| Our team conducts
research to support national, regional, and subregional assessments
of land use and land cover changes for
the United States' forest, grassland, and aquatic ecosystems.
The team develops and extends methods for analyzing relationships
between
socioeconomic forces and area changes for land uses and land
covers and projecting area changes to support natural resource assessments.
Society's demands for land in residential, commercial, and industrial
uses are expected to continue to increase with a growing population
and rising incomes, and the team researches methods for analyzing
associated implications for wildlife habitat, timber supplies,
carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation, biodiversity,
and other ecological and economic impacts. (For more information
about the team, visit
Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics Team
Page)
Team Members: Jeffrey D. Kline, Eric M. White,
and Alyssa V. Shanks.
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- Determinants of changes in major land uses, interactions across
sectors, and long-range projections
- Private landowner behavior, incentives, and policy analyses.
- Forest cover changes, forest investments, and global change analyses.
![[Photograph]: These houses built near forests are a factor in increasing inmigration to rural areas.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080923162216im_/http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/local-resources/images/program/teams/FSD-housesonhill.jpg)
These houses built near forests are a factor in increasing inmigration
to rural areas. |
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