Draft Indicator: Index of pine woodland, savanna, and prairie amphibians - old
Summary
Index of pine woodland, savanna, and prairie amphibians This layer is one of the South Atlantic LCC indicators in the pine woodland, savanna and prairies ecosystem. To read more about the indicators and how they are being used, please visit the indicator page. Reason for selection Amphibians provide an indicator of the condition and arrangement of embedded isolated wetlands. Target Group had insufficient herpetology expertise to set an initial target. Look to Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SEPARC) to set target. Input Data South Atlantic LCC Priority Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Areas (PARCAS). PARCAs are a nonregulatory designation whose purpose is to raise public awareness and spark voluntary [...]
Summary
Index of pine woodland, savanna, and prairie amphibians This layer is one of the South Atlantic LCC indicators in the pine woodland, savanna and prairies ecosystem. To read more about the indicators and how they are being used, please visit the
indicator page.
Reason for selection Amphibians provide an indicator of the condition and arrangement of embedded isolated wetlands.
Target Group had insufficient herpetology expertise to set an initial target. Look to Southeast Partners
in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (SEPARC) to set target.
Input Data South Atlantic LCC Priority Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Areas (PARCAS). PARCAs are a nonregulatory designation whose purpose is to raise public awareness and spark voluntary action by landowners and conservation partners to benefit amphibians and/or reptiles. Areas are nominated using scientific criteria and expert review, drawing on the concepts of species rarity, richness, regional responsibility, and landscape integrity. Modeled in part after the Important Bird Areas program developed by BirdLife International, PARCAs are intended to be coordinated nationally but implemented locally at state or regional scales. Importantly, PARCAs are not designed to compete with existing landscape biodiversity initiatives, but to complement them – providing an additional spatially explicit layer for conservation consideration.
PARCAs are intended to be established in areas:
- capable of supporting viable amphibian and reptile populations
- occupied by rare, imperiled, or at-risk species, and
- rich in species diversity or endemism
There are four major steps in implementation:
1. Regional PARC task teams or state experts can use the criteria and modify them when appropriate, to designate potential PARCAs in their area of interest.
2. Following the identification of all potential PARCAs, the group then reduces these to a final set of exceptional sites that best represent the area of interest.
3. Experts and stakeholders in the area of interest collaborate to produce a map that identifies these peer-reviewed PARCAs.
4. Final PARCAs are shared with the community to encourage the implementation of voluntary habitat management and conservation efforts. PARCA boundaries can be updated as needed.
Mapping Steps PARCA areas were clipped to the area mapped as pine woodlands, savannas and praries in the South Atlantic Blueprint 2.0 project.