How Much Habitat Is Enough

An important challenge for Canadian society in addressing the natural environment, one of the three elements of sustainability along with society and economy, is to ensure that there is adequate wetland, riparian, forest and grassland habitat to sustain minimum viable wildlife populations and help maintain selected ecosystem functions and attributes. The goal of the How Much Habitat is Enough? series is to provide science-based information and guidelines related to these natural systems and the biodiversity for which we all are the stewards. The information is tailored to be of use to government and non-government restoration practitioners, planners and others involved in natural heritage planning, conservation and preservation.

Rehabilitation & protection efforts are under way in the Great Lakes basin to reverse the habitat loss that has occurred over the past two centuries. This fact sheet outlines the guidelines being used to provide direction on amount, type, and location of habitat rehabilitation for the following types of habitat: wetlands, riparian areas, and forests. It then presents case studies showing examples of how critical habitat in the basin is being restored using the guidelines.

An important challenge for Canadian society in addressing the natural environment, one of the three elements of sustainability along with society and economy, is to ensure that there is adequate wetland, riparian, forest and grassland habitat to sustain minimum viable wildlife populations and help maintain selected ecosystem functions and attributes. The goal of the How Much Habitat is Enough? series is to provide science-based information and guidelines related to these natural systems and the biodiversity for which we all are the stewards. The information is tailored to be of use to government and non-government restoration practitioners, planners and others involved in natural heritage planning, conservation and preservation.

The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only grow as climate change, the development of new energy sources and the needs of a growing human population intensify the, already significant, pressure on the habitats that birds depend on. Drawing on valuable recent advances in our understanding of bird-habitat relationships, this book provides the first major review of avian habitat selection in over twenty years. It offers a synthesis of concepts, patterns and issues that will interest students, researchers and conservation practitioners. Spatial scales ranging from landscape to habitat patch are covered, and examples of responses to habitat change are examined. European landscapes are the main focus, but the book has far wider significance to similar habitats worldwide, with examples and relevant material also drawn from North America and Australia.