North Temperate Lakes LTER Northern Highland Lake District Wildland Urban Interface

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using geographic information systems (GIS), we integrated U.S. Census and USGS National Land Cover Data, to map the Federal Register definition of WUI (Federal Register 66:751, 2001). These data are useful within a GIS for mapping and analysis at national, state, and local levels.

荒野-城市交界区（Wildland-Urban Interface, WUI）指的是住宅与未开发的荒野植被接壤或相互混杂的区域。这使得该区域成为人类与环境冲突的焦点地带，此类冲突涵盖野火、生境破碎化、外来物种入侵以及生物多样性下降等问题。本研究借助地理信息系统（Geographic Information Systems, GIS），整合美国人口普查数据与美国地质调查局（United States Geological Survey, USGS）国家土地覆盖数据集，依据《联邦公报》2001年第66卷第751页中对WUI的官方定义完成了制图工作。该数据集可在地理信息系统环境下，用于国家、州级及地方层面的制图与分析工作。