North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Painted Bunting Habitat Conversion Risk Dataset

Landcover conversion is a common threat to wildlife habitat and this is no exception for the Painted Bunting in coastal North Carolina. One source of this threat is the conversion of maritime forest resulting from pressure potentially applied by use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source. The combination of encounter histories and projected habitat loss (to the year 2050) was used to model this threat to Painted Bunting habitat (maritime forest) in coastal North Carolina, in order to inform potential conservation efforts. U.S. Geological Survey Gap Analysis Program- Land Cover Data v2.2 (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/527d09f1e4b0850ea0518313) was used as the initial time stamp against which...

Categories: Data; Tags: Habitat Prioritization, Maritime Forest, North Carolina, Painted Bunting, Passerina ciris, All tags... Risk Assessment, habit threat, Fewer tags

Nature's Network Prioritization Tool

The Prioritization Tool is a web application for identifying the best opportunities to restore rare and threatened habitats for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) and other species in the Northeast. The goal underlying the development of the restoration tool was to identify areas of degraded habitat having high restoration potential, which if restored would contribute to the network of connected, intact, and resilient sites for biodiversity conservation mapped by Nature’s Network. The tool allows users to (1) display a series of prioritization maps developed for a set of pre-defined “scenarios” (e.g., American woodcock), and (2) create their own scenarios using a catalog of nearly 400 metrics.The basic...

Categories: Data, Web Site; Tags: Application, LCC Network Science Catalog, Web Site, completed, fish and wildlife conservation, All tags... habitat prioritization, habitat restoration, userGuide, Fewer tags