Forecasting the effects of land-use and climate change on wildlife communities and habitats in the lower Mississippi Valley
Fact Sheet
2010-3112
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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.
Suggested Citation
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.
ISSN: 2327-6932 (online)
ISSN: 2327-6916 (print)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Forecasting the effects of land-use and climate change on wildlife communities and habitats in the lower Mississippi Valley |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 2010-3112 |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs20103112 |
| Edition | -= |
| Year Published | 2010 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Contributing office(s) | Leetown Science Center, Eastern Ecological Science Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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