Books by J. Michael Scott

  • Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity
    Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity J. Michael Scott

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    Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity

    J. Michael Scott

    In Landscape Linkages and Biodiversity experts explain biological diversity conservation, focusing on the need for protecting large areas of the most diverse ecosystems, and connecting those ecosystems ...

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  • Predicting Species Occurrences
    Predicting Species Occurrences Peter H. Raven

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    Predicting Species Occurrences

    Issues of Accuracy and Scale

    Peter H. Raven

    Predictions about where different species are, where they are not, and how they move across a landscape or respond to human activities -- if timber is harvested, for instance, or stream flow altered -- ...

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  • The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty Dale D. Goble

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    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty

    Vol. 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise

    Dale D. Goble

    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over ...

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  • The Endangered Species Act at Thirty
    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty J. Michael Scott

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    The Endangered Species Act at Thirty

    Vol. 2: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes

    J. Michael Scott

    A companion volume to The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise, this book examines the key policy tools available for protecting biodiversity in the United States by ...

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About the Author

J. Michael Scott is Professor at the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources at the University of Idaho and a Research Scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey. Scott is a leader of the Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
 
His research interests are focused on distribution abundance and limiting factors of Hawaiian Birds, limiting factors on Endangered Species, reserve identification, selection, and design in North America, use of translocation as a tool for establishing or augmenting animal populations, predicting wildlife species distribution issues of scale and accuracy, and estimating bird abundance. Scott is widely published on these and other related topics.