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Linking Biogeography and Environmental Management in the Wetland Landscape of Coastal North Carolina

The difference between nationwide and individual wetland permits

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GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology

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A set of individual wetland permit sites was compared with a set of nationwide wetland permit sites to determine the difference between their respective pattern on the landscape. Five landscape metrics (distance to water, permit site clustering, distance to other sites, amount of wetland found surrounding the permit site, and the variety of land cover found surrounding the permit site) were calculated for each permit site, and the statistical separability of the two permit datasets for each of these metrics was tested. The results indicate that in the study area of coastal North Carolina during the early 1990s, individual wetland permits and nationwide wetland permits were statistically different with respect to both their proximity to water, and to the amount of wetland vegetation found in the area surrounding the permit site. However, the two types of permits were not statistically different with respect to their spatial dispersion across the study area, and with respect to the amount of land cover heterogeneity found in the area surrounding each permit site. These results have management implications in light of recent changes to the wetland permit process in the United States.

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  1. Ecosystem Sciences Division, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California-Berkeley, 151 Hilgard Hall #3110, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3110, USA

    Nina M. Kelly

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  1. University of Leicester, UK

    Andrew C. Millington

  2. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    Stephen J. Walsh

  3. University of Stirling, UK

    Patrick E. Osborne

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Kelly, N.M. (2001). Linking Biogeography and Environmental Management in the Wetland Landscape of Coastal North Carolina. In: Millington, A.C., Walsh, S.J., Osborne, P.E. (eds) GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Biogeography and Ecology. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 626. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1523-4_18

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