Designing Sustainable Landscapes: The index of ecological impact

The primary file is a PDF document that provides a description of the ecological impact metric that is suitable for both applications found in the associated datasets (described in greater detail below). Dataset 1: The ecological impact associated with the SPRAWL paper [updated 3/17/2017] — includes two landscape change scenarios: 1) baseline 70-year (2010-2080) climate change and urban growth scenario without additional land protection, and 2) same 70-year landscape change scenario but with additional terrestrial reserve areas (core areas) protected from development as established for Nature's Network landscape design (www.naturesnetwork.org). Dataset 2: The ecological impact associated with the INTEGRITY paper [updated 3/17/2017] — includes five landscape change scenarios: 1) baseline 70-year (2010-2080) climate change and urban growth scenario without additional land protection; 2) same as #1 but with 25% more demand for new development; 3) same as #1 but with increased sprawl to the pattern of development; 4) same as #1 but with both 25% more demand for new development and increased sprawl; and 5) same as #1 but with additional terrestrial reserve areas (core areas) protected from development as established for Nature's Network landscape design (www.naturesnetwork.org).