Abstract:Background
Ecosystem classification provides a systematic means to organize landscape resources for the purposes of environmental management and planning. The ecosystem classification attempts to capture earth processes over large geographic areas that produce persistent ecosystem patterns on the landscape. Past studies included the hierarchical ecosystem classification in the 300 Dry Domain of the United States and the 100 Polar Domain of Canada. In this paper, the land ecosystem classification (LEC) was deve… Show more
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