Assessing and predicting changes in vegetation cover associated with military land use activities using field monitoring data at Fort Hood, Texas

Anderson, Alan B.; Wang, Guangxing; Fang, Shoufan; Gertner, George Z.; Güneralp, Burak; Jones, Don C.

doi:10.1016/j.jterra.2004.10.006

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“…The former represented specific training regions. The combinations of satellite imagery (Thermal Mapper (TM)) bands were selected based on the study of Anderson et al (2005). The codes and definitions of the attributes and their combinations are listed in Table 1.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The original pixel size of the digital multispectral TM imagery was 30 Â 30 m. The original digital TM imagery was aggregated to 90 Â 90 m for modeling. Details about the imagery can be found in Anderson et al (2005). The number of observations each year varied from 130 to 141 plots, because some permanent plot records were incomplete.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fang et al (2002) enhanced this model by including training load to make the model temporally explicit. For prediction of the C Factor, Anderson et al (2005) replaced a vegetation map, which has been found to be a major uncertainty source in the prediction of disturbance (Fang et al, 2002), with multispectral satellite imagery in the model of Fang et al (2002). In previous disturbance modeling, logistic models contained only individual variables (attributes) and did not consider the interaction of the variables.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Variations of the replicated plot studies has been used to obtain similar types of impact results because a number of factors including time, cost, site access, site control, and related implementation issues prohibit the use of replicated plot studies [2,17,37,40,64,65,69,[72][73][74][75][76]. These alternate plot studies identified thresholds of ecological damage associated with specific levels of vehicle use and characterize the resistance and resilience of different training environments through the use of more opportunistic study design approaches.…”

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“…In the fourth paper in our series, Anderson et al [72] utilized data from existing inventory and monitoring programs to assess vehicle impacts to installation resources. In this study, not only plot-level assessments are made but data are also spatially extrapolated to assess impacts at broader spatial scales.…”

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Assessing the impacts of military vehicle traffic on natural areas. Introduction to the special issue and review of the relevant military vehicle impact literature

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Ecosystem service indicators on military‐managed drylands in the Western United States

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Lands devoted to military use are globally important for the production of ecosystem services and for the conservation of biodiversity. The United States has one of the largest military land estates in the world, and most of these areas occur in water‐limited landscapes. Despite many of these areas receiving intense or sustained disturbance from military training activities, the structure and function of ecosystems contained within their boundaries continue to provide critical benefits to people across spatial scales. The land owned and managed by the Department of Defense is subject to regulation across local, state, and federal governing bodies, constraining and shaping both how land management is conducted and how ecosystem services are prioritized. Here, we explored the supply of ecosystem services from military lands in dryland areas of the United States using key indicators of ecosystem services: biodiversity estimates derived from range maps, ecosystem productivity estimates from satellite observations, and spatially explicit, hierarchical ecosystem classifications. Additionally, we utilized content analysis of the environmental management plans of these areas to describe the unique set of demands and regulatory constraints on these areas. We found that the US military land estate in drylands contains many types of ecosystems and provides a large and diverse supply of ecosystem services, comparable to the sum of services from public lands in these areas. Additionally, the degree to which the ecosystem services concept is captured in environmental management plans is strongly shaped by the language of the governing legislation that mandated the use of environmental management plans in these areas, although these plans do not explicitly address land management using the concept of ecosystem services. Collectively, our findings suggest that military use and management of land represents an important source of ecosystem services, that military land use can be considered a cultural ecosystem service unto itself, and that top‐down regulation can affect how these services are identified and valued. Our work highlights the need for the research and conservation communities to quantify ecosystem services from individual military installations so that both services and biodiversity can be safeguarded in an era of military conflict across the globe.

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Assessing and predicting changes in vegetation cover associated with military land use activities using field monitoring data at Fort Hood, Texas

Cited by 25 publications

References 35 publications

The effect of model structure and data in modeling land conditions in disturbed complex ecosystems

The effect of model structure and data in modeling land conditions in disturbed complex ecosystems

Assessing the impacts of military vehicle traffic on natural areas. Introduction to the special issue and review of the relevant military vehicle impact literature

Ecosystem service indicators on military‐managed drylands in the Western United States

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