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• Welcome to the Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FED) Project WWW Server.
• The Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (FED) Project is concerned with modeling and monitoring ecosystem processes and patterns in response to natural and anthropogenic effects. The project uses coupled ecosystem models and remote sensing models and measurements to predict and observe ecosystem change. The overall objective of the FED project is to link and use models of forest dynamics, soil processes, and canopy energetics to understand how ecosystem response to change affects patterns and processes in northern and boreal forests and to assess the implications for global change. ...
• The Forest Ecosystem Dynamics World-Wide-Web server has been online since July 1994. The FED server was created for the dissemination of project information, to archive numerous spatial and scientific data sets, and demonstrate the linking of ecosystem and remote sensing models. ...
• Ecosystem Modeling Interface.

• Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem.
• The Mississippi Headwaters/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem.
• To Region 3 Ecosystem Map.
• The Mississippi Headwaters/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem (MH/TGP) includes the majority of Minnesota and portions of Wisconsin and Iowa. The Ecosystem is one of transition from Prairie Parkland, to Eastern Broadleaf Forest, and then to Laurentian Mixed Forest. ...   What is an Ecosystem? A major threat to the Ecosystem is the continued loss and fragmentation of grassland, wetland and native woodland habitats for conversion to agricultural and other land uses. ... Timber harvesting, mineral extraction, and increasing pressures from recreational uses are problems in the northern reaches of the Ecosystem. ...
• Ecosystem Highlights.
• Ecosystem .
• MH/TGP Ecosystem .
• Ecosystem Fact Sheet (pdf).
• Ecosystem Restoration.
• The MH/TGP Ecosystem .
• Of The MH/TGP Ecosystem .
• Habitats for migratory birds in this ecosystem were ranked according to their importance for breeding birds.
• This site not only identifies the fundamentals of this conservation initiative, but provides information about the history and ecological importance of this rarest and most fragmented ecosystem.

• Ecosystem Conservation.
• What is an ecosystem? It is a geographic area including all the living organisms (people, plants, animals, and microorganisms), their physical surroundings (such as soil, water, and air), and the natural cycles that sustain them. ... Managing any one resource affects the others in that ecosystem. ...
• Fish and Wildlife Service has adopted an ecosystem approach to conservation because we can't just look at a single animal, species, or piece of land in isolation from all that is around it. ...
• The ecosystem approach is comprehensive. ...
• " We can't restore an ecosystem and the plants and animals within it without the assistance of partners.
• Each unit is represented by an ecosystem team which has developed its own biologically- based strategy. The Service has identified and defined boundaries for 53 ecosystem units by grouping the USGS defined watersheds - see maps of ecosystem units in:.
• Some Ecosystem-Related Links.

• The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem project is a integrated collaborative effort to examine ecosystem level response in as many dimensions as possible to standard forest management. ...
• The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project or MOFEP, is one of the most comprehensive ecological investigations of forest response ever undertaken in upland oak ecosystems. ...
• We must synthesize the result of research that address many different ecosystem attributes and processes. ...
• Ecosystem modeling is necessary for synthesis. ...
• We must remember that people are part of the ecosystem. ...
• Please explore the links to the left to learn more about the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project. ...

• - DOI Science Plan in Support of Ecosystem Restoration, Preservation, and Protection in South Florida (published in May 2004).
• First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration .
• The First National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration (NCER) was held December 6-10, 2004 in Orlando, Florida at the Wyndham Palace. It enabled national and international information exchange on many issues involved in landscape-scale ecosystem restoration. Fellow scientists, educators, and restoration planners, managers and decision-makers met to discuss similarities and differences and successes and failures of ecosystem restoration programs throughout the country. ...
• This initiative was established to enable the USGS to enhance its scientific assistance to resource managers who require an improved scientific information base to resolve or prevent complex resource conflicts or environmental problems in specific ecosystem sites.

• These Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs), serve a broad role as providers of research, technical assistance, and education to Federal land managers, environmental and research agencies, and their potential partners. ... Though they are called “ecosystem studies” units they cover work from Anthropology to Zoology. Projects involve the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences and address both natural and cultural resource issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context.
• The Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (PSAC-CESU) facilitates collaboration among university, non-governmental organization and federal agency partners to provide relevant research, education and technical assistance for stewardship of cultural and natural resources. ...
• Download a copy of the Piedmont South Atlantic Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. ...

• Ecosystem Boundaries.
• Ecosystem Unit Names and Numbers.
• Return to the Ecosystem Unit Boundaries page.
• Keywords=GIS, data, ecosystem, maps .

• The objectives of the USGS Recoverability and Vulnerability of Desert Ecosystems (RVDE) project are to conduct basic scientific research on ecological processes within the Mojave Desert Ecosystem and to use this knowledge to provide land managers with scientific understanding and tools needed to conserve and restore threatened desert landscapes. Current research focuses on the Mojave Desert Ecosystem, which covers 125,000 square kilometers of southern Nevada, western Arizona, southwestern Utah, and southeastern California. ... Many endangered plants and animals live within the Mojave ecosystem as well. ... Stewards of our public lands are faced with the need to make sound decisions on land use that will allow for economic, recreational, and military use, while still keeping the desert ecosystem healthy and ensuring the survival of threatened species. ...
• USGS scientists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the physical and biological processes that influence vulnerability of the desert ecosystem to disturbance and its ability to recover. ... These data can be synthesized into maps and predictive models that show how ecosystem components respond to imposed stress, providing valuable tools for desert land managers. ...

• This SNEPMap/Data web site has been created in response to the recognized need for improved access to data files, records, digital data, and other information produced as part of the 1996 report to Congress of the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP), a comprehensive assessment of the status of Sierra Nevada natural resources and the relationships of these resources to human well-being. ...
• Compilation of data used by the Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project. ...

• Upper Mississippi River Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem.
• The Upper Mississippi River/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem is one of six ecosystems managed by Region 3 of the U. ...
• To Region 3 Ecosystem Map.
• Perpetuate the ecological integrity of the Upper Mississippi River/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem through protection, restoration, and enhancement of the ecosystem's function, structure and species composition by full implementation of the Service's mandates.
• The Upper Mississippi River/Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem is one of eight ecosystems that comprise the Great Lakes-Big Rivers Region. The Upper Mississippi River and Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem is a large and ecologically diverse area that encompasses land in the States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The Mississippi River bisects the Ecosystem east and west. Major rivers in the Ecosystem include the Minnesota, Chippewa, Black, Wisconsin, Iowa, Rock, Skunk Des Moines, Illinois, and Kaskaskia.
• Ecosystem Resource Areas.
• Six ecotypes are focus areas for this ecosystem: .
• Even where a significant proportion of prairie wetlands remain, land use changes have reduced the overall biodiversity of the ecosystem. ...
• However, it is clear that wetlands play a critical part in maintaining ecosystem functions in the areas of protecting shorelands, recharging groundwater, cycling nutrients, and storing floodwater and stormwater runoff.
• Today, only a tenth of one percent of the original prairie remains in small tracts scattered throughout the ecosystem. ... Throughout much of the Great Plains region, the tallgrass prairie is essentially extinct as a functioning ecosystem.
• Restoration of prairie wetland complexes is a critical part of restoring the health of this ecosystem, both because of their direct impacts on fish and wildlife species, and their hydrological impacts to the larger system.
• Conversion of savanna to agricultural lands and elimination of fire has largely eliminated oak savannas in most areas as a functioning ecosystem. ...

• Some Ecosystem-Related Links.
• An Ecosystem Approach to Fish and Wildlife Conservation .
• Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER) .
• Ecosystem Conservation.

• Reptiles and Amphibians in the Endangered Longleaf Pine Ecosystem.
• Of the 290 species native to the Southeast, 170 (74 amphibians, 96 reptiles) are found within the range of the remnant longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem (Fig. ...
• Concern for the future of the entire herpetofaunal community in the Southeast rests mostly on the well-documented loss of the old-growth longleaf pine ecosystem, although few community-based herpetofaunal surveys have been undertaken in this habitat.
• Historical distribution of the longleaf pine ecosystem in the southeastern Coastal Plain. ...
• The effects of the loss of the longleaf pine ecosystem on the herpetofaunal community have never been assessed directly, but several species are known to have been affected. For example, the number of gopher tortoises, a key species within the longleaf pine ecosystem, has declined by an estimated 80% during the last 100 years (Auffenberg and Franz 1982). ... 4), so an 80% reduction in gopher tortoises could represent a substantial reduction in the biodiversity of the longleaf pine ecosystem. ...
• The chart shows the number of species of various taxa known to use its burrow and the number of plant taxa described from the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem.
• Longleaf pine and wiregrass: keystone components of an endangered ecosystem. ...

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