Ecosystem Type Change and Fragmentation: from pre Euro-American Settlement to Present Day
Piekielek NB, Davis C, Hansen A. 2011. Ecosystem Type Change and Fragmentation: from pre Euro-American Settlement to Present Day
The following standard operating procedure (SOP) from the Park Analysis of Landscapes and Monitoring Support (PALMS, see Estimating Protected-Area Centered Ecosystems, Appendix A for a complete description), project uses the protected-area centered ecosystem (PACE) as an organizing unit for analysis and reporting to inform management decision-makers of change in ecosystem type area and fragmentation through time. The goal is to delineate areas which are currently impacted by land use and report the change in undeveloped ecosystem type area on private and public lands since the Pre-Columbian era. This SOP also reports some basic fragmentation statistics for each ecosystem type through time as a way to examine how patch sizes and patch connectivity have changed in the presence of contemporary human land uses.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Piekielek, N.; Davis, C.; Hansen, A.
- Date of Issue
- 2011
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Fragmentation, Habitat, Landscape, pace, palms, Vegetation