Advancements in mapping areas suitable for wetland habitats across the conterminous United States.

ABSTRACT: Wetland habitats provide critical ecosystem services to the surrounding landscape, including nutrient and pollutant retention, flood mitigation, and carbon storage. Wetland connectivity to water bodies and related ecosystems is critical in habitat sustainability, but there are limited resources for landscape-level wetland planning. Considering the network connectivity of an ecosystem type can derive different benefits to the natural and built environment, as well as human health. The value that wetlands provide, along with incentive programs and conservation goals mandated by the government require new and improved wetland spatial data. Utilizing high quality, publicly available data, this study finds that the amount of land in the United States that could support built or restored wetland

SUBMITTER: Krohmer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11998124 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature