Browsing by Subject "CART"
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Identification and prioritization of lands for restoration of Piedmont prairie in North Carolina
(2007-12-07)In the central Piedmont of North Carolina, prairies and savannas were noted by European settlers to have covered a significant portion of the landscape. Piedmont prairie is valued for its extraordinary biodiversity; at least ... -
Land Cover Change and Ecosystem Services on the North Carolina Piedmont 1985 to 2005
(2008-04-25)Analyses of ecosystem processes are advanced through remote sensing and geostatistical modeling methods capable of capturing landscape pattern over broad spatial and temporal scales. Many ecological studies rely on land ... -
Restoring Brook Trout to North Carolina's National Forests
(2008-04-22)Stream systems in the Southern Appalachian Mountains represent the southern limit of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) distribution in the eastern United States and are home to the region’s only native salmonid, the Southern ... -
Searching for Eastern Old Growth: Modeling Primary Forest in Western North Carolina Using Terrain Attributes and Multispectral Satellite Imagery
(2010-12-10)After centuries of timber harvest and conversion of forest to farmland and development, only small pockets of old growth forest remain in the eastern United States. These remnant portions of older forest have intrinsic value ...