David Guildford - News Center Maine - May 9, 2022
For University of Maine wildlife habitat professor Alessio Mortelliti, seeing a marten in a stretch of Maine woods means those woods are healthy ... "In terms of when you have those predators, it means you have the whole food chain below them." ... Studying the marten habitat automatically means studying other vital Maine species like bears, deer, moose, and squirrels with less time and money ... "I think what we’re seeing now is much more holistic foresters that come prepared to handle the demands that society has placed on our forest," Weiskittel said. "As we train the foresters today, they’re thinking about much broader things than just the typical tree diameter [and] tree height. It’s about wildlife habitat," he continued. "It’s about conservation value."
April 8, 2022
Umbrella monitoring species are those whose monitoring efforts are also found to overlap with a number of other species. As such, they are useful in reducing the effort required for important monitoring programs, which collect repeated observations or measurements of wildlife to ensure environmental management goals are being met.
Alessio Mortelliti et al. - Nature - 03 February 2022
