Vulnerability of Riparian Habitat to Land Uses in the Green River Basin

For the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD) assessment, we mapped the vulnerability of riparian habitat for terrestrial species and process. Using a vulnerability framework, we defined Sensitivity (S) as the percent riparian vegetation within the valley bottom and Exposure (E) as the amount of human modification within the valley bottom. For each 12-digit hydrologic unit code within the GRB LCD we summarized the riparian sensitivity and exposure to human modification. We also computed Potential Impact (PI), and Adaptive Capacity (AC) metrics at the HUC12 level. PI is the square root transformed product of human modification exposure and riparian sensitivity. AC for riparian exposure to human...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Utah, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, biota, completed, environment, green river basin, human modification, human modification, human modification, land uses, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, map, riparian, riparian, riparian, vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability, Fewer tags

Biome-wide sagebrush core habitat and growth areas estimated from a threat-based conservation design

These data were compiled as a part of a landscape conservation design effort for the sagebrush biome, and are the result of applying a spatially explicit model that assessed geographic patterns in sagebrush ecological integrity and used these results to identify Core Sagebrush Areas (CSAs), Growth Opportunity Areas (GOAs), and Other Rangeland Areas (ORAs). Our overall objective in this study was to characterize geographic patterns in ecological integrity of sagebrush ecosystems. These data represent the estimated integrity of sagebrush ecosystems, estimated from a spatial model that assigns high integrity is areas with abundant big sagebrush and perennial grass/forb cover and with minimal annual grass/forb cover,...

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Human Modification 2020 (Fig. 11) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/632a1290d34e71c6d67b9061Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the human modification threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light,representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrityand could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this mapis available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so that stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming...

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Estimating natural landscape changes from 1992 to 2030 in the conterminous US

Quantifying landscape dynamics is a central goal of landscape ecology, and numerous metrics have been developed to measure the influence of human activities on natural landscapes. Composite scores that characterize human modifications to landscapes have gained widespread use. A parsimonious alternative is to estimate the proportion of a cover type (i.e. natural) within a spatial neighborhood to characterize both compositional and structural aspects of natural landscapes. Here I extend this approach into a multi-scale, integrated metric and apply it to national datasets on land cover, housing density, road existence, and highway traffic volume to measure the dynamics of natural landscapes in the conterminous US....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Human modification, Land use change, Landscape Ecology, Landscape dynamics, Natural landscapes, All tags... Road use, Springer Netherlands, Fewer tags

Resistance Surface for the ALI analysis area

This dataset is an extract of the resistance surface created for the Pacific Northwest Duke Climate Resilience Project. It incorporates data on various human activities from the following data sources: National Landcover Dataset, Energy Infrastructure data from the Ventyx Corporation, National Wetlands Inventory, TIGER 2010 Road Data, active railroads and Dave Theobald's housing density dataset developed from 2010 census data. More details on the creation of this surface can be found in the document "Creation of Resistance Surfaces for the Resistant Kernel Pacific Northwest Duke Landscape Resilience Project".

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ALI, Arid Lands Initiative, Columbia Plateau, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Washington, All tags... Federal resource managers, GNLCC, Human Modification, Idaho, Land Use, Oregon, Regional & county planners, Resistance, State agencies, Washington, dataset, environment, environment, Fewer tags

Multiple Threats (Fig. 8) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/632a33ced34e71c6d67b914fRelated report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of three mapped threats (invasive annual grasses, expanding conifers, and human modification) with core sagebrush areas and growth opportunity areas across the sagebrush biome of theUnited States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) arelocations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy.Sagebrush foliage percent cover is a definitive characteristic of the ecosystem and relevant to persistence...

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Human Modification Index for the Green River Basin

The Human Modification (HM) model is designed to provide a comprehensive, but parsimonious approach, that uses several stressor/threats datasets to estimate level of human modification. There are three important elements that define the HM approach: (a) the human modification stressors and their data sources (b) the measurement unit used for each stressor, and (c) the method used to combine the effects of multiple stressors into an overall score of human modification. The way in which these various data layers are combined into a single index is quite important. We use a method that minimizes bias associated with non-independence among several stressor/threats layers (Theobald 2013). The HM model assumes the contribution...

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Sagebrush Biome Conservation Anchors (Fig. 6) - Biome-wide sagebrush core habitat and growth areas estimated from a threat-based conservation design

File-based data for download: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6328f759d34e71c6d67b7a40Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Identifying anchor points (that is, areas of spatial congruence) between core sagebrush areas (CSAs) and growth opportunity areas (GOAs) and existing (as of 2020) agency prioritizations within the sagebrush biome. Locations where core sagebrush areas and growth opportunity areas co-occur were mapped with at least one of the following designations: (a) Centrocercus urophasianus L. (greater sage-grouse) Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs), as used by State agencies and the National Resources Conservation Service; (b) Priority Habitat Management Areas (PHMAs),...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anchors, Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, All tags... Data, Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush biome, temporal scale, time series datasets, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Conifer 2020 (Fig. 10) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/632a06dcd34e71c6d67b902fRelated report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the conifer threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this map is available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming in, one...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, Data, All tags... Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush, sagebrush biome, sagebrush threats, temporal scale, threats, time series datasets, tree threats, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Invasive Annual Grass 2020 (Fig. 9) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6329f0f4d34e71c6d67b8f82Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the invasive annual grass threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this map is available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anchors, Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, All tags... Data, Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Invasive annual grasses, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush biome, temporal scale, time series datasets, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags