| Abstract: | The history of North American waterfowl harvest management has been characterized by attempts to use population monitoring data to make informed harvest management decisions. Early attempts can be characterized as intuitive decision processes, and later efforts were guided increasingly by population models and associated predictions. In 1995, a formal adaptive management process was implemented, and annual decisions about duck harvest regulations in the United States are still based on this process. This formal decision process is designed to deal appropriately with the various forms of uncertainty that characterize management decisions, environmental uncertainty, structural uncertainty, partial controllability and partial observability. The key components of the process are (1) objectives, (2) potential management actions, (3) model(s) of population response to management actions, (4) credibility measures for these models, and (5) a monitoring program. The operation of this iterative process is described, and a brief history of a decade of its use is presented. Future challenges range from social and political issues such as appropriate objectives and management actions, to technical issues such as multispecies management, geographic allocation of harvest, and incorporation of actions that include habitat acquisition and management. |
| Genre: | Book chapter |
| ProdID: | 5211341 |
| Citation Author: | Nichols, J.D.; Runge, M.C.; Johnson, F.A.; Williams, B.K. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
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| Citation Editor: | Schodde, Richard; Hannon, Susan; Scheiffarth, Gregor; Bairlein, Franz (editors) |
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| Citation Language: | English |
| Citation Larger Work Title: | XXIV International Ornithological Congress, Hamburg, 2006, Abstracts |
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| Citation Number Of Pages: | 297 |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Symposia 16, Demographic mechanisms of population changes at large spatial scales |
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| Citation Series: | Journal of Ornithology |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations - recent successes and future prospects; 2006; Book chapter; XXIV International Ornithological Congress, Hamburg, 2006, Abstracts; Nichols, J.D.; Runge, M.C.; Johnson, F.A.; Williams, B.K. |
| Citation Start Page: | 28 (abs) |
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| Citation Year: | 2006 |
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| Text: | Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations - recent successes and future prospects; 2006; Book chapter; XXIV International Ornithological Congress, Hamburg, 2006, Abstracts; Nichols, J.D.; Runge, M.C.; Johnson, F.A.; Williams, B.K. |
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| Date Other: | Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:23 -0500 |
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