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Assessing land use practices on the ecological characteristics of sagebrush ecosystems: multiple migratory bird responses Rest-rotation grazing, defined as lack of livestock grazing in a pasture for 15-18 months, is suggested to improve the quality of sagebrush, shrubland, and grassland habitat for a wide range of species. However, little work has been done to evaluate impacts of rest-rotation grazing on migratory avian species which serve as indicators of sagebrush ecosystem integrity. Evaluating the impacts of rest-rotation grazing using indicator species can provide valuable insight into how rest-rotation grazing may affect multiple species in the ecosystem.Our research is focused on how different grazing systems, rest-rotation and traditional, change songbird community structure (e.g., species abundance and richness). Traditional... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2012, 2013, 2014, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Land Use, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Private land owners, Report, Report, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, environment, plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, sagebrush, Fewer tags Assessing Threats to the Recovery of Imperiled Freshwater Mussels: Improving the Use of the Mussel Threats Geospatial Database and Investigating Water Quality Limiting Factors The primary goals of this proposed project are to help identify and prioritize threats to endangered mussels and to determine whether existing environmental concentrations of ammonia, copper, and major ions in sediment pore-water are contributing to the decline of native mussel populations, as indicated by recent laboratory toxicity tests. These goals are consistent with the needs identified in the National trategy for the Conservation of Mussels, particularly to “increase coordination and information exchange among entities that study, manage, harvest, conserve, or recover native freshwater mussels”; and “determine how various perturbations impact mussels and their habitat, and provide managers with the information... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Regional & county planners, All tags... Report, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, environment, freshwater mussels, water quality, Fewer tags Report: Adapting Conservation to a Changing Climate: An Update to the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan The project had four explicit objectives: 1) Conduct a climate vulnerability assessment of Species of Greatest Need of Conservation and major habitat types 2) Identify conservation strategies that increase resiliency or adaptive capacity, or mitigate the effects of climate change 3) Outline an adaptive management approach for informing management decisions 4) Recommend changes to existing monitoring programs and identify research needs Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, All tags... Report, State agencies, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Occurrence and variation in submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) along the northern Gulf of Mexico: a hierarchical approach to assess impacts of environmental change on SAV resources Submersed aquatic vegetation, a critical component of highly productive coastal ecosystems, is greatly affected by sea level rise. The Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative needs consistent information on these natural resources along the Gulf of Mexico Coast to develop computer modeling tools. These tools will contribute to efforts to forecast the effects of climate change on the distribution, abundance, and diversity of submersed aquatic vegetation and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. This project was co-funded by the Gulf Coast Prairie and the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. An alternate reference... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, All tags... 2017, AL-01, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, FL-01, FL-02, Federal resource managers, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MS-04, Map, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SAV, SAV/SEA GRASS BED, SLR, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, adaptation, biota, climate vulnerability, completed, fisheries, nursery habitat, submersed aquatic vegetation, waterfowl, 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 Impacts of sea level rise on native plant communities and associated cultural sites in coastal areas of the main Hawaiian Islands One of the impacts of global climate change for the Hawaiian Islands is a projected increase in sea level of about one meter by the year 2100. This change will impact both biological and cultural resources located along the coastline. Few intact native coastal and lowland plant communities remain in Hawai’i. Many of those that remain contain listed endangered species and provide important habitat for other species such as seabirds, shorebirds, and native invertebrates. Where upslope habitats are available, some coastal plant communities may be able to migrate in response to sea level rise. However, in sites that have no upslope opportunities due to habitat modification by human development, the species and communities... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Coastal & marine ecosystems, Conservation Planning, Cultural resources, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Terrestrial ecosystems, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, Fewer tags NPS Vessel Traffic Simulation Partners developed a simulation model to better show how various projections associated with increased marine traffic in the Bering Sea might look in the coming decades. These simulations are able to help communities and managers better understand future patterns of traffic in the Bering Sea region as a whole, and look more specifically at possible changes in key areas of concern like the Bering Strait.Following vessel activity analysis and considering vessel type, transit routes, route timing, routing speed, and ports of call, we developed a novel agent-based, spatially-explicit, baseline model of current marine vessel traffic patterns. We then applied projections about changes in traffic volume from a report by... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, HAZARDS MITIGATION, HAZARDS MITIGATION, HAZARDS PLANNING, HAZARDS PLANNING, Hunters & anglers, INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Project, SUSTAINABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, State agencies, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, economy, economy, location, location, oceans, oceans, transportation, transportation, underDevelopment, Fewer tags Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the National Climate Assessment (NCA) 2013 report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990, which requires a report to the President and Congress every four years on the status of climate change science and impacts. The NCA informs the nation about already observed changes, the current status of the climate, and anticipated trends for the future. The NCA report process integrates scientific information from multiple sources and sectors to highlight key findings and significant gaps in our knowledge. Findings from the NCA provide input to federal science priorities and are used by U.S. citizens, communities,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Climate, Conservation NGOs, Federal resource managers, LCC, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, Fewer tags Responses of Hawaiian Albatrosses to Environmental Change Pelagic seabirds (albatrosses and petrels) find food by relying on distinct oceanographic features like transition zones, upwelling, and large eddies. These oceanographic features change intensity, distribution, and duration during El Niño/La Niña events resulting in poor breeding performance in seabirds. Climate models predict that these perturbations will last longer, be more variable, and in some cases, cause major shifts in oceanographic regimes. We analyzed our decade-­‐long dataset of tracked Laysan and black-­‐footed albatrosses (N = 192 individual trips) the breed in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands to investigate the mechanistic role that oceanography plays in affecting the foraging distributions and its... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, Academics & scientific researchers, Climate, Coastal & marine ecosystems, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Pacific Islands LCC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Terrestrial ecosystems, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, Fewer tags Assessing Large-Scale Effects of Wildfire and Climate Change on Avian Communities and Habitats in the Sky Islands, Arizona Rocky Mountain Research Station scientists initiated a study in the 1990s on avian distribution and habitat associations within the Sky Islands. By re-measuring vegetation and bird populations following wildfires and applying climate change models, they will assess the singular and synergistic effects of climate change and wildfire and provide strategies for managing resilient forests and conserving the avian community structure. They will also continue and expand citizen science efforts to develop a long term avian monitoring plan, as well as simulation studies to provide optimal monitoring designs for avian species to detect changes from large-scale stressors. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: 2013, AZ-01, AZ-02, Arizona, Birds, All tags... Citizen science, Datasets/Database, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS, Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Monitoring, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Publication, Sky Islands, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, United States, United States, Vulnerability Assessment, Website, Wildfire, avian communities, biota, completed, Fewer tags Final Report and Appendices: Fire and Water: Assessing Springs Ecosystems and Adapting Management to Respond to Climate Change Final Report WaterSMART Agreement No. R13AP80033Introduction: Sky Island Alliance is a non‐governmental organization that works to protect and restore the rich natural heritage of native species and habitats in the Sky Island Region. We work with volunteers, scientists, land‐owners, public officials, and government agencies to establish protected areas, restore healthy landscapes, and promote public appreciation of the region’s unique biological diversity.Springs are keystone ecosystems in the Sky Island Region, exert disproportionate influence on surrounding landscapes, and are known to be biodiversity hotspots. Although they are abundant in this arid region, they are poorly documented and little studied. Changing... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Arizona, Conservation NGOs, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE, FLUVIAL LANDFORMS, Federal resource managers, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Informing Conservation Delivery, LAND SURFACE, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, SPRING, Sky Island Region, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Transboundary Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, United States, User Manual, Vulnerability Assessment, aquatic, biota, completed, fire, restoration, springs, water, wetlands, Fewer tags Spatial Datasets: Riparian Climate Corridors:Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation in a Changing Climate This includes the following data sets:Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: scores attributed to stream lines Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: HUC6 Scores by Omernik Ecoregions Pacific Northwest Riparian Climate Corridors: scores attributed to HUC-6 watersheds Potential Riparian Areas in the Pacific Northwest Riparian Mapping Project - Index averaged to HUC 6Protecting and restoring ecological connectivity is a leading climate adaptation strategy forbiodiversity conservation (Heller & Zavaleta 2009, Lawler 2009), because species are expectedto have difficulty tracking shifting climates across fragmented landscapes (Thomas et al. 2004).Connectivity conservation is thus a primary focus of numerous... Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Climate Change, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Federal resource managers, Hydrologic regime shift, LCC Network Science Catalog, Oregon, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, WA-1, WA-2, WA-6, Washington, accepted, adaptation strategies, climate change, completed, final, product, riparian areas, species sensitivities, vegetation changes, Fewer tags Decision support for meadow conservation and restoration in the Sierra Nevada Ecoregion While meadows cover less than one percent of the Sierra Nevada, these ecosystems are of high ecological importance given their role in carbon and nitrogen storage, mediation of surface water flows, groundwater recharge, sediment filtration, and as refugia for numerous species. Understanding how – and where – to conserve and restore meadow ecosystems is a critical management question facing US Forest Service (USFS) and other land managers in the Sierra Nevada. The information and tools generated from this project are intended to significantly increase understanding of meadow responses to climate, associated changes in hydrology, and to develop conservation and restoration priorities that are strongly aligned with... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2016, Applications and Tools, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation Plan/Design/Framework, Conservation Planning, All tags... Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Report: Climate Change Impacts on Wisconsin's Natural Communities and Conservation Opportunities Areas: Updating Wisconsin's Wildlife Action Plan This project directly addresses the need for integration of climate change information and strategies into Wisconsin’s Wildlife Action Plan (WWAP) as identified by Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Land Conservation Cooperative. Wisconsin’s WWAP is used as a major conservation planning tool by state agencies and partners, but this tool currently lacks information on climate change. At the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), the WWAP informs master planning for state‐owned properties, influences land acquisition priorities, and provides direction for management, inventory, and research. As a user‐friendly, detailed, web‐based resource, the WWAP is also available to other conservation organizations and private... Categories: Data; Tags: 2010, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Private land owners, All tags... Report, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Native Fishes in Northern Great Plains Streams Although it is certain that climate change will affect the hydrology and biota of Great Plains streams, how and where these effects will be manifested is not known. This project will predict the effects of climate change on these streams by creating watershed hydrology and fish assemblage models that are both linked to watershed characteristics, then predicting changes resulting from climate change using an ensemble of general circulation models. We will identify the areas of primary conservation concern by calculating Index of Biotic Integrity values for 1,600 samples in an existing regional fish database and compare them to the areas that are most likely to experience change under future climate scenarios. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, All tags... Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northern Great Plains, Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, Report, State agencies, Streams, Tribes, Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, environment, environment, native fishes, Fewer tags Broad-scale lake and permafrost dynamics in the Western Alaska LCC region Thermokarst lakes (lakes formed in a depression by meltwater from thawing permafrost) are common features and important ecosystems in Alaska. There is increasing concern about how thermokarst lakes respond to projected climate change and what the potential impacts are on regional carbon cycle dynamics, hydrological regime, and habitat character distribution. This demands better understanding of the location of thermokarst lakes and how their characteristics vary in landscape that will allow to better estimate the risks associated with lake area dynamics. This study attempts to map state-wide thermokarst lake distribution of Alaska, with a minimum size of 0.1 ha, using object oriented classification of high resolution... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Project, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Publication: Climate-suitable planting as a strategy for maintaining forest productivity and functional diversity Within the time frame of the longevity of tree species, climate change will change faster than the ability of natural tree migration. Migration lags may result in reduced productivity and reduced diversity in forests under current management and climate change. We evaluated the efficacy of planting climate-suitable tree species (CSP), those tree species with current or historic distributions immediately south of a focal landscape, to maintain or increase aboveground biomass, productivity, and species and functional diversity. We modeled forest change with the LANDIS-II forest simulation model for 100 years (2000–2100) at a 2-ha cell resolution and five-year time steps within two landscapes in the Great Lakes region... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2013, All tags... 2013, Conservation NGOs, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Lakes, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Private land owners, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, Tribes, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, completed, connectivity, environment, environment, forests, upper midwest, Fewer tags « 1 ... 4 5 6 7 8