Consequences of stream fragmentation and climate change for rare Great Plains fishes

Rate of global biodiversity loss increased significantly during the 20th century associated with human environmental alterations. Specifically, mismanagement of freshwater resources contributed to historical and contemporary loss of stream-dwelling fish diversity and will likely play a role in determining the persistence of species in the future. We present a mechanistic pathway by which human alteration of streams has caused the decline of a unique reproductive guild of Great Plains stream-dwelling fishes, and suggest how future climate change might exacerbate these declines. Stream fragmentation related to impoundments, diversion dams and stream dewatering are consequences of increasing demand for freshwater resources...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, AR-04, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-03, CT-04, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LA-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MT-00, Map, Montana, ND-00, NE-03, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, SD-00, South Dakota, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-08, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-17, TX-19, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, pelagic-spawning cyprinid, Fewer tags

Climate change and connectivity: Assessing landscape and species vulnerability

Habitat loss and fragmentation are widely recognized as among the most important threats to global biodiversity. New analytical approaches are providing improved ability to predict the effects of landscape change on population connectivity at vast spatial extents. This paper presents an analysis of population connectivity for three species of conservation concern [swift fox (Vulpes velox); lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus); massasuaga (Sistrurus catenatus)] across the American Great Plains region. We used factorial least-cost path and resistant kernel analyses to predict effects of landscape conditions on corridor network connectivity. Our predictions of population connectivity provide testable...

Categories: Data, Project, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Decision Support, Decision support, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Map, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Publication, Report, SAVANNA, SD-00, State agencies, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Vulnerability Assessment, WY-00, biota, completed, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags

Conservation Priorities for Great Plains Fish Communities Based on Riverscape Connectivity and Genetic Integrity of Populations

Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, CATFISHES/MINNOWS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, FY 2012, FY 2012, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Decision support for climate change adaptation in the GPLCC: Creating geospatial data products for ecosystem assessments and predictive species modeling

Species populations are in a state of flux due to the cumulative and interacting impacts of climate change and human stressors across landscapes. Invasive spread, pathogen outbreaks, land-use activities, and especially climate disruption and its associated impacts—severe drought (see Figure 3 or the GPLCC), reduced stream flow, increased wildfire frequency, extended growing season, and extreme weather events—are increasing, and in some cases accelerating. These impacts are outpacing management and conservation responses intended to support trust species and their critical habitats. Our common goal is to craft successful adaptation strategies in the face of these multiple, interacting drivers of environmental change....

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Academics & scientific researchers, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2010, FY 2010, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, SOLAR-ATMOSPHERE/SPACE-WEATHER MODELS, South Dakota, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Website, Wyoming, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Sandhill Cranes and Waterfowl of the North Platte River Valley: Evaluation of Habitat Selection to Guide Conservation Delivery

While habitat selection and population estimates are well documented for spring migrating birds in the central Platte River system, little information or monitoring efforts on the North Platte River exist, particularly for the multiple priority bird species known to be present. Most conservation partners deliver habitat programs in the region with limited information and a lack of a landscape prioritization tools. In order for conservation delivery to be more effective and efficient in utilizing limited funds, a decision support tool is critical so that priority species habitat needs are being addressed through appropriate restoration/management strategies in the correct geography at multiple scales. We propose...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CRANES AND ALLIES, Conservation NGOs, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Migratory Birds, NE-03, Nebraska, Platte River, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis), State agencies, Waterfowl, Wetlands, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Implications of climate change for avian conservation in Great Plains landscapes

Funded project resulted in 6 publications covering various aspects related to shorebird/grassland bird migration, climate and nesting success in the great plains region.

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Avian, Avian, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, All tags... CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climatic Change, Climatic Change, Colorado, Conservation Planning, FY 2010, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Birds, Grassland Birds, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Models, Habitat Models, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), Mountain Plover (Charadrius montanus), NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Native Grassland, Native Grassland, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, SD-00, Sedimentation, Sedimentation, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, South Dakota, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Conservation Assessment and Mapping Products for GPLCC Priority Fish Taxa

Strategic conservation planning for broad, multi-species landscapes benefits from a data-driven approach that emphasizes persistence of all priority species’ populations and utilized landscapes, while simultaneously accounting for human uses. We propose to initiate a strategic conservation area assessment for the GPLCC. We will focus on Great Plains fishes for this initial project, though additional priority taxa can later be easily incorporated into this proposed framework. We will start with compilation and/or creation of spatial habitat utilization information (including construction of range-wide species distribution models) for GPLCC priority fishes. We will then utilize the open source software Zonation to...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Report, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Black-tailed Prairie Dog Habitat Suitability Modeling for the Southern Great Plains: Cross-scale Analysis of Soils, Topography and Climate

We developed multi-scale habitat suitability models for black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) in the southwestern Great Plains, corresponding to the western region of the Great Plains LCC. We used long-term (10-yr), high-resolution datasets on BTPD colony boundary locations collected at 7 study areas distributed across the region to develop resource selection functions based on colony locations and expansion patterns. Models are based on (1) soil maps and associated Ecological Sites (NRCS SSURGO database), (2) a topographic wetness index based upon water runoff and solar insolation patterns (TWIsi) that tests a priori hypotheses for topographic controls on BTPD, and (3) broad climatic gradients in temperature and mean...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BTPD, BTPD, CO-04, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, Colorado, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, Final Report, Final Report, GPLCC, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-03, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-03, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RODENTS, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-13, Texas, biota, black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), completed, environment, Fewer tags

Patterns and Processes of Dispersal of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs in a Heavily Managed Landscape of the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The black‐tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is considered an indicator species for the short grass prairie of North America; however, this species currently occupies an estimated 2% of its original distribution. Persistent and pervasive poisoning, and sylvatic plague have fragmented the remaining populations. It is not well understood how these population fragments are connected in a heterogeneous landscape of land use practices and land cover types, but quantifying population isolation and individual measures of dispersal across the landscape are essential to predicting both the vulnerability of extinction due to stochastic processes and the probability of disease emergence. To better understand how land...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, BTPD, BTPD, Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), All tags... CO-04, Colorado, Colorado, Decision Support, FY 2011, FY 2011, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, NE-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, OK-03, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RODENTS, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, TX-13, Texas, Texas, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags

A Hydrogeomorphic approach to evaluate ecosystem restoration and habitat management for the Lower Missouri River

In FY12, hydrogeomorphic methodology was being applied along 670 miles of the Missouri River from Decatur, Nebraska to St. Louis, Missouri. In FY15, additional resources extended the HGM up river to Gavin’s Point Dam, West Yankton, South Dakota (approximate river mile 811), the location of the most downstream mainstem dam; thus encompassing the entire free flowing reach of the Missouri River and increasing the study area by approximately 800,000 acres. Using this method, engineers and ecologists will incorporate state-of-the-art scientific knowledge of ecological processes and key fish and wildlife species to identify options by which to emulate natural hydrologic and vegetation/ animal community dynamics. Results...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, Gulf Restoration, Hydrogeomorphic, IA-03, IA-04, KS-02, KS-03, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Lower Missouri River, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, MO-04, MO-05, MO-06, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, NE-01, NE-02, NE-03, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation, Project, SD-00, State agencies, completed, eastern tallgrass prairie and big rivers landscape conservation cooperative, environment, environment, geology, habitat management, hydrogeology, hydrology, lower missouri river, Fewer tags

Developing a Continental Blueprint for Targeting Landscape-Level Urban Monarch Conservation

Monarch butterfly and other pollinators are in trouble. Monarch butterfly habitat— including milkweed host plants and nectar food sources—has declined drastically throughout most of the United States. Observed overwinter population levels have also exhibited a long-term downward trend, suggesting a strong relationship between habitat loss and monarch population declines. Preliminary research results from a U.S. Geological Survey led effort indicate that we need a comprehensive conservation strategy that includes all land types in order to stabilize monarch populations at levels necessary to adequately minimize extinction risk—urban areas will likely play a critical role. This strategy reflects an integrated and...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, IA-04, IL-01, IL-02, IL-03, IL-04, IL-05, IL-06, IL-07, IL-08, IL-09, IL-10, IL-11, IL-12, IL-13, IL-14, IL-15, IL-16, IL-17, IL-18, IN-01, IN-02, IN-03, IN-04, IN-05, IN-06, IN-07, IN-08, IN-09, Illinois, Indiana, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, KS-01, KS-02, KS-03, KS-04, Kansas, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-04, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MI-01, MI-02, MI-03, MI-04, MI-05, MI-06, MI-07, MI-08, MI-09, MI-10, MI-11, MI-12, MI-13, MI-14, MN-01, MN-02, MN-03, MN-04, MN-05, MN-06, MN-07, MN-08, MO-01, MO-02, MO-03, MO-04, MO-05, MO-06, MO-07, MO-08, MS-04, Map, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Monitoring, NE-01, NE-02, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, NY-21, NY-22, NY-23, NY-24, NY-25, NY-26, NY-27, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, OH-01, OH-02, OH-03, OH-04, OH-05, OH-06, OH-07, OH-08, OH-09, OH-10, OH-11, OH-12, OH-13, OH-14, OH-15, OH-16, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Ohio, Oklahoma, PA-03, PA-05, PA-12, Pennsylvania, Pilot/Case Study, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, SD-00, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, South Dakota, State agencies, TX-02, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-14, TX-15, TX-17, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-22, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, TX-36, Texas, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Urban Ecosystems, User Manual, WI-01, WI-02, WI-03, WI-04, WI-05, WI-06, WI-07, WI-08, Wisconsin, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags

Climate change planning for the Great Plains: Wildlife vulnerability assessment and potential for mitigation with grazing management

While we assessed the vulnerability of a number of different wildlife and plant species to climate change, none of those species exhibited high vulnerability to changes projected for the region and there was limited differentiation in vulnerability between the individual species. Given this shared level of vulnerability to climate change, we chose to focus our adaptation planning on grassland birds as they represent a large group with a diversity of habitat needs. These birds are obligate grassland wildlife species which have great potential to act as indicators for habitat quality since different species have distinct habitat structure needs. Participants in the adaptation planning workshop agreed that if the GP...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, Animal Agriculture, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CO-01, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, GRASSLANDS, Grassland Birds, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Management, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Project, Ranching, Report, SD-00, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, WY-00, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Understanding Landowner Attitudes, Opinions and Willingness to Participate in Playa Conservation

DJ Case will work with PLJV and other project cooperators to develop, conduct, and analyze 14 focus groups with key landowners in six states within the GPLCC. Focus groups allow for open-ended discussions and follow-on questioning that will reveal the key socioeconomic realities and hurdles that discourage landowners from enrolling in conservation programs or restoring playas. Focus groups will be conducted in areas with large playa clusters as identified by PLJV’s science-based Playa Decision Support System. Researchers will select key landowners in each state for participation, and will use the focus group sessions to learn what landowners think and feel about management of their lands in general, and about conservation...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, CONSERVATION, Colorado, Conservation Programs, Conservation Programs, Customer Opinions, Customer Opinions, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, completed, environment, inlandWaters, society, Fewer tags

Improving Rock Ramp Fishways for Small-Bodied Plains Fishes

River systems in the Great Plains region are heavily fragmented by potential instream barriers to movement such as low-head diversion dams. The longitudinal connectivity of these systems can be restored with the use of fish passage structures that are designed to allow passage of native fishes, but data on appropriate design requirements are lacking. The proposed project will measure the passage success of 3 species of Great Plains fishes (1 darter, 1 minnow, and 1 catfish in the madtom group) as function of rock ramp fishway slope and sinuosity, two of the key design parameters for an effective fishway. The project will use a model fishway with variable slope and sinuosity and integrated PIT tag antennas to...

Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Report, SD-00, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WY-00, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Development of regional planning tools to assess the impacts of climate and land use change on a sensitive grassland bird

Within grassland communities of the GPLCC one such key indicator species is the Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidinctus). Lesser Prairie-chicken range extends across the southern portion of the GPLCC area throughout Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas. Lesser Prairie-chickens are a good target species because they are widely distributed across the southern GPLCC, are a species of conservation concern, have large home ranges, and are likely sensitive to anthropogenic disturbances. Similarly, the Greater Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), is a species of conservation concern, with large home range, distributed across the northern portion of the GPLCC including portions of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, BIRDS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Decision Support, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Grassland Birds, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Greater Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido), Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Lek, Map, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SAVANNA, SD-00, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, WY-00, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Use of LIDAR to Assess the Effectiveness of Grass Plantings and Buffers on Playa Natural Inundation and Sedimentation Control in the Rainwater Basin

The Rainwater Basin in south-central Nebraska includes a complex of seasonally shallow playa wetlands that attract millions of migratory waterfowl as well as other waterbirds, including the federally and state listed endangered whooping crane. The Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data provide the robust capability of capturing small variations in low-relief playa wetlands. The main objective of this project is to build LiDAR-derived 3-D geospatial models to statistically assess the effectiveness of grass plantings and buffers on playa natural inundation and sedimentation control at watershed scales in the Rainwater Basin. The anticipated products include: (1) A set of statistical models to correlate grass plantings/buffers...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY2013, All tags... Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Science Catalog, LiDAR, LiDAR, Map, NE-01, NE-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, Playas, Playas, Project, Publication, Rainwater Basin, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, completed, elevation, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Provision and inventory of diverse aquatic ecosystem-related resources for the GPLCC

The basic task of inventorying biodiversity has actually been under way for many years. Existing natural history museum collections, like those in which we work, can provide major contributions to such inventories in the form of valuable historic organism occurrence records, and their specimens can be used in many ways for basic research and applied conservation planning. Unfortunately, much of the wealth of information stored in natural history collections requires substantial investment to be made accessible and useful to natural resource managers and researchers. We were charged by the GPLCC with providing some of the inventory data that will be required, and to assess what other data may be available and what...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, CO-03, CO-04, Climate Change, Colorado, All tags... ConsNet, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, FY 2010, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Final Report, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, KS-01, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Map, NE-03, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, OK-01, OK-02, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Praire Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, Report, State agencies, State agencies, TX-01, TX-02, TX-03, TX-04, TX-05, TX-06, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-11, TX-12, TX-13, TX-14, TX-15, TX-16, TX-17, TX-18, TX-19, TX-20, TX-21, TX-22, TX-23, TX-24, TX-25, TX-26, TX-27, TX-28, TX-29, TX-30, TX-31, TX-32, TX-33, TX-34, TX-35, TX-36, Texas, WY-00, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, biota, cave invertebrates, completed, fish occurrence, freshwater mussels, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Evaluating the Long-term Impacts of Land Cover, Climate, and Buffer Condition Change on Sediment Delivery and Playa Storage Volume

Playa wetlands are critical resources of the Great Plains, providing a range of ecological functions such as groundwater recharge, surface water storage, wetland habitat, and sediment filtering. As land cover has been converted from native grassland to cropland, playa ecological functions appear to have been dramatically impacted due to increased sediment delivery. This project will incorporate historical data to establish long-term trends in climate (primarily precipitation), watershed and playa land cover, buffer conditions, and playa sedimentation patterns. Previous studies have relied on relatively low-resolution spatial data and have focused primarily on contemporary land cover to establish spatial patterns...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, CO-04, All tags... CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SD-00, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, environment, environment, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Spatial and Temporal Habitat Suitability of Ephemeral Playas for Migratory Waterbirds

Land-use change, invasive species, and climate change have dramatically impaired ecosystem function worldwide. Understanding how changes to ecosystems impact species of conservation concern is essential for effective conservation delivery. Of particular importance are environments that provide disproportionate ecosystem services. Throughout the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, playas provide disproportionate ecological services, including essential stopover habitat for migratory waterbirds. Anthropogenic change to playa distribution, abundance, and function may impact the ecosystem services provided, with demographic consequences for priority species. We will address partner needs by developing a...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, BIRDS, CO-01, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Informing Conservation Delivery, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Migratory Birds, Migratory Birds, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SD-00, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Waterfowl, Waterfowl, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, biota, environment, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags

Current and Future Projected Distributions of Wetland-Dependent Birds Across the Great Plains in Response to Climate Change

Playas and other wetlands within the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC) provide essential habitat for many wetland-dependent vertebrate species and are especially important as migration and wintering areas for waterfowl and shorebirds. Playas in the GPLCC are at risk of unsustainable sediment accumulation, reduced inundation frequency, and declining hydroperiods due to agricultural intensification and a changing climate with expected decreases in annual precipitation, changing precipitation patterns, and higher summer temperatures. We propose to project distribution shifts and/or range reductions of several focal migrating shorebird, waterfowl, and waterbird species in response to climate change,...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CO-01, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-04, CO-05, CO-06, CO-07, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, KS-01, KS-02, KS-04, Kansas, Kansas, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Migratory Birds, Migratory Birds, NE-01, NE-03, NM-02, NM-03, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, OK-03, OK-04, OK-05, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SD-00, Shorebirds, Shorebirds, State agencies, TX-11, TX-13, TX-19, TX-23, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, WY-00, Waterbirds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl, Waterfowl, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, environment, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags