Remote Sensing and Landscape Diversity

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A Pilot Study to Test Links Between Land Use/Land
Cover Tier 1 Monitoring Data and Tier 2 and 3
Monitoring Data
David W. Hulse1, Stanley V. Gregory2, Warren B.
Cohen3, Blake E. Feist4, and Christopher E.
Jordan4 1Department of Landscape Architecture,
University of Oregon 2Department of Fisheries
Wildlife, Oregon State University 3Pacific
Northwest Research Station (USFS), Corvallis,
OR 4Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA),
Seattle, WA
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Trajectoriesof Change
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Pre-Settlement Land Cover
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Contemporary Land Cover
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Tier 2 Intermediate/Functional Level

• Compare/contrast use of two approaches
• Hydrogeomorphic floodplain
• Anadromous fish distribution
• by correlating woody vegetation within 120 m of
• Historic floodplain perennial streams
• Spawning/rearing, rearing/migration, migration
  only streams

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Tier 3 Local Habitat Level

• Four response variables
• Vegetation composition
• Large wood abundance
• Total fish richness
• Relative fish abundance

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Forested and Non-forested Reaches
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Products

• Document primary Tier 3 relationships using field
  measurements
• Statistically correlate responses to changes over
  time
• Assess accuracy of Land Use / Land Cover
  characterizations over time
• Pilot test overall approach

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More Information
Willamette River Basin Planning Atlas
Trajectories of Environmental and
Ecological Change (PNW-ERC)

• Pacific Northwest
• Ecosystem Research
• Consortium (PNW-ERC)
• Web Pages
• http//www.orst.edu/dept/pnw-erc/

http//oregonstate.edu/dept/press/WillRivrBas.html
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