Full-coverage mapping and updating of habitat characteristics for regional biodiversity monitoring and integrated landscape management

栖息地特征全覆盖测绘和更新，用于区域生物多样性监测和综合景观管理

• 批准号: 401966-2010
• 负责人: McDermid, Gregory
• 金额: $ 6.72万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=498831
• 关键词: Full; coverage; mapping; updating; habitat

The continuing growth and development of Alberta's population and natural resource-based economy has resulted in a strong need for effective land management and ecological stewardship strategies. The Land-use Framework (LuF), adopted by the Government of Alberta in 2008 to address this need, is designed to promote collaborative local management, whereby industry, communities, and governments work together to achieve improved land-use decision-making that meets regional planning guidelines, and reduce the current rate of biodiversity loss. As a result there is a pressing need in Alberta to create and maintain a shared repository with high-quality local-level information on the status of the landscapes in which the above agents operate. However, to date no such repository exists. To fill this gap, we will conduct research on the exploitation of modern remote sensing technologies and data sets within a Geographic Information System (GIS), with the goal of creating a repository of up-to-date local habitat information that can be made available to land managers and decision-makers through the internet. Once complete, this project will demonstrate a strategy for providing local information on habitat status, which will help us identify the causes that underlie observed changes in biodiversity in Alberta. In addition, this research will help us predict future biodiversity conditions that may result from different management scenarios. Our work is designed to benefit industrial, government, and non-governmental organizations throughout Alberta, and provide a practical example for other provincial and national monitoring programs.

艾伯塔省人口和自然资源型经济的持续增长和发展强烈需要有效的土地管理和生态管理战略。阿尔伯塔省政府于 2008 年为满足这一需求而采用的土地利用框架 (LuF) 旨在促进地方协作管理，即行业、社区和政府共同努力，改进土地利用决策，满足区域规划准则的要求，并降低目前生物多样性丧失的速度。 因此，阿尔伯塔省迫切需要创建和维护一个共享存储库，其中包含有关上述代理运营的景观状况的高质量本地信息。然而，迄今为止，尚不存在这样的存储库。为了填补这一空白，我们将在地理信息系统（GIS）中对现代遥感技术和数据集的利用进行研究，目标是创建一个最新的当地栖息地信息存储库，可以通过互联网向土地管理者和决策者提供这些信息。一旦完成，该项目将展示一项提供有关栖息地状况的当地信息的策略，这将帮助我们确定艾伯塔省观察到的生物多样性变化的原因。此外，这项研究将帮助我们预测不同管理方案可能导致的未来生物多样性状况。我们的工作旨在使整个艾伯塔省的工业、政府和非政府组织受益，并为其他省级和国家级监测项目提供实用范例。