Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Representative Species Model: American Black Duck, Non-breeding (Anas rubripes)

American Black Duck (non-breeding) 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 generally consist of estuarine and freshwater coastal marsh and open water. 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.