USGS Gap Analysis Project (GAP)

The Gap Analysis Project (GAP) is an element of the U.S. Geological Survey. GAP helps to implement the Department of the Interior’s goals of inventory, monitoring, research, and information transfer. GAP has three primary goals: Identify conservation gaps that help keep common species common; Provide conservation information to the public so that informed resource management decisions can be made; and Facilitate the application of GAP data and analysis to specific resource management activities. To implement these goals, GAP carries out the following objectives: Map the land cover of the United States Map predicted distributions of vertebrate species for the U.S. Map the location, ownership and stewardship of...

Categories: Collection; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service

Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)

THIS IS A HISTORICAL RECORD. As of December 17, 2021, the BISON application will no longer be available online and has been replaced by https://www.gbif.us. The BISON APIs are still available at https://bison.usgs.gov/#api and the Integrated Publishing Toolkit is still available at https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt. The USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) project is an online all-species mapping information system consisting of a large collection of species occurrence datasets (e.g., plants and animals) found in the United States, U.S. Territories, U.S. marine Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), and Canada, with relevant geospatial layers. Species occurrences are records of organisms at a particular...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, American Samoa, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, Biodiversity, BiologicalData, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lentic, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wildlife Biology, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, biological collections, biomonitoring, endangered species, endemic species, indigenous species, introduced species, invasive species, museum collections, native species, observation methods, pollinators, species, specimens, threatened species, Fewer tags