Researchers widely recognize habitat loss as the most significant cause of species imperilment in the United States. In recent years, researchers, government agencies, and land use planners have become increasingly concerned about the impacts of urbanization and residential and commercial development on habitats and biodiversity. Development has both direct impacts on wildlife through habitat loss and fragmentation and indirect impacts including spreading invasive species, increasing road density, increasing recreation activity, altering hydrologic regimes, increasing pollution, wildfire suppression, noise pollution, and increasing urban and edge predators such as raccoons and cats. Numerous studies document changes in species composition across the urban-rural land use gradient. As humans convert more land from rural and undeveloped uses to residential and commercial developments, so called urban-adaptive species thrive while urban sensitive species, which tend to be of greater conservation concern, decline. As a result, numerous authors have called for increased coordination between land use planners and ecologists in an effort to steer development away from important wildlife habitat. The most significant potential avenue for reducing development impacts is to integrate conservation and land use planning. As part of the federal State Wildlife Grants Program, every state wildlife agency, in conjunction with numerous partners, recently completed a State Wildlife Action Plan (Action Plans or Plans). The purpose of the Plans is to provide a comprehensive view of wildlife needs in each state and so help focus conservation action on priority issues. All Plans were required to identify declining species, key habitats, conservation threats and actions to prevent further species decline. As such, the Plans have the potential to inform land use planners about wildlife, habitat, and conservation priorities in each state. We reviewed the Plans from all 50 states and the District of Columbia to see how they discussed development impacts and what strategies the Plans offer to protect wildlife in rapidly urbanizing landscapes. To do this we searched each plan for references to development, urban/suburban growth, sprawl, and land use planning/planners. We then coded each reference into a series of threat and action categories and identified the resulting themes across all Plans.
Linking Conservation and Land Use Planning: Using the State Wildlife Action Plans to Protect Wildlife from Urbanization
Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality Congress 2007 ; 2007 ; Orlando, Florida, United States
2008-05-15
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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