Modeling the spatially dynamic distribution of humans in the Oregon (USA) coast range.

Jeffrey D. Kline; David L. Azuma; Alissa Moses

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Modeling the spatially dynamic distribution of humans in the Oregon (USA) coast range.

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jeffrey D. Kline, David L. Azuma, Alissa Moses

Year:

2003

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

Source:

Landscape Ecology. 18:347-361

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Abstract

A common approach to land use change analyses in multidisciplinary landscape-level studies is to delineate discrete forest and non-forest or urban and non-urban land use categories to serve as inputs into sets of integrated sub-models describing socioeconomic and ecological processes. Such discrete land use categories, however, may be inappropriate when the socioeconomic and ecological processes under study are sensitive to a range of human habitation. In this paper, we characterize the spatial dynamic distribution of humans throughout the forest landscape of western Oregon (USA).

Keywords

Ecological economics, forest/urban interface, land use change, landscape modeling, western Oregon, USA

Citation

Kline, Jeffrey D.; Azuma, David L.; Moses, Alissa. 2003. Modeling the spatially dynamic distribution of humans in the Oregon (USA) coast range. Landscape Ecology. 18:347-361