- Back to The Plexus Home Page...
- Modeling species-environment relations ... modeling and assessing wildlife-habitat relationships.
- Key ecological functions of organisms ... classification, databases, publications, and presentations.
- Creating Bayesian network models in ecology
- Some papers on species-environment relations
- Vocalizations of birds in Douglas-fir forests of northwestern California ... extensive descriptions of obscure and undescribed bird calls
- Sounds of Vaux's swifts ... what's in your chimney?
- The Owls Plexus ... myths, photos, sounds, science, more ...
- Questionnaire on Owl Survey Techniques ... help build a global standard.
- The DecAID Advisor ... for forest managers ... the decayed wood advisor for managing snags, partially dead trees, and down wood for biodiversity in forests of Washington and Oregon.
- The DecAID Repository ... the companion "vault" of background information to the DecAID Advisor
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About
DecAID Advisor (625 KB PDF)
Marcot, B. G., and J. L. Ohmann. 2006. If a tree falls in the woods, who will measure it? DecAID decayed wood advisor. Science Findings (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Jonathan Thompson, Science Writer) 83(May):1-5. -
Guidelines for biodiversity management in tropical forests of the
world. A reprint of:
- Marcot, B. G., R. E. Gullison, and J. R. Barborak. 2001. Protecting habitat elements and natural areas in the managed forest matrix. Pp. 523-558 in: R. A. Fimbel, A. Grajal, and J. G. Robinson, eds. The cutting edge: conserving wildlife in logged tropical forests. Columbia Univ. Press, N.Y. (491KB PDF).
- Extracts and abstracts from the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
- Wildlife-Habitat Relationships ... new third edition now available!
- Bibliography of publications & reports by Bruce Marcot ... the full, boring list
- Bibliography of talks & presentations by Bruce Marcot ... another full, boring list
The Ecology Plexus
A bit of wildlife science ...
Modeling species, habitats, and ecological functions:
Birds and more birds:
A snag in the system? Visit:
Readings and writings on wildlife ecology & management:
Ecology
Picture of the Week -- EPOW ... Every week view an exciting new photo
and story about our amazing planet! ... Now with links to Google Earth
(Mirror
site in Portuguese, maintained in Brazil by Ana Lúcia M. Tourinho, M.Sc., Museu Nacional, Universidade do
Brasil/UFRJ, Lab. Aracnologia - Deptº Invertebrados.)
How many recycled newspapers does
it take to save a tree? Weed it and reap.
(Mirror
site on USDA Forest Service web page)
Owls in lore and culture. [This is the early version of this essay ... now published as a book chapter ... but with my updated owl myth stories from India, Africa, and North America.]
What is the appropriate role of modeling in resource management agencies? Here is one person's rather wry, if not sardonic, answer (maybe a little "ham on wry").
India -- images, stories, publications
Congo -- images, stories, publications
Human and Ecological Communities of Inner Mongolia, China: A System in Stress ... or, What I Saw When I Went To Inner Mongolia.
Islands of Sub-Antarctica: What I Saw When I Went To The Chathams (a New Zealand adventure).
Does a hairy non-human anthropoid roam the dark woods
of the Pacific Northwest? Here is one wildlife
biologist's interpretation of the evidence... 
A sustainable plan for conserving forest biodiversity in Far East Russia and Northeast China.
Habitat corridors for Siberian tigers (569KB PDF) ... and status of Siberian tiger and Far East leopard populations (21KB PDF).