Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Representative Species Model: Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)

Snowy egret was selected as a representative species for the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project of the North Atlantic LCC (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/designing_sustainable_landscapes/). The habitat clusters (ecological systems) and associated wildlife species that it represents are shallow estuarine habitats for all of the subregions throughout the NA LCC. The Landscape Capability (LC) index integrates habitat capability and climate suitability into a single index that reflects the relative capacity of a site to support the species.

雪鹭（Snowy egret）被选为北大西洋LCC（North Atlantic LCC）旗下可持续景观设计项目的代表物种，该项目的相关页面可访问：https://scholarworks.umass.edu/designing_sustainable_landscapes/。该物种所代表的栖息地集群（生态系统）及伴生野生动物类群，覆盖了北大西洋LCC所有子区域内的浅海河口生境。景观承载力（Landscape Capability, LC）指数将栖息地承载力与气候适宜性整合为单一综合指标，用以反映某一场所支撑该物种存续的相对能力。