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Seeing the Forest through the TreesTim Howard, Tim Tear, and Brad Stratton
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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
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What Are Matrix Forest Blocks?
• Large, unfragmented patches of forest
• Representative of all landscape types
• Resistant, resilient, and persistent over time
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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?
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Large, unfragmented patches of forest
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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
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Large enough to withstand disturbance events
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Big enough to support breeding populations
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Resistent, Resilient, and Persistent
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Representative of all landscape types
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Great Lakes Ecoregion – Missing from the Northeast
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National Land Cover Data ‐ 2006
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Natural land cover and fragmenting features
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1st cut at candidate matrix forest blocks
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Experts meeting
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Refined set of matrix blocks ‐
based on expert review and abiotic features
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Final selection of matrix blocks
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Matrix blocks and Landscape Connectivity
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Landscape Connectivity and natural land cover
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Thank You!
Questions?
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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?