What Do We Know About Seed Transfer in the Great Basin? A Synthesis of Existing Knowledge and Identification of Knowledge Gaps

FY2016Review the existing literature, summarizing what is known about the scale and prevalence of local adaptation in the Great Basin and review current practices for determining seed transfer zones, describing benefits and limitations of different approaches. Through these two reviews, we will identify gaps in knowledge and opportunities for addressing these gaps, and determine best-practices for the construction of high quality seed transfer guidelines in a rapid and efficient manner. We propose to bring together a wide group of partners to achieve these goals, with two working group meetings proposed for this project. Deliverables include two peer-reviewed publications (existing knowledge, recommendation of best...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Seed zones, State agencies, empirical seed zones, empirical seed zones, empirical seed zones, native plants, native plants, native plants, native seed, native seed, native seed, onGoing, restoration, restoration, restoration, seed collection, seed collection, seed collection, Fewer tags

Disturbance, energy, climate partitions, cultivars and species habitat data for the Colorado Plateau and environs

These data were compiled to support and inform the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program and to guide future management action when selecting regions to collect and increase seed for native plant materials development. The objective of our study was to develop geospatial datasets to aid land managers and restoration practitioners in identifying areas that will need to be restored in the future (currently disturbed) as well as areas to source new native plant materials for propagation with increased climate similarity to these areas across the Colorado Plateau, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, and Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus. These data represent species distribution models for 12 high priority...

Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Arizona, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus, Astragalus lonchocarpus, All tags... Botany, Bouteloua gracilis, Cleome lutea, Cleome serrulata, Climatology, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Elymus elymoides, Four Corners Region, Geography, Heliomeris multiflora, Heterotheca villosa, Information Sciences, Intermountain Region, Intermountain West, Machaeranthera canescens, New Mexico, Pleuraphis jamesii, Southwest, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, Sporobolous cryptandrus, US Southwest, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, bioclimatic variables, biodiversity, biogeography, bioremediation, biota, climate change, climate partitioning models, climate similarity, climatic suitability, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, coal mine, data release, disturbance data, disturbed areas, ecological processes, energy production, energy resources, fires, gas well, germplasms, grazing, habitat alteration and disturbance, landscape level disturbances, modeling, native plant material, native plant material suitability, native plant restoration, native species, natural gas pipeline, natural gas resources, natural resource management, oil well, plant species, plants (organisms), priority restoration species, restoration, seed collection, seed sourcing, source locations, species distribution models, species habitat, species occurrence data, specimen collecting, suitable habitat, wildfires, Fewer tags