• North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Designing Sustainable Landscapes (DSL) Project

    UMass Landscape Ecology Lab: Kevin McGarigal, Brad Compton, Ethan Plunkett, Bill DeLuca, Liz Willey and Joanna Grand .
  • Manager Feedback and Questionaire

    This document is intended primarily for participants of the sub-regional workshops being held with partners of the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC) to review the results and provide feedback on phase 1 of the DSL project, although any NALCC partner is welcome to provide feedback. Specifically, this document includes a set of questions posed to partners concerning how best to package the landscape design information resulting from the Landscape Change, Assessment and Design (LCAD) model applied to the entire Northeast in phase 2.
  • Criteria for Feedback

    The DSL project aims to provide regionally consistent information pertaining to biodiversity conservation planning and management across the Northeast. With this aim in mind, it is important to recognize the following criteria when providing feedback: 1). All LCAD data products must be regional (i.e., Northeast) in extent. There are lots of data that would be useful to LCAD, for example digital parcel land use zoning data, if they were available across the Northeast, but we are restricted to the use of digital data that are consistent across the Northeast. 2). Approaches for modeling landscape change, assessment and design must be technically feasible given available data and current computing resources. There may be ideal approaches that are not computationally feasible given available data and/or computing resources.
  • General topics

  • Landscape Design: Land Protection

  • Landscape Design: Land Management

  •   1 - Not effective or useful 2 3 4 5 - Most effective or useful
    Use an index of the projected 20- or 70-year change in each species' habitat capability within the sub-region (e.g., state, watershed, ecoregion).
    Use an index of the projected 20- or 70-year change in each species' climate suitability within the sub-region.
    Use an index of the vulnerability of each species to projected 20- or 70-year changes in habitat and climate within the sub-region.
    Use an index of how important your focus area is within the sub-region in maintaining the persistence of each species in light of habitat loss and climate change.
    Use an index based on the proportion of each species’ current occupied habitat within the sub-region that your focus area provides.
    Use an index based on the proportion of each species’ current habitat within the sub-region that is protected.
  • Landscape Design: Ecological Restoration

  •   1 - Not effective or useful 2 3 4 5 - Most effective or useful
    Prioritizing culverts and dams to improve aquatic connectivity.
    Identifying placement of road passage structures to improve terrestrial connectivity.
    Prioritizing tidal restrictions to improve intertidal ecosystem integrity.
    Evaluating conversion of developed land
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