کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5749631 1619281 2017 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Spatio-temporal challenges in representing wildlife disturbance within a GIS
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
چالش های فضایی و زمانی در نمایندگی اختلالات حیات وحش در یک سیستم اطلاعات جغرافیایی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم محیط زیست شیمی زیست محیطی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Temporal behavioural fluctuations are important for disturbance susceptibility.
- Temporal GIS models can be used to synchronise development with conservation.
- Disturbance tolerances can be accounted for at the scale of the individual animal.

Assessing the potential environmental impacts of disturbance on protected species during and after the development process is a legislative requirement in most nations. However, the restrictions that this legislation places on developers are often based on limited ecological understanding, over-simplified methodologies, less-than-robust data and the subjective interpretations of field ecologists. Consequently, constraints may be imposed with no transparent methodology behind them to the frustration of, and occasionally large expense to, developers. Additionally, protected species numbers continue to decline and biodiversity continues to be threatened. This paper describes a GIS conceptual model for assessing ecological disturbance vulnerability, based upon a case study development in Scotland. First, uncertainties in traditional methods of recording and representing ecological features with GIS are reviewed such that they may be better accounted for in the disturbance model. Second, by incorporating temporal fluctuations in ecological behaviour into the disturbance susceptibility concept, it is argued that it is possible to synchronise development with conservation requirements. Finally, a method is presented to account for disturbance tolerances at the scale of the individual animal. It is anticipated that this model will enable environmental impact assessors to produce more robust analyses of wildlife disturbance risk and facilitate synchronisation between development and wildlife vulnerability to minimise disturbance and better avoid delays to the works programme.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Environmental Technology & Innovation - Volume 7, April 2017, Pages 44-53
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