Table 1.
Land cover classification for a 400 m buffer around each 41 km BBS route. The dominant land cover type for each ecoregion is in bold. Note that Northern Lakes and Forest is roughly evenly split between Deciduous Forest and Woody Wetlands, evidence for the hetereogeneity of the region.
| Landcover Type | Southern Rockies |
High Plains |
Central Plains |
Western Cornbelt |
Northern Lakes and Forest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open Water | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.04 | |
| Low Intensity Residential | 0.02 | ||||
| Deciduous Forest | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.25 | |
| Evergreen Forest | 0.47 | 0.12 | |||
| Mixed Forest | 0.01 | 0.11 | |||
| Shrubland | 0.15 | ||||
| Grassland/Herbaceous | 0.18 | 0.61 | 0.20 | 0.05 | |
| Pasture/Hay | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.10 |
| Row Crops | 0.14 | 0.66 | 0.74 | 0.03 | |
| Small Grains | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.01 | ||
| Fallow | 0.07 | ||||
| Woody Wetlands | 0.28 | ||||
| Emergent Herb Wetland | 0.01 | 0.04 | |||
*Only showing those categories for which at least one ecoregion has > 1%