Spatially Explicit Ecological Models for Land-Use Decisions: Examples for Military Land Management

摘要

Land management decisions need to balance the social, political, economic, ecological goals for the use of land. Often, however, the ecological goals for the land are not clearly stated, nor are the means of obtaining these goals specified. Therefore, this project has developed an approach for establishing ecological goals through the use of procedures to use ecological models that support land-use decisions: these models show how ecological goals for land use and management can be established and met. This approach is designed to be incorporated into a decision process that includes the other three goals for land use and management. This report describes the ecological models that were developed under SERDP project 758-62, Ecological Modeling in Support of Military Land-Use Decisions. First, the general approach is set forth, and then example models and their applications are described.