Ecology and Habitat Management
There is an increasing need to understand the impacts of forests management relative to a larger landscape. GIS provides the modeling and monitoring capacity to view the affect on multiple spatial and temporal scales. You can integrate and fuse data from micro to macro scales to address land management and environmental impacts.
GIS technology provides an ideal environment for describing, analyzing, and modeling ecosystem processes and functions. Interactions and relationships among diverse ecosystem components can be explored and visualized using the powerful analytical and visualization tools that GIS software provides.
GIS also plays an important role in understanding
- Disturbance Ecology
- Conservation Biology
- Carbon Sequestration
- Vegetative Associations
- Cumulative Affects
Habitat Management
Globally there is a continued and increasing concern on species viability as a result of the changes in landscapes. GIS serves as a platform that displays the relational changes that helps to understand impacts and the need for intervention. From control actions to critical need for protection—the ability to link information to habitat needs or suitability is key to forest managers.
- Fragmentation
- Invasive Species
- Endemic Species
- Successional Stages
- Suitability
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