- About Us Potential Effects of a Forest Management Plan on
Bachman's Sparrows (Aimophila aestivalis): Linking a Spatially
Explicit Model with GIS Journal or Book Title: Conservation
Biology Page Number(s): 62-79 Year Published: 1995 By combining
a spatially explicig individual-based population simulation
model with a geographic information systerrg we have simulated
the potential effects of a US. Forest Service management plan on
the population dynamics of Bachman's Sparrow (Aimophila
aestivalis) at the Savannah River Site, a U.S. Department of
Energy facility in South Carolina. Although the Forest Service's
management plan explicitly sets management goals for many
specie& most of the prescribed management strategy deals with
the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
because of legal requirements. We explored how a species (the
sparrow) that is not the target of specific management
strategies but that shares some habitat requirements with the
woodpecker, would fare under the management plan.