2014
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.678
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Informing management of endemic habitat specialists: Multiscale habitat selection by the Red Hills salamander

Abstract: Rare species with highly specific habitat requirements present challenges for land managers. The primarily fossorial Red Hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti) is endemic to a small area in south‐central Alabama and restricted to a unique coastal plain slope and ravine habitat. Both the current distribution and population demography of the species are thought to be influenced by past and current land use. We quantified habitat use and selection of P. hubrichti at 6 scales: 3 of which were designed to identi… Show more

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“…For conservation initiatives to be successful, an understanding of habitat use patterns is required to determine how species are affected by natural and human-driven environmental changes (Mao et al 2005;Sawyer et al 2006;Wilson et al 2016). These insights may help to build a basis for optimal decision-making and management strategies (Chetkiewicz et al 2006;Kowal et al 2014;Steen et al 2014). A common method used by ecologists when making habitat assessments is to identify important habitat features for the species through a comparison of habitat use with its availability (Johnson 1980).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For conservation initiatives to be successful, an understanding of habitat use patterns is required to determine how species are affected by natural and human-driven environmental changes (Mao et al 2005;Sawyer et al 2006;Wilson et al 2016). These insights may help to build a basis for optimal decision-making and management strategies (Chetkiewicz et al 2006;Kowal et al 2014;Steen et al 2014). A common method used by ecologists when making habitat assessments is to identify important habitat features for the species through a comparison of habitat use with its availability (Johnson 1980).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This pixel size was small enough to reasonably target for acquisition and large enough to provide a buffer to the interior of the pixel. From each pixel, we extracted variables that are the most important to P. hubrichti demographics, as determined by expert opinion and published literature (Godwin, ; Apodaca et al ., ; Steen et al ., ). At our workshop taxa experts described to us the important habitat variables that were most likely associated with population stability and growth to build a conceptual model.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…() and landscape‐scale habitat associations analyzed by Steen et al . (). Pixels were evaluated for their positive effect on P. hubrichti survival and then penalized for being some distance from a known population of P. hubrichti .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 97%
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