Forecasting Climate-Induced Ecosystem Changes on Army Installations

Abstract

Military installation training lands must be managed to support species at risk as well as to be effective training environments for soldiers. Forecasts from various global climate change models suggest that the habitats associated with some military training installations will face pressures that induce biome-shifts, invasive species, loss of habitat, and changes in training opportunities. This study combined worldwide habitat forecast data with a current habitat map to identify major installations that appear to be most and least at-risk for habitat change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA559196

Entities

People

  • James D. Westervelt
  • William W. Hargrove

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Delphi Method
  • Ecosystems
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Gap Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Greenhouse Effect
  • Habitats
  • Information Processing
  • Military Training
  • Nanofibers
  • Rocky Mountains
  • Standards
  • Training
  • United States
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.