Globally, groundwater-influenced ecosystems (GIEs) are increasingly vulnerable to
groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by …

Abstract Species [updated 3/7/2017]--This document describes our species-based
assessment based on the concept of landscape capability for a suite of representative …

Abstract Project overview [updated 3/17/2017]--This 50-page document is intended to serve
as a general description of the DSL project, including an overview of our approach to …

Heathlands and pitch pine-scrub oak (PPSO) barrens are globally-imperiled natural
communities threatened by human development and disruption of natural disturbance …

1. We derived a new development surface from the Microsoft building footprint data (Bing
Maps Team, 2018) and overlaid it on our NLCD-based development. This captured newer …

Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Modeling Forest Succession and Disturbance Page 1
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Designing Sustainable …

Tidal restrictions include undersized culverts and bridges, tide gates, dikes, and other
structures that interfere with normal tidal flushing in estuarine systems. Effects can range …

To account for the effects of climate change, management plans in the northeast need to
incorporate climate adaptation. Conserving climate change refugia is one adaptation …

Topographic wetness and flow volume are two of several ecological settings variables that
collectively characterize the biophysical setting of each 30 m cell at a given point in time …

Incident solar radiation is one of several ecological settings variables that collectively
characterize the biophysical setting of each 30 m cell at a given point in time (McGarigal et al …