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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.
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Soulard, CE, Sleeter, BM, 2012, Late twentieth century land-cover change in the basin and range ecoregions of the United States, Regional Environmental Change DOI 10.1007/s10113-012-0296-3..
- Auch, R.F., Sayler, K.L., Napton, D.E., Taylor, J.L., and Brooks, M.S., 2011, Ecoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern Great Plains, Great Plains Research v. 21 (Fall): 231-243.
- Drummond, M.A., Loveland T.R., 2010, Land-use pressure and a transition to forest-cover loss in the eastern United States, Bioscience, v.60,4, pp.286-298.
- Napton, D.E., Auch, R.F., Headley, R., Taylor, J.L., 2010, Land changes and their driving forces in the Southeastern United States, Regional Environmental Change, v.10,1, pp.37-53.
- Sleeter, B. M., T. Wilson, C. Soulard, and J. Liu, 2010, Estimation of Late 20th Century Landscape change in California, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1385-8
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