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Seeing the Forest through the TreesTim Howard, Tim Tear, and Brad Stratton
Conceptual model
Bird & bat movement and migration
Factors influencing mortality at turbines
Large forest areas and connectivity
Wind speed/power
Road infrastructure
Electrical infrastructure
Market considerations
Biodiversity components
Wind development components
Biodiversity priorities
Wind priorities
Rare species distributions Decision‐making support
• Useful metrics• Spatial representation• Online access
What Are Matrix Forest Blocks?
• Large, unfragmented patches of forest
• Representative of all landscape types
• Resistant, resilient, and persistent over time
Questions for Discussion
• Do you understand the value of large,
relatively unbroken, blocks of forest to nature
and people?
• Do you understand how they were selected?
• Is it clear why connectivity among these
blocks is important to nature and people?
Large, unfragmented patches of forest
What Are Matrix Forest Blocks?
• Resistant, resilient, and persistent over time
• Large enough to withstand disturbance events
• Large enough to support breeding populations
• Multiple examples within each ecoregion
Large enough to withstand disturbance events
Big enough to support breeding populations
Resistent, Resilient, and Persistent
Representative of all landscape types
Great Lakes Ecoregion – Missing from the Northeast
National Land Cover Data ‐ 2006
Natural land cover and fragmenting features
1st cut at candidate matrix forest blocks
Experts meeting
Refined set of matrix blocks ‐
based on expert review and abiotic features
Final selection of matrix blocks
Matrix blocks and Landscape Connectivity
Landscape Connectivity and natural land cover
Thank You!
Questions?
Questions for Discussion
• Do you understand the value of large,
relatively unbroken, blocks of forest to nature
and people?
• Do you understand how they were selected?
• Is it clear why connectivity among these
blocks is important to nature and people?