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Local Connectedness Stratified by Setting and Ecoregion with Regional Override, 2016 Eastern U.S. and Canada A highly permeable landscape promotes resilience by facilitating range shifts and the reorganization of communities. Roads, development, dams, and other structures create resistance that interrupts or redirects movement and, therefore, lowers the permeability. Maintaining a connected landscape is the most widely cited strategy in the scientific literature for building resilience and has been suggested as an explanation for why there were few extinctions during the last period of comparable rapid climate change. This metric is an important component of resilience because it indicates whether a process is likely to be disrupted or how much access a species has to the micro-climates within its given neighborhood. ... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Resilience, climate resilience, dataset, local connectedness, permeability, All tags... resilience component, resilient sites, sea level rise, southeast, southeastern United States, Fewer tags Landscape Diversity Stratified by Geophysical Setting and Ecoregion with Regional Override, 2016 Eastern U.S. and Canada A climate-resilient conservation portfolio includes sites representative of all geophysical settings selected for their landscape diversity and local connectedness. We developed methods to identify such a portfolio. First, we mapped geophysical settings across the entire study area. Second, within each geophysical setting we located sites with diverse topography that were highly connected by natural cover. Third, we compared the identified sites with the current network of conservation lands and with The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC’s) portfolio of important biodiversity sites identified based on rare species and natural community locations.Using this information we noted geophysical settings that were underrepresented... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Resilience, climate resilience, dataset, geology, landform diversity, All tags... resilience component, resilient sites, sea level rise, southeast, southeastern United States, Fewer tags Geophysical Settings, 2016 Eastern U.S. and Canada **Symbology has been adjusted by the Open Space Institute from The Nature Conservancy's original "Geophysical Settings, 2016 Eastern U.S. and Canada" dataset.** The geophysical settings are defined by their physical properties – geology, soil, and elevation - that correspond to differences in the flora and fauna they support. They also differ in ecological character, in their value for agriculture or mining, and how they have been developed by people. For example, the region’s high granite mountains are both largely intact and topographically complex, whereas low coastal sandplains are both more fragmented and relatively flat. The geophyical settings classification enabled us to compare resilience characteristics... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecoregions, Elevation, Geology, Geophysical Settings, Resilience, All tags... Soils, dataset, 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 SLEUTH Projected Urban Growth This dataset represents the extent of urbanization (for the year indicated) predicted by the model SLEUTH, developed by Dr. Keith C. Clarke, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and modified by David I. Donato of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC). Further model modification and implementation was performed at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University.Urban growth probability extents throughout the 21st century were projected for the Southeast Regional Assessment Project (SERAP), which encompasses all or parts of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Development, Downloadable Data, Florida, All tags... Georgia, Growth, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Model, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Prediction, Project Gigalopolis, SLEUTH, South Carolina, Southeast, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Urbanization, Virginia, West Virginia, dataset, planningCadastre, Fewer tags Index of Ecological Integrity, New York State This dataset was last updated 05/2016. This version was updated using DSLland Version 3.1. The update to DSLland Version 3.1 from Version 3.0 is the addition of a lakes and ponds classification. This dataset depicts the ecological integrity of locations (represented by 30 m grid cells) throughout New York State based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Ecological integrity is defined as the ability of an area (e.g., local site or landscape) to sustain important ecological functions over the long term. In particular, the functions include the long-term ability to support biodiversity and the ecosystem processes necessary to sustain biodiversity. The Index of Ecological Integrity (IEI) is... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, NYS, NYS, New York State, All tags... New York State, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, completed, condition, condition, dataset, dataset, designing, designing, dsl, dsl, ecosystems, ecosystems, environmental, environmental, habitat, habitat, iei, iei, intact, intact, intactness, intactness, landscapes, landscapes, resilience, resilience, resiliency, resiliency, sustainable, sustainable, systems, systems, terrestrial, terrestrial, university of massachusetts, university of massachusetts, Fewer tags Significant Habitats, New York State This layer was created from the Ecological Systems Map (ESM+, also called DSL Land) to highlight a number of habitat types specifically. We used the Summarize Zones function in ArcMap along with the Protected Areas Dataset and the ESM+ layer to identify the extent and protection status of all ecological systems (macrogroup level) across the 4 northeast states of NY, VT, NH, and ME. We also used information on potential habitats for Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need (RSGCN) for these 4 states from a prior crosswalk of ESM+ macrogroups with Natureserve habitat types completed by Glennon and Curran (2013). The following habitat types were identified as (1) making up less than 10% of NYS (most are <... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, NYS, NYS, New York, All tags... New York, New York State, New York State, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, Significant Habitats, Significant Habitats, completed, dataset, dataset, habitats, habitats, land, land, land conservation, land conservation, Fewer tags Riparian Areas, New York State Riparian areas and floodplain forests are critical to wildlife and used by large numbers of species not only for habitat but as important corridors for dispersal and migration. We created a raster from the ESM+ layer that identified lotic habitats and the adjacent areas up to 100m from them in order to denote riparian features on the landscape that may be worthy of protection. We selected a 100m distance as a buffer distance which, if protected, would enhance conservation of riparian habitats and is consistent with prior recommendations we have made about protection of these features (WCS 2010, 2013). Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, Ecological Systems, Ecological Systems, Floodplains, Floodplains, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, NYS, NYS, New York, New York, New York State, New York State, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, Riparian, Riparian, Riparian Areas, Riparian Areas, completed, dataset, dataset, Fewer tags Local Connectivity, New York State Resilience concerns the ability of a living system to adjust to climate change, to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with consequences; in short, its capacity to adapt. In this project we aim to identify the most resilient examples of key geophysical settings (e.g. sand plains, granite mountains, limestone valleys, etc.) in New york State to provide conservationists with a nuanced picture of the places where conservation is most likely to succeed over centuries.The project had three parts: 1) identifying and mapping the geophysical settings, 2) developing a quantitative estimate of resilience for each setting based on landscape complexity and permeability, and 3) identifying... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Connectivity, Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, Local Connectivity, NYS, All tags... NYS, New York State, New York State, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, TNC, TNC, UMASS, UMASS, completed, conservation, conservation, dataset, dataset, Fewer tags Large Forest Blocks, New York State Large forest blocks are important features on the landscape and worthy of conservation attention. Maintenance of large blocks of intact habitat is perhaps the most oft recommended biodiversity conservation strategy. We created a map of large forest blocks by selecting all of the forest formations from the Ecological Systems dataset and converting this raster coverage into a polygon coverage using ArcMap. We then used the area function within the resulting attribute table to calculate areas of forest habitats across the state. Last, we classified them according to parameters originally developed by the Orange County Open Space Plan (Orange County Planning Department, 2004) and further utilized by Cornell University’s... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, Large Forest Blocks, Large Forest Blocks, NYS, All tags... NYS, New York State, New York State, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, completed, conservation, conservation, dataset, dataset, forest, forest, landscape, landscape, locally important, locally important, regionally important, regionally important, stepping stones, stepping stones, Fewer tags Regional Flow 2016, Chesapeake Bay, U.S. 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... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Blocked/Low Flow, Chesapeake Bay, Circuitscape, Concentrated flow, Constrained Flow, All tags... Diffuse Flow, Resilience, Resilient sites, dataset, eastern North America, regional flows, wall to wall, Fewer tags Northern Diamondback Terrapin Probability of Occurrences, Northeastern U.S. Northern Diamondback Terrapin Probability of Occurrence (POC) Model for MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD, and VA. Warmer colors represent greater values and therefore, a higher probability of terrapins occurring in that area. The POC was developed by Karen Leu and Brooke Maslo (Rutgers University) and is based on documented occurrence between the years 2000-2012 as well as several environmental variables (see full report by S. Egger, 2016). The POC figure is the raw Maxent output. It contains the predicted probability of occurrence on a 0 - 1 scale, with 0.7722 being the highest possible value. Thresholds of 0.5, 0.6, and 0.3188 are shown. The latter value is the 10th percentile training presence logistic threshold, which... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Northeast US, Northern Diamondback Terrapin, Probability of occurrence, dataset, species, All tags... species occurrences, terrapins, Fewer tags