caa a22 4500 469074809 CHVBK 20180323132932.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00131257 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00131257 Land use dynamics within an urbanizing non-metropolitan county in New York State (USA) [Elektronische Daten] [James LaGro Jr., Stephen DeGloria] Land use/land cover data for fifteen minor civil divisions (MCDs) in Ulster County, New York (USA) were interpreted from 1968 and 1985 aerial photographs. These data were combined with ancillary physiographic and demographic data as raster layers within a computerized geographic information system (GIS). Class to class changes in land use/land cover were quantified for a study area approximately 30 kilometers by 50 kilometers. The relationships between the land use/land cover variables and the ancillary variables were modeled in a series of weighted least squares regressions employing data spatially aggregated by general soil map unit (N = 44). Between 1968 and 1985, nearly one-third of the study area changed to another land use/land cover class. Land in the urban class increased from 6.7% to 17.8% of the study area, while the forest class declined from 65.0% to 55.2%, and the agriculture class declined from 12.7% to 8.9%. Gains and losses in the remaining five major (Level I) land use/land cover classes were relatively small. Land use changes primarily involved the conversion of land from the forest, agriculture, and vacant classes to the urban class, and from the agriculture class to the forest and vacant classes. Variables accounting for the variance in the land use/land cover class proportions of the soil units were population density, highway proximity, distance to urban centers, mean elevation, mean slope gradient, and soil suitability for farming and for urban development. SPB Academic Publishing bv, 1992 LaGro Jr. James Department of Landscape Architecture, 25 Agriculture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA aut DeGloria Stephen Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences, 453 Hollister Hall, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, New York, USA aut Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/4(1992-12-01), 275-289 0921-2973 7:4<275 1992 7 10980 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00131257 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00131257 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- LaGro Jr James Department of Landscape Architecture, 25 Agriculture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DeGloria Stephen Department of Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences, 453 Hollister Hall, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, New York, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Landscape Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 7/4(1992-12-01), 275-289 0921-2973 7:4<275 1992 7 10980 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer