{"id":144,"date":"2011-11-04T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/04\/the-changing-landscape-of-cape-cod\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:19:00","slug":"the-changing-landscape-of-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/04\/the-changing-landscape-of-cape-cod\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Landscape Of Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center<\/a> “combine analysis of satellite images of the Earth with field studies to measure, model, and map the Earth’s ecosystems, from thawing permafrost in the arctic to the expanding agriculture regions of the tropics.” The WHRC studies regions all over Earth, including their own backyard. The second half of the 20th century brought significant changes to the home of the WHRC, Cape Cod, including a doubling in the population<\/a>. This increase in population has transformed\u00a0land use patterns, and consequently the landscape, dramatically. The images below depict land use: dark green represents forests, yellow\u00a0represents\u00a0residential areas, red\u00a0represents\u00a0commercial\u00a0and industrial areas, light brown\u00a0represents\u00a0salt marshes, pale brown\u00a0represents\u00a0sand, while orange\u00a0represents\u00a0agricultural areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The WHRC has made a variety of resources available regarding the Cape, including time series photographs of Falmouth<\/a>, maps of land cover change by town<\/a>, a description of critical habitats<\/a>, and an exploration of why some areas on the Cape should be a priority for local governments to acquire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center “combine analysis of satellite images of the Earth with field studies to measure, model, and map the Earth’s ecosystems, from thawing permafrost in the arctic to the expanding agriculture regions of the tropics.” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}