Mangrove forests: current and future distribution and abundance in the southeastern U.S.

This dataset consists of the current distribution (2000s) of mangrove forests in the southeastern U.S. This dataset was created from the current best available mangrove data on a state specific basis. Florida mangrove data was extracted from Florida Landuse Land Cover Classification System (FLUCCS). For Louisiana, we used observations of mangrove stands from aerial surveys by Michot et al. (2010). Mangrove presence in Texas came from maps produced by Sherrod & McMillan (1981) and the NOAA Benthic Habitat Atlas of Coastal Texas (Finkbeiner et al. 2009). Please note that this map depicts the distribution of mangrove forests and not mangrove individuals. More detailed information on this dataset is available in Osland...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, All tags... COASTAL, COASTAL, COASTAL, Conservation NGOs, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MANGROVE SWAMP, MANGROVE SWAMP, MANGROVE SWAMP, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, Mississippi, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Texas, biota, climate change & future climate, coastal habitat, completed, environment, forecast, gulf coast, landscape ecology, mangrove forest, marshes, modeling, temperature, wetlands, Fewer tags

National Wetlands Inventory - Wetlands

This data set represents the extent, approximate location and type of wetlands and deepwater habitats in the United States and its Territories. These data delineate the areal extent of wetlands and surface waters as defined by Cowardin et al. (1979). Certain wetland habitats are excluded from the National mapping program because of the limitations of aerial imagery as the primary data source used to detect wetlands. These habitats include seagrasses or submerged aquatic vegetation that are found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of estuaries and near shore coastal waters. Some deepwater reef communities (coral or tuberficid worm reefs) have also been excluded from the inventory. These habitats, because of their...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, California, Coastal waters, Coastal waters, Colorado, Connecticut, Conservation NGOs, Data, Deepwater habitats, Deepwater habitats, Delaware, District of Columbia, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, Federal resource managers, Florida, Florida, Floridia, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Hydrography, Hydrography, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiaina, Louisiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NWI, NWI, National Wetlands Inventory, National Wetlands Inventory, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Regional & county planners, Rhode Island, Saipan, South Carolina, South Dakota, State agencies, Surface water, Surface water, Swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, Swamps, marshes, bogs, fens, Tennessee, Texas, Texas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS, USFWS, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, completed, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Proposed and Final Critical Habitat Designations

These data identify, in general, the areas where final critical habitat exist for species listed as endangered or threatened.

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Critical Habitat, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENDANGERED SPECIES, Federal resource managers, Final Rule, Florida, Florida, Floridia, Floridia, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Mississippi, Regional & county planners, SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS, SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS, State agencies, Texas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USFWS, biota, completed, Fewer tags

Historical Changes in Shoreline in the Gulf of Mexico

There are critical needs for a nationwide compilation of reliable shoreline data. To meet these needs, the USGS has produced a comprehensive database of digital vector shorelines by compiling shoreline positions from pre-existing historical shoreline databases and by generating historical and modern shoreline data. Shorelines are compiled by state and generally correspond to one of four time periods: 1800s, 1920s-1930s, 1970s, and 1998-2002. Each shoreline may represent a compilation of data from one or more sources for one or more dates provided by one or more agencies. Details regarding source are provided in the ‘Data Quality Information’ section of this metadata report. Shoreline vectors derived from historic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Baseline, Beach Erosion, Beach Nourishment, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, Coastal Survey Map, Conservation NGOs, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, Endpoint Rate, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Gulf of Mexico, Historic Shoreline, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LIDAR, Linear Regression Rate, Louisiana, Mississippi, Regional & county planners, SHORELINES, SHORELINES, SHORELINES, SHORELINES, Shoreline, Shoreline Change Rate, State agencies, T-sheet, Texas, Tp-sheet, United States, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Long Term Shoreline Change Rates

Rates of long-term and short-term shoreline change were generated in a GIS with the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 2.0, an ArcView extension developed by the USGS in cooperation with TPMC Environmental Services. The extension is designed to efficiently lead a user through the major steps of shoreline change analysis. This extension to ArcView contains three main components that define a baseline, generate orthogonal transects at a user-defined separation along the coast, and calculate rates of change (linear regression, endpoint rate, average of rates, average of endpoints, jackknife).

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Oysters 2011 - Gulf of Mexico

1985 Gulf of Mexico Atlas abstract American oyster Crassostrea virginica Ostion americanoDescription Range: The American oyster, a bivalve mollusc of the family Ostreidae, is found in the western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Yucatan Peninsula. In the Gulf, this species occurs throughout estuaries, shallow nearshore waters, and on reefs located near river mouths. Habitat: Large populations of this benthic invertebrate are found in the large estuarine bays and sounds of the Gulf (with most concentrations found within 10-meter depths). Sedentary in character, this invertebrate attaches in clusters to shell reefs, firm mud/shell bottoms and other hard substrates. Feeding and Behavior: The American oyster...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, American oyster, All tags... Aransas Bay, Ayers Bay, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIVALVES, BIVALVES, Bastrop Bay, Carancahua Bay, Carlos Bay, Chocolate Bay, Christmas Bay, Coastal, Conservation NGOs, Coon Island Bay, Copano Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, Cox Bay, Crassostrea Virginica, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, East Bay, Eastern oyster, Espiritu Santo Bay, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, Galveston Bay, Guadalupe Bay, Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Coast, Hynes Bay, Keller Bay, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lavaca Bay, Louisiana, Lower Laguna Madre, MOLLUSKS, MOLLUSKS, Matagorda Bay, Mesquite Bay, Mission Bay, Mississippi, Nueces Bay, OYSTERS, OYSTERS, Oso Bay, Oyster Lake, Powderhorn Bayou, Powderhorn Lake, Redfish Bay, Regional & county planners, Sabine Lake, San Antonio Bay, South Bay, South Pass Lake, St Charles Bay, State agencies, Sundown Bay, Texas, Texas Gulf Coast, Tres Palacios Bay, Trinity Bay, US, USA, United States, United States of America, Upper Laguna Madre, West Bay, bathymetry, biological, biota, chirp sonar sub-bottom profile, coastal natural resources, coastal resources, coastal zone management, completed, dredge survey, environment, environmental sensitivity index, esi, estuarine, grab samples, habitat, habitat assessment, intertidal, oyster, oyster habitat, oyster lease, oyster reef, oyster reef survey, radiocarbon date, seismic, sensitivity maps, shell-hash, shellfish, side-scan, single beam bathymetry, subtidal, vibracores, wildlife, Fewer tags

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation - Gulf of Mexico

This data represent a compilation of seagrass information for areas along the Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas coasts from various source agencies. Seagrass areas were mapped from aerial photography taken between 1987 to 1999. The original source data were not all classified in the same manner, but the information from each of these sources was maintained in the final results.

Categories: Data; Tags: ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS), ANGIOSPERMS (FLOWERING PLANTS), Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Aransas Bay, All tags... BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, Big Bend, Carolinian, Charlotte Harbor, Clearwater Harbor, Conservation NGOs, Corpus Christi Bay, Data, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, Estero Bay, Federal resource managers, Florida, Florida Keys, Florida Panhandle, Floridia, Floridian, Gulf Of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico, Indian River Lagoon, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lemon Bay, MONOCOTS, MONOCOTS, Mississippi, Northern Gulf Of Mexico, PLANTS, PLANTS, Regional & county planners, SEAGRASS, SEAGRASS, San Antonio Bay, Sarasota Bay, Southeast Shelf, State agencies, Tampa Bay, Texas, aquatic vegetation, benthic habitat, biota, completed, environment, oceans, planningCadastre, seagrass, Fewer tags

U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program Species Ranges

GAP species range data show a coarse representation of the total areal extent of a species or the geographic limits within which a species can be found (Morrison and Hall 2002). To represent these geographic limits, GAP compiled existing GAP data, where available, and NatureServe data (Patterson et al. 2003, Ridgely et al. 2007, NatureServe 2010) IUCN data (IUCN 2004), where needed. Data provided by GAP in collaboration with the Northwest Gap Analysis Project (NWGAP), the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project (SWReGAP), the Southeast Gap Analysis Project (SEGAP), the Alaska Gap Analysis Project (AKGAP), the Hawaii Gap Analysis Project (HIGAP), the Puerto Rico Gap Analysis Project (PRGAP), and the U.S. Virgin Islands...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, 12-digit hydrologic units, Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, Biodiversity, All tags... Conservation, Conservation, Conservation, Conservation, Conservation NGOs, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, Data, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, GAP, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Gap Analysis, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, Mississippi, Regional & county planners, Species Range, State agencies, Texas, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Barrier Island Vulnerability Data Integration and Assessment

This project, part of a broader effort called the Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment, involved identifying gaps in data and integrating datasets and corresponding metadata required for a Gulf of Mexico-wide assessment of conditions and variables affecting barrier island vulnerability. Morphologic and geospatial datasets were later incorporated into the Conservation Planning Atlas, an emerging technology that makes a vast amount of geospatial data more easily accessible and available at no cost to conservation partners.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, AL-01, AL-01, AL-02, AL-02, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Alabama, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, Barrier Islands, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, FL-01, FL-01, FL-02, FL-02, FL-03, FL-03, FL-10, FL-10, FL-11, FL-11, FL-12, FL-12, FL-13, FL-13, FL-14, FL-14, FL-15, FL-15, FL-16, FL-16, FL-17, FL-17, FL-19, FL-19, FL-20, FL-20, FL-23, FL-23, FL-24, FL-24, FL-25, FL-25, FL-26, FL-26, FL-27, FL-27, Federal resource managers, Florida, Floridia, GA-02, GA-02, GA-08, GA-08, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LA-01, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-03, LA-06, LA-06, LAND SURFACE, LAND SURFACE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MS-04, MS-04, Mississippi, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, TX-02, TX-02, TX-07, TX-07, TX-14, TX-14, TX-18, TX-18, TX-22, TX-22, TX-27, TX-27, TX-29, TX-29, TX-34, TX-34, TX-36, TX-36, Texas, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, disaster, environment, oceans, Fewer tags