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Toby Gray, Kristine Evans –Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University; Todd Jones-Farrand, Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
As part of its mission to facilitate ecosystem conservation at a large landscape scale, the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCPO) conducted a rapid ecological assessment of open pine woodlands and savanna as one of nine priority systems within its geography. We assembled spatial data layers representative of desired ecological states (e.g., canopy cover, basal area, etc.) and combined them in an additive mapping procedure to assess amount, configuration, and condition of open pine. Input layers included a “pine mask” of ecological systems currently dominated by pine (from USGS GAP), published estimations of basal area (USFS) and canopy cover (MRLC), and unpublished estimations of midstory density, midstory basal area, and average tree diameter per acre (USFS). Data layers were processed to reflect threshold conditions for open pine defined in the GCPO Integrated Science Agenda. The additive mapping procedure assigned score values to each input layer, then processed the summed scores to identify areas of the greatest concentration of desired open pine conditions. Results indicate that open pine in desired conditions comprise about 1.7 million acres (
