Catalog of Community Habitat Models

Abstract

Corps Districts are concentrating on tasks such as designing restoration projects (Planning), assessing impacts to the environment (Planning/Operations and Maintenance), and evaluating permitting requests (Regulatory) using standard modeling tools such as the Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) models associated with Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP). Although developed for assessing impacts of large water resource projects, the utility and flexibility of HSI and HEP in other areas has been well established. In addition to models published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), several additional HSI models and suitability curves (components of a model) have been constructed and published in other formats. The familiar USFWS species HSI "blue books" can now be found on the Internet; one location is the EMRRP's Ecosystem Management and Restoration Information System (EMRIS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA425576

Entities

People

  • Antisa C. Webb
  • L. J. O'neil

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Classification
  • Communities
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Habitats
  • Information Systems
  • Missouri River
  • United States
  • Water Resources
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.