Appendix B (TABLE B1). Land cover classifications used in quantifying landscape structure at the 1 km and 10 km spatial extents examined, as they corresponded to the 1990s National Land Cover data (NLCD) classes.
| NLCD classes * |
NLCD reclassified in current study |
Acronym used in current study |
| Open water | Open water | OW |
| Low intensity residential | Low intensity residential | RLD |
| High intensity residential | High intensity urban | HURB |
|
Commercial, Industrial, & Transportation |
High intensity urban or Low intensity residential |
HURB or RLD |
| Bare & Transitional | Miscellaneous | MISC |
|
Quarries, Strip Mines, & Gravel Pits |
Miscellaneous | MISC |
| Bare Rock & Sand | Miscellaneous | MISC |
| Deciduous forest | Forest | FOR |
| Evergreen forest | Forest | FOR |
| Mixed forest | Forest | FOR |
| Mixed forest | Forest | FOR |
| Shrubland | Shrubland | SHRUB |
| Grasslands & Herbaceous | Grasslands | GRAS |
| Pasture & Hay | Grasslands | GRAS |
| Pasture & Hay | Grasslands | GRAS |
| Urban & Recreational grasses | Low intensity residential | RLD |
| Orchard, Vineyards, & Other | Agriculture | AG |
| Row crops | Agriculture | AG |
| Small grains | Agriculture | AG |
| Row crops | Agriculture | AG |
| Woody wetlands | Woody wetlands | WW |
| Emergent herbaceous wetlands | Palustrine-emergent wetland | PEW |
* Classification system defined by Vogelmann (2001).
LITERATURE CITED
Vogelmann, J. E., S. M. Howard, L. Yang, C. R. Larson, B. K. Wylie, and N. Van Driel. 2001. Completion of the 1990s National Land Cover dataset for the conterminous United States from Landsat Thematic Mapper data and ancillary data sources. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 67:650–684.