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ACTIVE COURSES I TEACH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
ENWC 416/616 - Wildlife Habitat Management (Fall 2006, Fall
2007). Within this senior/grad level course, my goals are to 1)
acquaint students with basic principles and methods of habitat manipulation
to benefit various types of wildlife, 2) ensure students can describe and
apply techniques to manipulate vegetation to enhance habitat for selected
wildlife, and 3) acquaint students with habitat requirements for forest,
grassland, agricultural, prairie, and wetland wildlife that are often the
focus of habitat management programs.
Content
Objectives: At
the end of the semester, a successful student in this course should:
1)
Understand
the basic concepts of habitat and habitat management in relation to
wildlife conservation.
2)
Be
knowledgeable of models to quantify wildlife habitat use.
3)
Know
the major groups of habitats and the general characteristics of these
habitats. These will include forests, agriculture, grassland, and wetlands.
4)
Understand
the role of humans and human dominated landuse patterns affect on wildlife
and their habitat needs.
5)
Be
able to describe and apply techniques to manipulate vegetation to enhance
habitat for selected wildlife.
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Date
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Lecture
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Lab
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Week
1
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Lecture
1 Habitat Basics 1 What is Habitat?
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LAB
TIME: Lecture 2-3 Habitat Basics 2 & 3 What is Habitat? Major
Habitats of the US.
Determining Habitat Use.
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Week
2
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Lecture
4 - Habitat Basics 4 Biodiversity. Niche Concept. Succession.
Extra
lecture handed out describing habitat classification systems
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Lab 1 Common Tree
Identification
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Week
3
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Lecture
5 - Forests and Wildlife #1 Types of Forests. Snags. Plantations.
Wildlife use of forests.
Lecture
6 Forests and Wildlife #2. Nutrition and Cover provided by forests. Forest structure (vertical and horizontal structure,
interspersion, and edge) effect on species diversity.
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Lab
2 - Tree ID quiz, Forest Metrics
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Week
4
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Lecture
7 Forest Management #1 Silviculture systems and wildlife
Lecture
8 Forest Management #2 Silviculture systems and wildlife
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Lab
3 - Trip to Blackbird State Forest management
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Week
5
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No
Class
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Week
6
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Lecture
9 Forest Management #3 Site preparation techniques
Lecture
10 - Forestry 6 - Fire as a management tool
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Lab
4 Introduction to landscape design with natives.
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Week
7
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Exam
1
Lecture
11 - Corridors and Linear Habitat
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Lab
5 - Riparian Assessment Part 1
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Week
8
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Lecture
12- Riparian Corridors
Lecture
13 - Riparian Corridors
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Lab
6 - Riparian Assessment Part 2
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Week
9
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Lecture
14 - Wetlands 1 Introduction.
What is a wetland? Lecture 15 - Wetlands 2 Classification of
wetland habitat - freshwater
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Lab
7 - Grassland management (and burning) and freshwater wetland creation at
Blackiston Wildlife Area, DNREC
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Week
10
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Lecture
16 - Wetlands 3 -Classification of wetland habitat estuarine
Lecture
17 - Wetlands 4 Management the how, whys and when.
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Lab
8 - Tidal marsh management at little Creek and Woodland Beach Wildlife
Area, DNREC
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Week
11
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Lecture
18 - Wetlands 5 Management the how, whys and when.
Agriculture
1 available habitat in agriculture
Lecture
19 - Agriculture 2- available habitat in agriculture and movie on
management for northern bobwhite (30:00)
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Lab
9 - Grassland Field Measurement and bobwhite quail habitat assessment on
UD farms
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Week
12
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Exam
2
Lecture
20 Agriculture 3: Tillage programs affect on wildlife
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Lab
10 - Designing suburbia for wildlife - Part 2/2
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Week
13
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Lecture
21 - Agriculture 4: Conservation Reserve Program and movie on CP33
(17:14)
Lecture
22 Grazing systems affect on upland habitat
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Week
14
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Lecture
23 - Modeling and Evaluating Habitat 1.
Why and how do we model Lecture 24 - Modeling and Evaluating
Habitat 2. HIS Models
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Lab
11 - HSI model assessment
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Week
15
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Lecture
25 - Modeling and Evaluating Habitat 3. Regression and HEP models
Lecture
26 - Modeling and Evaluating Habitat 4. Evaluation of modeling and final
thoughts.
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Readings sorted by topics
Basic concepts
pertaining to wildlife habitat
Payne,
N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Chapter 1 - Principles, Concepts, Terms, and Management Considerations of
Biodiversity. In
Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands. McGraw-Hill,
New York. Pages 1-42.
Hall,
L. S., P. R. Krausman, and M. L. Morrison. 1997. The habitat concept and a plea for standard terminology. Wildlife
Society Bulletin 25:173-182.
Payne,
N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Chapter 2 Forest
Types. In Techniques for Wildlife habitat Management of Uplands. McGraw-Hill,
New York. Pages 45-61.
Bailey,
R. G., R. D. Pfister, and J. A.Henderson. 1978. Nature of Land and Resource
Classification--A Review. Journal of Forestry 76:650-655.
Forests and
Wildlife
Payne, N. F.,
and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Parts of Chapter 7 on Snags Special
forest habitats and features. In
Techniques for Wildlife habitat Management of Uplands. McGraw-Hill,
New York. Pages 243-255.
Askins, R.A.
2001. Sustaining biological diversity in early successional communities:
the challenge of managing unpopular habitats. Wildl. Soc. Bull 29:407-412.
Reese, K. P.,
and J. T. Ratti. 1988. Edge effect: A concept under scrutiny. Trans. N. Am.
Wildl. Nat. Resour. Conf. 53:127-136.
Gates, J. E.,
and L. W. Gysel. 1978. Avian nest dispersion and fledging success in
field-forest ecotones. Ecology. 59:871-883.
Forest
Management
Payne, N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994.
Chapter 3 Silviculture options and impacts. In Techniques for Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands. McGraw-Hill,
New York. Pages 63-108.
Payne, N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994.
Parts of Chapter 7 on Snags Special forest habitats and features. In Techniques for Wildlife habitat
Management of Uplands. McGraw-Hill, New
York. Pages 243-255.
Annand, E.
M., and F. R. Thompson. 1997.
Forest bird response
to regeneration practices in central hardwood forests. J. Wildl. Manage.
61:159-171.
Harpole, D.
N., and C. A. Haas. 1999. Effects of seven silvicultural treatments on
terrestrial salamanders. Forest Ecol. and Manage. 114:349-356.
Rodewald, A.
D. and R. H. Yahner. 2000. Bird communities associated with harvested
hardwood stands containing residual trees. J. Wildl. Manage. 64:924-932.
Corridors and
Linear Habitat
Payne,
N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Parts of Chapters 6 and 11 - Corridors
and Linear Habitat. In Techniques
for Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands.
McGraw-Hill, New York. Pages 191-208, 441-463.
Riparian
Corridors
Tjaden, R. L., and G. M. Weber.1997. Riparian
Buffer Management Fact Sheets 724-728 (FS 724 An Introduction to the Riparian
Forest Buffer, FS 725 Buffer Design, Establishment, and Maintenance, FS 726
Trees for Riparian Forest Buffers, FS 727 Understory Plants for Riparian
Forest Buffers, FS 728 Grasses for Riparian Buffers and Wildlife Habitat
Improvement). Maryland Cooperative
Extension, College Park, MD
Wetlands
Mitsch, W. J., and J. G. Gosselink. 1993. Chapter 2
Definitions of Wetlands. Pp 21-51 in
Wetlands. Van Nostrand Reinhold,
New York, USA.
Laubhan,
M. K., S. L. King, and L. H. Fredrickson. 2005. Managing inland wetlands
for wildlife. Pp. 823-828 in
Techniques for wildlife investigations and management. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Chabreck,
R. H., and J. A. Nyman. 2005. Managing coastal wetlands for wildlife. Pp.
849-855 in Techniques for
wildlife investigations and management.
The Wildlife Society, Bethesda,
Maryland, USA.
Agriculture
Payne,
N. F., and F. C. Bryant. 1994. Part of Chapter 11 Cultivation and
Cropping. In Techniques for
Wildlife Habitat Management of Uplands.
McGraw-Hill, New York. Pages 415-440.
Clark,
W. R., and K. F. Reeder. 2005. Continuous Conservation Reserve Program:
Factors Influencing the Value of Agricultural Buffers to Wildlife
Conservation. In Haufler, J. B.,
editor. Fish and wildlife benefits of Farm Bill conservation programs:
2000-2005 update. The Wildlife Society Technical Review 05-2.
Modeling wildlife
habitat
Cooperrider,
A. Y. 1986. Habitat Evaluation Systems. Pp. 757-776 in A. Y. Cooperrider, R. J. Boyd, and H. R. Stuart, eds.,
Inventory and monitoring of wildlife habitat. USDI Bureau of Land
Management BLM/YA/PT - 87/001 + 6600.
VanHorne,
B. 1983. Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. J. Wildl.
Manage. 47:893-901.
Allen,
A. W. 1982. Habitat suitability index models: fox squirrel. USDI, Fish
& Wildl. Serv. FWS/OBS - 82/10.18 11pp.
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