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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aycrigg, Jocelyn L.
• Belote, R. Travis
• Dietz, Matthew S.
• Aplet, Gregory H.
• Fischer, Richard A.

Titel

Bombing for Biodiversity in the United States: Response to Zentelis & Lindenmayer 2015

Ist Teil von

• Conservation letters, 2015-07, Vol.8 (4), p.306-307

Ort / Verlag

Washington: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Wiley Blackwell Single Titles

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Here, we offer an empirical evaluation of their statements regarding size, distribution, and representation of ecological systems (i.e., vegetation communities) within MTAs for the contiguous United States (CONUS) by comparing MTAs with lands managed by other U.S. federal agencies. By combining the Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD‐US; USGS‐GAP ) and the National GAP Land Cover (USGS‐GAP ), we determined total number of ecological systems across all units of DoD and other agencies; and proportion of each ecological system that each agency represents across all lands. [...]U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, despite being 8.5 and 8.6 times larger than DoD lands, represent only 458 and 293 ecosystems, respectively. [...]even though DoD lands comprise only 5% of the total area of federal lands, they represent 82.6% of the diversity of ecological systems, whereas USFS and BLM comprise 42% and 43% of the total federal land area, but neither represents as much diversity as DoD lands.