Habitat & infrastructure
This section provides links to resources dealing with large carnivore habitat, including a number of large scale GIS analyses of habitat suitability and the relationship between large carnivores and infrastructure, such as roads and railways.      

Habitat suitability analysis

 

 

Potential habitat for wolves in Switzerland

[Le retour du Loup (Canis lupus L.) en Suisse: Analyse des données disponibles en vue de la réalisation d’un modèle de distribution potentielle]

Jacques Doutaz and Andreas Koenig (2004)

Kora Berciht 21: 1-27

 

 

The return of the Brown bear to Switzerland – Suitable habitat distribution, corridors and potential conflicts

[Die Rückkehr des Bären in die Schweiz – Potentielle Verbreitung, Einwanderungsrouten und mögliche Konflikte]

Petra Zajec (2005)

Kora Berciht 28e: 1-31 / Kora Berciht 28: 1-31

 

 

Potential habitats for large carnivores in Scandinavia: an ecoregion level analysis

[Potensielle leveområder for store rovdyr in skandinavia: GIS-analyser på et økoregionalt nivå]

 Norwegian 7.3M

Unni Støbet Lande et al. (2003)

  

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Fagrapport 64

  

 

 

Ecological corridors for large carnivores in the Alpine region

Fabio Corsi, Luigi Boitani & Iacopo Sinibaldi (2002)

Council of Europe Nature and Environment 127: 1-16

 

  Conservation areas for large carnivores in the Carpathian Mountains

 

  

Valeria Salvatori (2004)

PhD Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Southampton

Cover and title 0.4MB

Chapter 1 Introduction: the contribution of carnivores to the conservation of biodiversity 0.1MB

Chapter 2 Spatial dimension of wildlife conservation 0.1MB

Chapter 3 Study area and target species 0.5MB

Chapter 4 Data selection and pre-processing 2.6MB

Chapter 5 Mapping environmental suitability for large carnivores 2.6MB

Chapter 6 Comparisons across spatial resolutions 1.4MB

Chapter 7 Comparisons across input data 0.6MB

Chapter 8 Implications for the management of large carnivores 1.2MB

Literature cited 1.2MB

 

 

  The development of an ecological network in the Carpathian Ecoregion: identification of special areas for conservation of large carnivores

Valeria Salvatori (2002)

Council of Europe T-PVS/Inf (2002) 27

 

Infrastructure

 

Code of practice for the introduction of biological and landscape diversity consuderations into the transport sector

Bureau of the Committee for the activities of the Council of Europe in the field of biological and landscape diversity(2001)

Council of Europe CO-DBP (2001) 2 revised