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The use of remote sensing for characterizing forests in wildlife habitat modeling

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Vogeler, Jody C.

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Spatially explicit maps of habitat relationships have proven to be valuable tools for conservation and management applications including evaluating how and which species may be impacted by large scale climate change, ongoing fragmentation of habitat, and local land-use practices. Studies have turned to remote sensing datasets as a way to...

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Dissertation

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wood is often represented in remote sensing studies as dead biomass (Kim et al. 2009) or the
Tradeoffs and Synergies among Wild Ungulates, Early Successional Plant Communities and Management Intensification in Forest Plantations of the Oregon Coast Range

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Stokely, Thomas D.

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As the global demand for natural resources increases, more land will be intensively managed for the production of commodities such as timber, with potential consequences to biodiversity, ecological functioning and ecosystem services provided to society. Although there is strong consensus that intensive land management practices can negatively affect biodiversity, less...

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Dissertation

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, Cardinale et al. 2012). One major societal pressure placed on ecosystems is the growing demand for wood