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Ecoregion Summaries
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Land Cover Trends is a research project focused on understanding the rates, trends, causes, and consequences of contemporary U.S. land use and land cover change.
Land Cover Trends Research Gets an Enthusiastic Review
A peer review panel of university scholars and other experts recently praised the USGS Land Cover Trends research project as having the potential to be "very useful, indeed essential, to various research communities. Such as climate change, biodiversity, resource management and planning, resource security, and disaster planning." This complex, long term project, the first comprehensive analysis of national land cover change ever conducted, has the ambitious goal of establishing the extent, nature, and causes of change to the Nation's land surface. Scheduled to complete the initial 30-year assessment in 2010, the project is intended to provide a foundation for predicting the impacts of land change, as well as modeling future land changes.
Click on the links to access the complete peer review panel report or for more information about the Land Cover Trends project.
- Sleeter, B. M., 2008, Late 20th century land change in the Central California Valley Ecoregion, The California Geographer, Vol. 48 pp. 27-60.
- Sleeter, B. M., and J. P. Calzia, 2008, Contemporary land cover change in the Klamath Mountains Ecoregion in Acevedo, W. eds., Status and Trends of Western United States Land Cover, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.
- Drummond, M.A., 2007, Regional Dynamics of Grassland Change in the Western Great Plains, Great Plains Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp 133-144.
- Soulard, C.E., Raumann, C.G.; Wilson, T.S., 2007, Land-Cover Trends of the Southern California Mountains Ecoregion, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5235, 18 p.
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