Priority habitat definition

Priority habitat means a habitat type with unique or significant value to one or more species. An area classified and mapped as priority habitat must have one or more of the following attributes:

Priority habitat means a habitat type with unique or significant value to one or more species. An area classified and mapped as priority habitat must have one or more of the following attributes: • Comparatively high fish or wildlife density;• Comparatively high fish or wildlife species diversity;• Fish spawning habitat;• Important wildlife habitat;• Important fish or wildlife seasonal range;• Important fish or wildlife movement corridor;• Rearing and foraging habitat;• Important marine mammal haul-out;• Refugia habitat;• Limited availability;• High vulnerability to habitat alteration;• Unique or dependent species; or• Shellfish bed. A priority habitat may be described by a unique vegetation type or by a dominant plant species that is of primary importance to fish and wildlife (such as oak woodlands or eelgrass meadows). A priority habitat may also be described by a successional stage (such as, old growth and mature forests). Alternatively, a priority habitat may consist of a specific habitat element (such as a consolidated marine/estuarine shoreline, talus slopes, caves, snags) of key value to fish and wildlife. A priority habitat may contain priority and/or nonpriority fish and wildlife.

Priority habitat means habitat types or elements with unique or significant value to one or more species as classified by the State Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Examples of Priority habitat in a sentence

• The Hampshire and district totals of Priority habitat are the sum of the individual Priority habitat types (excluding Arable Field Margins and Rivers).

• This is not the total area of land covered by Priority habitat within Hampshire and each district because some Priority habitat types overlap and hence are double counted (e.g. Coastal and Floodplain Grazing Marsh may overlap Lowland Meadows or Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pastures).

• Priority habitat and species information includes endangered, threatened and sensitive species, but also includes candidate species and other vulnerable and unique species and habitats.

• Because the total area of Priority habitat may include areas when habitats overlap the % of the district area covered by Priority habitat may be slightly over-exaggerated.

• This is a Priority habitat referred to in Section 41 of the NERC Act (2006) as a habitat of principal importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity.

More Definitions of Priority habitat

Priority habitat means habitat type or elements with unique or significant value to one or more species as classified by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. A priority habitat may consist of a unique vegetation type or dominant plant species, a described successional stage, or a specific structural element (WAC 173-26-020(28)).

Priority habitat means a habitat type with unique or significant value to one or more species.

Priority habitat means a habitat type with unique or significant value to one

Priority habitat means a habitat type with unique or significant value to one or more species. An area classified

Priority habitat means those habitat types or elements with unique or significant value to one or more species. A priority habitat may consist of a unique

Priority habitat means a seasonal range or habitat element with which a given species has a primary association, and if altered, may reduce the likelihood that the species will maintain and reproduce over the long term. These might include areas of high relative density or species richness, breeding, nesting, feeding, foraging, and migratory habitat, winter range, movement corridors, and/or habitats that are of limited availability or high vulnerability to alteration. Priority habitats are established by the Washington Department of Wildlife within their Priority Habitats and Species Data Base.

Priority habitat means habitat type or elements with unique or significant value to one or more