“Common Ground” Landcover Classification: Oklahoma Ecological Systems Mapping

The Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative needed seamless landcover data for the south-central United States. This information is essential for developing computer modeling tools related to the conservation of many terrestrial species and determining the quality of vegetation to assess current and desired conditions.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Conservation NGOs, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Federal resource managers, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, completed, ecological mapping systems, ecological systems, environment, flora, habitat, land use, landcover, vegetation classification, vegetation communities, Fewer tags

Consequences of stream fragmentation and climate change for rare Great Plains fishes

Rate of global biodiversity loss increased significantly during the 20th century associated with human environmental alterations. Specifically, mismanagement of freshwater resources contributed to historical and contemporary loss of stream-dwelling fish diversity and will likely play a role in determining the persistence of species in the future. We present a mechanistic pathway by which human alteration of streams has caused the decline of a unique reproductive guild of Great Plains stream-dwelling fishes, and suggest how future climate change might exacerbate these declines. Stream fragmentation related to impoundments, diversion dams and stream dewatering are consequences of increasing demand for freshwater resources...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, AR-04, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-03, CT-04, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LA-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-00, Map, Montana, ND-00, NE-03, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, SD-00, South Dakota, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-08, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-17, TX-19, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, pelagic-spawning cyprinid, Fewer tags

Conservation Planning Atlas for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Comprehensive geospatial data covering the area of the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative is needed to better inform and improve countless conservation efforts and help partners convey a shared vision and priorities for this area in geospatial terms.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2016, 2017, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, GCP LCC, Geospatial technology, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Hunters & anglers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-04, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Louisiana, Map, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Other, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, State agencies, TX-01, TX-02, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-14, TX-15, TX-16, TX-17, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-22, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, TX-36, Texas, Texas, Tribes, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags

Conservation Priorities for Great Plains Fish Communities Based on Riverscape Connectivity and Genetic Integrity of Populations

Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Range-wide Lesser Prairie-Chicken Management Plan Development

The range-wide plan (RWP) has been developed in response to concerns about lesser prairie-chicken (LPC) habitat threats which may be impacting LPC populations, and the proposed listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Along with the existing conservation efforts already being implemented, as described in the RWP, the supporting WAFWA Conservation Agreement (WCA) represents another mechanism to implement conservation to benefit LPC. The WCP represents an opportunity to enroll participants who agree to avoid, minimize and mitigate actions which may be detrimental to LPC. Landowners may enroll properties to be managed for the benefit of LPC. Properties may generate credits for mitigation. When complete avoidance...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, BIRDS, CO-04, Colorado, Conservation Planning, All tags... FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SAVANNAS, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Decision support for climate change adaptation in the GPLCC: Creating geospatial data products for ecosystem assessments and predictive species modeling

Species populations are in a state of flux due to the cumulative and interacting impacts of climate change and human stressors across landscapes. Invasive spread, pathogen outbreaks, land-use activities, and especially climate disruption and its associated impacts—severe drought (see Figure 3 or the GPLCC), reduced stream flow, increased wildfire frequency, extended growing season, and extreme weather events—are increasing, and in some cases accelerating. These impacts are outpacing management and conservation responses intended to support trust species and their critical habitats. Our common goal is to craft successful adaptation strategies in the face of these multiple, interacting drivers of environmental change....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Academics & scientific researchers, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2010, FY 2010, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, SOLAR-ATMOSPHERE/SPACE-WEATHER MODELS, South Dakota, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Website, Wyoming, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Implications of climate change for avian conservation in Great Plains landscapes

Funded project resulted in 6 publications covering various aspects related to shorebird/grassland bird migration, climate and nesting success in the great plains region.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Avian, Avian, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, All tags... CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climatic Change, Climatic Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Birds, Grassland Birds, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Models, Habitat Models, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Native Grassland, Native Grassland, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, SD-00, Sedimentation, Sedimentation, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, South Dakota, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Conservation Assessment and Mapping Products for GPLCC Priority Fish Taxa

Strategic conservation planning for broad, multi-species landscapes benefits from a data-driven approach that emphasizes persistence of all priority species’ populations and utilized landscapes, while simultaneously accounting for human uses. We propose to initiate a strategic conservation area assessment for the GPLCC. We will focus on Great Plains fishes for this initial project, though additional priority taxa can later be easily incorporated into this proposed framework. We will start with compilation and/or creation of spatial habitat utilization information (including construction of range-wide species distribution models) for GPLCC priority fishes. We will then utilize the open source software Zonation to...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Report, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Black-tailed Prairie Dog Habitat Suitability Modeling for the Southern Great Plains: Cross-scale Analysis of Soils, Topography and Climate

We developed multi-scale habitat suitability models for black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) in the southwestern Great Plains, corresponding to the western region of the Great Plains LCC. We used long-term (10-yr), high-resolution datasets on BTPD colony boundary locations collected at 7 study areas distributed across the region to develop resource selection functions based on colony locations and expansion patterns. Models are based on (1) soil maps and associated Ecological Sites (NRCS SSURGO database), (2) a topographic wetness index based upon water runoff and solar insolation patterns (TWIsi) that tests a priori hypotheses for topographic controls on BTPD, and (3) broad climatic gradients in temperature and mean...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BTPD, BTPD, CO-04, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, Final Report, Final Report, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-03, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RODENTS, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-13, Texas, biota, black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), completed, environment, Fewer tags

Historic and Current Habitat Use by Arkansas River Shiner in the South Canadian River in Central Oklahoma as Affected by River Flow: Predictions for Habitat Under Future Climate Scenarios

The Arkansas River Shiner (ARS), Notropis girardi, is a federally threatened minnow that now occurs natively in modest numbers only in the South Canadian River, following decades of range contraction and population losses. The remaining populations are at increasing risk as global change is expected to impact the upper and middle South Canadian River with a rise in temperature as much as 4-6 F and a decrease in precipitation from 10 to 35 % in this century. The primary objective of this project was to evaluate potential effects of habitat and environmental change on Arkansas River shiners by examination of habitat use and availability at several spatial scales using both historical and recently-collected data from...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, FISH, FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, State agencies, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Patterns and Processes of Dispersal of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs in a Heavily Managed Landscape of the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The black‐tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is considered an indicator species for the short grass prairie of North America; however, this species currently occupies an estimated 2% of its original distribution. Persistent and pervasive poisoning, and sylvatic plague have fragmented the remaining populations. It is not well understood how these population fragments are connected in a heterogeneous landscape of land use practices and land cover types, but quantifying population isolation and individual measures of dispersal across the landscape are essential to predicting both the vulnerability of extinction due to stochastic processes and the probability of disease emergence. To better understand how land...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BTPD, BTPD, Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), All tags... CO-04, Colorado, Colorado, Decision Support, FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, NE-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, OK-03, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RODENTS, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-13, Texas, Texas, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags

Understanding Landowner Attitudes, Opinions and Willingness to Participate in Playa Conservation

DJ Case will work with PLJV and other project cooperators to develop, conduct, and analyze 14 focus groups with key landowners in six states within the GPLCC. Focus groups allow for open-ended discussions and follow-on questioning that will reveal the key socioeconomic realities and hurdles that discourage landowners from enrolling in conservation programs or restoring playas. Focus groups will be conducted in areas with large playa clusters as identified by PLJV’s science-based Playa Decision Support System. Researchers will select key landowners in each state for participation, and will use the focus group sessions to learn what landowners think and feel about management of their lands in general, and about conservation...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, CONSERVATION, Colorado, Conservation Programs, Conservation Programs, Customer Opinions, Customer Opinions, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, completed, environment, inlandWaters, society, Fewer tags

Improving Rock Ramp Fishways for Small-Bodied Plains Fishes

River systems in the Great Plains region are heavily fragmented by potential instream barriers to movement such as low-head diversion dams. The longitudinal connectivity of these systems can be restored with the use of fish passage structures that are designed to allow passage of native fishes, but data on appropriate design requirements are lacking. The proposed project will measure the passage success of 3 species of Great Plains fishes (1 darter, 1 minnow, and 1 catfish in the madtom group) as function of rock ramp fishway slope and sinuosity, two of the key design parameters for an effective fishway. The project will use a model fishway with variable slope and sinuosity and integrated PIT tag antennas to...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Report, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Evaluating the reproductive success of Arkansas River shiner by evaluating early life-history stage dispersal and survival at a landscape level

Reduced to its most fundamental level, the management problem addressed by this project is the basic conflict between the fact that fish need water and the reality that the amount and quality of the water available has been dramatically altered by human activities. For fishes dependent upon specific flows for successful reproduction, the quality and quantity of available water are likely the primary determinants of habitat quality. In many cases, the minimum requirements of water quantity and quality needed to support self-sustaining fish populations are unknown and thus there is no way for resource managers to effectively assess habitat quality and its ability to support fish populations under current or future...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), CATFISHES/MINNOWS, All tags... FY 2011, FY 2011, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, State agencies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Grassland Decision Support Tool

Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative partners need new computer models to help address threats to grassland habitats, such as land conversion and habitat fragmentation, affecting LCC focal species such as the northern bobwhite and eastern meadowlark. These tools will help partners determine the best places to invest limited resources in conserving and restoring grasslands to support self-sustaining wildlife populations.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, 2015, 2016, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Grassland habitats, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Project, Report, South-central United States, State agencies, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-08, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-17, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, Texas, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Provision and inventory of diverse aquatic ecosystem-related resources for the GPLCC

The basic task of inventorying biodiversity has actually been under way for many years. Existing natural history museum collections, like those in which we work, can provide major contributions to such inventories in the form of valuable historic organism occurrence records, and their specimens can be used in many ways for basic research and applied conservation planning. Unfortunately, much of the wealth of information stored in natural history collections requires substantial investment to be made accessible and useful to natural resource managers and researchers. We were charged by the GPLCC with providing some of the inventory data that will be required, and to assess what other data may be available and what...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, CO-03, CO-04, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... ConsNet, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Map, NE-03, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Praire Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, Report, State agencies, State agencies, TX-01, TX-02, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-14, TX-15, TX-16, TX-17, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-22, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, TX-36, Texas, WY-00, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, biota, cave invertebrates, completed, fish occurrence, freshwater mussels, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Evaluating the Long-term Impacts of Land Cover, Climate, and Buffer Condition Change on Sediment Delivery and Playa Storage Volume

Playa wetlands are critical resources of the Great Plains, providing a range of ecological functions such as groundwater recharge, surface water storage, wetland habitat, and sediment filtering. As land cover has been converted from native grassland to cropland, playa ecological functions appear to have been dramatically impacted due to increased sediment delivery. This project will incorporate historical data to establish long-term trends in climate (primarily precipitation), watershed and playa land cover, buffer conditions, and playa sedimentation patterns. Previous studies have relied on relatively low-resolution spatial data and have focused primarily on contemporary land cover to establish spatial patterns...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, environment, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Spatial and Temporal Habitat Suitability of Ephemeral Playas for Migratory Waterbirds

Land-use change, invasive species, and climate change have dramatically impaired ecosystem function worldwide. Understanding how changes to ecosystems impact species of conservation concern is essential for effective conservation delivery. Of particular importance are environments that provide disproportionate ecosystem services. Throughout the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, playas provide disproportionate ecological services, including essential stopover habitat for migratory waterbirds. Anthropogenic change to playa distribution, abundance, and function may impact the ecosystem services provided, with demographic consequences for priority species. We will address partner needs by developing a...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, BIRDS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Migratory Birds, Migratory Birds, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SD-00, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Waterfowl, Waterfowl, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, biota, environment, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags

Current and Future Projected Distributions of Wetland-Dependent Birds Across the Great Plains in Response to Climate Change

Playas and other wetlands within the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC) provide essential habitat for many wetland-dependent vertebrate species and are especially important as migration and wintering areas for waterfowl and shorebirds. Playas in the GPLCC are at risk of unsustainable sediment accumulation, reduced inundation frequency, and declining hydroperiods due to agricultural intensification and a changing climate with expected decreases in annual precipitation, changing precipitation patterns, and higher summer temperatures. We propose to project distribution shifts and/or range reductions of several focal migrating shorebird, waterfowl, and waterbird species in response to climate change,...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CO-01, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Migratory Birds, Migratory Birds, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SD-00, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Waterbirds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl, Waterfowl, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, environment, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags

Range-wide Lesser Prairie Chicken Spatial Targeting Tool for Conservation Delivery

This project expands upon the first version of the SGP-CHAT and create a more robust spatial planning tool (SPT) for directing conservation of the lesser prairie chicken (LPC). This tool is a critical component for agency conservation planning and it is a necessity that agencies delivering conservation for LPC work from the same source data for maximum benefit of the species and its surrounding ecosystem.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Applications and Tools, BIRDS, CO-04, Colorado, All tags... Decision Support, FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Project, SAVANNAS, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags