Determining Landscape Connectivity and Climate Change Refugia Across the Sierra Nevada

This project used species distribution modeling, population genetics, and geospatial analysis of historical vs. modern vertebrate populations to identify climate change refugia and population connectivity across the Sierra Nevada. It is hypothesized that climate change refugia will increase persistence and stability of populations and, as a result, maintain higher genetic diversity. This work helps managers assess the need to include connectivity and refugia in climate change adaptation strategies. Results help Sierra Nevada land managers allocate limited resources, aid future scenario assessment at landscape scales, and develop a performance measure for assessing resilience.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2011, 2013, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation Design, All tags... Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal, Federal resource managers, Forest, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Publication, Science Project, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada, Southwest CSC, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Website, adaptation, aet, biodiversity, communication, completed, connectivity, connectivity, downscaling, environment, genetics, grinnell, historical, mammals, management, maxent, microsatellite, multiple, online, pet, prism, refugia, refugia, resilience, seminar, species distribution modeling, squirrels, vertebrates, website, workshop, Fewer tags

Species Distribution Modeling and Conservation Planning Training Workshop

Most natural resource managers, planners and policy makers are now dependent upon spatially explicit environmental suitability and spatial allocation analyses to inform policy and management decisions. However, staff across agencies has been unable to stay current on understanding and applying these new data, tools and analyses. Currently, this information may be underutilized or used inappropriately, which could result in poor decisions. Two training curricula were developed – one for managers and one for GIS analysts – on current best practices for developing and using spatial information to support conservation decision making. The training materials are open-source and widely distributed to California LCC stakeholders.

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2012, CA, CA-wide, California, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Decision Support, Decision support, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Multiple, Private land owners, Project, Science Project, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Training/Outreach/Workshop, animals, completed, connectivity, environment, gis, invasive species, management, maxent, multiple, plants, policy, stakeholder, suitability model, training, uncertainty, workshop, Fewer tags

Final Report: Data provision and projected impact of climate change on fish biodiversity within the Desert LCC

The four primary objectives of this project were to: (1) compile a dataset of fish occurrence records for the entirety of the Rio Grande drainage in the US and Mexico; (2) improve that dataset by reformatting dates, synonymizing species names to a modern taxonomy, georeferencing localities, and flagging geographic outliers; (3) for those species with sufficient data for modeling, create species distribution models (SDMs); (4) use the environmental conditions determined via those models to project the species distributions into the future under two climate scenarios. To accomplish those objectives, we compiled 495,101 fish occurrence records mined from 122 original sources into a single database. We then, on the...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alligator gar, American eel, Anguilla rostrata, Aquatic resource management, All tags... Armored catfish, Astyanax mexicanus, Atractosteus spatula, Awaous banana, Big Bend gambusia, Bigscale logperch, Blotched gambusia, Blue catfish, Blue sucker, Blue tilapia, Bluntnose shiner, Catostomus plebeius, Chihuahua catfish, Chihuahua shiner, Climate Change, Climate change projections, Colorado, Comanche Springs pupfish, Common carp, Conchos pupfish, Creek chub, Ctenogobius claytonii, Cuatro Ciénegas, Cycleptus elongatus, Cyprinella lutrensis blairi, Cyprinella proserpina, Cyprinodon bovinus, Cyprinodon elegans, Cyprinodon eximius, Cyprinodon pecosensis, Cyprinus carpio, DLCC, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Devils river minnow, Dionda argentosa, Dionda diaboli, Dionda episcopa, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH, Endangered fish, Etheostoma grahami, Etheostoma lepidum, Federal resource managers, Fish conservation, Fishbase, Fishes of Texas, Fishnet2, Flathead chub, Freshwater fish, GPLCC, Gambusia clarkhubbsi, Gambusia gaigei, Gambusia nobilis, Gambusia senilis, Gambusia speciosa, Gila pandora, Global Biodiversity information Facility, Gray red horse, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Green throat darter, Headwater catfish, Hybognathus amarus, Hybognathus placitus, Hypostomus sp., Ictalurus furcatus, Ictalurus lupus, Ictalurus sp., Ictiobus bubalus, LCC Network Science Catalog, Leon Springs pupfish, Lepisosteus osseus, Lepomis auritus, Longlip jumprock, Longnose dace, Longnose gar, Lucania parva, MX06 = Chihuahua, MX07 = Coahuila de Zaragoza, MX19 = Nuevo Leon, MX28 = Tamaulipas, Macrhybopsis aestivalis, Manantial roundnose minnow, Map, Maravillas red shiner, Maxent, Mexican goby, Mexican redhorse, Mexican tetra, Mexico, Micropterus dolomieu, Morone chrysops, Morone saxatilis, Morone saxatilis, Moxostoma albidum, Moxostoma austrinum, Moxostoma congestum, Museum Occurrence Records, New Mexico, New Mexico Biodiversity collections consortium, Notropis amabilis, Notropis braytoni, Notropis chihuahua, Notropis jemezanus, Notropis orca, Notropis orca, Notropis simus pecosensis, Notropis simus simus, Oncorhynchus clarki virginialis, Oreochromis aureus, Pecos bluntnose shiner, Pecos gambusia, Pecos pupfish, Percina macrolepida, Phantom shiner, Phenacobius mirabilis, Plains minnow, Platygobio gracilis, Proserpine shiner, Rainwater killifish, Redbreast sunfish, Report, Report, Rhinichthys cataractae, Rio Conchos, Rio Grande, Rio Grande chub, Rio Grande cutthroat, Rio Grande darter, Rio Grande shiner, Rio Grande silvery minnow, Rio Grande sucker, Rio Salado, Rio Salinas, Rio San Juan, River goby, Roundnose minnow, San Felipe gambusia, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, Semotilus atromaculatus, Shovelnose sturgeon, Smallmouth bass, Smallmouth buffalo, Speckled chub, Striped bass, Suckermouth minnow, Tamaulipas shiner, Tex-Mex gambusia, Texas, Texas Natural History Collection, Texas shiner, Threatened fish, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, University of Alabama Ichthyology Collection, University of Michigan Icthyology Collection, White bass, biota, completed, historic fish occurrence, product, species distribution models, Fewer tags

Island of Hawaiʻi lidar-based habitat suitability for ʻākohekohe (Palmeria dolei) conservation introductions, 2023

This dataset comprises high-resolution geotif files representing various aspects of the ʻākohekohe (Palmeria dolei) potential habitat on the Island of Hawaiʻi. It includes a habitat suitability map showing average suitability scores, a map of homogenous forested areas (HFAs) depicting clusters with consistent suitability scores, and a map of pixel-wise standard deviation across habitat suitability models. These maps were generated through a comprehensive analysis using lidar-based metrics, offering detailed insights into the habitat preferences of ʻākohekohe.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Assisted colonization, Climate Change, Conservation Introduction, Endangered Species, Hawaii, All tags... Island of Hawaiʻi, Maxent, Pacific Islands, SDM, Translocation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, species distribution model, Fewer tags