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This collection examines how management of natural and working lands (forests, wetlands, and agricultural land) can enhance community resilience in North Carolina and help the state meet its greenhouse gas emissions goals.
These data are related to the Ecosystem Services Mapping Datasets project and are located in an external repository. Use this link to download the data: Dataset | Data and scripts from: Sea level rise drives carbon and habitat loss in the U.S. mid-Atlantic coastal zone | ID: n009w316w | Research Data (duke.edu). See dataset summary below. Coastal marshes and seagrass beds store millions of tons of carbon in their sediments and sequester carbon at higher per-area rates than most terrestrial ecosystems. There is substantial interest in this “blue carbon” as a carbon mitigation strategy, despite the major threat that sea level rise (SLR) poses to these habitats. Many projections of habitat and carbon change with...
Summary (from NESP Methods Brief Series): This methods brief focuses on water purification by natural land cover, which removes nonpoint-source pollutants from runoff water before they reach waterways. This analysis maps natural land cover within the likely flowpaths of water from agricultural areas to waterways. Regional priority areas for the restoration of additional natural land cover in the flowpaths and for the conservation of existing natural land cover in the flowpaths are identified based on the amount of agricultural land and the proportion of flowpaths that are made up of purifying natural land cover. Spatial datasets for these priority areas and associated metrics are available on ScienceBase.
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Summary (from NESP Methods Brief): This methods brief focuses on wild pollination, which is beneficial to the production of many pollinator-dependent crops. This analysis maps the supply of potential wild pollinator habitat and the demand for pollination from agriculture. Regional priority areas for conservation and restoration of wild pollinator habitat are identified based on several metrics derived from these supply and demand maps. Spatial datasets for these priority areas and associated metrics are available on ScienceBase.
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Carbon storage by ecosystem type and protection status was derived from total ecosystem carbon estimates provided by Sleeter et al. 2018 and used to estimate terrestrial carbon storage in developed, forested, shrub/scrub, grassland/herbaceous, and agricultural land in the Southeast United States. It does not include estimates for wetland carbon storage. Sleeter, B.M., Liu, J., Daniel, C., Rayfield, B., Sherba, J., Hawbaker, T.J., Zhu, Z., Selmants, P.C. and Loveland, T.R., 2018. Effects of contemporary land-use and land-cover change on the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in the United States. Environmental Research Letters, 13(4), p.045006.
ArcGIS webmap of NC Pocosin Map Update.
Summary (from NESP Methods Brief Series): This methods brief focuses on recreational birding, which is a popular activity in the United States. This analysis maps the location of recreational birding activity in the southeastern U.S. Regional priorities for conservation of birding areas are identified based on the total amount of birding activity and the proportion of birding activity that takes place on unprotected land. Spatial datasets for these priority areas and associated metrics are available on ScienceBase.
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Conservation planning tools for NC's people & nature An introduction and user's guide to two new tools from Conservation Trust for North Carolina & Duke University Conservation organizations and land trusts in North Carolina are increasingly focused on how their work can contribute to both human and ecosystem resilience and adaptation to climate change, as well as directly mitigate climate change through carbon storage and sequestration. Recent state executive and legislative actions also underscore the importance of natural systems for climate adaptation and mitigation, and may provide additional funding for conservation and restoration for those purposes in the near term. To make it more efficient for conservation...
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Ecosystems benefit people in many ways, but these contributions do not appear in traditional national or corporate accounts so are often left out of policy- and decision-making. Ecosystem accounts, as formalized by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EEA), track the extent and condition of ecosystem assets and the flows of ecosystem services they provide to people and the economy. While ecosystem accounts have been compiled in a number of countries, there have been few attempts to develop them for the United States. We explore the potential for ecosystem accounting in the United States by compiling ecosystem condition and ecosystem services supply and use accounts...
To identify where conservation actions are most needed to benefit ecosystem services, the authors mapped the distribution of four ecosystem services across the Southeast region of the United States: Wild Pollination Potential, Open Space Recreation Access, Water Purification, and Recreational Birding. These maps consider both the availability of a particular ecosystem service (supply) and the local need for that ecosystem service (demand). These maps were used to identify areas where supply was low and demand was high – areas likely in need of restoration – and areas where supply was better but demand still high, that are likely in need of conservation to maintain services. For some of the ecosystem services, both...
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Nature-based solutions provide benefits to both nature and people, simultaneously addressing the issues of climate change and biodiversity loss. The Department of the Interior (DOI) manages more than 480 million acres of natural and working lands in the United States, presenting a significant opportunity to leverage nature-based solutions to contribute to greenhouse gas reduction targets, equitably build ecosystem and community resilience, and deliver additional co-benefits for ecosystems and people. This project created a DOI Nature-based Solutions Roadmap document to provide consistent and accessible information about the broad range of nature-based strategies. The DOI Nature-based Solutions Roadmap includes...
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Total recreational birding activity (by state and year) estimated by the National Survey for Fishing, Hunting, and WIldlife-Associated Recreation was spatially distributed using birding observations reported through the eBird citizen science database and summarized by land cover type for each analysis year (2001, 2006, and 2011).
This guide is for states interested in developing a Natural and Working Lands Action Plan, particularly for staff at the state agency (often the environmental protection or natural resource agency) tasked with leading plan development. It will introduce key steps and walk-through considerations to facilitate a successful planning process.
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Note: this version has been superseded by version 2.0: Warnell, K., Boos, E., and Olander, L.P., 2020, Testing ecosystem accounting in the United States: A case study for the Southeast - 2022 Updates (version 2.0, February 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VET1YX. Ecosystems benefit people in many ways, but these contributions do not appear in traditional national or corporate accounts so are often left out of policy- and decision-making. Ecosystem accounts, as formalized by the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EEA), track the extent and condition of ecosystem assets and the flows of ecosystem services they provide to people...
Natural and working lands – forests, farmland, and wetlands – make up more than 80% of North Carolina's area and provide a variety of benefits to our communities and economy. The importance of natural and working lands has been recognized in several recent planning efforts, including the state’s Natural & Working Lands Action Plan (part of the NC Climate Risk & Resilience Plan ) and the Coastal Habitat Protection Plan 2021 Amendment (currently in draft form). These plans brought together many sources of information to help quantify the benefits we are currently getting from these lands, and additional benefits that could be created through management actions. To make this information more accessible,...
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Web maps: coastal habitat and blue carbon projections
Summary (from NESP Methods Brief Series): This methods brief focuses on access to recreational open space, which is a key component of mental health and wellbeing. This analysis maps the supply of publicly accessible open spaces relative to where people live. Regional priority areas for the creation of new open space through conservation are identified based on a metric representing the number of people who would benefit from new recreational open space if it were created in that area. Spatial datasets for these priority areas and associated metrics are available on ScienceBase.
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are actions that incorporate natural features and processes to protect, conserve, restore, sustainably use, and manage natural or modified ecosystems to address socioenvironmental challenges while providing measurable cobenefits to both people and nature. They have great potential to enhance human well-being, improve ecosystem health, and support positive social and economic outcomes. Nature-based solutions are in-creasingly used to reduce climate risks including coastal and inland flooding, drought, wildfire, and urban heat. While many NBS strategies, such as refor-estation and wetland creation, have been in use for a long time, recognition of these projects and opportunities for new...
Overview: This guide describes the spatial datasets created to assess the scale of opportunities for on-the-ground management actions for natural and working lands that store carbon and contribute to resilient communities and ecosystems in North Carolina. Many of these data layers are shown in the Natural and Working Lands StoryMap and were used to estimate geographic scope, carbon potential, and co-benefits for many of the recommendations in the Natural and Working Lands action plan. Datasets are available to download from the Duke Library data repository. These datasets were developed as part of an opportunities assessment focusing on all lands where a recommended action is possible given biophysical and ecological...
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These datasets are the inputs, script, and output of bird species richness modeling for the southeastern United States in the years 2001, 2006, and 2011 using general joint attribute modeling (GJAM). Inputs include environmental predictor variables for Breeding Bird Survey routes, bird counts from Breeding Bird Survey observations, and environmental predictor variables on a half-degree grid for the study area. The R script uses these inputs to create a general joint attribute model to predict bird abundance by species on a half-degree grid in for the study area in 2001, 2006, and 2011. The output file summarizes the results as bird species richness by state, land cover class, and year.


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