CONTENTS 



Page 



Foreword iii 



Preface iv 



Figures vi 



Tables x 



Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Environmental Protection — An Overview 



of Research Progress, Allan Hirsch 1 



Data Base Development: Overview, Harry N. Coulombe 5 



Classification Systems for Habitat and Ecosystems, Robert G. Bailey 16 



Species/ Habitat Relationships — A Key to Considering Wildlife in Planning 



and Land Management Decisions, Jack Ward Thomas 27 



Design of Computerized Fish and Wildlife Species Data Bases by State and 



Federal Agencies, Charles T. Cushwa and Calvin W. DuBrock 37 



Managing Coastal Ecosystems: Progress Towards a Systems Approach, 



James B. Johnston 47 



Assessment and Prediction of Effects of Environmental Impacts on 



Fish and Wildlife Habitats: Overview, Kenneth Cummins and 



Rosanna Mattingly 58 



Science for Public Policy: Highlights of Adaptive Environmental Assessment 



and Management, C. S. Holling 78 



Indirect Causality in Ecosystems: Its Significance for Environmental 



Protection, Bernard C. Patten 92 



Understanding the Ecological Values of Wetlands, Joseph 



S. Larson 108 



Instream Flow Assessments Come of Age in the Decade of the 1970s, 



Clair B. Stalnaker 119 



Progress in Research on Ecotoxicity: Single Species Tests (Part 1), Donald L 



Mount 143 



Progress in Research on Ecotoxicity: Laboratory Microcosm Tests (Part 2), 



James W. Gillett 150 



Mitigation and Management of Damaged Ecosystems or Damaged Habitat: 



Overview, Robert H. Giles, Jr 165 



WILDMIS — A System for Estimating the Cost to Remedy Habitat Loses, 



Kenneth R. Russell 170 



Wildlife Reclamation of Mined Lands, W. D. Klimstra 183 



Reclamation of Wetlands, Mary C. Landin and Hanley K. Smith 195 



Ecological Science and Transmission Line Rights-of-Way — A Decade of 



Innovation, Adjustment and Strain, Jeffrey A. Davis 207 



Restoration of Damaged Ecosystems, John Cairns, Jr 220 



Fish and Wildlife Research Needs as Related to Environmental Assessment, 



Michael D. Zagata 240 



