NDLI: Collaborative scenario modeling reveals potential advantages of blending strategies to achieve conservation goals in a working forest landscape

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Author	Price, Jessica M. Silbernagel, Janet Nixon, Kristina Swearingen, Amanda Swaty, Randy Miller, Nicholas
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Broad-scale land conservation and management often involve applying multiple strategies in a single landscape. However, the potential outcomes of such arrangements remain difficult to evaluate given the interactions of ecosystem dynamics, resource extraction, and natural disturbances. The costs and potential risks of implementing these strategies make robust evaluation critical.We used collaborative scenario modeling to compare the potential outcomes of alternative management strategies in the Two Hearted River watershed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to answer key questions: Which management strategies best achieve conservation goals of maintaining landscape spatial heterogeneity and conserving mature forests and wetlands? And how does an increase in wildfire and windthrow disturbances influence these outcomes?Scenarios were modeled using the VDDT/TELSA state-and-transition modeling suite, and resulting land cover maps were analyzed using ArcGIS, FRAGSTATS, and R statistical software.Results indicate that blending conservation strategies, such as single-ownership forest reserves and working forest conservation easements in targeted areas of the landscape, may better achieve these goals than applying a single strategy across the same area. However, strategies that best achieve these conservation goals may increase the sensitivity of the landscape to changes in wildfire and windthrow disturbance regimes.These results inform decision-making about which conservation strategy or combination of strategies to apply in specific locations on the landscape to achieve optimum conservation outcomes, how to best utilize scarce financial resources, and how to reduce the financial and ecological risks associated with the application of innovative strategies in an uncertain future.
Starting Page	1093
Ending Page	1115
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09212973
Journal	Landscape Ecology
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15729761
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-12-19
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Landscape scenarios Forest landscape modeling State and transition modeling Working forest conservation easement Conservation planning Stakeholder engagement Landscape Ecology Ecology Nature Conservation Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Sustainable Development Environmental Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation

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