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Important links for Black bear, Rafinesque's big-eared bat, and timber rattlesnake This data set contains links that are important to each species' habitat network. Those important links are scored based on the percent currently under protection status, projected change in climate suitability by the middle of the 21st century, and projected change in percent urbanized by the middle of the 21st century. Important links were identified from all links in the networks of each species based on their Integral Index of Connectivity (dIIC). Any links with dIIC scores > 0.9 or which connected to nodes with dIIC > 0.9 were retained here as "important" links. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Landscapes, Southeast CASC, climate change, habitat connectivity, All tags... protection status, urbanization, Fewer tags Timelapse photos at SNOTEL station, locations, and associated metadata, Ollalie Meadows, Wash., 2015 UW_Olallie_photo_metadata & image files: These are the raw timelapse photographs. The date/time stamp is inaccurate for the camera deployed in the open (at the SNOTEL) due to a programming error. This timestamp is one day early (i.e., subtract 1 day from the timestamp when using these data). Also available is metadata for two timelapse cameras and their associated snow depth poles (two visible in each camera's field of view) deployed at Olallie Meadows SNOTEL during water year 2015. One camera was deployed in the open area that is the Olallie Meadows SNOTEL station (the snow pillow is in the field of view). The other camera was deployed in the adjacent forest, approximately 60 m to the southeast of the SNOTEL.... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Cle Elum, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Kittatas County, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Olallie Meadows, Ollalie Meadows, Other Water, SNOTEL, Science Tools For Managers, Washington, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Long format snow course observations, meteorological sensor observations,locations, and associated metadata for Mica Creek, Idaho UI_Mica_Location: Location metadata and meteorological and snow depth observations from met towers in the Mica Creek Experimental Forest. Data were collected at 7 different station sites at approximately half-hour intervals for water years 2003-2006, with discontinuous records due to equipment malfunction or damage. Stations were located within different forest harvest treatment sections, applied to the watershed in approximately 2001, including clear-cut harvest, partial harvest, and control sections (both second growth and old growth control forests). Site Data Citation for full description of the field campaign and sites. UI_Mica_met: Metadata and associated snow depth and SWE observations from 14 manual... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Landscapes, Mica Creek, All tags... Northwest CASC, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Shoshone County, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Dropped-edge analysis of terrestrial connectivity of grassland and forest networks in the South Central United States based on the National Land Cover Database from 2006 This data set includes a dropped-edge analysis of grassland and forest networks in the South Central United States based on land cover data from 2006 and graph theory to evaluate Landscape Resistance to Dispersal (LRD). LRD represents the degree to which habitat availability limits species movement. LRD decreases as habitat availability increases and increases as habitat availability decreases. This data set includes a range of LRD thresholds to represent species with different dispersal abilities and responses to landscape structure. A threshold indicates the highest LRD that still allows dispersal by a particular group of species. LRD thresholds are included in the data set, with low values representing connectivity... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, South Central CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, dispersal (organisms), habitat fragmentation, Fewer tags Observations of distributed snow depth and snow duration within diverse forest structures in a maritime mountain watershed Spatially distributed snow depth and snow duration data were collected over two to four snow seasons during water years 2011-2014 in experimental forest plots within the Cedar River Municipal Watershed, 50 km east of Seattle, Washington, USA. These 40 m × 40 m forest plots, situated on the western slope of the Cascade Range, include un-thinned second-growth coniferous forest as control treatments, variable density thinned forests, forest gaps in which a 20 m diameter (approximately equivalent to one tree height) gap was cut in the middle of each plot, and old growth forest. Together, this publicly available dataset includes snow depth observations from manual snow courses, distributed snow duration observations... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Other Water, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Future changes in landscape connectivity for grassland species in the southern Great Plains based on a scenario of future land-use change that focuses on environmental sustainability with a regional view We used land cover projections for 2011 and 2050 of two scenarios derived from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES). Scenario A1B emphasizes economic growth with a global orientation and scenario B2 focuses on environmental sustainability with a regional view. Our study area included counties within the southern Great Plains ecoregion in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. We calculated changes in landscape connectivity (dECA) between 2011 and 2050 for different species groups and landscape scenarios. We also calculated changes in habitat suitability (dA). We assessed the degree to which changes in landscape connectivity were influenced by changes in grassland... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, South Central CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, dispersal (organisms), habitat fragmentation, Fewer tags Timelapse photos, locations, and associated metadata for Snoqualmie Pass, WA Daily snow depth values from the UW Snoqualmie Pass site. A timelapse camera and 3 snow depth poles were deployed at the forest plot during water year 2015. Manual snow stake observations were taken in the open plot. This comparison of snow depth between the open and forest uses the daily snow depth data observed with the snow stake, rounded to 5cm, compared to the average of all visible pole values in the forest (read by eye from photos), also rounded to 5 cm. These data have been processed, aggregated and rounded. Raw photographs of the forest poles are also available. UW_Snoqualmie_snow_camera Attributes: Site - Snoqualmie, Cover - Forest or open, WY - water year 2015, Date - yyyy-mm-dd, Method - snow... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, King County, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Snoqualmie Pass, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags A Monarch’s View of Urban Landscapes: Pilot City Design Report The Monarch’s View of a City project will lay the groundwork for design principles to guide the development, testing and deployment of future urban conservation for the Monarch butterfly across the Eastern half of the country. This strategy will need to reflect an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, one that includes ecological and social dimensions specific to an urban landscape. Pilot design projects at various scales in at least two cities will advance the state of science for developing landscape conservation design (LCD) guidelines for monarch butterfly conservation in urban areas as described below. While the ETPBR LCC, working through US Fish & Wildlife Service staff, will select cities and manage... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Education and Workshops, All tags... Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, KS-02, KS-03, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MO-05, MO-06, Minnesota, Missouri, Monitoring, Other Landscapes, Other Wildlife, Pilot/Case Study, Plants, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, product, Fewer tags Data set for Developing Long-term Urbanization Scenarios for the Caribbean LCC as Part of the Southeast Regional Assessment Project This dataset represents the extent of urbanization (for the year indicated) predicted by the model SLEUTH, developed by Dr. Keith C. Clarke, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and modified by David I. Donato of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC). Further model modification and implementation was performed at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University. Purpose: Urban growth probability extents throughout the 21st century for the Southeast Regional Assessment Project, which encompasses the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Development, Growth, Landscapes, Model, Other Landscapes, All tags... Prediction, Project Gigalopolis, Project Gigalopolis, SLEUTH, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Southeast CASC, Urbanization, development, growth, model, prediction, urbanization, Fewer tags Unburned areas within fire perimeters across the Inland Northwestern USA from 1984 to 2014 We established a Landsat-derived geospatial database of unburned islands within 2,298 fires across the Inland Northwestern US (including eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Idaho) from 1984-2014. The detection of unburned areas within these fires is based upon a classification tree approach that uses two pre- and post-fire Landsat image pairs (see Meddens et al 2016 for details). The data set consist of unburned patches within each fire that are two pixels or larger. This database will be useful for identifying fire refugia, seed sources, and can be used as an overall metric of fire impacts across the northwestern US. (Meddens, A.J., Kolden, C.A., & Lutz, J.A. (2016). Detecting unburned areas within wildfire... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Idaho, Landscapes, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Landscapes, Washington, ecology, environment, geoscientificInformation, image collections, multispectral imaging, Fewer tags Dropped-edge analysis of terrestrial connectivity of grassland networks in the South Central United States based on the National Land Cover Database from 2006 This data set includes a dropped-edge analysis of grassland and forest networks in the South Central United States based on land cover data from 2006 and graph theory to evaluate Landscape Resistance to Dispersal (LRD). LRD represents the degree to which habitat availability limits species movement. LRD decreases as habitat availability increases and increases as habitat availability decreases. This data set includes a range of LRD thresholds to represent species with different dispersal abilities and responses to landscape structure. A threshold indicates the highest LRD that still allows dispersal by a particular group of species. LRD thresholds are included in the data set, with low values representing connectivity... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, South Central CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, dispersal (organisms), habitat fragmentation, Fewer tags Observations of snow depth and meteorological variables in forests and nearby open areas at field sites in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, USA Snow and meteorological observations were collected over a range of water years (WY) by three research institutions and by citizen scientists to characterize forest effects on snow processes across the Pacific Northwest, USA. Fourteen total study sites cover the western slopes and crest of the Cascade Range in WA and OR, and central and northern ID. Each study location includes one or more paired forest and open area in which to compare snow observations. A range of forest canopy densities and data collection strategies are represented, including paired manual snow courses, snow pits, automated sensors, and time-lapse images of snow measurement poles. Analysis and synthesis of all of these sites are presented in... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cle Elum, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Kittatas County, All tags... Landscapes, McCall, McKenzie River, Mica Creek, Middle Fork Willamette, Northwest CASC, Olallie Meadows, Oregon, Other Water, Ponderosa State Park, Science Tools For Managers, Valley County, Washington, Water, Coasts and Ice, citizen science, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Manual snow course observations, raw met data, raw snow depth observations, locations, and associated metadata for Oregon sites OSU_SnowCourse Summary: Manual snow course observations were collected over WY 2012-2014 from four paired forest-open sites chosen to span a broad elevation range. Study sites were located in the upper McKenzie (McK) River watershed, approximately 100 km east of Corvallis, Oregon, on the western slope of the Cascade Range and in the Middle Fork Willamette (MFW) watershed, located to the south of the McKenzie. The sites were designated based on elevation, with a range of 1110-1480 m. Distributed snow depth and snow water equivalent (SWE) observations were collected via monthly manual snow courses from 1 November through 1 April and bi-weekly thereafter. Snow courses spanned 500 m of forested terrain and 500 m... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cascade Mountains, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Landscapes, Middle Fork Willamette watershed, All tags... Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Water, Science Tools For Managers, Water, Coasts and Ice, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, upper McKenzie River watershed, Fewer tags Reducing Wildfire Risk While Maintaining Critical Monarch Habitat Along the California Coast The California Coast has hundreds of tree groves where dual management practices aim to reduce the risk of fire and to conserve habitat for overwintering monarch butterflies. As the climate changes, longer high-intensity droughts can increase mortality and/or limb loss in grove trees which causes an accumulation of fire-prone fuels. Moreover, these trees provide the critical habitat for overwintering monarch butterflies. Every year only certain trees in certain groves accumulate clusters of thousands of monarch butterflies. Should trees die or important roosting branches collapse, monarchs may not return in the future. The overall goal of this project is to understand how the dual management goals of fire management... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 2023, Adaptive Management, Air Quality, CASC, Climate, All tags... Critical Habitat, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Fire, Forests, Forests, Landscapes, Landscapes, Microclimate, Monarch Butterfly, Other Wildlife, Other Wildlife, Plants, Plants, Prescribed Burning, Projects by Region, Southwest, Southwest CASC, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Key landscape connections under urban growth In partnership with South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative members, we assessed current and projected connectivity for three species that inhabit bottomland hardwoods throughout the southeastern US: black bear (Ursus americanus), Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), and timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). For each species, we mapped important habitat connections between core patches of habitat using three different modeling approaches (Connectivity Analysis Toolkit (CAT), Circuitscape, and Linkage Mapper) that incorporated three types of resistance layers (expert opinion, niche modeling, and empirical data for the black bear only). The result was 21 sets of important connections,... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Corynorhinus rafinesquii, Crotalus horridus, Landscapes, Mammals, Other Landscapes, All tags... Other Wildlife, Rafinesque's big-eared bat, Southeast CASC, Ursus americanus, Wildlife and Plants, black bear, habitat connectivity, timber rattlesnake, wildlife, Fewer tags Understanding Post-fire Transformations in Inland Northwest Forests and Shrublands Vegetation transformations after wildfires are a growing issue for forest and shrubland managers in the Inland Pacific Northwest. Severe fires combined with persistent drought and invasive species can slow or prevent the recovery of burned forests and shrublands to their pre-fire states, resulting in ecological, economic, and cultural losses. Forests may be converted to shrub fields or grasslands, and shrublands may be replaced by invasive grasses. While shrublands and grasslands can be important components of these ecosystems, there is growing concern about the increased extent of these vegetation types on the landscape. Despite the severe post-fire vegetation transformations, little is known about where, when,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: 2023, Annual Grass Invasion, CASC, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Fire, Fire, Forests, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Grasslands and Plains, Invasive Species, Landscapes, Landscapes, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Post-Fire Vegetation Transformations, Projects by Region, State-Shift, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Boundary of all Greater Wildland Ecosystems Combined This is a combined shapefile of all Greater Widland Ecosystems. We first created shapefiles for each GWE using hydrological units, contiguous habitat, human influence (25 km buffer) taking into account of federal, private, and tribal lands. We then combined them. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Badland, Bighorn, Fort Peck, Grand River, Grandsand Dunes, All tags... Grasslands and Plains, Lake Traverse, Landscapes, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Rocky Mountain, Theodore Roosevelt, Fewer tags Citizen science snow observations at the McCall Outdoor Science School, McCall, ID Results of a citizen science effort in which students and instructors at the McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS) collected snow observations every 1-4 weeks at their field site within Ponderosa State Park (elevation 1540 m), adjacent to Payette Lake, ID. Students documented snow cover within forested versus open areas at each site via photographs and estimates of the continuity of snow cover. Additionally, snow depth and density were measured via snow pits in the forest and the open. Data were entered via a Google Form, and the results recorded in this table. Site Data Citation for full description of the field campaign and sites. Field photographs are archived along with these data, sorted by site name, with timestamp... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, Idaho, Landscapes, McCall, All tags... McCall, Idaho, Northwest CASC, Other Water, Ponderosa State Park, Ponderosa State Park, Science Tools For Managers, Valley County, Valley County, Water, Coasts and Ice, citizen science, citizen science, forest canopy density, meteorological observations, snow cover, snow depth, snow observations, time-lapse photography, Fewer tags Future changes in landscape connectivity for grassland species in the southern Great Plains based on a scenario of future land-use change that emphasizes economic growth with a global orientation We used land cover projections for 2011 and 2050 of two scenarios derived from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES). Scenario A1B emphasizes economic growth with a global orientation and scenario B2 focuses on environmental sustainability with a regional view. Our study area included counties within the southern Great Plains ecoregion in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. We calculated changes in landscape connectivity (dECA) between 2011 and 2050 for different species groups and landscape scenarios. We also calculated changes in habitat suitability (dA). We assessed the degree to which changes in landscape connectivity were influenced by changes in grassland... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, South Central CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, dispersal (organisms), habitat fragmentation, Fewer tags A Monarch’s View of Urban Landscapes: Pilot City Design Projects The Monarch’s View of a City project will lay the groundwork for design principles to guide the development, testing and deployment of future urban conservation for the Monarch butterfly across the Eastern half of the country. This strategy will need to reflect an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, one that includes ecological and social dimensions specific to an urban landscape. Pilot design projects at various scales in at least two cities will advance the state of science for developing landscape conservation design (LCD) guidelines for monarch butterfly conservation in urban areas as described below. While the ETPBR LCC, working through US Fish & Wildlife Service staff, will select cities and manage... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Education and Workshops, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, KS-02, KS-03, Kansas, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MO-05, MO-06, Minnesota, Missouri, Other, Other Landscapes, Other Wildlife, Pilot/Case Study, Plants, Project, Regional & county planners, State agencies, completed, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags 1 2 »