EMDS Support

Purpose: Design of biodiversity reserve systems within a region that provides sufficient representation of relevant biophysical environments to assure maintenance of biodiversity.

Primary KB topics: selection of landscape elements that are good candidates for inclusion in a reserve system.

Geographic scope: generic, approximately 4 to 20 million ha.

Scale of analysis: biophysical landscape units.

Additional comments: The knowledge base is one component in an integrated solution. Work is in progress to synthesize biophysical land unit information at the level of lager land units for use in an optimization procedure. We also plan to add an additional custom interface to EMDS that will enable customization of the optimal solution to produce more politically feasible solutions.

Contacts:

1. Keith Reynolds , Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
2. Patrick Bourgeron, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder.
3. Frank Davis , University of California, Santa Barbara