Simulating the Consequences of Land Management. Science Findings, Issue Ninety Two, April 2007.

摘要

How do you project the effects of management decisions made today on future conditions of riparian forests, stream habitat, and fish abundance in the streams and rivers of the interior Columbia Basin. Researchers at PNW Research Station have developed some novel analytical tools to help answer this question. Their work is part of the Interior Northwest Landscape Analysis System (INLAS). A series of aquatic-riparian network models integrate the dynamics of riparian forest succession and natural disturbance to project change in ecological conditions under varying policy or management options. These models offer a tool that forest planners and others may use in evaluating how various management decisions could effect future forests, habitat, and fish in aquatic-riparian areas. The INLAS project researchers have recently completed a pilot-scale application of their models to the upper Grande Ronde River in northeastern Oregon.