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NASA-MSU Golley-Odum Symposium: Drivers and implications of land use and landcover change
Moderator(s):Sam Riffell, Jack Liu
Day:Thursday
Abstract: Land use/land cover (LULC) change may be caused by a myriad of social, economic and ecological forces. Although LULC has been a primary focus of landscape ecology for some time, and our understanding of these drivers is still limited. Better understanding of LULC change is a critical need because of the profound and often dramatic implications LULC change has for organisms, biodiversity, ecosystem function, and climate. Our symposium will contain presentations that examine social and economic drivers behind LULC change and case studies that measure the implications of LULC change. We have invited previous NASA-MSU awardees and other scientists working in the area of LULC change to participate. These presenters represent a wide spectrum of geographic regions and ecological systems.
10:00-10:20Lisa Schulte
Cross-boundary coordination among private forest owners as a mechanism to moderate landscape and land use change
10:20-10:40Christopher Lepczyk
Houses as a driver of landscape change
10:40-11:00Charles McKeown
Picture Michigan tomorrow: Socioeconomic trends and their impacts on land use and land cover change
11:00-11:20Li An
Impacts of demographic compositions on long-term population and landscape dynamics
11:20-11:40Jeff Bowman
Effects of road development and logging on the southern range limit of wolverines in boreal forest
11:40-12:00Discussion
 

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