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Abstract

Here, we offer an empirical evaluation of their statements regarding size, distribution, and representation of ecological systems (i.e., vegetation communities) within MTAs for the contiguous United States (CONUS) by comparing MTAs with lands managed by other U.S. federal agencies. By combining the Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD‐US; USGS‐GAP ) and the National GAP Land Cover (USGS‐GAP ), we determined total number of ecological systems across all units of DoD and other agencies; and proportion of each ecological system that each agency represents across all lands. [...]U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, despite being 8.5 and 8.6 times larger than DoD lands, represent only 458 and 293 ecosystems, respectively. [...]even though DoD lands comprise only 5% of the total area of federal lands, they represent 82.6% of the diversity of ecological systems, whereas USFS and BLM comprise 42% and 43% of the total federal land area, but neither represents as much diversity as DoD lands.

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Title
Bombing for Biodiversity in the United States: Response to Zentelis & Lindenmayer 2015
Author
Aycrigg, Jocelyn L 1 ; R. Travis Belote 2 ; Dietz, Matthew S 3 ; Aplet, Gregory H 4 ; Fischer, Richard A 5 

 Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA 
 The Wilderness Society, Bozeman, Montana, USA 
 The Wilderness Society, San Francisco, California, USA 
 The Wilderness Society, Denver, Colorado, USA 
 U.S. Army Engineer R&D Center, Environmental Lab, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA 
Pages
306-307
Section
Correspondence
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Jul/Aug 2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
e-ISSN
1755263X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2289693630
Copyright
© 2015. This work is published under (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.