Protection of Pine Barrens Habitat on Federal Lands: A Case Study Using the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

IF 2.2 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Ecohealth Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI:10.1007/s10393-025-01714-0

Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld

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Industrial, radiological, and chemical wastes remain from nuclear production and research from the Cold War and subsequent industrial activities. Cleanup of these lands is essential to allow future land uses. Some of the US Department of Energy's (DOE) lands will remain in federal ownership, where research and development continue. An opportunity exists to preserve important habitats and ecological resources while still completing a cleanup mission. This paper uses DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as a case study to examine whether it has sensitive and rare ecological habitat compared to the surrounding region. Our approach was to use the National Land Cover Database to compare the percentage of land use types on BNL to areas from its border to 10 and 30 km of BNL. BNL has a higher percentage of forest on its lands (63%), than occurs in the surrounding region within 10 km (39%) and within 30 km (26%). Pine barrens habitat is threatened globally and is unique in the northeast. Other than the NJ Pinelands, this habitat does not occur for several hundred kms to the south. Our approach can be used at other sites to understand the importance of specific ecological vegetation types compared to the surrounding regions, and to encourage protection when sites contain unique regional habitats. Critical and climax vegetation provides the habitat for endangered and threatened species, as well as local and regional species of concern.

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联邦土地上松林栖息地的保护：使用能源部布鲁克海文国家实验室的案例研究。

冷战和随后的工业活动产生的核生产和研究产生的工业、放射性和化学废物仍然存在。清理这些土地对未来的土地利用至关重要。美国能源部（DOE）的一些土地将继续归联邦所有，在那里继续进行研究和开发。在完成清理任务的同时，仍然有机会保护重要的栖息地和生态资源。本文以美国能源部布鲁克海文国家实验室（Brookhaven National Laboratory， BNL）为案例研究，考察其与周边地区相比是否具有敏感和稀有的生态栖息地。我们的方法是使用国家土地覆盖数据库来比较BNL上的土地利用类型与从其边界到BNL 10和30公里区域的百分比。BNL土地上的森林比例（63%）高于周边10公里（39%）和30公里（26%）范围内的森林比例。松树的贫瘠栖息地在全球范围内受到威胁，在东北地区是独一无二的。除了新泽西州的松林，这种栖息地在向南几百公里的地方都没有。我们的方法可以用于其他地点，以了解与周围地区相比，特定生态植被类型的重要性，并鼓励在遗址包含独特的区域栖息地时进行保护。临界植被和顶极植被为濒危和受威胁物种以及当地和区域性物种提供了栖息地。

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Ecohealth 环境科学-环境科学

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4.50

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4.00%

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>24 weeks

期刊介绍： EcoHealth aims to advance research, practice, and knowledge integration at the interface of ecology and health by publishing high quality research and review articles that address and profile new ideas, developments, and programs. The journal’s scope encompasses research that integrates concepts and theory from many fields of scholarship (including ecological, social and health sciences, and the humanities) and draws upon multiple types of knowledge, including those of relevance to practice and policy. Papers address integrated ecology and health challenges arising in public health, human and veterinary medicine, conservation and ecosystem management, rural and urban development and planning, and other fields that address the social-ecological context of health. The journal is a central platform for fulfilling the mission of the EcoHealth Alliance to strive for sustainable health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, and ecosystems by promoting discovery, understanding, and transdisciplinarity. The journal invites substantial contributions in the following areas: One Health and Conservation Medicine o Integrated research on health of humans, wildlife, livestock and ecosystems o Research and policy in ecology, public health, and agricultural sustainability o Emerging infectious diseases affecting people, wildlife, domestic animals, and plants o Research and practice linking human and animal health and/or social-ecological systems o Anthropogenic environmental change and drivers of disease emergence in humans, wildlife, livestock and ecosystems o Health of humans and animals in relation to terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems Ecosystem Approaches to Health o Systems thinking and social-ecological systems in relation to health o Transdiiplinary approaches to health, ecosystems and society.