UNE’s Noah Perlut publishes in special edition of ‘Northeastern Naturalist’ journal
Noah Perlut, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, and co-researchers from the University of Vermont recently published a scholarly paper in a special edition of the journal Natural History of Agricultural Landscapes, a special edition of the journal Northeastern Naturalist.
The paper, “A multicriteria decision analysis for identifying priority conservation areas for grassland birds,” describes a study in which the researchers tested the efficacy of multicriteria decision analysis as a tool to select priority areas for conservation in human-dominated landscapes, using grassland birds in the northeastern U.S. as a test case. Integrating the GIS dataset into a multicriteria decision analysis framework, they produced maps in which grassland patches were ranked based on habitat quality and used these maps to identify priority conservation areas. This approach resulted in maps that managers can use to focus conservation efforts.
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