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· Anticipating potential shifts in plant communities has been a major challenge in climate-change ecology. In the State of Hawaii, where conservation efforts tend to be habitat focused, the lack of projections of vegetation shifts under future climate is a major knowledge gap for developing management actions for climate-change mitigation and adaptation.· As a first approximation, we have modeled potential shifts of terrestrial vegetation across the Hawaiian landscape between now and the end of this century. Our approach relies on modeling the relation between current climate and the distribution of broad climatically determined moisture zones (MZs; for example, wet, mesic, and dry areas) that form the...
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Project;
Tags: 2017,
Academics & scientific researchers,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags...
Pacific Islands LCC,
Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
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Training/Outreach/Workshop,
Vulnerability Assessment,
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This layer depicts the status, or degree of disturbance, to plant communities on the main Hawaiian Islands. Several layers were uset to create this version (v 3.4). The original HabQual layer was developed by Jon Price and Jim Jacobi based on the mapped land cover units from the Hawaii GAP analysis program (Gon et al. 2006). This map was revised by combining data on land use and the “Bare” category from the NOAA C-CAP 2005 map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and adding road corridors to the heavily disturbed category based on the Tiger Roads layer (United States Census Bureau 2014). Additionally, corrections were made to this version of the map by visually inspecting previously mapped...
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Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
GeoTIFF,
Map Service,
Raster;
Tags: Hawaii Island,
Hawaiian Islands,
Kahoolawe,
Kauai,
Lanai, All tags...
Maui,
Molokai,
Oahu,
alien species,
disturbance,
mapping,
native species,
plant communities,
remote sensing,
satellite imagery,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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While there have been many maps produced that depict vegetation for the state of Hawai‘i only a few of these display land cover for all of the main Hawaiian Islands, and most of those that were created before the year 2000 have very generalized units or are somewhat inaccurate as a result of more recent land use changes or due to poor resolution (both spatial and spectral) in the imagery that was used to produce the map. Some of the more detailed and accurate maps include the Hawai‘i GAP Analysis (HI-GAP) Land Cover map (Gon et al. 2006), the NOAA C-CAP Land Cover map (NOAA National Ocean Service Coastal Services Center 2012), and the more recently released Hawai‘i LANDFIRE EVT Land Cover map (U.S. Geological Survey...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation,
Downloadable,
GeoTIFF,
Map Service,
Raster;
Tags: Hawaii Island,
Hawaiian Islands,
Kahoolawe,
Kauai,
Lanai, All tags...
Maui,
Molokai,
Oahu,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
mapping,
plant communities,
remote sensing,
satellite imagery,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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These two raster data layers depict the land cover and degree of human disturbance to plant communities on the seven main Hawaiian Islands, and were developed as part of a comprehensive USGS assessment of carbon sequestration potential by natural ecosystems in the State of Hawaii.
Types: Citation;
Tags: Botany,
Ecology,
Geography,
Hawaii Island,
Hawaiian Islands, All tags...
Kahoolawe,
Kauai,
Lanai,
Land Use Change,
Maui,
Molokai,
Oahu,
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
alien species,
disturbance,
mapping,
native species,
plant communities,
remote sensing,
satellite imagery,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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