Regional Landscape Ecosystems of Michigan,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin:
A Working Map and Classification
(Fourth Revision: July 1994)
Dennis A. Albert, Ecologist
Michigan Natural Features Inventory
By request of the Upper Great Lakes Biodiversity Committee
Funding from the North Central Forest Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Upper Great Lakes Biodiversity Committee, and Michigan Natural Features Inventory
Albert, Dennis A. 1995. Regional landscape ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin: a working map and classification. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-178. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 250 pp.
This resource should be cited as:Albert, Dennis A. 1995. Regional landscape ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin: a working map and classification. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-178. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. Jamestown, ND: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Online. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/habitat/rlandscp/index.htm (Version 03JUN1998).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Conceptual Approach
- Factors in the Hierarchy
- Hierarchical Levels: Section, Subsection, Sub-subsection
- Maps Units as Hypotheses for Testing
- Relationship to Other Approaches and Other Regional Ecosystem Maps
- Regional Landscape Ecosystems of Michigan
- Natural Divisions Maps of Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Bailey's Climatic Ecoregion Map
- Methods
- Integration of Climatic and Physiographic Classifications
- Validation
- Conceptual Approach
- General Setting
- Climate
- Bedrock Geology
- Physiography
- Vegetation
- Using the Regional Landscape Ecosystem Map
- Guide to Descriptions
- Interactive Map Interface -- Clickable state maps for each subsection and sub-subsection.
- Description of Sections
- Section I. Northwestern Minnesota Grassland
- Section II. Southwestern Minnesota Grassland
- Section III. Southeastern Minnesota and West-Central Wisconsin Savanna
- Section IV. Driftless Area
- Section V. Southeastern Wisconsin Savanna
- Section VI. Southern Lower Michigan
- Section VII. Northern Lacustrine-Influenced Lower Michigan
- Section VIII. Northern Lacustrine-Influenced Upper Michigan and Wisconsin
- Section IX. Northern Continental Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota
- Section X. Northern Minnesota
- Section XI. Aspen Parkland
- References
Our job at the North Central Forest Experiment Station is discovering and creating new knowledge and technology in the field of natural resources and conveying this information to the people who can use it. As a new generation of forests emerges in our region, managers are confronted with two unique challenges: (1) Dealing with the great diversity in composition, quality, and ownership of the forests, and (2) Reconciling the conflicting demands of the people who use them. Helping the forest manager meet these challenges while protecting the environment is what research at North Central is all about.
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