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Implications of climate change for avian conservation in Great Plains landscapes Funded project resulted in 6 publications covering various aspects related to shorebird/grassland bird migration, climate and nesting success in the great plains region. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Avian, Avian, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, All tags... CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climatic Change, Climatic Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Birds, Grassland Birds, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Models, Habitat Models, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Native Grassland, Native Grassland, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, SD-00, Sedimentation, Sedimentation, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, South Dakota, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Black-tailed Prairie Dog Habitat Suitability Modeling for the Southern Great Plains: Cross-scale Analysis of Soils, Topography and Climate We developed multi-scale habitat suitability models for black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) in the southwestern Great Plains, corresponding to the western region of the Great Plains LCC. We used long-term (10-yr), high-resolution datasets on BTPD colony boundary locations collected at 7 study areas distributed across the region to develop resource selection functions based on colony locations and expansion patterns. Models are based on (1) soil maps and associated Ecological Sites (NRCS SSURGO database), (2) a topographic wetness index based upon water runoff and solar insolation patterns (TWIsi) that tests a priori hypotheses for topographic controls on BTPD, and (3) broad climatic gradients in temperature and mean... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BTPD, BTPD, CO-04, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, Final Report, Final Report, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-03, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RODENTS, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-13, Texas, biota, black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), completed, environment, Fewer tags Establishing Explicit Biological Objectives to Guide Strategic Habitat Conservation for the Gulf Coast The RESTORE Act (33 U.S. Code § 1321) directs 80% of Clean Water Act penalties from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (likely to be in the billions) to Gulf of Mexico restoration. Gulf partners profess a common goal of “restoring and protecting the natural resources…and economy of the Gulf Coast region”(Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council 2013:2), yet specific and explicit objectives that quantify what it means to actually achieve this goal remain undefined. Despite the presence of numerous conservation partnerships along the Gulf of Mexico, there is concern that this unprecedented opportunity will lack a coordinated response (NOAA RESTORE Act Science Program 2013). The success of the RESTORE Act will hinge... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, AL-01, All tags... AL-02, AL-03, AL-07, AR-01, AR-02, AR-04, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > RECLAMATION/REVEGETATION/RESTORATION, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS, FL-01, FL-02, FL-04, FL-05, FL-06, FL-09, FL-10, FL-11, FL-12, FL-13, FL-14, FL-16, FL-18, FL-23, FL-25, Federal resource managers, GA-01, GA-02, GA-03, GA-04, GA-05, GA-06, GA-07, GA-08, GA-09, GA-10, GA-11, GA-13, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, IL-12, KY-01, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-04, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MO-08, MS-01, MS-02, MS-03, MS-04, Project, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, TN-08, TN-09, TX-02, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-14, TX-15, TX-18, TX-22, TX-25, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, biota, onGoing, 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 Historical Orthomosaic, Digital Surface Model, and Shoreline Position for the Northern Alaska Coastline The most comprehensive historical aerial imagery of Alaska available to the public was collected as partof the Alaska High-Altitude Aerial Photography Program (AHAP) during 1978-1986. Recent studiesexamining coastline erosion have clearly demonstrated that the AHAP photographs are a valuablebaseline for detecting and quantifying change that occurred in Alaska in recent decades. Unfortunately,these data have been greatly underutilized due to challenges associated with orthorectifying the rawimagery and making it ready for users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By partnering with theAlaska Satellite Facility (ASF) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks the ALCC has made high-qualityAHAP orthomosaics of the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, oceans, oceans, planningCadastre, planningCadastre, Fewer tags Developing a Framework for Evaluating Tallgrass Prairie Reconstruction Methods and Management The best hope for recovering and maintaining ecosystem function and services for the tallgrass prairie ecosystem is reconstruction. To that end, tallgrass prairie reconstruction efforts are on-going across federal, state, and non-profit organizations and among private landowners throughout the upper Midwest. Despite this heightened activity, a framework for comprehensive evaluation and adaptive learning from past reconstruction efforts is lacking. With an increasing percentage of already limited natural resource budgets being applied to reconstruction activities, it is imperative that we make the best use of these funds by developing best practices for reconstructions. The growing number of completed reconstructions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, 2015, 2016, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge, IA-03, Iowa, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-07, Methodology/Protocol, Minnesota, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Private land owners, Project, State agencies, best management practices, environment, environment, funded, onGoing, prairie restoration, Fewer tags Assessing the potential of translocating vulnerable forest birds by searching for novel and enduring climatic ranges Hawaiian forest birds are imperiled, with fewer than half the original > 40 species remaining extant. Recent studies document ongoing rapid population decline and project complete climate-based range losses for the critically endangered Kaua’i endemics ‘akeke’e (Loxops caeruleirostris) and ‘akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi) by end-of-century due to projected warming. Climate change facilitates the upward expansion of avian malaria into native high elevation forests where disease was historically absent. While intensified conservation efforts attempt to safeguard these species and their habitats, the magnitude of potential loss and the urgency of this situation require all conservation options to be seriously considered.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Decision Support, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Publication, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, completed, Fewer tags Predicting Bird and Bat Fatality Risk at Wind Farms and Proposed Wind Farm Sites Using Acoustic Ultrasonic Recorders This project has three objectives: (1) evaluate the abilitiy of dual acoustic-ultrasonic recorders to capture nocturnal calls of birds and bats at wind power sites; (2) relate nocturnal calls to results of facility searches at operational wind farms: (3) evaluate whether call activitiy varies in relation to landscape features. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, Bats, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Monitoring, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, Wind Energy, bats, completed, energy development, environment, environment, migratory birds, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, wind energy, ‎Chiroptera, Fewer tags Alaska invasive plant identification and record input smartphone app Concern about invasive species in Alaska is a growing concern, attracting attention from land managers, politicians and the public. Nearly half the new discoveries of invasive plants, animals, and insects in the state are reported by concerned individuals with a general interest in invasive species. The development of a mobile application for invasive plant identification and reporting will help enable the public to gather and share new invasive plant discoveries. This project will result in the development of a decision tool for identifying non-natives plant species, which will provide the foundation for the app. Project staff will also review user-submitted requests for identification assistance, review app-generated... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, IDENTIFICATION/CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, All tags... IDENTIFICATION/CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, INVASIVE SPECIES, INVASIVE SPECIES, Interested public, LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, LANDSCAPE PATTERNS, LANDSCAPE PATTERNS, LCC Network Science Catalog, PLANTS, PLANTS, Project, Regional & county planners, biota, biota, environment, environment, onGoing, underDevelopment, Fewer tags High resolution landcover for the Western Gulf Coastal Plain of Louisiana and Texas The Gulf Coast Prairies LCC has initiated efforts to improve biological planning and landscape conservation design with a focus on implementing State Wildlife Plans (SWAPs) for the benefit of focal species and pollinators. To facilitate landscape conservation planning, the GCP LCC has supported land cover data projects as well as refining a platform for grassland planning, inventory and monitoring (G-MIT). These data are shared nationally through ScienceBase and the GCP Conservation Planning Atlas and used to inform their Grassland Decision Support Tool. While this work has been limited to parts of Texas and Oklahoma there is great interest and need to create high resolution, seamless and consistent land cover data... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2017, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, Federal resource managers, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER, LAND USE/LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Map, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Facilitating Adaptation in Montane Plants to Changing Precipitation along an Elevation Gradient The objective of this experimental research is to determine if genetic enrichment may enhance survival, growth, and adaptation of important native Hawaiian montane plant species to changing precipitation patterns by relocating conspecifics to more favorable climate regimes at higher elevation. We will collect the seeds of montane plants from low and high eevation sources, conduct outplanting trials in common locations along an elevation gradient, and monitor growth, survival, and vigor over a two_year period to evaluate a potential restoration strategy for mountain parklands of Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, Climate, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, SA Science Catalog, State agencies, Terrestrial ecosystems, completed, Fewer tags Climate change planning for the Great Plains: Wildlife vulnerability assessment and potential for mitigation with grazing management While we assessed the vulnerability of a number of different wildlife and plant species to climate change, none of those species exhibited high vulnerability to changes projected for the region and there was limited differentiation in vulnerability between the individual species. Given this shared level of vulnerability to climate change, we chose to focus our adaptation planning on grassland birds as they represent a large group with a diversity of habitat needs. These birds are obligate grassland wildlife species which have great potential to act as indicators for habitat quality since different species have distinct habitat structure needs. Participants in the adaptation planning workshop agreed that if the GP... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Animal Agriculture, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CO-01, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Birds, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Management, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Ranching, Report, SD-00, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, WY-00, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Great Plains Reptile Monitoring and Modeling Project Modeling reptile habitat in the Great Plains Ecogregion of the United States. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LIZARDS/SNAKES, Map, Monitoring, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, REPTILES, State agencies, biota, environment, funded, Fewer tags Regional decision support tool for identifying vulnerabilities of riverine habitat and fishes to climate change Climate change is expected to alter the distributions and community composition of stream fishes in the Great Lakes region in the 21st century, in part as a result of altered hydrological systems (stream temperature, streamflow, and habitat). Resource managers need information and tools to understand where fish species and stream habitats are expected to change under future conditions. Fish sample collections and environmental variables from multiple sources across the United States Great Lakes Basin were integrated and used to develop empirical models to predict fish species occurrence under present-day climate conditions. Random Forests models were used to predict the probability of occurrence of 13 lotic fish... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, climate change, completed, decision-support tool, environment, environment, fish occurrence, fishes, great lakes, lotic, occupancy model, occupancy model, occupancy model, riverine habitat, riverine habitat, rivers, upper midwest, vulnerability, Fewer tags Invasive plant identification and record input smartphone app for western Alaska This project supports the technical development of a mobile application for identifying and reporting invasive plant species in Alaska. It will result in a portable, digital version of a field guide that can be easily updated and that supports integration of reports into the Alaska Exotic Plants Information Clearinghouse (AKEPIC). Under development for both Android and iOS operating systems, the app has the potential to increase the public’s knowledge of invasive plants, as well an improve opportunities for reporting new occurrences. See also project WA2014_33. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Project, Regional & county planners, biota, biota, environment, environment, onGoing, underDevelopment, Fewer tags Biological Responses to Increasing Water Temperatures in Lakes of the Barrow/Atqasuk Focus Watershed: An Interdisciplinary Bioenergetics and Contamina There is currently have a very poor understanding of how climate change will affect food web structure and mercury accumulation in lakes on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. In this study, researchers are addressing this knowledge gap by adopting a space-for-time approach. Fish and food web ecology, and mercury accumulation patterns, are being investigated in several lakes that represent a gradient in temperature/ice phenology of up to two ice-free weeks and 10°C. They are also comparing food web structure and rates of mercury biomagnification among the lakes, and relating these to several climate variables. Finally, they are relating past trends in mercury accumulation in lake sediments to indices of lake productivity... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, CONTAMINANTS, CONTAMINANTS, All tags... Conservation Design, Federal resource managers, LAKES, LAKES, LCC Network Science Catalog, PERMAFROST MELT, PERMAFROST MELT, Project, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, Tribes, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags A Climate Change Adaptation Plan in response to sea-level rise for the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana This project will use existing climate change scenarios and sea-level rise projections to create a Climate Change Adaptation Plan in collaboration with the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana. This Plan can be used as a model for climate adaptation in other small communities, in addition to engaging the Chitimacha through educational opportunities for children and adults, including an internship at the university- or professional-level; by providing data transfer of historic aerial photography, land loss maps, and other geospatial tools and assistance; and by facilitating Chitimacha attendance at Traditional Ecological Knowledge workshops at Oklahoma University and the South Central Climate Science Center. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS, ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS, ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, All tags... CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, Decision support, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Louisiana Coast, Map, Project, Report, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, onGoing, society, Fewer tags Modeling Low Stream Flows and Assessing the Ecological Impacts of Potential Stream Drying under Climate Change in the Upper Colorado River Basin Streamflows in late spring and summer have declined over the last century in the western U.S. and mean annual streamflow is projected to decrease by six to 25% over the next 100 years. In arid and semi-arid regions of the western US, it is likely that some perennial streams will shift to intermittent flow regimes in response to climate-driven changes in timing and magnitude of precipitation, runoff, and evaporation. The project will address the following two research question: how will small stream (1st-3rd order) low flow hydrology be impacted by predicted longer, drier summers in the Upper Colorado River Basin under climate change and in turn, what will be the resulting impacts on riparian plant communities?... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CO-03, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, SRLCC boundary, Southern Rocky Mountains, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Rio Grande, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, WY-00, Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, Wyoming, climate change, climate change, completed, low flow hydrology, low flow hydrology, riparian, riparian, riparian vegetation, riparian vegetation, small streams, small streams, stream drying, stream drying, stream drying, stream flows, streamflows, streamflows, upper colorado river basin, Fewer tags Science-Based Riparian Restoration Planning on the Colorado and Dolores Rivers: A Decision Support Tool and Investigation of Habitat Complexity at Tributary Junctions Stream flow in the Colorado River and Dolores River corridors has been significantly modified by water management, and continued flow alteration is anticipated in future decades with projected increases in human water demand. Bottomland vegetation has been altered as well, with invasion of non-native species, increases in wildfire and human disturbance, and currently, rapid shifts in riparian communities due to biological and mechanical tamarisk control efforts. In light of these conditions, land managers are in need of scientific information to support management of vegetation communities for values such as healthy populations of sensitive fish and wildlife species and human recreation. We propose to address these... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: CO-03, Colorado, Colorado River, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, All tags... Dolores River, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Native Fish, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-03, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, Utah, aquatic, aquatic, completed, decision support tool, decision support tool, native species, native species, non-native species, non-native species, riparian, riparian, riparian habitat, riparian habitat, riparian restoration, riparian restoration, streamflows, streamflows, Fewer tags Multi-scale conservation planning under climate change: using local and ecoregional models to inform landscape conservation design Natural resource management requires decision making in the face of uncertain future conditions. Climate change has been identified by our partnership as a high-priority threat to grasslands and all of our priority habitats, affecting water availability, species composition, species interactions, phenology, and other factors. Climate change is understood to be a factor in nearly all natural resource issues, but managers find it difficult to plan for climate change because of high levels of uncertainty. Multiple Global Climate Models (GCMs), CO2 emission scenarios, downscaling methods, and combinations of these compound our uncertainty. Natural resource managers need a simple way to evaluate climate-driven changes... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Conservation Design, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Federal resource managers, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 »