PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF LOCAL LAND USE REGULATIONS ON BIODIVERSITY IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
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Date of publication
December 2004
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AGRIS:US2016222181
A leading cause of biodiversity decline is the habitat destruction associated with urban development. We use a database of county-level land use regulations to analyze the effects of local land use regulations on land use changes. We use the results of this analysis and a species-habitat associations matrix to conduct simulations that relate changes in local land use regulations to changes in biodiversity through predicted changes in land use.
