Future land-use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 160-171

  Martinuzzi, Sebastián ^a   Withey, John C ^b   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Plantinga, Andrew J ^c   McKerrow, Alexa J ^d   Williams, Steven G ^e   Helmers, David P ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Habitat loss; Land use change; Land use planning; Southeast United States; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; HABITAT LOSS; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE LOCATION; LAND USE PLANNING;

UNITED STATES;

REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

AGROCHEMICALS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS; URBANIZATION; VERTEBRATES;

AGROCHEMICALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TIME FACTORS; URBANIZATION; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84922014772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2078.1     Document Type: Article

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