Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, This level III and IV ecoregion map was compiled at a scale of 1:250,000; it Literature Cited: PRINCIPAL AUTHORS: Alan J. Woods (Dynamac quality, and quantity of environmental resources; they are designed to serve as a depicts revisions and subdivisions of earlier level III ecoregions that were Bailey, R.G., Avers, P.E., King, T., and McNab, W.H., eds., 1994, Ecoregions and subregions of the United Corporation), James M. Omernik (USEPA), C. Scott Brockman spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of originally compiled at a smaller scale (USEPA 1997; Omernik 1987). The poster States (map) (supplementary table of map unit descriptions compiled and edited by McNab, W.H. and Bailey, (ODNR - Division of Geological Survey), Timothy D. Gerber ecosystems and ecosystem components. Ecoregions are directly applicable to the is part of a collaborative project primarily between the USEPA Region V, the R.G.): Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, scale 1:7,500,000. (ODNR - Division of Soil and Water Conservation), William D. immediate needs of state agencies including the development of biological USEPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gallant, A.L., Whittier, T.R., Larsen, D.P., Omernik, J.M., and Hughes, R.M., 1989, Regionalization as a tool Hosteter (NRCS), and Sandra H. Azevedo (OAO Corporation) criteria and water quality standards as well as the establishment of management Corvallis, Oregon, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management for managing environmental resources: Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA/600/3- goals for nonpoint-source pollution. They are also relevant to integrated (IDEM), the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the Ohio 89/060, 152 p. COLLABORATORS AND CONTRIBUTORS: Thomas P. ecosystem management, an ultimate goal of most federal and state resource Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA), the United States Department of Simon (USEPA), Chris O. Yoder (Ohio EPA), Patrick Merchant Griffith, G.E., Omernik, J.M., Wilton, T.F., and Pierson, S.M., 1994, Ecoregions and subregions of Iowa - a management agencies. Agriculture - Forest Service (USFS), the United States Department of Agriculture framework for water quality assessment and management: The Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science, v. (USFS), Thomas R. Loveland (USGS), C. Lee Bridges (IDEM - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (formerly the Soil Conservation 101, no. 1, p. 5-13. - Office of Water - Biological Studies Section), Gary L. The approach used to compile this map is based on the premise that ecological Service), and the United States Department of the Interior - U.S. Geological Overmier (NRCS), Kelly Capuzzi (Ohio EPA), Steven A. regions can be identified through the analysis of the patterns and the composition Survey (USGS) - Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center. Omernik, J.M., 1987, Ecoregions of the conterminous United States (map supplement): Annals of the Association of American Geographers, v. 77, no. 1, p. 118-125, scale 1:7,500,000. Newhouse (IDEM - Office of Water - Biological Studies of biotic and abiotic phenomena that affect or reflect differences in ecosystem Section), Tom Nash (National Park Service - Cuyahoga quality and integrity (Wiken 1986; Omernik 1987, 1995). These phenomena This project is associated with an interagency effort to develop a common Omernik, J.M., 1995, Ecoregions - a framework for environmental management, in Davis, W.S. and Simon, National Recreation Area), James R. Gammon (Professor include geology, physiography, vegetation, climate, soils, land use, wildlife, and framework of ecological regions. Reaching that objective requires recognition of T.P., eds., Biological assessment and criteria - tools for water resource planning and decision making: Boca Raton, Florida, Lewis Publishers, p. 49-62. Emeritus of Zoology, DePauw University), Barbara K. Andreas hydrology. The relative importance of each characteristic varies from one the differences in the conceptual approaches and mapping methodologies that have (Professor of Biology, Cuyahoga Community College), and ecological region to another regardless of the hierarchical level. A Roman been used to develop the most commonly used existing ecoregion-type U.S. Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service, 1981, Land resource regions and major land John Harrington (Professor, Department of Geography, Kansas numeral hierarchical scheme has been adopted for different levels of ecological frameworks, including those developed by the USFS (Bailey and others, 1994), the resource areas of the United States: Agriculture Handbook 296, 156 p. State University) regions. Level I is the coarsest level, dividing North America into 15 ecological USEPA (Omernik 1987, 1995), and the NRCS (U.S. Department of Agriculture - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997, Level III ecoregions of the continental United States (revision of regions, with level II dividing the continent into 52 regions. At level III, the Soil Conservation Service, 1981). As each of these frameworks is further Omernik, 1987): Corvallis, Oregon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - National Health and This project was partially supported by funds from the USEPA - continental United States contains 99 regions (United States Environmental developed, the differences between them lessen. Regional collaborative projects Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Map M-1, various scales. Office of Research and Development - Regional Applied Protection Agency [USEPA], 1997). Level IV is a further subdivision of level III such as this one in Indiana and Ohio, where agreement can be reached among Wiken, E., 1986, Terrestrial ecozones of Canada: Ottawa, Environment Canada, Ecological Land Classification Research Effort (RARE) program. ecoregions. Explanations of the methods used to define the USEPA’s ecoregions multiple resource management agencies, is a step in the direction of attaining Series no. 19, 26 p. are given in Omernik (1995), Griffith and others (1994), and Gallant and others commonality and consistency in ecoregion frameworks for the entire nation. 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