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Index of Ecological Integrity, Stratified by Ecosystem, Region-wide, Version 3.2, Northeast U.S. This dataset was last updated 02/2017. This version includes a new tidal restrictions metric that assesses the effect of undersized culverts and bridges on tidal regime.The previous version (3.1) was updated on 05/2016 by incorporating a revised version of the land cover classification, DSLland Version 3.1, developed by UMass, which included the addition of The Nature Conservancy’s Northeast lakes and ponds classification. This dataset depicts the ecological integrity of locations (represented by 30 m grid cells) throughout the northeastern United States based on environmental conditions existing in approximately 2010. Ecological integrity is defined as the ability of an area (e.g., local site or landscape) to... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, completed, condition, All tags... condition, designing, designing, dsl, dsl, ecosystems, ecosystems, environment, environment, environmental, environmental, habitat, habitat, iei, iei, intact, intact, intactness, intactness, landscapes, landscapes, resilience, resilience, resiliency, resiliency, sustainable, sustainable, systems, systems, terrestrial, terrestrial, university of massachusetts, university of massachusetts, Fewer tags Terrestrial and Aquatic Habitat Map (DSLland), Version 3.1, Northeast U.S. This dataset was developed as part of the Designing Sustainble Landscapes project led by Professor Kevin McGarigal of UMass Amherst and sponsored by the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (https://www.fws.gov/science/catalog); for more information about the entire project see: http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/dsl/dsl.htmlThis dataset was last updated 02/2017. The revised version incorporates the addition of a simplified version of The Nature Conservancy's Northeast lakes and ponds classification, visit https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationByGeography/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/edc/reportsdata/freshwater/Pages/Northeast-Lakes.aspx for more details.This dataset represents terrestrial... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 2010, 2010, DSL, DSL, Data, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, UMass, UMass, completed, cover, cover, designing, designing, ecological, ecological, ecosystems, ecosystems, environment, environment, habitat, habitat, land, land, landscapes, landscapes, sustainable, sustainable, systems, systems, terrestrial, terrestrial, Fewer tags Prioritization of areas for open pine ecosystem restoration in the Southeastern United States: All Species We used NLCD 2011, SSURGO, and SEGAP data to map the density of desired resources for open pine ecosystems and six focal species of birds and 2 reptiles within the historic range of longleaf pine east of the Mississippi River. Binary rasters were created of sites with desired characteristics such as land form, hydrology, land use and land cover, soils, potential habitat for focal species, and putative source populations of focal species. Each raster was smoothed using a kernel density estimator. Rasters were combined and scaled to map priority locations for the management of each focal species. Species’ rasters were combined and scaled to provide maps of overall priority for birds and for birds and reptiles. For... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Bird Conservation Region 24, East Gulf Coastal Plain Joint Venture, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, All tags... Mississippi, NCCWSC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southeastern United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), ecosystem diversity, ecosystem functions, ecosystem management, ecosystems, restoration, Fewer tags A landscape index of ecological integrity to inform landscape conservation AbstractContext Conservation planning is increasingly using ‘‘coarse filters’’ based on the idea of conserving ‘‘nature’s stage’’. One such approach is based on ecosystems and the concept of ecological integrity, although myriad ways exist to measure ecological integrity.Objectives To describe our ecosystem-based index of ecological integrity (IEI) and its derivative index of ecological impact (ecoImpact), and illustrate their applications for conservation assessment and planning in the northeastern United States.Methods We characterized the biophysical setting of the landscape at the 30 m cell resolution using a parsimonious suite of settings variables. Based on these settings variables and mapped ecosystems, we... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: LCC Network Science Catalog, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, Publication, completed, conservation planning, All tags... ecosystems, environment, environment, intactness, integrity, integrity, resilience, Fewer tags Publication: Shifting Niche Space in Coastal Landscapes: Spatio-temporal Patterns Driving Submerged Aquatic Vegetation across the Northern Gulf of Mexico Identifying distributions of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) across the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) coastal landscape necessitates describing ecological processes in estuarine gradients. SAV assemblages are ecological indicators of aquatic ecosystem health; spatial and temporal distributions are strongly correlated to environmental conditions. Many wildlife species, including waterfowl, are dependent on SAV and seeds in NGOM coastal marshes for food and habitat. To understand SAV distributions at multiple spatial and temporal scales a multi-tiered project was designed to collect SAV presence, species assemblage, and cover data, and cores to describe seed food. The first tier sampled inter-annually in the growing... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, All tags... COASTAL, COASTAL, COASTAL, COASTAL, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, Policy makers & regulators, Publication, Regional & county planners, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, State agencies, Tribes, biota, completed, Fewer tags Ecologically-Relevant Maps of Landforms and Physiographic Diversity for Climate Adaptation Planning Abstract (from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0143619): Key to understanding the implications of climate and land use change on biodiversity and natural resources is to incorporate the physiographic platform on which changes in ecological systems unfold. Here, we advance a detailed classification and high-resolution map of physiography, built by combining landforms and lithology (soil parent material) at multiple spatial scales. We used only relatively static abiotic variables (i.e., excluded climatic and biotic factors) to prevent confounding current ecological patterns and processes with enduring landscape features, and to make the physiographic classification more interpretable... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Ecosystems, Science Tools For Managers, Social Science, Southwest CASC Publication: Analysis of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Resources across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Communities and Biomass Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) provides many critical ecosystem services, yet we lack basic information on SAV assemblages, biomass and diversity across expansive coasts such as the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGoM). This research investigated SAV along the nGoM from 2013-2015 examining (1) inter-annual variation in SAV assemblages and biomass across salinity zones and gulf coast eco-regions (Texas Mid-Coast, Texas/LA Chenier Plain, Louisiana Delta, MS/AL), (2) intra-annual variation in SAV assemblages and biomass across salinity zones, (3) response of two species, Ruppia maritima and Myriophyllum spicatum, to salinity and light regimes, and (4) estimated organic carbon stock and storage of SAV habitat soils across... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, All tags... COASTAL, COASTAL, COASTAL, COASTAL, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, Policy makers & regulators, Publication, Regional & county planners, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, State agencies, Tribes, biota, completed, Fewer tags