Incorporating wildlife connectivity into forest plan revision under the United States Forest Service's 2012 planning rule
Incorporating wildlife connectivity into forest plan revision under the United States Forest Service's 2012 planning rule
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根据美国林业局 2012 年规划规则，将野生动物连通性纳入森林规划修订
DOI：
10.1111/csp2.155
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Virginia Kelly
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作者：
M. Williamson;T. Creech;Gunnar Carnwath;B. Dixon;Virginia Kelly
美国林业局于2012年根据《国家森林管理法》(即《规划规则》)颁布了新的规划条例。这些新法规包括美国公共土地管理史上第一次要求国家森林在修订土地管理计划时评估、保护和/或恢复生态连通性。数据和资源的限制使得对林业局管理的7800万公顷范围内的无数物种进行单一物种、功能连通性分析变得不可信。我们描述了一种依赖于免费可用的数据和属种的方法，以满足新的规划规则要求。属种是指虚拟物种，其简档包含旨在反映一组真实物种需求的生态要求。我们给出了以蒙大拿州和南达科他州卡斯特加拉丁国家森林为中心的379,000 公顷研究区域内10个不同属物种在两种不同运动模式下的高分辨率连通性估计。我们确定了多个物种连通性的重要位置，并描述了CGNF在区域连通性方面的作用。我们的成果为CGNF的计划修订进程提供了信息，并可以很容易地输出到目前或计划根据新的规划规则修订其土地管理计划的其他国家森林。
The United States Forest Service promulgated new planning regulations under the National Forest Management Act in 2012 (i.e., the Planning Rule). These new regulations include the first requirements in U.S. public land management history for National Forests to evaluate, protect, and/or restore ecological connectivity as they revise their land management plans. Data and resource limitations make single‐species, functional connectivity analyses for the myriad species that occur within the 78 million ha the Forest Service manages implausible. We describe an approach that relies on freely available data and generic species, virtual species whose profile consists of ecological requirements designed to reflect the needs of a group of real species, to address the new Planning Rule requirements. We present high‐resolution connectivity estimates for 10 different generic species across a 379,000 ha study area centered on the Custer Gallatin National Forest (CGNF) in Montana and South Dakota under two different movement models. We identify locations important for connectivity for multiple species and characterize the role of the CGNF for regional connectivity. Our results informed the Plan Revision process on the CGNF and could be readily exported to other National Forests currently or planning to revise their land management plans under the new Planning Rule.