)87[56:hmfbc]2.0.co;2 fatcat:53kqbckswna7phdr6mdu555zf4