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PRESERVE SELECTION MODELING IN THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU

David M. Stoms, W. J. Okin, and Frank W. Davis

Institute for Computational Earth System Science
and Department of Geography, University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Final Report to The Nature Conservancy of Washington

Report Date: November 13, 1997

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Statement of the problem
  • Reserve selection approaches
  • THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU ECOREGION
  • METHODS
  • Overview of the planning process
  • Planning steps
  • Alternatives considered
  • RESULTS
  • Alternatives
  • Sensitivity and sweep analysis
  • CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO TNC
  • Answers to research questions
  • Recommendations to The Nature Conservancy
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LITERATURE CITED
  • APPENDICES
  • Formulation of the Biodiversity Management Areas Selection (BMAS) Model
  • GIS data sets
  • Pre-processing GIS data
  • Post-processing BMAS report output
  • Subwatershed Evaluation Report
  • Glossary of terms

    • Biogeography Lab Home Page

    Email stoms@bren.ucsb.edu