1. Summary of the MAIA Working Conference.
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Bradley, M. Patricia, Brown, Barbara S., Hale, Stephen S., Kutz, Frederick W., Landy, Ronald B., Shedlock, R., Mangold, R., Morris, Alvin, Galloway, Walter, Rosen, Jeffrey S., Pepino, R., and Wiersma, Bruce
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LANDSCAPE assessment ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,AFFORESTATION ,BIODIVERSITY ,BIOTIC communities ,NATURAL resources - Abstract
The article presents the proceedings of the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) Working Conference. From November 30 to December 2, 1998, the MAIA held a Working Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, to present its results to scientists, environmental managers, and the public. It also solicited feed- back on the usefulness of the MAIA program's activities, as well as suggestions on needs or changes to its program. The MAIA program is just beginning to work on terrestrial resources. So far it has primarily emphasized forests, and secondarily agricultural and urban ecosystems. The session on terrestrial ecosystems considered forestry, indicators of biodiversity (amphibians and birds), landscape assessments, the socio-econoinics of forestry, and effects of forests on aquatic ecosystems.
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- 2000
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