TABLE 22.2.
Major spatial scales of application for ecological land classifications, data required and/or generally available, political stratification, and
possible applications.
Demographic
Remote
and
Spatial
Map
sensing
economic
Environmental
Species
Existing
Political
Possible
scale
scale
data
data
factors
distributions
vegetation"
stratification
applications
Continental
<1: 10,000,000
AVHRR
Land use and
Potential
Range maps
Class or
Country
International
to global
administrative
vegetation
formation
State
planning
boundaries
class or
Province
Strategic
formation
national
Climate type
planning
Physiography
Coarse
ecological
assessments
(e.g., land-use
change)
Regional
1 : 15,000,000
Thematic mapper
Land use or
Potential
Population centers
Alliances
State
Strategic,
to
SPOT
capability
vegetation
Range maps
or groups
Province
multiinstitution
1: 250,000
Ownership
series or
of alliances
County
planning
Managed areas
groups
of
Biodiversity
Road density
series
assessments
Climatic
Reporting results
province or
of ecological
region
assessment
Landform
analyses
Geology
Landscape
1: 250,000
Aerial
Zoning
Potential
Endemic species
Associations
County
Area-wide
to
photography
Roads
vegetation
popUlations
or groups
Managed area
planning
1 : 10,000
association
Other species
of associations
District
Forest, range
Local climate
popUlations
Population
management
Topography
center
Soils
Site or plot
>1: 24,000
Aerial
Site use
Potential
Species
Association
Specific
Site planning and
photography
Management
vegetation
population
or subassociation
ownership
management
prescriptions
association
Site monitoring
or phase
Habitat
Topography
management
Elevation
Aspect
"Sensu Grossman et
aI., 1998.