Protecting and Restoring Habitat in Urban Ecosystems

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Protecting and Restoring Habitat in Urban Ecosystems

0 hrs. Online Course
Level: Intermediate
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Item #: RV-10960
SME: W. Matt McCaw

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Ecosystems provide humanity with the products and services needed to sustain a high quality of life on this planet. Unfortunately, urban development and mechanical disturbance destroy or damage over 400 square miles of ecosystems every year in the United States alone (Johnson, Brown, Loveland, & Theobald, 2005). However, with thoughtful preservation and restoration, living systems can be integrated into our built environments and can continue to provide services such as clean air, clean water, climate regulation, wildlife habitat, and improved human health and well-being.

This interactive online course will help you understand how the design and management of habitat in urban areas affects the services it provides to the community. It will discuss the processes that drive the development of ecosystems and how these processes can be used to restore and manage nature in urban settings. The course will cover strategies for habitat mitigation. It will also discuss the components of restoration and Integrated Pest Management plans. Lastly, the course will describe strategies for achieving community understanding and support for urban habitat conservation.

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At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Define habitat.
Identify indicators of healthy habitat.
Describe the value to human health and well-being of habitat in urban ecosystems.
Discuss natural processes that drive the development of ecosystems.
Discuss strategies for habitat conservation and restoration.
List the steps of the mitigation process.
Recognize the components of a restoration plan.
List the steps of Integrated Pest Management.
List the steps of Adaptive Management.
Contrast ecosystem restoration and management.
Discuss ways of communicating the intent in preserved or restored habitat.

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Subject Matter Expert: W. Matt McCaw

Biography

I grew up in northeast Texas and as a child it seems I was happiest in the outdoors, often completely unsupervised with the world to roam. In adolescence I saw the woodlot behind our old neighborhood razed and developed and the grandparents’ farm sold and subdivided. I began to realize that these places, and all others like them, where I made my best memories needed protection.

I studied biology and chemistry at Southwestern University and earned a M.S. in Land Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am now the senior biologist for the City of Austin’s Water Quality Protection Lands program which conserves and manages over 27,000 acres south and west of Austin, TX for the protection and improvement of water quality and aquifer recharge.

Over the last decade of restoring and managing natural systems, my focus has shifted from nature to people. I have come to view restoration not as a means of benefiting nature for its own sake, but as one in a suite of tools for achieving sustainability and a fair standard of living for all people.

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