The land cover map produced by the Landscape Change Module (see Section 3.3) is analyzed by the Impacts Module. This module may determine the effect the changed landscape has on species habitats, water quality, or other environmental impacts. Currently LUCAS is designed to perform only species habitat suitability analyses. Dr. Scott M. Pearson at Mars Hill College (Mars Hill, NC) created a list of species and habitat identification algorithms for each of the watersheds currently simulated by LUCAS in Table 7 [28]. The output from this module is a binary map; either a grid cell is suitable for a species or it is not. The statistics in Table 6 are again collected for each impact map.
