| Abstract: | Landscape patterns and processes reflect both natural ecosystem attributes and the policy and management decisions of individual Federal, State, county, and private organizations. Land-use regulation, water management, and habitat conservation and restoration efforts increasingly rely on landscape-level approaches that incorporate scientific information into the decision-making process. Since management actions are implemented to affect future conditions, decision-support models are necessary to forecast potential future conditions resulting from these decisions. Spatially explicit modeling approaches enable testing of different scenarios and help evaluate potential outcomes of management actions in conjunction with natural processes such as climate change. The ability to forecast the effects of changing land use and climate is critically important to land and resource managers since their work is inherently site specific, yet conservation strategies and practices are expressed at higher spatial and temporal scales that must be considered in the decisionmaking process. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 98974 |
| Citation Author: | Faulkner, Stephen P. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Leetown Science Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 6 p. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2010-3112 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Forecasting the effects of land-use and climate change on wildlife communities and habitats in the lower Mississippi Valley; 2010; FS; 2010-3112; Faulkner, Stephen P. |
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| Text: | Forecasting the effects of land-use and climate change on wildlife communities and habitats in the lower Mississippi Valley; 2010; FS; 2010-3112; Faulkner, Stephen P. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_2010_3112.bmp |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3112/ |
| Date Other: | Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
