What results are produced?

TELSA results can be viewed as maps, graphs, or tables, for the entire landscape or for strata within the landscape, using user-friendly interfaces. Since all results are stored in an Access database, users can compare results of different scenarios or multiple Monte Carlo runs of one or more scenarios. Basic information such as area disturbed (including the range of area disturbed or the frequency of disturbance for different polygons), age-class distribution (figure on left below), and seral stage distribution, can be graphed and mapped. Additional spatial information such as count and area distribution of patch size classes and interior habitat (figure on right below), and the length of edge between different seral stages or age classes are also calculated. Because the state of every polygon is known for every reporting time-step, further post-processing for wildlife habitat interpretation or other analyses is also possible.

A comparison of layout and age class distribution of two landscapes with different management and disturbance histories. Double click on diagram to view a full-size version.		A portion of a landscape showing areas of interior habitat. Double click on diagram to view a full-size version.

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