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Enhanced Monitoring for Improved Management and Restoration Decision-making in the Wetland Camas Prairies of the Upper Columbia Basin Network This is a collaborative project to support enhanced camas prairie monitoring and synthesis of existing camas lily monitoring data in the Weippe Prairie Unit of Nez Perce National Historical Park (NEPE) and in Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO), within the Upper Columbia Basin Network (UCBN). The NPS will work with Oregon State University (OSU) to: (1) Synthesize camas monitoring data from NEPE and BIHO dating back to 2005 with weather and soil moisture and water table data to describe how variation in climate and weather influences soil moisture and camas density and flowering rates; (2) augment the existing camas monitoring protocol with new standard operating procedures for establishing and surveying permanent... Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, Other, US National Park Service Evaluating the Relevance, Reliability, and Applicability of CMIP5 Climate Projections for Water Resources and Environmental Planning Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, Bureau of Reclamation, NWCSC, Other, Other Project Using Beaver for Climate Change and Conservation Benefits This project will provide a comprehensive synthesis of beaver recolonization science and techniques for successful reintroduction or population expansion through a thorough, in-depth, coordinated review of all North American beaver-related information, including identification of research gaps and data needs, and recommendations for project implementation. This information will be disseminated through a series of one-day workshops. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AK-1, Alaska, Alaska, Alaska, All tags... Alaska, Beaver, Beaver, British Columbia, British Columbia, British Columbia, British Columbia, CA-2, CA-2, CA-2, California, California, California, California, Climate Change, Conservation Design, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation Planning, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog, NPLCC, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR-1, OR-1, OR-1, OR-2, OR-2, OR-2, OR-3, OR-3, OR-3, OR-4, OR-4, OR-4, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon, Priority A. Effects of hydrologic regime shifts, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Publication, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Training/Outreach/Workshop, WA-1, WA-1, WA-1, WA-10, WA-10, WA-10, WA-2, WA-2, WA-2, WA-3, WA-3, WA-3, WA-4, WA-4, WA-4, WA-5, WA-5, WA-5, WA-6, WA-6, WA-6, WA-7, WA-7, WA-7, WA-8, WA-8, WA-8, WA-9, WA-9, WA-9, Washington, Washington, Washington, Washington, climate change, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, floodplain, floodplain, floodplain, floodplain, onGoing, restoration, restoration, restoration, restoration, wetland systesm, wetland systesm, wetland systesm, wetland systesm, Fewer tags South Atlantic aquatic connectivity assessment and tool The Nature Conservancy (TNC) recently completed an unprecedented assessment of almost 14,000 dams in the Northeastern United States. The Northeast Aquatic Connectivity (NAC) project allows fisheries managers and other interested parties to assess dams at multiple scales based on their potential to benefit anadromous and resident fish species if removed or bypassed. This work has continued, with support from NOAA and USFWS, in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, where data refinements and further analysis have produced a web map and tool that allow users to interactively prioritize dams for mitigation at multiple scales and with varying criteria.The Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP) has recently completed... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, All tags... Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, Policy makers & regulators, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, State agencies, Tribes, biota, biota, completed, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags SMART-SLEUTH: Augmenting the SLEUTH urban growth model with new smart-growth scenario-building capabilities We will develop SMART-SLEUTH, an advanced spatially explicit modeling framework designed to augment the current SLEUTH model with sophisticated smart-growth capabilities. Based on the latest version of SLEUTH, we will create an open-source GIS-enabled software package that will implement SMART-SLEUTH with advanced modules and tools for evaluating, predicting, and visualizing smart growth scenarios and outcomes. In this software package, a more user friendly Graphic User Interface (GUI), a multi-level automatic calibration approach built on machine learning algorithms, and new spatial landscape metrics for quantifying land change patterns will provide enhanced support for complex model configuration, calibration,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, ANTHROPOGENIC/HUMAN INFLUENCED ECOSYSTEMS, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, Methodology/Protocol, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, completed, structure, structure, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags Establishing Climate Change Vulnerability Rankings for Hawaiian Native Plants Hawaiʻi is considered a worldwide biodiversity hotspot, with nearly 90 percent of its native plants found nowhere else in the world. However, about half of these native plants are imperiled by threats including human development, non-native species, and climate change. Through this project, scientists modeled the relative vulnerability of over 1,000 native plant species to the effects of climate change. A panel of experts in Hawaiian plant species assisted with the development of the model and verified its results. From the model, researchers were able to develop a vulnerability score for each plant species and identify categories of species with high, medium, and low vulnerability to climate change. This information... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, LCC, Landscapes, All tags... Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Pacific Islands, Pacific Islands CASC, Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Science and Forecasting to Inform Implementation of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee’s Whitebark Pine Management Strategy The goal of this project was to inform implementation of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee (GYCC) Whitebark Pine (WBP) subcommittee’s “WBP Strategy” based on climate science and ecological forecasting. Project objectives were to: 1. Forecast ecosystem processes and WBP habitat suitability across the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) under alternative IPCC future scenarios; 2. Improve understanding of possible response to future climate by analyzing WBP/climate relationships in past millennia; 3. Develop WBP management alternatives; 4. Evaluate the alternatives under IPCC future scenarios in terms of WBP goals, ecosystem services, and costs of implementation; and 5. Draw recommendations for implementation... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, Forests, All tags... Forests, Landscapes, Landscapes, North Central, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, Science Tools For Managers, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Predicting Sky Island Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change: Fine Scale Climate Variability, Drought Tolerance, and Fire Response The sky island forests of the southwestern United States are one of the most diverse temperate forest ecosystems in the world, providing key habitat for migrating and residential species alike. Black bear, bighorn sheep, mule deer, and wild turkey are just a few of the species found in these isolated mountain ecosystems that rise out of the desert landscape. However, recent droughts have crippled these ecosystems, causing significant tree death. Climate predictions suggest that this region will only face hotter and drier conditions in the future, potentially stressing these ecosystems even further. Simple models predict that vegetation will move to cooler and wetter locations in response to this warming. However,... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Drought, Drought, All tags... Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Fire, Forests, Forests, Landscapes, Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Other Landscapes, Plants, Plants, Projects by Region, South Central, South Central CASC, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Improving Representation of Extreme Precipitation Events in Regional Climate Models The South Central U.S. encompasses a wide range of ecosystem types and precipitation patterns. Average annual precipitation is less than 10 inches in northwest New Mexico but can exceed 60 inches further east in Louisiana. Much of the region relies on warm-season convective precipitation – that is, highly localized brief but intense periods of rainfall that are common in the summer. This type of precipitation is a significant driver of climate and ecosystem function in the region, but it is also notoriously difficult to predict since it occurs at such small spatial and temporal scales. While global climate models are helpful for understanding and predicting large-scale precipitation trends, they often do not capture... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Projects by Region, South Central, South Central CASC, Fewer tags Conserving Important Habitat for Amphibians and Other Wildlife: Compilation of Vernal Pool Mapping Efforts Across the North Atlantic Region Vernal or seasonal pools are small, temporary bodies of water that can serve as critical habitat for frogs, salamanders, reptiles, invertebrates, and other species. The first step in developing effective conservation strategies for vernal pools and associated wildlife species is to know where on the landscape these small wetlands exist. Although several several states and organizations in the Northeast region have initiated coordinated vernal pool mapping projects, this information has never been assembled in one place.Currently, the Vernal Pool Data Cooperative (VPDC) consists of over 60,000 vernal pool locations submitted by cooperators representing ten states and two Canadian provinces from Virginia to Quebec’s... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Amphibian biologists, Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Conservation planning, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Decision support, FWS R5 SA Project, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, GIS users, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Methodology/Protocol, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Report, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Website of the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Ferguson Lynch is contracted through Wildlife Management Institute for the creation, IT support and ongoing maintenance of a website for the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, including web portal and cloud services. Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Conservation Planning, FWS R5 SA Project, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NALCC, North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Project, State agencies, Website, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Creating a detailed vegetation classification and digital vegetation map for Squaw Creek NWR Creating a detailed vegetation classification and digital map for Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge to use for habitat management decisions and tracking land use changes. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, MO-06, Map, Project, completed, eastern tallgrass prairie and big rivers landscape conservation cooperative, environment, environment, map, vegetation map, Fewer tags Tidal Marsh Bird Population and Habitat Assessment This project assessed the potential effects of climate change on tidal marsh habitats and bird populations, identified priority sites for tidal marsh conservation and restoration, and developed a web-based mapping tool for managers to interactively display and query results. Project results can be found at PRBO’s San Francisco Bay Sea-Level Rise Website Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2010, 2013, Applications and Tools, CA, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, Decision support, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Marine, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Private land owners, Project, SF Bay/Delta, San Francisco Bay, Science Project, Tidal, Training/Outreach/Workshop, adaptation, birds, completed, conservation, decision support tool, environment, gis, levee, management, mapping, on-line, restoration, salinity, scenario planning, scenarios, sea level rise, sediment, shorebirds, slr, south bay salt ponds, tidal marsh, wetlands, Fewer tags Population Management of Prairie-River Minnows We propose to use long-term fish-population data from a relict reach of the Pecos River, New Mexico to assess population dynamics of imperiled prairie-river minnows, including Arkansas River shiner. Development of viable management strategies requires basic understanding of population ecology. Rigorous, quantitative ecological methods can be used to analyze continuous, long-term demographic data, but such data are rarely available for imperiled, non-game fishes. Data available for the Pecos River provide a unique opportunity to apply quantitative methods to prairie-river minnow conservation and management. Analyses proposed here would determine (1) whether population regulation is density dependent or flow-regime... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi), CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Climate Change, All tags... Climate Change, FISH, FY 2013, FY 2013, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Project, RIVERS/STREAM, Report, State agencies, Wildlife Mangement, Wildlife Mangement, biota, completed, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags A Monitoring Protocol to Assess Wintering Shorebird Population Trends Phase 1 & 2 (2010, 2012): This project developed a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in the Central Valley and in the San Francisco Bay Estuary and develop an LCC-specific online shorebird monitoring portal publicly available at the California Avian Data Center. The three objectives in Phase II of this project are: 1) Complete the shorebird monitoring plan for the CA LCC by developing a sampling design and monitoring protocol for wintering shorebirds in coastal southern California and northern Mexico. 2) Develop models to evaluate the influence of habitat factors from multiple spatial scales on shorebird use of San Francisco Bay and managed wetlands in the Sacramento Valley, as a model... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2013, Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... CA, CA Central Valley, California Central Valley, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Estuarine, Federal, Federal resource managers, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Monitoring, Monitoring, Project, Publication, SF Bay/Delta, Science Project, Southwest CSC, Tidal, Wetland, birds, cadc, california avian data center, completed, conservation, environment, fish, habitat, information exchange, invertebrates, land use, management, map, model, monitoring, multiple, on-line, pacific flyway, rice, santa monica nra, scenarios, sdm, shorebirds, wetland, wintering shorebirds, Fewer tags Development of the Climate Registry for the Assessment of Vulnerability (CRAVe): A Searchable, Public Online Tool for Understanding Species and Habitat Vulnerability The USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC), as part of the work of the Interagency Land Management Adaptation Group (ILMAG), initiated a project in 2013 to develop plans for a searchable, public registry on climate change vulnerability assessments. Member agencies from the USGCRP Adaptation Science Work Group, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), and several NGO’s also contributed. Vulnerability assessments are important for identifying resources that are most likely to be affected by climate change and providing insights on why certain resources are vulnerable. Consequently, they provide valuable information for informing climate change adaptation planning. CRAVe allows... Categories: Project; Types: GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: 2013, CASC, Climate Change, Completed, Data Visualization & Tools, All tags... National CASC, National CASC, Other Wildlife, Other Wildlife, Projects by Region, Science Tools For Managers, Vulnerability Assessment, Wildlife and Plants, Wildlife and Plants, climate vulnerability, Fewer tags Projecting the Future of Headwater Streams to Inform Management Decisions There is growing evidence that headwater stream ecosystems are especially vulnerable to changing climate and land use, but managers are challenged by the need to address these threats at a landscape scale, often through coordination with multiple management agencies and landowners. This project sought to provide an example of cooperative landscape decision-making by addressing the conservation of headwater stream ecosystems in the face of climate change at the watershed scale. Predictive models were built for critical resources to examine the effects of the potential alternative actions on the objectives, taking account of climate effects and examining whether there are key uncertainties that impede decision making.... Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, CASC, Completed, Northeast, Northeast CASC, All tags... Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags Projected Impacts of Climate Change Induced Water Quality Trends on Reclamation Operations Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, Bureau of Reclamation, NWCSC, Other, Other Project, All tags... Western U.S., climate change, strategic planning, technology modifications, water quality trends, water treatment, Fewer tags Climate Change Effects on Vegetation in the Pacific Northwest: A Review and Synthesis of the Scientific Literature and Simulation Model Projections (PNW-GTR-900) Categories: Project; Tags: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, All tags... Bureau of Land Mangement (BLM), Modeling, Oregon, Other, Pacific Nortwest, Science Synthesis, Simulation, Washington, Fewer tags Hydrologic and Ecological Monitoring of Montane Wetlands in North Cascades, Mount Rainier, and Olympic National Parks Wetland ecosystems are ecologically important components of park landscapes. Montane wetlands may be particularly vulnerable to changing climates. Responsible and effective park protection of these areas relies on accurate inventories of sites, a detailed understanding of ecosystem functions and hydrologic cycles, and projections of changes based on future climates. Currently, parks have incomplete baseline inventories of montane wetlands and only qualitative information on hydroperiods of wetlands. The goals of this collaborative project are to collect hydrologic data to support the development of models, to collect GPS data to improve delineations of wetland maps, and to use these data to improve model projecting... Categories: Project; Tags: 2013, Other, US National Park Service 1 2 3 4 5 ... 11 »