<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stoms, David M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McDonald, Jennifer M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Davis, Frank W.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fuzzy assessment of land suitability for scientific research reserves</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental Management</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecosystem Management Decision Support software</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EMDS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fuzzy logic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GIS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">knowledge base</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">knowledge-base</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land suitability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Merced</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Netweaver</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NRS</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">research reserves</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of California Natural Reserve System</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">vernal pools</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00267/bibs/2029004/20290545.html&lt;Go to ISI&gt;://000174557600008</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">29</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">545-558</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluating the characteristics of a set of sites as potential scientific research reserves is an example of land suitability assessment. Suitability in this case is based upon multiple criteria, many of which can be linguistically imprecise and often incompatible. Fuzzy logic is a useful method for characterizing imprecise suitability criteria and for combining criteria into an overall suitability rating. The Ecosystem Management Decision Support software combined a fuzzy logic knowledge base we developed to represent the assessment problem with a GIS database providing site-specific data for the assessment. Assessment of sites as a potential natural reserve for the new University of California campus at Merced demonstrates the benefits of fuzzy suitability assessment. The study was conducted in three stages of successively smaller assessment regions with increasingly fine spatial resolution and specificity of criteria. Several sites were identified that best satisfy the suitability criteria for a reserve to represent vernal pool habitat.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>