A forest clear-cut in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Forestry land use often changes land cover by harvesting and replanting trees. Documenting these changes provide some of the critical information needed to understand regional and national carbon dynamics.
Mark A Drummond (Former Employee)
Science and Products
Land Change Science
Land cover change is one of the fundamental measures for understanding pressures on ecosystems and is widely used to understand the consequences to biodiversity and ecosystem services. This study utilizes land cover and other associated socioeconomic and environmental data to examine the consequences of land cover change in human-dominated landscapes, and how provisioning of ecosystem services...
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Baseline Synthesis
The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) addresses effects of land-use and climate changes on Southwest Wyoming’s natural resources. In partnership with twelve Federal, State, and local natural resource agencies, and non-governmental organizations– FORT and ten other USGS centers are conducting dozens of integrated science projects to assess the status of Southwest Wyoming’s natural...
System analysis of land use and climate effects on ecosystem services affecting C and N exchanges with the atmosphere and water cycles
Current land use practices have affected ecosystem structure and processes in ways that have degraded delivery of key ecosystem services controlling exchanges of carbon and nitrogen with the atmosphere and surface and groundwater systems. These impacts are observed in the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and N pollution in our nation’s water systems and coastal areas. Improvements in databases
Forest Clear-cut
A forest clear-cut in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Forestry land use often changes land cover by harvesting and replanting trees. Documenting these changes provide some of the critical information needed to understand regional and national carbon dynamics.
Science and Products
Land Change Science
Land cover change is one of the fundamental measures for understanding pressures on ecosystems and is widely used to understand the consequences to biodiversity and ecosystem services. This study utilizes land cover and other associated socioeconomic and environmental data to examine the consequences of land cover change in human-dominated landscapes, and how provisioning of ecosystem services...
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Baseline Synthesis
The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) addresses effects of land-use and climate changes on Southwest Wyoming’s natural resources. In partnership with twelve Federal, State, and local natural resource agencies, and non-governmental organizations– FORT and ten other USGS centers are conducting dozens of integrated science projects to assess the status of Southwest Wyoming’s natural...
System analysis of land use and climate effects on ecosystem services affecting C and N exchanges with the atmosphere and water cycles
Current land use practices have affected ecosystem structure and processes in ways that have degraded delivery of key ecosystem services controlling exchanges of carbon and nitrogen with the atmosphere and surface and groundwater systems. These impacts are observed in the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and N pollution in our nation’s water systems and coastal areas. Improvements in databases
Forest Clear-cut
A forest clear-cut in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Forestry land use often changes land cover by harvesting and replanting trees. Documenting these changes provide some of the critical information needed to understand regional and national carbon dynamics.
A forest clear-cut in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Forestry land use often changes land cover by harvesting and replanting trees. Documenting these changes provide some of the critical information needed to understand regional and national carbon dynamics.