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The relationships between Mycoplasma agassizii, a causative agent of upper respiratory disease (URTD), and desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), generally illustrate the complexities of disease dynamics in wild vertebrate populations. In this review, we summarize current understanding of URTD in Mojave desert tortoise populations, we illustrate how inadequate knowledge of tortoise immune systems may obfuscate assessment of disease, and we suggest approaches to future management of URTD in desert tortoise populations. We challenge the view that M. agassizii causes consistent levels of morbidity and/or mortality across the Mojave desert. Instead, URTD may be described more accurately as a context-dependent disease....
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GAP distribution models represent the areas where species are predicted to occur based on habitat associations. GAP distribution models are the spatial arrangement of environments suitable for occupation by a species. In other words, a species distribution is created using a deductive model to predict areas suitable for occupation within a species range. To represent these suitable environments, GAP compiled existing GAP data, where available, and compiled additional data where needed. Existing data sources were the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP) and the Southeast Gap Analysis Project (SEGAP) as well as a data compiled by Sanborn Solutions and Mason, Bruce and Girard. Habitat associations were...
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Important Bird Areas (IBAs), are sites that provide essential habitat to one or more species of birds during some portion of the year (nesting areas, crucial migration stop-over sites, or wintering grounds). IBAs may be a few or even thousands of acres, but usually are discrete sites that stand out from the surrounding landscape. IBAs may include public or private lands, or both, and they may be already protected or not. IBA Protection Although the IBA program has no regulatory authority, it protects birds by making more people aware of the importance of essential habitat areas, and by promoting public and private commitment to bird-friendly land and resource management.
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This interactive web application viewer shows locations where the BLM collects information about vegetation and soils to help us understand and monitor the health of terrestrial ecosystems such as sagebrush-steppe.
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The dataset represents the work of multiple states and Federal agencies as part of the US Gap Analysis and LandFire programs. Multi-season satellite imagery (Landsat ETM+) from 1999-2001 were used in conjunction with digital elevation model (DEM) derived datasets (e.g. elevation, landform) to model natural and semi-natural vegetation. The minimum mapping unit for this dataset is approximately 1 acre. Landcover classes are drawn from NatureServe's Ecological System concept. Five-hundred and fourty-four land cover classes composed of 12 cultural and 532 Natural/Semi-natural types are described. Land cover classes were mapped with a variety of techniques including decision tree classifiers, terrian modeling, inductive...
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The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation measures that qualify their intent to manage lands for the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreational and cultural uses; managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase includes: 1) Geographic boundaries of public land ownership and voluntarily provided private conservation lands (e.g., Nature Conservancy Preserves); 2) The combination land owner, land manager, management...
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The dataset represents the work of multiple states and Federal agencies as part of the US Gap Analysis and LandFire programs. Multi-season satellite imagery (Landsat ETM+) from 1999-2001 were used in conjunction with digital elevation model (DEM) derived datasets (e.g. elevation, landform) to model natural and semi-natural vegetation. The minimum mapping unit for this dataset is approximately 1 acre. Landcover classes are drawn from NatureServe's Ecological System concept. Five-hundred and fourty-four land cover classes composed of 12 cultural and 532 Natural/Semi-natural types are described. Land cover classes were mapped with a variety of techniques including decision tree classifiers, terrian modeling, inductive...
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The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation measures that qualify their intent to manage lands for the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreational and cultural uses; managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase includes: 1) Geographic boundaries of public land ownership and voluntarily provided private conservation lands (e.g., Nature Conservancy Preserves); 2) The combination land owner, land manager, management...
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The dataset represents the work of multiple states and Federal agencies as part of the US Gap Analysis and LandFire programs. Multi-season satellite imagery (Landsat ETM+) from 1999-2001 were used in conjunction with digital elevation model (DEM) derived datasets (e.g. elevation, landform) to model natural and semi-natural vegetation. The minimum mapping unit for this dataset is approximately 1 acre. Landcover classes are drawn from NatureServe's Ecological System concept. Five-hundred and fourty-four land cover classes composed of 12 cultural and 532 Natural/Semi-natural types are described. Land cover classes were mapped with a variety of techniques including decision tree classifiers, terrian modeling, inductive...
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This dataset is made up of features aggregated from Ecoregional Assessments as well as other planning methodologies used across The Nature Conservancy to identify areas of biodiversity significance and prioritize conservation action. More information about ecoregional assesments and other conservation planning methodologies is available at The Nature Conservancy's Conservation Gateway, the Ecoregional Assessment Status Tool (EAST), and at http://maps.tnc.org. The BLM has been granted permission from The Nature Conservancy to publish this dataset, which is a snapshot of the Ecoregional Portfolio dataset taken when the REA analysis was completed. Users are encouraged to request the most current dataset directly from...
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The Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) is a geodatabase that illustrates and describes public land ownership, management and conservation lands nationally, including voluntarily provided privately protected areas. The lands included in PAD-US are assigned conservation measures that qualify their intent to manage lands for the preservation of biological diversity and to other natural, recreational and cultural uses; managed for these purposes through legal or other effective means. The geodatabase includes: 1) Geographic boundaries of public land ownership and voluntarily provided private conservation lands (e.g., Nature Conservancy Preserves); 2) The combination land owner, land manager, management...
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The dataset represents the work of multiple states and Federal agencies as part of the US Gap Analysis and LandFire programs. Multi-season satellite imagery (Landsat ETM+) from 1999-2001 were used in conjunction with digital elevation model (DEM) derived datasets (e.g. elevation, landform) to model natural and semi-natural vegetation. The minimum mapping unit for this dataset is approximately 1 acre. Landcover classes are drawn from NatureServe's Ecological System concept. Five-hundred and fourty-four land cover classes composed of 12 cultural and 532 Natural/Semi-natural types are described. Land cover classes were mapped with a variety of techniques including decision tree classifiers, terrian modeling, inductive...
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A region polygon dataset categorizing land in terms of ecological significance and status of protection in the Mojave Basin and Range (MBR) Rapid Ecoregional Assessment. This dataset identifies lands that have been identified as ecologically significant to biodiveristy but not yet legally protected (Places I - Sites of High Biodiversity), lands that have some type of protection status, often federal or state (Places II - Specially Designated Areas of Ecological and/or Cultural Value), and lands that may be ecologically significant but are managed for multiple use (Places III – Other Managed Lands).
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Subset of "Risk Model of Invasive Annual Grasses" - 15% category This dataset represents the location and class density of potential annual grass risk within the Central Great Basin and Mojave Basin Ecoregion for the 2010 time period. This model represent a composite of multiple inductive (Maximum Entropy) models of varying annual grass cover using non-spectral landscape variables. Input Variables: elevation, aspect, distance to fire, geology, distance to hydric soils, distance to intermitant streams, landform, ombrotype, distance to perrenial streams, soil pH, density of primary roads, density of secondary/local roads, percent sandy soil, slope, thermotype. Classification of Model 0-No/Low Risk 1- < 5% Cover Risk...


map background search result map search result map Important Bird Areas (IBAs) for Wyoming at 1:500,000 Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Modeled Distribution Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (1-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (5-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Mountain Sagebrush Land Cover (3-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Density of all roads (km/sq km) within a 540-m radius in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Salt Desert Shrub Land Cover (3-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Minimum Annual Temperature in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area BLM AIM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Efforts to Date Interactive Map (Web Application Viewer) BLM REA COP 2010 NatureServe National Landcover (v27) ColoradoPlateauBlackbrushMormonTeaShrubland_NatureServe_DIST_30m BLM REA SOD 2010 Riparian, Current Distribution - NatureServe National Landcover (v27) BLM REA NGB 2011 National Wildlife Refuges in the NGB BLM REA NGB 2011 PL WSAs poly BLM REA SLV 2013 TNC Portfolio Poly BLM REA MBR 2010 NatureServe Terrestrial Ecological Systems NAWarmDesertBadland BLM REA MBR 2010 Places SpecialDesignatedAreas BLM REA MBR 2010 l48 eslf v2 7 upland BLM REA SNK 2010 PADUS1 2 IUCN BLM REA CBR 2010 Risk Model of Invasive Annual Grasses - 15% category BLM REA SLV 2013 TNC Portfolio Poly BLM REA MBR 2010 Places SpecialDesignatedAreas BLM REA NGB 2011 National Wildlife Refuges in the NGB Important Bird Areas (IBAs) for Wyoming at 1:500,000 BLM REA NGB 2011 PL WSAs poly BLM REA MBR 2010 NatureServe Terrestrial Ecological Systems NAWarmDesertBadland BLM REA SOD 2010 Riparian, Current Distribution - NatureServe National Landcover (v27) BLM REA COP 2010 NatureServe National Landcover (v27) ColoradoPlateauBlackbrushMormonTeaShrubland_NatureServe_DIST_30m BLM REA SNK 2010 PADUS1 2 IUCN BLM REA MBR 2010 l48 eslf v2 7 upland BLM REA CBR 2010 Risk Model of Invasive Annual Grasses - 15% category Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (1-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (5-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Mountain Sagebrush Land Cover (3-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Density of all roads (km/sq km) within a 540-m radius in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of Salt Desert Shrub Land Cover (3-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Minimum Annual Temperature in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Modeled Distribution BLM AIM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Efforts to Date Interactive Map (Web Application Viewer)