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North America Grassland PCAs 2010 This data set shows the grasslands priority conservation areas (GPCAs) within North America’s Central Grasslands, an ecosystem considered among the most threatened in the continent and the world. GPCAs are defined as areas of tri-national importance due to their ecological significance and threatened nature, which are in need of international cooperation for their successful conservation. The 59 GPCAs were identified by biodiversity experts through research and a workshop co-organized by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Nature Conservancy in 2004 and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory in 2010. This is an amended version of the 2007 data set. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecosystems, Conservation, Grasslands, biota, environment County Tile Drainage - Mississippi River Basin Estimates of county tile drainage in the Mississippi River Basin. Data Sources: 2012 USDA NASS Census of Agriculture; World Resources Institute. 2008. Assessing Farm Drainage; USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center. 2014. Assessment of agricultural subsoil pattern tile drainage on wetland hydrology and ecosystem services in the Prairie Pothole Region. Field Description tiled_acre Acres drained by tile (NASS Census of Agriculture, 2012) or drainage permit acres in Dakotas (NPWRC, 2014), whichever is higher. pct_tile Percent of county drained by tile (tiled_acre/cty_acr*100) prmtac2 Acres under drainage permit in North or South Dakota (NPWRC, 2014). Best_Guess Acres drained by tile (WRI - Assessing... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, Mississippi River Basin, Subsurface Drainage Tile, agriculture, birds, All tags... conservation, conservation delivery, drainage tile, eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Important Forest Resource Areas Important Forest Resource Areas are those landscape areas that are considered to be of high program potential or priority by State Forest Action Plans, and as defined by National Forest Stewardship Program Standards and Guidelines. This dataset contains the combined areas for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin within the Mississippi River Basin. Grid Value "1": Stewardship Potential - Areas within a state that are eligible for Forest Stewardship and Rural Forestry Assistance Program delivery, but are not considered a priority. Grid Value "2": High Stewardship Potential - Priority areas within a state that are eligible for Forest Stewardship and Rural Forestry Assistance Program delivery. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Mainstem Floodplains - Large Bottomland Ecological System Mainstem Mississippi River bottomlands. Derived by combining the Mississippi alluvial plain with natural floodplains created by the Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team for the Upper Mississippi. While the Mississippi alluvial plain is not entirely bottomland (e.g. Crowley's Ridge), excluding these non-bottomland areas from analysis would exclude opportunities to expand existing forest patches and enhance connectivity. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags UMRGLR JV - Wetland Breeding Bird Habitat Priorities Value for wetland breeding birds based on herbaceous wetland breeding bird abundances and habitat models. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Gridded SSURGO - Farmland Class (Prime/Important) Mississippi River Basin Gridded SSURGO Farmland Class "farmlndcl" - Prime and Important soils. "Not Prime Farmland" is excluded from this dataset. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, SSURGO, Soils, agriculture, birds, All tags... conservation, conservation delivery, eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Combined Green Infrastructure Corridors Combined core and corridor areas used to identify the landscape context of potential implementation opportunities in terms of enhancing functional connectivity. Data generated by The Conservation Fund as part of the Midwest Wind Energy Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) and NiSource MSHCP green infrastructure network design processes. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, green infrastructure, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Nebraska Soil Erosion Index We obtained statewide spatially explicit gridded soil survey data for Nebraska from the Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database. The ‘chorizon,’ ‘chtexture,’ ‘chtexturegrp,’ ‘mapunit,’ and ‘mutext’ tables in the Gridded SSURGO database were joined together using the “mukey” attribute field in a geographic information system (GIS). The representative values for slope (rvslope) and slope length (rvslopelenusle), the susceptibility of the soil to water erosion (Kw), and the soil loss tolerance (t_fact) values were obtained from the set of joined tables and were included in the Water Erosion Index calculation. We acquired county-specific rainfall and runoff factor values (R) from the U.S. Department ofAgriculture’s... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Conservation, Land Use, Nebraska, environment Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan Potential Urban Growth Provisional Tennessee State Wildlife Action Plan (TN-SWAP) terrestrial habitat priorities versus results of the population growth model developed by the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 2008, converted to percent projected developed landcover in the year 2040. Spatial growth model was developed using population growth projections from the University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research (UT-CBER), county urban growth boundaries, 2000 census blocks, and various ancillary datasets. Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, AppLCC, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Data, All tags... Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tennessee, The Nature Conservancy, Tribes, biodiversity, biota, completed, conservation, decision support, endangered, habitat, modeling, planning, planningCadastre, prioritization, society, species, terrestrial, threatened, wildlife, Fewer tags Appalachian LCC Landscape Conservation Design Phase 1 Local Build-outs Systematic conservation planning is well suited to address the many large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges facing the Appalachian region. However, broad, well-connected landscapes will be required to sustain many of the natural resources important to this area into the future. If these landscapes are to be resilient to impending change, it will likely require an orchestrated and collaborative effort reaching across jurisdictional and political boundaries. The first step in realizing this vision is prioritizing discrete places and actions that hold the greatest promise for the protection of biodiversity. Five conservation design elements covering many critical ecological processes and patterns across the... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Appalachian, Appalachian, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags... Data, Data.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Interested public, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCD, LCD, Landscape conservation design, Landscape conservation design, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, completed, conservation, conservation, environment, landscape, landscape, Fewer tags Physiological Effects of Climate Change on Species within the Desert LCC Understanding the physiological impacts of climate change on arid lands species is a critical step towards ensuring the resilience and persistence of such species under changing temperature and moisture regimes. Varying degrees of vulnerability among different species will largely determine their future distributions in the face of climate change. Studies have indicated that Northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States are likely to become climate change hotspots, experiencing significantly drier and warmer average conditions by the end of the 21st century. However, relatively few studies have examined specifically the physiological effects of climate change on species inhabiting this region. This manuscript... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, All tags... AZ-05, AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Academics & scientific researchers, Aquascalientes, Arizona, Baja California, Big Bend ‐ Río Bravo & Lower Río Conchos Pilot Area, CA-08, CA-23, CA-25, CA-27, CA-36, CA-50, CA-51, California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Desert LCC (all), Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Durango, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONSERVATION, Federal resource managers, Guanajuato, Informing Conservation Delivery, Jalisco, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mexico, Mojave Desert Pilot Area, NM-02, NV-01, NV-03, NV-04, Nayarit, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mexico, Nuevo León, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Querétaro, Report, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Southwest US, TX-16, TX-23, Tamaulipas, Texas, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, UT-02, United States, Utah, Zacatecas, accepted, adaptation, animals, biota, climate change, completed, conservation, desert ecosystems, literature review, physiology, plants, Fewer tags Ecological changes in aquatic communities in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande: Synthesis and future monitoring needs There is a need to understand how alteration of physical processes on the Rio Grande River have impacted aquatic biota and their habitats, and a need to predict potential future effects of climate change on biotic resources in order to prescribe research and management activities that will enhance conservation of aquatic species. We propose a project with the goal of developing monitoring recommendations and identifying research needs for aquatic ecological resources in the Big Bend region of the Rio Grande. This goal will be targeted by synthesizing and analyzing available data and literature for aquatic species in the project region. In particular, we will work to develop time series of abundance and population... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, Academics & scientific researchers, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend ‐ Río Bravo & Lower Río Conchos Pilot Area, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lake Amistad, Monitoring, Project, Report, Rio Conchos, Rio Grande, TX-23, Texas, United States, aquatic biota, biota, climate change, completed, conservation, monitoring, water resources, Fewer tags Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2001 ThThe purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags Tennessee Conservation Opportunity Areas The Conservation Opportunity Areas (COAs) for Tennessee capture populations of GCN species and high quality habitats, and as appropriate, define the geographically relevant framework for achieving conservation outcomes. The COAs currently designed for Tennessee are large geographies, with the expectation that further prioritization and goal setting for specific habitat outcomes can be achieved within them through collaborations with partners on shared objectives. While designing the COAs for Tennessee, the planning team considered three major attributes: GCN habitat priority, the problems affecting the habitats, and the on-the-ground opportunities to implement conservation actions. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags HAPET Breeding Pairs - LeConte's sparrow Estimated number of breeding pairs of LeConte's sparrow based on the amount of grass, trees, and/or hay in the landscape. Landscape scale varied from 1/4- to 2-mile radius depending on the species. Pair estimates were calculated for grass patches >=1 ha, extrapolated to 40-ac cells, then smoothed by averaging over a 1-mile radius. Models were based on point count surveys conducted in 2003-2005 throughout the Tallgrass Prairie Pothole Region. Point count locations were stratified by cover type, the amount of grass in the landscape, and USFWS Wetland Management District boundaries. Landcover data were derived from 2000 Thematic Mapper imagery. Grid values = number of breeding pairs per 30-m pixel. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, grassland birds, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Kansas - Terrestrial Ecological Focus Areas Ecological Focus Areas (EFA), geographically explicit areas in which to address conservation issues, represent landscapes where conservation actions can be applied for maximum benefit to all Kansas wildlife. Each EFA includes a suite of SGCN and priority habitats and a unique set of conservation actions designed to address the specific resource concerns facing these species and habitats. Each EFA also includes one or more protected areas that can serve as demonstration sites for conservation actions. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Basin-wide Restoration Opportunities - Cotton (2017) Mississippi River Basin-wide restoration (wetland/prairie/forest) opportunities for the Cotton production system. Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: LCC, agriculture, birds, conservation, conservation delivery, All tags... eutrophication, fish, gulf hypoxia, habitat, hypoxia, landscape conservation cooperative, landscape conservation design, mississippi river basin, pollinators, sdm, species, species distribution, strategic conservation, structured decision making, water quality, wildlife, Fewer tags Report: The Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy Actionable Science Plan The Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter Strategy, DOI 2015) outlined the need for coordinated, science-based adaptive management to achieve long-term protection, conservation, and restoration of the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem. A key component of this management approach is the identification of knowledge gaps that limit implementation of effective strategies to meet current management challenges. The tasks and actions identified in the Strategy address several broad topics related to management of the sagebrush ecosystem. This science plan is organized around these topics and specifically focuses on fire, invasive plant species and their effects on altering fire regimes, restoration,... Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia spp., California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Conservation, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Report, Utah, biota, completed, invasive plants, management, restoration, sage-grouse, sagebrush, Fewer tags Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals This project completed a Conservation Lands Network for biodiversity preservation which includes an on-line decision support tool, a GIS database, a computer software for finer scale planning, and a report card template. Project results may be found at The Conservation Lands Network website. Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Estuarine, Federal, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay Area, Science Project, State agencies, Terrestrial, Upland, acquisition, biodiversity, completed, connectivity, conservation, environment, gis database, on-line tool, plants, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 ... 26 »