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Index of Ecological Integrity, Stratified by Ecosystem, Region-wide, Version 3.2, Northeast U.S. This dataset was last updated 02/2017. This version includes a new tidal restrictions metric that assesses the effect of undersized culverts and bridges on tidal regime.The previous version (3.1) was updated on 05/2016 by incorporating a revised version of the land cover classification, DSLland Version 3.1, developed by UMass, which included the addition of The Nature Conservancy’s Northeast lakes and ponds classification.This dataset depicts the ecological integrity of locations (represented by 30 m grid cells) throughout the northeastern United States 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... 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, completed, condition, All tags... condition, designing, designing, dsl, dsl, ecosystems, ecosystems, environment, environment, 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 Support to Western States Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools The SRLCC provided funds to the states of Arizona and New Mexico to support development of the states Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools (CHATs) which provide a decision support system to better incorporate wildlife values, sensitive animals and plants, and important ecosystem features into land use decision-making to reduce conflicts and surprises.Several states have released wildlife mapping tools that are the foundation for displaying crucial wildlife and corridor information. The state and regional CHATs are non-regulatory, and give project planners and the general public access to credible scientific data on a broad scale for use in project analysis, siting and planning. This includes large-scale development... 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, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, AZ-05, All tags... AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Mule Deer and Elk, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Western United States, completed, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, crucial habitat assessment, decision support system, decision support system, decision support systems, development, development, development, ecosystems, ecosystems, ecosystems, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, wildlife, wildlife, wildlife, Fewer tags Autumn migratory landbird stopover density radars, Northeast U.S. This dataset contains measures of seasonal mean bird stopover densities and in seasonal mean bird density based on weather surveillance radar data from 20 radar locations in the Northeast U.S. across seven autumn migrations (15 August through 7 November of 2008-2014) [six autumn migrations for the terminal doppler weather radar (15 August through 7 November of 2009-2014)]. Data are present only in radar-sampled areas for each individual radar (see below for description on how these data are filtered). If you are interested in a continuous map of bird stopover densities for the entire region (and outside of these radar coverage areas), refer to layer “Predicted autumn migratory landbird density, 1km, Northeast U.S.”.The... 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, biota, birds, All tags... completed, ecosystems, environment, environment, landscape ecology, migratory routes, rates, terrestrial, Fewer tags Advancing understanding of ecosystem responses to climate change with warming experiments: what we have learned and what is unknown? Advancing our mechanistic understanding of ecosystem responses to climate change is critical to improve ecological theories, develop predictive models to simulate ecosystem processes, and inform sound policies to manage ecosystems and human activities. Manipulation of temperature in the field, or the “ecosystem warming experiment,” has proved to be a powerful tool to understand ecosystem responses to changes in temperature. No comprehensive synthesis has been conducted since the last one more than 10 years ago. A new synthetic analysis is critically needed to advance our understanding of ecosystem responses to warming, to highlight experimental artifacts and appropriate interpretations, and to guide development... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Land Resources Integrating modeling and empirical approaches to improve predictions of tropical forest responses to global warming Tropical forests contain > 50% of the world’s known species (Heywood 1995), 55% of global forest biomass (Pan et al. 2011), and exchange more carbon (C), water and energy with the atmosphere than any other ecosystem type (e.g., Saugier et al. 2001). Despite their importance, there is more uncertainty associated with predictions of how tropical forests will respond to warming than for any other biome (Randerson et al. 2009). This uncertainty is of global concern due to the large quantity of C cycled by these forests and the high potential for biodiversity loss. Given the importance of tropical forests, decision makers and land managers around the globe need increased predictive capacity regarding how tropical forests... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Climate, Ecosystems, Forests, All tags... Land Resources, Fewer tags Aquatic Index of Ecological Integrity, Region-wide, Version 3.2, Northeast U.S. This dataset depicts the ecological integrity of locations (represented by 30 m grid cells) throughout the northeastern United States based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010 for aquatic systems.The values for this dataset were extracted from the Index of Ecological Integrity, Region-wide, Version 3.2 for all aquatic systems. Updated 09/2017. The metadata for the original dataset is as follows:This dataset was last updated 02/2017. This version includes a new tidal restrictions metric that assesses the effect of undersized culverts and bridges on tidal regime. The previous version (3.1) was updated on 05/2016 by incorporating a revised version of the land cover classification, DSLland Version... 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, completed, All tags... condition, condition, designing, designing, dsl, dsl, ecosystems, ecosystems, environment, environment, environmental, environmental, habitat, habitat, iei, iei, intact, intact, intactness, intactness, landscapes, landscapes, resilience, resilience, resiliency, resiliency, sustainable, sustainable, systems, systems, university of massachusetts, university of massachusetts, Fewer tags Consequences of Urbanization and Climate Change on Human and Ecosystem Health In this proposal we investigate how tree selection at the local scale affects biodiversity and ecosystem services (Obj. 1). We then look regionally to determine the extent to which trees in cities can be used to predict heat-related threats to rural forests (Obj. 2). We will leverage ongoing investigations of heat-related stress and pest outbreaks in urban and rural forests to develop management recommendations for both systems. These ongoing projects provide a knowledge-base, infrastructure (e.g. study sites), equipment (e.g. Li-Cor Photosynthesis System), and outreach opportunities that will extend the impact of this project (see Synergistic and Future Funding section below). We will also convene a working group... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, CASC, Ecosystems, Forests, Forests, All tags... Humans, Landscapes, Landscapes, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Southeast, Southeast CASC, Urbanization, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Elucidating mechanisms underlying amphibian declines in North America using hierarchical spatial models Amphibian populations are declining globally at unprecedented rates but statistically rigorous identification of mechanisms is lacking. Identification of reasons underlying large-scale declines is imperative to plan and implement effective conservation efforts. Most research on amphibian population decline has focused on local populations and local factors. However, the ubiquity of declines across species and landscapes suggests that causal factors at a broader scale are also important. Elucidation of the mechanisms driving population change has lagged, mainly because data have been unavailable at continental scales. We propose to address this need by assembling data to answer questions about broad-scale drivers... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Amphibians, Ecosystems, Land Resources, All tags... animals, Fewer tags North America Forests 2011 This data set shows forests of North America, classified according to FAO ecological zones (EZ). The data set was created by modifying the Ecological Regions of North America (ecoregions) data included in the North American Atlas. Ecoregion classifications were converted to the FAO EZ classes, based on the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) 2010, and minor adjustments were made to polygon geometry. In addition, data were added for Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and additional lakes were imported. The FAO ecological zones are based on a combination of climate (temperature and precipitation) and potential vegetation classifications. They are broad areas of relatively homogeneous vegetation, with similar physical characteristics.... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecological regions , Ecological zones, Ecoregions , Ecosystem geography , Ecosystems Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment The Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment (GCVA) used an expert opinion approach to qualitatively assess the vulnerability of four ecosystems: mangrove, oyster reef, tidal emergent marsh, and barrier islands, and a suite of wildlife species that depend on them. More than 50 individuals participated in the completion of the GCVA, facilitated via Ecosystem and Species Expert Teams. The GCVA made use of the Standardized Index of Vulnerability and Value Assessment (SIVVA) (Reece and Noss 2014) to provide an objective framework for evaluating vulnerability by guiding assessors through a series of questions related to the changes an ecosystem or species might experience due to climate change and other threats. Assessors... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, BARRIER ISLANDS, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, Barrier Islands, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, Complete, Conservation NGOs, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS > MARSHES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > REEF > OYSTER REEF, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ESTUARY, Federal resource managers, Florida, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Gulf of Mexico, LAND SURFACE, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MANGROVE SWAMP, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARSHES, Mangrove, Mississippi, Oyster Reef, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, Texas, Tidal Emergent Marsh, WETLANDS, american oystercatcher, black skimmer, blue crab, clapper rail, eastern oysters, environment, kemp's ridley sea turtle, mottled duck, red drum, roseate spoonbill, spotted seatrout, wilson's plover, Fewer tags Terrestrial and Aquatic Habitat Map (DSLland), Version 3.1, Northeast U.S. This dataset was developed as part of the Designing Sustainble Landscapes project led by Professor Kevin McGarigal of UMass Amherst and sponsored by the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (www.northatlanticlcc.org); for more information about the entire project see: http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/dsl/dsl.htmlThis dataset was last updated 02/2017. The revised version incorporates the addition of a simplified version of The Nature Conservancy's Northeast lakes and ponds classification, visit https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationByGeography/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/edc/reportsdata/freshwater/Pages/Northeast-Lakes.aspx for more details.This dataset represents terrestrial and wetland... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 2010, 2010, DSL, DSL, Data, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, UMass, UMass, completed, cover, cover, designing, designing, ecological, ecological, ecosystems, ecosystems, environment, environment, habitat, habitat, land, land, landscapes, landscapes, sustainable, sustainable, systems, systems, terrestrial, terrestrial, Fewer tags USGS Dam Removal Science Database v3.0 This database is the result of an extensive literature search aimed at identifying documents relevant to the emerging field of dam removal science. In total the database contains 214 citations that contain empirical monitoring information associated with 181 different dam removals across the United States and abroad. Data includes publications through 2016 and supplemented with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams database, U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and aerial photos to estimate locations when coordinates were not provided. Publications were located using the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Australia, Austria, Canada, Dam Removal, Ecology, All tags... Ecosystems, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, Japan, Korea, Land Use Change, Meta-Analysis, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wales, Water, Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Arkansas Broadly Defined Habitats This data layer summarizes ecological systems and land cover classes described in state-level and national-level maps as Broadly Defined Habitats for groups of species of conservation concern. Each grid cell in the raster is assigned a Condition Index value based on desired condition metrics using ancillary datasets and a decision tree approach for each assessed habitat. Grid cells are also assigned bar code descriptors indicating which metrics contributed to the Condition Index score for that cell. This layer also contains information about potential habitats based on the LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings data layer. This layer was developed to support the next iteration of the Conservation Blueprint developed by the... Categories: Data, Map; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arkansas, Ecological Systems, Ecosystems, Habitats, Species of Concern, All tags... Wildlife Conservation, Fewer tags Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse-gas fluxes in ecosystems of Alaska This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and to contribute to knowledge of the storage, fluxes, and balance of carbon and methane gas in ecosystems of Alaska. The carbon and methane variables were examined for major terrestrial ecosystems (uplands and wetlands) and inland aquatic ecosystems in Alaska in two time periods: baseline (from 1950 through 2009) and future (projections from 2010 through 2099). The assessment used measured and observed data and remote sensing, statistical methods, and simulation models. The national assessment, conducted using the methodology described in SIR 2010-5233, has been completed for the conterminous... Categories: Publication; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Report Citation; Tags: Alaska, Assessment, Carbon flux, Carbon stock, Ecosystems North America Ecological Regions This data set shows Level I, II, and III ecological regions (ecoregions) of North America, and is an update and revision of files developed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America in the late 1990’s in a cooperative project for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). These revised ecological regions were developed in a meeting between representatives of the three nations and CEC in April 2006 in Newport, Oregon. Ecoregions are areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources. The ecoregions in this data set are based on the premise that a hierarchy of ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of the patterns and... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecoregions, Ecosystem geography , Ecosystems, Regional ecology Distribution of the Sage-grouse in North America This metadata references the polygonal ARC/INFO GIS cover showing the current and historic distribution of potential habitat, or range, of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) in Western North America. This data was initially researched and compiled by Dr. Michael A. Schroeder, research biologist for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. The initial draft of current and historic range data was mapped and submitted to state, federal, or provincial natural resource agencies and other experts for review, comment, and editing. The final product represents the best available science and expert review available at the time of compilation.Definition... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, Biology and Ecology, Bird Conservation, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus, Colorado, Ecosystems, Environment and Conservation, Greater Sage-grouse, Gunnison Sage-grouse, Historical Features, Idaho, Montana, Natural Resources, Nevada, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Sage-grouse, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, current, distribution, habitat, historic, minimus, potential, pre-settlement, present-day, range, urophasianus, Fewer tags North American Analysis and Synthesis on the Connectivity of "Geographically Isolated Wetlands" to Downstream Waters Geographically Isolated Wetlands (GIWs) occur along gradients of hydrologic and ecological connectivity and isolation, even within wetland types (e.g., forested, emergent marshes) and functional classes (e.g., ephemeral systems, permanent systems, etc.). Within a given watershed, the relative positions of wetlands and open-waters along these gradients influence the type and magnitude of their chemical, physical, and biological effects on downgradient waters. In addition, the ways in which GIWs connect to the broader hydrological landscape, and the effects of such connectivity on downgradient waters, depends largely upon climate, geology, and relief, the heterogeneity of which expands with increasing scale. Developing... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Geographically isolated wetlands, depressional wetlands, perimeter, Water, All tags... Water Connectivity, Water Resources, Wetlands, 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 expressed... 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 Historic GSG Range This metadata references the polygonal ARC/INFO GIS cover showing the current and historic distribution of potential habitat, or range, of the Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) in Western North America. This data was initially researched and compiled by Dr. Michael A. Schroeder, research biologist for the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. The initial draft of current and historic range data was mapped and submitted to state, federal, or provincial natural resource agencies and other experts for review, comment, and editing. The final product represents the best available science and expert review available at the time of compilation.Definition... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alberta, Biology and Ecology, Bird Conservation, California, Canada, All tags... Centrocercus, Colorado, Ecosystems, Environment and Conservation, Greater Sage-grouse, Gunnison Sage-grouse, Historical Features, Idaho, Montana, Natural Resources, Nevada, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, Sage-grouse, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, current, distribution, habitat, historic, minimus, potential, pre-settlement, present-day, range, urophasianus, Fewer tags Conservation Thresholds for Land Use Planners Conclusions: Summarizes findings from a review of literature intended to identify critical thresholds for conservation based in empirical studies of landscape fragmentation. Presents a conceptual overview of landscape fragmentation and habitat loss, as well as guidelines and thresholds relating to landscape indicators such as patch size, habitat amount, edge effects, riparian buffers, and habitat connectivity. Thresholds/Learnings: Many. See Kennedy et al. 2003. Synopsis: This report summarizes findings from a review of literature intended to identify critical thresholds for conservation based in empirical studies of landscape fragmentation. In presenting a conceptual overview of landscape fragmentation and habitat... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Agriculture, Biodiversity, Conservation, Dams, Ecosystems, All tags... Fragmentation, Grazing, Guidelines, Intactness, Land Use, Landscape, Landscape fragmentation, Natural cover amount, North America, Planning, Powerlines, Roads, Settlement, Threats, Threshold, United States, Water Quality, birds, conservation thresholds, habitat loss, n/a, terrestrial mammals, Fewer tags 1 2 3 »