Adaptive harvest management of North American waterfowl populations: a brief history and future prospects

By James D. Nichols, Michael C. Runge, F. Johnson, B. Williams. Journal of Ornithology, 2007

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Since 1995, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has used an adaptive approach to the management of sport harvest of mid-continent Mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in North America. This approach differs from many current approaches to conservation and management in requiring close collaboration between managers and scientists. Key elements of this process are objectives, alternative management actions, models permitting prediction of system responses, and a monitoring program. The iterative process produces optimal management decisions and leads to reduction in uncertainty about response of populations to management. This general approach to management has a number of desirable features and is recommended for use in many other programs of management and conservation.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The future of agri‐environment schemes: biodiversity gains and ecosystem service delivery? (2011, background): “Recent evidence suggests that adaptive management can make a positive difference to biodiversity across a wide range of case studies throughout Europe and the USA (e.g. Stankey, Clark & Bormann 2005; Nichols et al. 2007; Kenward et al. in press).”
Adaptive management of biological systems: A review (2013, background): “Although some of these projects are very large in scale (e.g. Nichols et al., 2007), overall, our review supports the widely-held view that AM projects are very rare indeed (Allen et al., 2011; Keith et al., 2011; Stankey et al., 2003; Walters, 2007; Williams et al., 2009).”
Integrated population models facilitate ecological understanding and improved management decisions (2018, background): “In 1995, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) implemented adaptive harvest management models for midcontinent mallards to better understand the role of harvest in affecting population dynamics and to help guide annual decision making (Johnson et al. 1997, Nichols et al. 2007).”
A Synthesis of Human-related Avian Mortality in Canada (2013, background): “…assess the impacts of sport harvest on populations of game birds because ongoing assessments exist elsewhere (e.g. Williams and Johnson 1995, Nichols et al. 2007), and extensive programs are in place throughout North America that ensure that any population-level effects of regulated…”
Matching knowledge brokering strategies to environmental policy problems and settings (2009, background): “Extending the adaptive management practices applied to mid-continent mallards to stocks of eastern mallards is an example of an incremental decision in North American waterfowl management (Nichols et al., 2007).”