Text Box: Blog at Wordpress.com Blog at Google + Text Box: Why Map Ecosystems? ©Tamara R. Sayre The Earth contains a diverse variety of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. These ecosystems provide biological resources and services that are essential to our survival. The rapid change on our landscapes threatens the existence of these ecosystems and the critical ecological services they provide. Educators and students worldwide are demanding accessible analysis and data to better characterize, understand, monitor, and forecast changes to the landscape. Rectangular Callout: Global Ecosystems mapping will provide critical data to organizations, earth observation systems, and global conventionsText Box: Please submit blog entries to: Pearl1@unm.edu