Spatially optimizing wildlife habitat edge effects in forest management linear and mixed-integer programs

We present a spatial optimization model that accounts for wildlife edge eff ects through multiple habitat needs in a multistand forest management probl em, Wildlife population dynamics are based on discrete reaction-diffusion p rocesses combined with multiple limiting-factor constraint sets, one for ne st site capacity and another for effective forage capacity. The model is sh own to reasonably represent both negative and positive effects of forest ed ges on wi Id life by varying the amount of forage production from harvested and unharvested forest areas in a static formulation. A dynamic model is a lso demonstrated, and scale effects are examined using mixed-integer progra mming.