TY  - RPRT
AU  - Slonecker, E.T.
AU  - Barnes, Christopher A.
AU  - Karstensen, K.A.
AU  - Milheim, L.E.
AU  - Roig-Silva, C.M.
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Consequences of land use and land cover change
BT  - U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
IS  - 2013-3010
KW  - area
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - carbon
KW  - change
KW  - climate
KW  - climate variability
KW  - crops
KW  - data
KW  - Earth
KW  - Fact Sheets
KW  - fluctuation
KW  - forest
KW  - global
KW  - global scale
KW  - grassland
KW  - habitat
KW  - human
KW  - human activity
KW  - impact
KW  - invasive species
KW  - land
KW  - land-cover
KW  - land-use
KW  - land cover
KW  - land cover change
KW  - land surface
KW  - land use
KW  - land use and land cover
KW  - land use change
KW  - parks
KW  - pasture
KW  - patterns
KW  - regional
KW  - satellite
KW  - scale
KW  - structure
KW  - U.S.Geological Survey Series
KW  - USGS
KW  - vegetation
KW  - water
KW  - water quality
KW  - wetland
N2  - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Climate and Land Use Change Mission Area is one of seven USGS mission areas that focuses on making substantial scientific "...contributions to understanding how Earth systems interact, respond to, and cause global change". Using satellite and other remotely sensed data, USGS scientists monitor patterns of land cover change over space and time at regional, national, and global scales. These data are analyzed to understand the causes and consequences of changing land cover, such as economic impacts, effects on water quality and availability, the spread of invasive species, habitats and biodiversity, carbon fluctuations, and climate variability. USGS scientists are among the leaders in the study of land cover, which is a term that generally refers to the vegetation and artificial structures that cover the land surface. Examples of land cover include forests, grasslands, wetlands, water, crops, and buildings. Land use involves human activities that take place on the land. For example, "grass" is a land cover, whereas pasture and recreational parks are land uses that produce a cover of grass.
SN  - http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20133010
UR  - http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20133010
N1  - exported from refbase (http://eros.usgs.gov/refbase/show.php?record=25802), last updated on Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:51:21 -0500
ID  - Slonecker_etal2013
ER  -