Academia: Papers Page 3
(ECP and CTSP grantees, reports, and other sites of interest for
conservation geography, mapping and GIS. Grantees are coded by
program and year of grant at the end of their name/state, i.e. e91 means
ECP grant in 1991. c=cstp, cm=ctsp-mac, cs=ctsp-software)
San Jacinto Mountain Forest Stewardship GIS: The ArcView Mac Solution
(1996 ESRI Conf. Abstract, Michael P. Hamilton)
Slowly, over decades, biological field stations
accumulate significant regional ecological and environmental databases
that become invaluable for understanding, protecting and managing natural
and biological resources. For the past 12 years, the James Reserve has
become the center for ecology-based information resources pertinent to
the land management issues facing the government agencies and private
property owners throughout the San Jacinto Mountains (Riverside County,
California). Recently, under the umbrella of Forest Stewardship, our primary
ecological information management interface has been constructed using
ArcView 2.1 for the Power Macintosh. This new system incorporates and
integrates all of our previous work ranging from ArcInfo coverages, macGIS
raster maps, satellite and airborne video, laserdisc multimedia images
and movies of local biodiversity, species lists, long-term data sets,
and researcher field notes. Application areas which utilize these information
resources now include wildland fire pre-attack planning, forest stand
management, wildlife habitat assessment and modeling, rare species studies,
fire hazard abatement on private property, and research planning. Over
the next year, much of this information will be made available over the
World Wide Web with an interface designed to allow a user to construct
and order a custom CD-ROM.
Scaling from Trees to Forests: Analysis of a Complex Simulation Model, Douglas
H. Deutschman,* Simon A. Levin, Catherine Devine, Linda A. Buttel. "The
advent of high-speed computing has facilitated a revolution in the modeling
of ecological systems. Models can now explicitly represent the complex
interplay between the local environment and each individual in the community."
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Spatial Modeling and Decision Support System for Conservation of Biological
Diversity (UCSB Biogeography Lab, Frank W. Davis, David M. Stoms)
"The goal of this project was to design and test a prototype Spatial
Modeling and Decision Support System for Conservation of Biological Diversity.
The project is closely tied to the USGS-Biological Resources Division's
Gap Analysis Program and to related efforts at multi-species conservation
planning in southern California and the Sierra Nevada."
A Strategy for Managing Geographic Analysis and Cartography In a Major
Ecological Research Project (1996 ESRI Conf. Abstract, Paul Cote and Stephen Ervin)
In the course of two years of work on a biodiversity research project involving 15 gigabytes
of data, 12 ecological models carried out against 10 projected land use
scenarios, 150 final maps and countless drafts, we have developed a system
for organizing our data, analysis processes, and cartographic production.
Systematic
reserve selection in the USA: an example from the Columbia Plateau ecoregion
(UCSB Biogeography Lab, Frank W. Davis, David M. Stoms and Sandy Andelman)
"We describe a systematic conservation planning approach for identifying
a set of areas that meet specified goals for biotic representation while
balancing the dual objectives of efficiency (minimum area) and site suitability.
The approach was applied by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to a regional
planning exercise in the Columbia Plateau ecoregion of the northwestern
United States."
UCSB
IBM ERP Related Publications: Excellent collection of papers in GIS
based biodiversity analysis and landscape ecology.
Wilderness
Quality Mapping in the Euro-Actic Barents Region (1995 ESRI Conf.
Paper, David Henry and Even Husby.) Wilderness Quality is assessed in
terms of remoteness and naturalness. The concept is based on the fact
that it is possible to have a continuum of values across the landscape
ranging from urban to pristine. Ideally four separate indicators are measured.
Three indicators have been measured to date; remoteness from settlement,
remoteness from access and apparent naturalness. The fourth indicator,
biophysical naturalness, has yet to be measured, but will form part of
a future data acquisition exercise.
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