| Abstract: | Karst and similar landscapes are found in a wide range of biogeographic classes. In the U.S. for example, Everglades, Mammoth Cave, and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks have little in common - except karst or pseudokarst, and a cultural past (even though these are very different). This diversity of geologic settings makes karst difficult to categorize and work with when designing a national program such as the recent NPS-USGS Geo-Indicators effort. A GIS-based approach with multiple datalayers is the only sane way to understand and convey the many relationships, in X, Y, and Z axes, between component ecosystems and cultural resources within karst and pseudokarst landscapes. Obviously, karst and cultural landscapes cross modern political as well as biogeographic boundaries. Here again, three-dimensional data are the foundation for understanding similar to that in anatomy and physiology: structure and function. In understanding where the most vulnerable ‘pressure points‘ exist within karst landscapes, we can target landscape-scale ecosystem management to greatest effect. USGS and the National Cave and Karst research Institute could play an extremely significant role in cave and karst management on a national scale beyond NPS or other agency boundaries via cooperative management of three-dimensional karst datasets analogous to programs in several states. |
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| Citation Author: | edited by Kuniansky, Eve L. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;
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| Citation Series: | Water-Resources Investigations Report |
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| Citation Series Number: | 2001-4011 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group; proceedings, St Petersburg, Florida February 13-16, 2001; 2001; WRI; 2001-4011; edited by Kuniansky, Eve L. |
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| Text: | U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group; proceedings, St Petersburg, Florida February 13-16, 2001; 2001; WRI; 2001-4011; edited by Kuniansky, Eve L. |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/karst/kigconference/proceedings.htm |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;
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