528
Canopy structure, derived from remote sensing, 141
Carrying capacity, 417, 425-426
Cartographic modeling, 157
Case studies
Great Lakes Ecological Assessment, 447-459
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project (ICBEMP), 496-510
Northern Forest Lands, 489-495
Southern Appalachia, 472-488
Upper Mississippi River Adaptive Environmental
Assessment, 460-471
CD-ROMs, 108, 111, 113
CELSS,266
Census boundaries, 409-412
Census of Agriculture, 413
Central-place theory, 423
CENTURY model, 47, 156, 264, 265-266, 267
Change
detection, 142-143
and landscapes, 33-34
Channel classification, 357, 380
Channel morphology, 378
Chaos, 3, 35, 127
Charcoal analysis, 279-280
Chlorop1eth maps, 437
Choice experiments, 237-238
Classes, 115
Classification. See also Ecological land classification
(ELC)
of aquatic biophysical environments, 356-360
to characterize ecosystems, 42
fuzzy, 216
Classification and Assessment with Landsat of Visible
Ecological Groupings (CALVEG), 145
Classification and regression tree (CART), 102
Clean Air Act, 480
Clementsian organismic concept of community
development, 367
Climate, and hydrology, 369-370
Climatic geomorphology, 368
Clumping index, 193
Cluster sampling, 86-87
Collaboratories,56-57
Colonialism, 417
Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions,
293
Composition, of landscape pattern, 339
Confidence intervals, 83
Configuration, of landscape pattern, 339
Confirmatory data analysis (CDA), 191
Conflict management, 164-165. See also Alternative
dispute resolution (ADR)
Conjoint analysis, 237
Conservation
planning, 292, 301
as a stage in forest ecosystem growth, 63
Conservation biology, 2
Conservation Data Center, 95
Conservation reserve program (CRP), 413
Consolidated Farm Service Agency Aerial Photography
Field Office, 142
Index
Constraints, in project-level planning, 175
Contagion, as a characteristic of disturbances, 341
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, 157
Contingent valuation method (CVM), 236-237
Continuity effects, 188
Contracting similarity, 202
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture),l77
Correlogram methods, in spatial statistics, 193, 194
Cost evaluation, 165, 224-225, 247
CRBSUM, 262-263, 266-267, 283-284
Creative destruction, as a stage in forest ecosystem
growth, 63
Critical point, of phase transitions, 207
Critical power concept, 368
Cultural ecology, 417
Cumberland model, 252
Damage assessment, 225
Dasymetric maps, 437
Data
acquisition
commitment and, 72-73
evolution of, 71-72
gathering, storing, and using data, 73-74
goals and objectives, 72
for predictive ecosystem models, 74
of remotely sensed data, 139-140
understanding the quality and limitations of data,
74-75
annotation, 112
assembly, 111
dissemination, 110, 111-114
and GIS, 156-157
integration of, 119-132
management, 108-109
networking, 111-114, 111-117
plot data, 96
processing, 109-110, 111
properties of the data collection process for IREAs,
93
storage, 110, 111
use of existing data, 94
Data loggers, 126
Data visualization management, 171
DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), 177
Decision support
in adaptive resource management, 5
comparison of decision support systems (DSS),
172-176
the decision-making environment, 163-166
decision support systems (DSS), 170-172
ecosystem management processes, 166-170
inoperability in ecosystem management DSS,
176-177
Deep ecology, 416
DEFINITE, 174
Demand curve, 228
Demographic projections, and spatial models of human
impacts on ecosystems, 423-425
Dendroecological methods, 274
Canopy structure, derived from remote sensing, 141
Carrying capacity, 417, 425-426
Cartographic modeling, 157
Case studies
Great Lakes Ecological Assessment, 447-459
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management
Project (ICBEMP), 496-510
Northern Forest Lands, 489-495
Southern Appalachia, 472-488
Upper Mississippi River Adaptive Environmental
Assessment, 460-471
CD-ROMs, 108, 111, 113
CELSS,266
Census boundaries, 409-412
Census of Agriculture, 413
Central-place theory, 423
CENTURY model, 47, 156, 264, 265-266, 267
Change
detection, 142-143
and landscapes, 33-34
Channel classification, 357, 380
Channel morphology, 378
Chaos, 3, 35, 127
Charcoal analysis, 279-280
Chlorop1eth maps, 437
Choice experiments, 237-238
Classes, 115
Classification. See also Ecological land classification
(ELC)
of aquatic biophysical environments, 356-360
to characterize ecosystems, 42
fuzzy, 216
Classification and Assessment with Landsat of Visible
Ecological Groupings (CALVEG), 145
Classification and regression tree (CART), 102
Clean Air Act, 480
Clementsian organismic concept of community
development, 367
Climate, and hydrology, 369-370
Climatic geomorphology, 368
Clumping index, 193
Cluster sampling, 86-87
Collaboratories,56-57
Colonialism, 417
Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions,
293
Composition, of landscape pattern, 339
Confidence intervals, 83
Configuration, of landscape pattern, 339
Confirmatory data analysis (CDA), 191
Conflict management, 164-165. See also Alternative
dispute resolution (ADR)
Conjoint analysis, 237
Conservation
planning, 292, 301
as a stage in forest ecosystem growth, 63
Conservation biology, 2
Conservation Data Center, 95
Conservation reserve program (CRP), 413
Consolidated Farm Service Agency Aerial Photography
Field Office, 142
Index
Constraints, in project-level planning, 175
Contagion, as a characteristic of disturbances, 341
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, 157
Contingent valuation method (CVM), 236-237
Continuity effects, 188
Contracting similarity, 202
CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture),l77
Correlogram methods, in spatial statistics, 193, 194
Cost evaluation, 165, 224-225, 247
CRBSUM, 262-263, 266-267, 283-284
Creative destruction, as a stage in forest ecosystem
growth, 63
Critical point, of phase transitions, 207
Critical power concept, 368
Cultural ecology, 417
Cumberland model, 252
Damage assessment, 225
Dasymetric maps, 437
Data
acquisition
commitment and, 72-73
evolution of, 71-72
gathering, storing, and using data, 73-74
goals and objectives, 72
for predictive ecosystem models, 74
of remotely sensed data, 139-140
understanding the quality and limitations of data,
74-75
annotation, 112
assembly, 111
dissemination, 110, 111-114
and GIS, 156-157
integration of, 119-132
management, 108-109
networking, 111-114, 111-117
plot data, 96
processing, 109-110, 111
properties of the data collection process for IREAs,
93
storage, 110, 111
use of existing data, 94
Data loggers, 126
Data visualization management, 171
DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), 177
Decision support
in adaptive resource management, 5
comparison of decision support systems (DSS),
172-176
the decision-making environment, 163-166
decision support systems (DSS), 170-172
ecosystem management processes, 166-170
inoperability in ecosystem management DSS,
176-177
Deep ecology, 416
DEFINITE, 174
Demand curve, 228
Demographic projections, and spatial models of human
impacts on ecosystems, 423-425
Dendroecological methods, 274