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Fact Sheet 2010–3112

Forecasting the Effects of Land-Use and Climate Change on Wildlife Communities and Habitats in the Lower Mississippi Valley

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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 decisionmaking 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.

First posted December 28, 2010

For additional information contact:

Stephen P. Faulkner
U.S. Geological Survey
Leetown Science Center
11649 Leetown Rd.
Kearneysville, WV 25430

faulkners@usgs.gov

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Suggested citation:

Faulkner, S.P., 2010, Forecasting the effects of land-use and climate change on wildlife communities and habitats in the lower Mississippi Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010–3112, 6 p.


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