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River Corridor Assessment for the North Atlantic Region An urgent need exists to uniformly assess river corridors, including floodplains, and to prioritize areas for protection across the North Atlantic landscape. These are daunting tasks since there are no well-defined methods to delineate and assess scores of diverse river corridors in this region. The RiverSmart research group at UMass Amherst has made meaningful strides toward a uniform assessment of North Atlantic river corridors having assembled a task force of river specialists, analyzed ecologic and geomorphic threats, scrutinized the wide-ranging approaches to assess riparian habitats, and performed initial evaluations in diverse watersheds. In this project, we will build on this base. During the first year,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2015, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Vulnerability Assessment, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Brook Trout Probability of Occurrence, Plus 2 degrees C, Northeast U.S. NOTE: The data are available online four times based on four different attributes (the current, plus 2 degrees C, plus 4 degrees C, and plus 6 degrees C probability of occurrence), the dataset is the same and the download includes the layer files for all the attributes, you do NOT need to download the data more than once.This dataset is one of a suite of products from the Nature’s Network project (naturesnetwork.org). Nature’s Network is a collaborative effort to identify shared priorities for conservation in the Northeast, considering the value of fish and wildlife species and the natural areas they inhabit. Brook Trout probability of occurrence is intended to provide predictions of occupancy (probability of presence)... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, aquatic, aquatic, All tags... completed, connect, connect, degrees, design, design, fish, fish, habitat, habitat, landscape, landscape, species, species, temperature, Fewer tags Restoring Aquatic Connectivity and Increasing Flood Resilience - Hurricane Sandy Mitigation This project is being closely coordinated with a companion project funded by the North Atlantic LCC.In 2011, intense and sustained rain from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee washed out roads throughout mountains of New York and New England as culverts running under those roads were not designed to handle such enormous volumes of water. Additional flooding from Hurricane Sandy, which lashed the Northeast coast and adjacent inland areas in October 2012, caused additional damage. The widespread effects of these massive storms underscore the need for a regional science-based approach to prioritize and increase the resiliency of roads to floods.Improving the resiliency of roads has multiple benefits beyond protecting... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2014, Applications and Tools, Conservation Design, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, All tags... Hurricane Sandy, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Regional Flow 2016, Eastern U.S. and Canada To create a wall-to-wall surface of landscape permeability we used the software CIRCUITSCAPE (McRae and Shah 2009), an innovative program that models species and population movements as if they were electric current flowing through a landscape of variable resistance. Circuit modeling is conceptually aligned with the concept of landscape permeability because it recognizes that movement through a landscape is affected by a variety of impediments, and it quantifies the degree and the directional outcomes of the compounding effects. One output is a “flow” map that shows the behavior of directional flows and highlights concentration areas and pinch-points.The results can highlight locally and regionally significant places... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Blocked/Low Flow, Blocked/Low Flow, Circuitscape, Circuitscape, Concentrated flow, All tags... Concentrated flow, Constrained Flow, Constrained Flow, Data, Diffuse Flow, Diffuse Flow, LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, Resilience, Resilience, Resilient sites, Resilient sites, completed, dataset, dataset, eastern North America, eastern North America, regional flows, regional flows, wall to wall, wall to wall, Fewer tags Designing Sustainable Landscapes in the Northeast Region This project highlights the potential for LCCs to facilitate collaboration among conservation practitioners and research scientists to plan for the future. A team of UMass scientists is developing a landscape change, assessment and design model to assess ecosystems and their capacity to sustain populations of wildlife in the northeastern U.S. in the face of urban growth, climate change, and other stressors. The project plays a major role in developing the science and data for two collaborative landscape planning and design efforts: 1) the pilot Landscape Conservation Design for the Connecticut River Watershed, and 2) Nature’s Network, which expands and elaborates on the data to extend to throughout New England and... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision support, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pilot/Case Study, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Presentation, Project, Publication, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Restoring Aquatic Connectivity and Increasing Flood Resilience This project brings together the major partners involved in road-stream crossings to assess river and stream continuity and set priorities for restoring connectivity, and reducing flood damage to road crossings, within the North Atlantic region. Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Planning, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Designing Sustainable Coastal Landscapes in the Face of Sea-level Rise and Storms The North Atlantic LCC and the University of Massachusetts Landscape Ecology Lab have a cooperative agreement under the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Mitigation Fund entitled Designing Sustainable Coastal Landscapes in the Face of Sea-level Rise and Storms.This project will add needed coastally relevant information to the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project. The index of ecological integrity, which is a major component of the NA LCC modeling framework, identifies places that are predicted to be able to sustain ecological functions over time. Two new stressor metrics, tidal restrictions and salt marsh ditching, will be developed and incorporated into the ecological integrity assessment. In addition, landscape capability... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2014, Applications and Tools, Conservation Planning, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Development of a Rapid Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Passability of Tidally Influenced Road-Stream Crossings With support from the North Atlantic LCC and Hurricane Sandy Disaster Mitigation funds the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (www.streamcontinuity.org) has developed a regional crossing assessment protocol and database, scoring systems for aquatic organism passage, and hydraulic risk of failure assessments based on future storm discharge levels. The existing NAACC protocol was developed primarily for freshwater streams and the suite of organisms that occur in these systems. There is strong interest among conservation practitioners to have a method to assess tidally influenced crossings for their potential as barriers to aquatic organism passage. Protocols designed for freshwater streams will not... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Aquatic Connectivity groups, All tags... Aquatic Connectivity groups, Conservation NGOs, Conservation design, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision support, Emergency management community, Emergency management community, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Infrastructure managers, Infrastructure managers, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Pilot/Case Study, Presentation, Private land owners, Project, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Permeable Landscapes for Wildlife in the Northeast Landscape permeability is the ability of a land area to allow organisms to move and disperse, equivalent to what some authors call “habitat connectivity.” This project evaluated and mapped the relative landscape permeability for terrestrial organisms across the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, taking into account features that impede natural connectivity such as roads and other development. The analysis assigned locations to categories of diffuse flow (intact, permeable areas that facilitate high levels of dispersal), concentrated flow (large quantities of flow are concentrated through a narrow area), constrained flow (low permeability, with flow following a weak reticulated network), or blocked flow... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation Planning, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Regional Flow (Anthropogenic Resistance) Simplified Categories Resilience concerns the ability of a living system to adjust to climate change, moderate potential damages, take advantage of opportunities, or cope with consequences; in short, the capacity to adapt. The Nature Conservancy’s resilience analysis develops an approach to conserve biological diversity while allowing species and communities to rearrange in response to a continually changing climate. - See more at: http://nature.org/TNCResilience Eastern Division scientists analyzed 393 million acres of land for resilience, stretching from Florida to Maine and adjacent areas of Canada (NOTE - The dataset included in the download was clipped to the Northeast (Region 5), for the original data see: https://nalcc.databasin.org/datasets/c57ec56be4524d81af3491747c865d29).... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, completed, regional flow, All tags... resilience, resilient sites, Fewer tags Forecasting Changes in Aquatic Systems and Resilience of Aquatic Populations in the NALCC: Decision-support Tools for Conservation The objective of this project was to develop tools to assist managers in protecting and restoring streams for brook trout and other aquatic resources in the face of threats such as climate change and development. Summary of Phase 2 of the project (2014-2016):The goal of the second phase of this project was to improve natural resources management by providing effective, flexible, portable, and transparent modeling results and decision support tools to managers. The objectives included: 1) Expand existing tools to additional portions of LCC region a) Extend the stream temperature and stream flow models to the full geographic area of the North Atlantic LCC, plus the headwaters of the Atlantic-draining watersheds (e.g.,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, All tags... ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision support, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SUSTAINABILITY > SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Fisheries managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Policy makers & regulators, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Publication, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, Report, SALMONS/TROUTS, SALMONS/TROUTS, SALMONS/TROUTS, SALMONS/TROUTS, SALMONS/TROUTS, State agencies, User Manual, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment, environment, environment, environment, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, planningCadastre, planningCadastre, Fewer tags Brook Trout Probability of Occurrence, Plus 4 degrees C, Northeast U.S. This dataset is one of a suite of products from the Nature’s Network project (naturesnetwork.org). Nature’s Network is a collaborative effort to identify shared priorities for conservation in the Northeast, considering the value of fish and wildlife species and the natural areas they inhabit. Brook Trout probability of occurrence is intended to provide predictions of occupancy (probability of presence) for catchments smaller than 200 km2 in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region from Virginia to Maine. The dataset provides predictions under current environmental conditions and for future increases in stream temperature. Brook Trout probability of occurrence (under current climate) is one input used in developing... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, aquatic, aquatic, All tags... biota, completed, connect, connect, design, design, environment, environment, fish, fish, habitat, habitat, inlandWaters, landscape, landscape, planningCadastre, species, species, Fewer tags Resilient and Connected Landscapes for Terrestrial Conservation This report describes an effort of a team of 60 scientists led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to identify the places where nature’s own natural resilience is the highest. Thanks to the land’s diverse topography, bedrock, and soil, these climate-resilient sites are more likely to sustain native plants, animals, and natural processes into the future, becoming natural strongholds for diversity. To map their locations, The Nature Conservancy-led team used over 70 new and comprehensive datasets to find places that are buffered from the effects of climate change because the site offers a wide range of micro-climates within a highly connected area. In 2015, the results were published in a leading conservation science... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, Report, climate change, completed, All tags... connectivity, landscape conservation, permeability, resilience, terrestrial ecosystems, Fewer tags Extending the Northeast Aquatic Habitat Map to Canada The overall goal of this project is to increase the knowledge and data available to more effectively protect and manage freshwater aquatic resources in the Canadian and cross-border portions of the NA LCC. Specifically, the classification will: 1) fill a large data gap by developing and mapping an aquatic ecosystem classification in the Canadian portion of the NA LCC; 2) provide the ecological basis to identify “representative” aquatic ecosystems for management, restoration, research and most importantly as an aid to programs and organizations aimed at conserving biological diversity of freshwater resources; 3) provide common definitions and mapping of aquatic habitat types across provincial and bordering state... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2015, Data Acquisition and Development, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags