Monitoring Forest Change in Landscapes Under-Going Rapid Energy Development: Challenges and New Perspectives
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
department or school: Non UBC
department or school: Forest and Conservation Sciences, Department of
department or school: Forest Resources Management, Department of
data provider: DSpace
identifier citation: Land 3 (3): 617-638 (2014)
creator: Pickell, Paul D.
creator: Gergel, Sarah E.
creator: Coops, Nicholas C.
creator: Andison, David W.
issued: 2019-05-22T16:21:31Z
issued: 2014-07-02
description: The accelerated development of energy resources around the world has substantially increased forest change related to oil and gas activities. In some cases, oil and gas activities are the primary catalyst of land-use change in forested landscapes. We discuss the challenges associated with characterizing ecological change related to energy resource development using North America as an exemplar. We synthesize the major impacts of energy development to forested ecosystems and offer new perspectives on how to detect and monitor anthropogenic disturbance during the Anthropocene. The disturbance of North American forests for energy development has resulted in persistent linear corridors, suppression of historical disturbance regimes, novel ecosystems, and the eradication of ecological memory. Characterizing anthropogenic disturbances using conventional patch-based disturbance measures will tend to underestimate the ecological impacts of energy development. Suitable indicators of anthropogenic impacts in forests should be derived from the integration of multi-scalar Earth observations. Relating these indicators to ecosystem condition will be a capstone in the progress toward monitoring forest change in landscapes undergoing rapid energy development.
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note: Land 2014, 3, 617-638; doi:10.3390/land3030617 land ISSN 2073-445X www.mdpi.com/journal/land/ Review Monitoring Forest Change in Landscapes Under-Going Rapid Energy Development: Challenges and New Perspectives Paul D. Pickell 1,*, Sarah E. Gergel 2, Nicholas C. Coops 1 and David W. Andison 3 1 Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; E-Mail: nicholas.coops@ubc.ca 2 Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; E-Mail: sarah.gergel@ubc.ca 3 Bandaloop Landscape-Ecosystem Services, 1011 Hendecourt Road, North Vancouver, BC V7K 2X3, Canada; E-Mail: andison@bandaloop.ca * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: paul.pickell@forestry.ubc.ca; Tel.: +1-604-822-6452; Fax: +1-604-822-9106. Received: 30 April 2014; in revised form: 19 June 2014 / Accepted: 23 June 2014 / Published: 2 July 2014 Abstract: The accelerated development of energy resources around the world has substantially increased forest change related to oil and gas activities. In some cases, oil and gas activities are the primary catalyst of land-use change in forested landscapes. We discuss the challenges associated with characterizing ecological change related to energy resource development using North America as an exemplar. We synthesize the major impacts of energy development to forested ecosystems and offer new perspectives on how to detect and monitor anthropogenic disturbance during the Anthropocene. The disturbance of North American forests for energy development has resulted in persistent linear corridors, suppression of historical disturbance regimes, novel ecosystems, and the eradication of ecological memory. Characterizing anthropogenic disturbances using conventional patch-based disturbance measures will tend to underestimate the ecological impacts of energy development. Suitable indicators of anthropogenic impacts in f…
has type: Article
spatial: North America
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0378903
language: eng
peer review status: Reviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
publisher DOI: 10.3390/land3030617
rights: CC BY 3.0
rights URI: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
scholar level: Faculty
subject: Landscape structure
subject: Disturbance detection
subject: Anthropogenic disturbance
subject: Disturbance regime
subject: Resilience
subject: Forest land use
subject: Oil and gas
subject: Bakken shale
subject: Oil sands
subject: Anthropocene
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70254