A central focus of this program is to conduct multi-scale assessments in order to develop related geospatial decision-support tools and methods. The program includes synthesizing broad-scale datasets and developing innovative approaches to assess the vulnerability and resilience of wildlife habitats and ecosystems, relative to land management decisions and ecosystem stressors on Department of the Interior and other public lands. Recent work includes quantifying the effects of land uses, drought, and invasive species across broad ecoregions and for the western U.S. The primary goal is to adapt and translate the most promising cutting-edge techniques into geospatial assessment tools, that further advance the integration of analyses and results across temporal and spatial scales. FORT scientists work collaboratively with natural resource managers to ensure that the science is relevant and meets the needs of land managers.
Developing Broad Scale Indicators for Monitoring Ecosystems and Landscapes
Many issues currently facing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other large land managers span large landscapes, including sage-grouse conservation, wildfires, and energy development. Such challenges involve changes at both local and broad scales, but monitoring has typically focused at the scale of individual sites. The USGS is working to develop broad-scale indicators for monitoring landscapes and to standardize methods and datasets for quantifying the broad-scale indicators.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is committed to implementing a landscape approach to resource management to help achieve its mission on the public lands it manages. USGS is providing science support for the effort, including identifying core principles of a landscape approach, demonstrating the benefits of multiscale data for evaluating potential effects of management decisions, and highlighting questions that need to be answered at ecoregional scales to inform future actions.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Assessing Threats to Conservation Priority Areas in State Wildlife Action Plans
Informing Habitat Management for Desert Tortoise
Quantifying Ecological Integrity in Terrestrial systems
Higher and Farther: Patterns of Development within Protected Areas
Developing Broad Scale Indicators for Monitoring Ecosystems and Landscapes
Science Support for Implementing a Landscape Approach to Resource Management in the Bureau of Land Management
A central focus of this program is to conduct multi-scale assessments in order to develop related geospatial decision-support tools and methods. The program includes synthesizing broad-scale datasets and developing innovative approaches to assess the vulnerability and resilience of wildlife habitats and ecosystems, relative to land management decisions and ecosystem stressors on Department of the Interior and other public lands. Recent work includes quantifying the effects of land uses, drought, and invasive species across broad ecoregions and for the western U.S. The primary goal is to adapt and translate the most promising cutting-edge techniques into geospatial assessment tools, that further advance the integration of analyses and results across temporal and spatial scales. FORT scientists work collaboratively with natural resource managers to ensure that the science is relevant and meets the needs of land managers.
Developing Broad Scale Indicators for Monitoring Ecosystems and Landscapes
Many issues currently facing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other large land managers span large landscapes, including sage-grouse conservation, wildfires, and energy development. Such challenges involve changes at both local and broad scales, but monitoring has typically focused at the scale of individual sites. The USGS is working to develop broad-scale indicators for monitoring landscapes and to standardize methods and datasets for quantifying the broad-scale indicators.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is committed to implementing a landscape approach to resource management to help achieve its mission on the public lands it manages. USGS is providing science support for the effort, including identifying core principles of a landscape approach, demonstrating the benefits of multiscale data for evaluating potential effects of management decisions, and highlighting questions that need to be answered at ecoregional scales to inform future actions.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Assessing Threats to Conservation Priority Areas in State Wildlife Action Plans
Informing Habitat Management for Desert Tortoise
Quantifying Ecological Integrity in Terrestrial systems
Higher and Farther: Patterns of Development within Protected Areas
Developing Broad Scale Indicators for Monitoring Ecosystems and Landscapes