Historical and Contemporary Geographic Data Reveal Complex Spatial and Temporal Responses of Vegetation to Climate and Land Stewardship

Vegetation and land-cover changes are not always directional but follow complex trajectories over space and time, driven by changing anthropogenic and abiotic conditions. We present a multi-observational approach to land-change analysis that addresses the complex geographic and temporal variability of vegetation changes related to climate and land use. Using land-ownership data as a proxy for land-use practices, multitemporal land-cover maps, and repeat photography dating to the late 19th century, we examine changing spatial and temporal distributions of two vegetation types with high conservation value in the southwestern United States: grasslands and riparian vegetation. In contrast to many reported vegetation...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, climate, grassland, land cover, management, All tags... map, restoration, riparian, shrub, vegetation, Fewer tags

Perceptions of the condition of semiarid grasslands under grazing regimes in Mexico/ Percepción de la condición del pastizal bajo pastoreo, en México semiárido

A battery of questions was developed and applied to different stakeholders immersed in knowledge of the condition and the use of grazing of grasslands. One hundred people were surveyed amongst livestock producers (both from private ranches and from communal ejidos), and students and researchers at regional institutions involved in agricultural sciences in different states of Mexico: Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, and Jalisco. The objective of the survey was to determine aspects of stakeholders’ interpretation of the condition of grasslands in their region under conditions of extensive grazing, such as soil condition, harvest efficiency, vegetation condition, openness to community organizing of grazing, capacity...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Mexico, Spanish, cultural, desertification, economic, All tags... erosion, grassland, grazing, management, outreach, ownership, policy, soil, vegetation, Fewer tags

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern Region Plan Revision

The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 requires every national forest or grassland managed by the U.S. Forest Service to develop and maintain a Land and Resource Management Plan (often referred to as a forest plan). The forest plan is the principle long-range guidance document for each forest or grassland, providing direction for project and activity decision making. Forest plans articulate goals and objectives, the kinds of uses that are suitable for areas of a national forest, management standards and guidelines that apply to different kinds of activities, and the designation of special areas like Research Natural Areas. Forest plans are strategic in nature and do not compel any action or authorize...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, New Mexico, desert, fire, grassland, All tags... grazing, invasive, management, protected area, recreation, riparian, scrub/shrub, spring, stream, threatened & endangered, wetland, Fewer tags

EnviroAtlas - Food, Fuel, and Materials Metrics for Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Food, Fuel, and Materials category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that provide or support the production of food, fuel, or other materials, the need or demand for these items, the impacts associated with their presence and accessibility, and factors that place stress on the natural environment's capability to provide these benefits. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment

This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags

Which tree species and biome types are most vulnerable to climate change in the US Northern Rocky Mountains?

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, North Central CASC, Plants, Rocky Mountains, bioclimate envelop modeling, All tags... climate change, management, tree species, vulnerability assessment, Fewer tags

Report: The Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy Actionable Science Plan

The Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter Strategy, DOI 2015) outlined the need for coordinated, science-based adaptive management to achieve long-term protection, conservation, and restoration of the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem. A key component of this management approach is the identification of knowledge gaps that limit implementation of effective strategies to meet current management challenges. The tasks and actions identified in the Strategy address several broad topics related to management of the sagebrush ecosystem. This science plan is organized around these topics and specifically focuses on fire, invasive plant species and their effects on altering fire regimes, restoration,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia spp., California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Conservation, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Report, Utah, biota, completed, invasive plants, management, restoration, sage-grouse, sagebrush, Fewer tags

USFWS, Pacific Southwest Region (R8), Fire Management Zones

The purpose of this dataset is to display the physical boundaries of Fire Management Zones within the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Pacific Southwest Region.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: California, Nevada, Oregon, Wildlife Refuge, boundaries, All tags... fire, management, usfws, Fewer tags

A Monitoring Protocol to Assess Wintering Shorebird Population Trends

Phase 1 & 2 (2010, 2012): This project developed a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in the Central Valley and in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and develop an LCC-specific online shorebird monitoring portal publicly available at the California Avian Data Center. The three objectives in Phase II of this project are: 1) Complete the shorebird monitoring plan for the CA LCC by developing a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in coastal southern California and northern Mexico. 2) Develop models to evaluate the influence of habitat factors from multiple spatial scales on shorebird use of San Francisco Bay and managed wetlands in the Sacramento Valley, as a model...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Monitoring, Monitoring, Project, Publication, SF Bay/Delta, Science Project, Southwest CSC, Tidal, Wetland, birds, cadc, california avian data center, completed, conservation, environment, fish, habitat, information exchange, invertebrates, land use, management, map, model, monitoring, multiple, on-line, pacific flyway, rice, santa monica nra, scenarios, sdm, shorebirds, wetland, wintering shorebirds, Fewer tags

Report and Publications: Assessing Evapotranspiration Rate Changes for Proposed Restoration of the Forested Uplands of the DLCC

Final Report - Executive Summary: This final project report is prepared to summarize the research project titled “Assessing evapotranspiration rate changes for proposed restoration of the forested uplands of the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC)” for the Desert LCC of the Bureau of Reclamation as a requirement for closing out the project. This report includes the scope of work, summary of research project, results, and conclusions. Among all of the components of the terrestrial water cycle, evapotranspiration (ET) consumes the largest amount of water. Accurate estimation of ET is very important to understand the influence of ET to the hydrologic response of recharge and runoff processes in the water...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data.gov Desert LCC, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northern Arizona, Publication, Publication, Publication, Report, United States, adaptation, best management practice (BMP), climate change, completed, drought, ecosystem services, fire, forest, groundwater, hydrology, land cover, management, model, native, plant, product, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, snow, soil, topography, vegetation, water availability, water budget, watershed, Fewer tags

Optimal management of environmental and land resources in a reservoir watershed by multiobjective programming

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 4010 Techniques of planning; P 9000 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION;, Taiwan, Water Resources Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aqua, catchment area, environment management, All tags... environmental protection, land use, management, multiobjective planning, multiple use of resources, reservoirs, reservoirs (water), resource management, water quality, water quality control, watershed management, watersheds, Fewer tags

Challenges in managing dryland rivers crossing political boundaries: lessons from Cooper Creek and the Paroo River, central Australia

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alteration of Flow, Arid Lands, Australia, Australia, Cooper Creek, Australia, Cooper Creek, All tags... Australia, Paroo R., Australia, Paroo R., D 04700 Management; SW 4020 Evaluation process; Q5 01523 Con, Decision Making, Ecology Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquati, Environmental impact, Floods, Irrigation, Management, Resource management, Rivers, Water Diversion, Water Management, Water Requirements, Water resources, Water rights, Wetlands, Fewer tags

Understanding Dispute Resolution Processes for American and Australian Public Wildlands: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Managers

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Australia, D 04700 Management; P 9000 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION, Ecology Abstracts; Pollution Abstracts, Environment management, Management, All tags... Nature reserves, Socio-economic aspects, Socioeconomics, USA, Wilderness, dispute resolution, Fewer tags

Ecology of yellow-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus auriceps) in Nothofagus forest in Fiordland, New Zealand

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Cyanoramphus auriceps, D 04671 Birds, Ecology Abstracts, New Zealand, South I., food availability, All tags... management, population dynamics, predation, Fewer tags

Do reservoirs need ecological management?

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: British Isles, England, British Isles, England, Drinking Water, Ecological Effects, Management, All tags... Population Dynamics, Recreation, Recreation areas, Recreational waters, Reservoirs, Rivers, SW 4070 Ecological impact of water development; D 04700 Mana, Sustainable development, Water Demand, Water Quality, Water Resources Abstracts; Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquati, Water Storage, Water management, Water pollution, Water quality control, Water reservoirs, Water supply, Fewer tags

Protecting the oligotrophic lakes of the English Lake District

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Algae, Algal blooms, British Isles, England, British Isles, England, Cumbria, English Lake District, British Isles, England, English Lake Dist., All tags... British Isles, England, English Lake District, Conservation, Deterioration, Dissolved oxygen, Ecosystem management, Enrichment, Environmental restoration, Eutrophication, Lake Basins, Lakes, Management, Monitoring, Nutrient concentrations, Nutrient loading, Nutrients, Nutrients (mineral), Oligotrophic lakes, Physicochemical Properties, Phytoplankton, Remediation, Restoration, SW 0850 Lakes; SW 3070 Water quality control; D 04705 Conser, Trophic Level, Water Quality, Water Resources Abstracts; Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquati, Water quality control, Fewer tags

Trends in Wildlife Management and the Appropriateness of Australian University Training

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Australia, D 04700 Management; D 04903 Education, Ecology Abstracts, Education, Management, All tags... Wildlife conservation, Fewer tags

Research Management in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basins: Challenges and Opportunities

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Resources; ASFA 2: Ocea, Data Acquisition, Economic Aspects, Future Planning, Lake basins, All tags... Management, Management Planning, North America, Great Lakes, North America, Great Lakes, North America, St. Lawrence R., North America, St. Lawrence R., Public Health, Q1 01105 Research programmes, expeditions and vessels; Q2 02, Research, Research Priorities, Research programmes, Resource management, River basins, Fewer tags

Biomanipulation in a theoretical and historical perspective

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic communities, Ecosystem management, Ecosystems, Environment management, Eutrophic lakes, All tags... Eutrophication, Lakes, Limnology, Management, Nutrient concentrations, Nutrients, Nutrients (mineral), Phosphorus, Predation, Predators, Restoration, SW 0850 Lakes; Q1 01463 Habitat community studies; Q5 01522 , Sweden, Sweden, Malmoehus, Ringsjoen L., Sweden, Ringsjon L., Trophic Level, Trophodynamic cycle, Water Quality Control, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Liv, biomanipulation, biomanipulations, Fewer tags

Aquatic invertebrate and plant responses following mechanical manipulations of moist-soil habitat

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic plants, Ecological succession, Ecosystem management, Entomology Abstracts; Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 3: Aquatic Pol, Environment management, All tags... Invertebrata, Management, Phytobenthos, Plant populations, Plantae, Species diversity, Tillage, USA, Mississippi, USA, Mississippi, Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Vegetation cover, Wetlands, Z 05210 Aquatic entomology; D 04700 Management; Q5 01523 Con, Zoobenthos, aquatic birds, freshwater invertebrates, Fewer tags