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Publication: Delaying conservation actions matters for species vulnerable to climate change Climate change vulnerability assessments are commonly used to identify species or populations at risk from global climate change, but few translate impact assessments to climate change adaptation actions. Furthermore, most climate change adaptation efforts emphasize where to implement management actions, whereas timing remains largely overlooked. The rate of modern climate change introduces urgency in evaluating whether delaying conservation actions compromises their efficacy for reaching important conservation targets. We evaluated the importance of multiple climate change adaptation strategies including timing of actions on preventing extinctions for a threatened climate-sensitive species, the Eastern Massasauga... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Conservation planning, Decision support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Publication, Publication, State agencies, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, climate adaptation, climate change, completed, environment, environment, population dynamics, threatened species, Fewer tags USFWS Critical Habitat - Line (MRB) Critical habitat lines - Mississippi River BasinWhen a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species’ conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as “critical habitat.” Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An area... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biota, Critical Habitat, Endangered species, Listed species, Threatened species, All tags... biota, environment, ngda, Fewer tags FWS Critical Habitat - Steelhead When a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species’ conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as “critical habitat.” Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An area is designated as “critical habitat” after the... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Biota, All tags... California, Colorado, Critical Habitat, Endangered species, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Listed species, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened species, United States, Utah, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, environment, ngda, Fewer tags Invasive hybridization in a threatened species is accelerated by climate change Abstract (from http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2252.html): Climate change will decrease worldwide biodiversity through a number of potential pathways1, including invasive hybridization2 (cross-breeding between invasive and native species). How climate warming influences the spread of hybridization and loss of native genomes poses difficult ecological and evolutionary questions with little empirical information to guide conservation management decisions3. Here we combine long-term genetic monitoring data with high-resolution climate and stream temperature predictions to evaluate how recent climate warming has influenced the spatio-temporal spread of human-mediated hybridization between... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Fish, Northwest CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, All tags... climate change, threatened species, Fewer tags FWS Critical Habitat - Bull Trout When a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species’ conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as “critical habitat.” Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An area is designated as “critical habitat” after the... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Biota, All tags... California, Colorado, Critical Habitat, Endangered species, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Listed species, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened species, United States, Utah, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, environment, ngda, Fewer tags Canopy closure around nest sites of Mexican spotted owls in northcentral Arizona We analyzed variation in canopy closure around 47 Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) nest sires and 47 random forest sites on the Coconino National Forest in northcentral Arizona. We mapped distinct habitat polygons on 1:15,840 color aerial photographs, assigned each polygon to one of 4 canopy-closure classes (70%), and measured the area in each canopy class within 5 concentric analysis zones with radii of 0.1, 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, and 1.6 km (delineating rings of about 4, 47, 150, 252, and 352 ha). Landscape composition differed between spotted owl nest and random sites (P 70% canopy-closure class and less area in the 70% canopy predominated Nesting spotted owls selected areas with denser canopy than randomly... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Arizona, Journal of Wildlife Management, Mexican spotted owl, Strix occidentalis lucida, aerial photography, All tags... canopy closure, habitat management, nesting habitat, permutation procedures, photogrammetry, spotted owl, threatened species, Fewer tags Recent habitat association and the historical decline of Notropis simus pecosensis Small-bodied, riverine minnows that historically characterized fish assemblages of Great Plains rivers in North America have declined because of river fragmentation, dewatering, river channel degradation, river salinization and nonnative species introductions. The Pecos bluntnose shiner Notropis simus pecosensis, a member of this guild, persists in one segment of the Pecos River, New Mexico, USA. We characterized habitat associations for the species at two spatial scales. In general, N. s. pecosensis associated with fluvial habitats, but velocity association depended on body size, with larger individuals using swifter habitats. All N. s. pecosensis associated with relatively low depths (3–51 cm), which were most... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Pecos River, River Research and Applications, aquatic habitat, flow management, river fragmentation, All tags... river restoration, riverine minnow, size-related habitat use, threatened species, Fewer tags 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 Expert opinion questionnaire regarding the importance of climate in determining species distribution for 15 threatened and endangered species in Florida We developed an expert opinion questionnaire to gather information regarding expert opinion regarding the importance of climate variables in determining a species geographic range (Brandt et al. 2017). The data on the Survey_Results tab represent the raw survey questions and responses. Each column in the spreadsheet (except the first four columns, described below) represents a survey question, which is written in the first cell of that column. Each survey response for that question is listed below. Some questions have multi-part answers, and are listed in multiple columns, and appended with letters (e.g., Q8A, Q8B, Q8C, etc.). The first four columns of the spreadhseet represent unique information for that survey... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Florida, climate adaptation, climate change, conservation, conservation planning, All tags... endangered species, expert opinion, threatened species, Fewer tags Ten species specific microsatellite loci for Lahontan cutthroat trout, Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci (containing tri and tetra-nucleotide repeats) were developed for the Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi), a subspecies of cutthroat trout listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act. Polymorphism was assessed for 445 individuals from 12 populations representing eight watersheds spread throughout the three Distinct Population Segments defined for this subspecies. All loci were polymorphic (X? = 19, range 7?26 alleles). All loci were in Hardy?Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) except for one locus (OCH 9) in a single population (P < 0.00014 after Bonferroni correction for multiple tests). Published in Molecular Ecology Notes, volume 4, issue 4,... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Lahontan cutthroat trout, Molecular Ecology Notes, Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi, distinct population segment, genetic population structure, All tags... microsatellite, threatened species, Fewer tags Target groups masks for climate envelope models for 15 threatened and endangered species in Florida We developed a modelling spatial domain, or mask, to delimit the modeling extent for each species (n=15 species), as a part of a larger project to compare climate envelope models outputs that were generated using two types of predictor variables: expert opinion and statistical method (Brandt et al. 2017). The species masks, or model domains, were defined separately for each species using a variation of the “target-group” approach (Phillips et al. 2009), where the domain was determine using convex polygons including occurrence data for at least three phylogenetically related and similar species (Watling et al. 2012). This dataset is separated into 15 zipped GeoTIFF rasters, each with its own metadata documentation.... Types: Citation; Tags: Florida, climate adaptation, climate change, conservation planning, endangered species, All tags... modelling domain, spatial mask, threatened species, Fewer tags FWS Critical Habitat - Chinook Salmon When a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species’ conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as “critical habitat.” Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An area is designated as “critical habitat” after the... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Biota, All tags... California, Colorado, Critical Habitat, Endangered species, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Listed species, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened species, United States, Utah, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, biota, environment, ngda, Fewer tags Data for comparison of climate envelope models developed using expert-selected variables versus statistical selection The data we used for this study include species occurrence data (n=15 species), climate data and predictions, an expert opinion questionnaire, and species masks that represented the model domain for each species. For this data release, we include the results of the expert opinion questionnaire and the species model domains (or masks). We developed an expert opinion questionnaire to gather information on expert opinion regarding the importance of climate variables in determining a species geographic range. The species masks, or model domains, were defined separately for each species using a variation of the “target-group” approach (Phillips et al. 2009), where the domain was determined using convex polygons including... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, climate adaptation, All tags... climate change, conservation, conservation planning, endangered species, expert opinion, threatened species, Fewer tags USFWS Critical Habitat - Poly (MRB) Critical habitat polygons - Mississippi River BasinWhen a species is proposed for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must consider whether there are areas of habitat believed to be essential the species’ conservation. Those areas may be proposed for designation as “critical habitat.” Critical habitat is a term defined and used in the Act. It is a specific geographic area(s) that contains features essential for the conservation of a threatened or endangered species and that may require special management and protection. Critical habitat may include an area that is not currently occupied by the species but that will be needed for its recovery. An... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biota, Critical Habitat, Endangered species, Listed species, Threatened species, All tags... biota, environment, ngda, Fewer tags