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FY2013Shrub-dominated ecosystems of the Great Basin are being threatened by disturbances, typically wildfire followed by encroachment of invasive plants (e.g., cheat grass). To mitigate these threats and future changes in the climate to big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), restorationists require a knowledge base and tools to inform them of the most appropriate seed sources to plant to greatly enhance the success of restoration under contemporary and future climates. We propose to develop climate-responsive seed transfer zones based on associating plant quantitative traits and ecophysiological data from common gardens to the climate of the seed source.
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags...
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These layer packages contain the results of the Linkage Mapper tools as described below. Running Five of the Linkage Mapper ToolsThe Linkage Mapper software package includes six tools. For this study we used five of these tools, producing stand-alone products which we also combined to create synthesized products. We used Linkage Mapper v2.1Beta5 and an ArcGIS modelbuilder script to run Linkage Pathways, Pinchpoint Mapper, Centrality Mapper, the Linkage Priority tool, and Barrier Mapper using the above described resistance surfaces and habitat concentration areas (HCAs) layers. We used the default parameters described in the respective user guides except where otherwise noted below. The following are the high level...
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Executive Summary: We provide an analysis of Sonoran Desert water network connectivity to inform managers of current conditions for target wildlife and how the connectivity will change as the landscape becomes more water limited.Climate change is expected to lead to fragmentation of the network, increasing coalescence distance by 8% and reducing the persistence and overall number of waters on the landscape. Identification of key water sites, ranked by network connectivity metrics, are presented in Appendix B. Wetland number under our scenario of water limitation will decline by 43% reducing network resilience.Anurans and Caudates, although varying in ability to disperse, generally experienced reduced connectivity...
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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. The irreplacebility of the landscape was assessed to determine the importance of conservation. The number...
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The South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint is a living spatial plan to conserve natural and cultural resources for future generations. It identifies shared conservation priorities across the South Atlantic region. The second iteration of the Blueprint, Version 2.0, was released in July 2015. It was a completely data-driven plan based on ecosystem indicator models for terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments, as well as a connectivity analysis. Blueprint 2.0 used a 200 m spatial scale. With Version 2.0, the total number of people actively involved in developing the Blueprint grew to more than 400 individuals from over 100 organizations.
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags...
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This project entails creation and refinement of the conservation targets for the terrestrial Priority Resources for the Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative.
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The Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative (MRB/GHI), spearheaded by seven LCCs, is undertaking a strategic and transparent process to create an integrated framework that supports planning, design, configuration, and delivery of wildlife conservation practices within the watershed. This framework consists of multiple quantitative objectives representing three interests (i.e., wildlife, water quality, agriculture), a tiered set of conservation strategies to achieve those objectives within five production agriculture systems (i.e., corn & soybean; grazing lands; floodplain forest; rice; cotton), and a modeling approach to determine where to best implement those actions within four key ecological systems...
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, AR-01, CO-04, All tags...
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The southeast United States’ rivers and streams support the most diverse unionid (freshwater mussel) fauna on earth. These species are a focus of the GCP LCC because their sensitivity to habitat degradation, fish community changes, and changes in water quality and quantity make them akin to the proverbial ‘canary in the coal mine.’ They are essential components of riverine ecosystems, influencing nutrient cycling and macro-invertebrate diversity. Their decline during the past century stems from overharvest, water pollution, habitat fragmentation, and introduction of nonindigenous predators and exotic mollusks; however, habitat degradation has been the most influential.
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, All tags...
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The Cascadia Parner Forum fosters a network of natural resource practitioners working with the NPLCC and GNLCC to guild the adaptive capacity of the landscape and species living within it. This project supported three complementary transboundary climate adaptation and habitat connectivity activities in the Cascadia region: 1) Transboundary Climate Analysis by the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group, 2) WildLinks workshop, and 3) Cascadia Partner Forum.
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Academics & scientific researchers, Adaptation planning, Adaptation planning, B.C., All tags...
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Governmental and nongovernmental organizations charged with managingnatural resources increasingly emphasize the need to work across jurisdictional boundaries.Their challenge is to manage shifting resources under rapidly changing climate andland-use scenarios. Scientists, resource managers, and conservation planners, and theirorganizations and agencies routinely collaborate on projects to solve specific problems.Cooperative frameworks to programmatically address complex social–environmental issuesand develop shared research, planning, and implementation priorities are relatively new.One such framework includes 22 Landscape Conservation Cooperatives that encompass the US, Caribbean countries, and bordering regions...
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The Heart of the Rockies Initiative (HOTR), on behalf of its 24 land conservation non-governmental partners, and its federal and state agency partners, seeks a second year of science support to incorporate emerging data on landscape integrity and connectivity, crucial habitats, and climate change response into downscaled data layers that can help the partners identify and validate their immediate and longer term conservation targets.FY2013Objectives:The primary goal of the HOTR science support project is to deliver the latest science in climate adaptation and habitat connectivity conservation to conservation practitioners and their partners in the Central Rocky Mountain region. HOTR conservation partners want assurance...
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Climate Change, Connectivity, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, All tags...
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During the Spring 2016 semester, graduate students in a capstone course atIndiana University - School for Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) produced a capstone report for Sycamore Land Trust that describes the potential wetland corridors connecting hubs of protected lands, including Muscatatuk, Big Oaks, and Patoka National Wildlife Refuges.During the Fall 2016 semester, graduate students of the Indiana University - School for Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) produced three capstone reports addressing climate change and land use in the Lower Wabash (Indiana, Illinois) with a related scenario planning exercise, spatial analysis, and policy recommendations. The primary client providing input on stakeholder...
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In practice, there are a number of challenges associated with formal consideration of the environment in water planning in large parts of the Desert LCC region. In Arizona, for example, there is no legal requirement to include the environment in water management or planning efforts (Megdal et al. 201 0). Therefore, there is little incentive to develop the additional tools and resources required to include the environment as a water demand sector. Appropriate inclusion of the environment into water planning requires conducting planning at a scale and geography that matches regional hydrology rather than political boundaries. Therefore, without explicit policy guidance from state government, regional stakeholders...
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The goal of this project is to advance toward completion of Landscape Conservation Design products for the Dos Rios LCD. We will work with the Desert LCC staff, steering committee and working groups as well as the Dos Rios Coordinating Team and interested partners to develop a holistic conservation design. Over this two-year project, we will develop Version 1.0 of a Landscape Conservation Design (“Conservation Blueprint”) for the Dos Rios that includes a shared conservation vision, new analyses to support management planning and approaches, and other components listed below. Methods for development include: work with a broad set of Dos Rios partners to finalize a vision statement; select of landscape-scale indicators;...
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The Midwestern Region is dominated by intensive agricultural production, primarily corn and soybeans. Economic pressures result in optimizing acreage planted and may place pressure on producers to resign not enroll in conservation programs. At issue is the balance between ecosystem services provided by acres in conservation programs and those in agricultural production. Intensive agricultural production (e.g., high levels of fertilizers) in this region are major contributors to Gulf hypoxia (i.e., reduced levels of ecosystem services) in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers in the Human Dimensions Research Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), through a grant provided by the Illinois Department...
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The Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas is one of the largest migratory bird stopovers in North America and a major birding hotspot. Reservoir development allowed controlled flows of the lower Rio Grande River and subsequent agricultural expansion in the river valley, resulting in rapid population growth and habitat loss, causing significant declines in fish and wildlife populations. Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative partners wish to restore habitat and self-sustaining migratory bird populations in the valley.
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We explored three approaches for combining Linkage Mapper and Omniscape results. The first one turned out to be a stepping stone to the following two, which turned out to be the most promising, and are summarized below. The first one, not shown here is briefed in the “Supplementary Material: Geoprocessing Notes and Lessons Learned”. Option One: Clipped Omniscape OverlayIn this approach, we clipped the classified Omniscape product (i.e. Normalized Current Flow) to the HCAs, and overlaid that on the various Linkage Mapper products. Here it is overlaid on the evenly weighted sum between Linkage Pathways (i.e. least-cost corridor) and Linkage Priority value.But it was hard to translate this map to conservation priority,...
map background search result map search result map Cascadia Partner Forum: Transboundary Adaptation Efforts Science Support for Land Conservation in the Rocky Mountain Corridor Supporting Watershed Management Planning for People and the Environment in the Desert LCC Region: A Demonstration in the Upper Gila River Watershed Development of Tools and Technology to Improve the Success and Planning of Restoration of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems Toward a Comparative Understanding of Agriculture Producer's and Non-producer's Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Gulf Hypoxia Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative Bird Communities of Mature and Revegetated Tracts along the Lower Rio Grande Strategic Coordination of Quadrula Species Research and Conservation Density of upstream dams_rivers Anthropogenic sediment yield Appalachian LCC Landscape Conservation Design Phase 1 Species Richness South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint Version 2.0 Quantitative and Predictive Analysis: Landscape Connectivity of Isolated Waters for Wildlife in the Sonoran Desert Conservation Targets Project Developing a landscape scale framework to guide conservation planning for cays within the U.S. Caribbean: A preliminary strategy The Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative: A New Framework for Effective Conservation of Natural and Cultural Resources in the Caribbean Lower Wabash Indiana University Capstone Reports Linkage Mapper Results for the Western Washington Habitat Connectivity Assessment Combination of Linkage Mapper and Omniscape Results for the Western Washington Habitat Connectivity Assessment Dos Rios Landscape Conservation Design Development of Tools and Technology to Improve the Success and Planning of Restoration of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems Bird Communities of Mature and Revegetated Tracts along the Lower Rio Grande Developing a landscape scale framework to guide conservation planning for cays within the U.S. Caribbean: A preliminary strategy The Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative: A New Framework for Effective Conservation of Natural and Cultural Resources in the Caribbean Lower Wabash Indiana University Capstone Reports Supporting Watershed Management Planning for People and the Environment in the Desert LCC Region: A Demonstration in the Upper Gila River Watershed Linkage Mapper Results for the Western Washington Habitat Connectivity Assessment Combination of Linkage Mapper and Omniscape Results for the Western Washington Habitat Connectivity Assessment Cascadia Partner Forum: Transboundary Adaptation Efforts Toward a Comparative Understanding of Agriculture Producer's and Non-producer's Perceptions of Ecosystem Services and Gulf Hypoxia Quantitative and Predictive Analysis: Landscape Connectivity of Isolated Waters for Wildlife in the Sonoran Desert Conservation Targets Project Science Support for Land Conservation in the Rocky Mountain Corridor Dos Rios Landscape Conservation Design South Atlantic Conservation Blueprint Version 2.0 Strategic Coordination of Quadrula Species Research and Conservation Density of upstream dams_rivers Anthropogenic sediment yield Appalachian LCC Landscape Conservation Design Phase 1 Species Richness Mississippi River Basin / Gulf Hypoxia Initiative