Ecological site descriptions (ESDs) are used to capture, organize, and deliver information in a conceptual framework that is relevant to land management. This workshop demonstrates the potential of emerging technologies to improve the quality and efficiency of information capture, organization, and delivery as it relates to the ESD development process. The conventional approach to ESD development is to integrate soils and vegetation data (usually from soil survey projects), local expertise, thematic searches of published literature, and any other available data sources (e.g. climate station data) into an ESD document. Emerging technologies streamline this process and have the potential to produce more complete ESD products in an increasingly efficient way. This workshop is intended to demonstrate how ESD development and utility might improve in the future.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.