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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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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20103112

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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

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., https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20103112.

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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