BLM REA CBR 2010 Scorecard of condition PrairieFalcon

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Wildlife, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 Scorecard of condition Greater Sage Grouse Range - Future Condition

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Wildlife, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 Status Assessment: Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland DEPARTURE

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire, Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Vegetation, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 Scorecard of condition Greater Sage Grouse Leks 25 - Current Condition

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Wildlife, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 Scorecard of condition CommonKingsnake

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Wildlife, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 Status Assessment: Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe CHANGE

NatureServe’s ecological integrity framework provides a practical approach to organize criteria and indicators for this purpose (Faber-Langendoen et al. 2006, Unnasch et al. 2008). This framework provides a scorecard for reporting on the ecological status of a given CE within a given location, and if needed, facilitates the aggregation and synthesis of the component results for broader measures of ecological integrity at broader scales The layer represents the scorecard of multiple indicator values of ecosytem/species integrity. Individual layers for ecosystems may have representitive values of change in extent, landscape condition, landscape connectivity, Fire Regime Departure, or invasive annual grass risk. Not...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, DOI, All tags... Fire regime departure, Geospatial, Invasive Annual Grasses, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Scorecard, Vegetation, biota, change in extent, condition, connectivity, environment, integrity, Fewer tags

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's Terrestrial Habitats & Connectivity Work Group's Pilot Area's Post-Fiscal Year 2022 Forest Habitat Connectivity

This dataset is the third installment of a yearly connectivity update for forested habitat within the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's (GLRI) Terrestrial Habitats & Connectivity (TH&C) work group's Pilot Area. The Pilot Area is a region of the northern Great Lakes Basin between Ashland, WI and the Keweenaw Peninsula and is bounded by Lake Superior in the north and the basin boundary in the south, including a 70 km buffer. Each year the TH&C selects project proposals for funding within the pilot area. These proposals involve either restoration, research, or land acquisition aimed at improving or increasing forest connectivity in this area. The intended purpose of each year’s update is to understand the effects...

Tags: Connectivity, Ecology, Forest Habitat, Great Lakes, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, dispersal (organisms), environment, habitat fragmentation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, structure, Fewer tags

Webinar: Functional continuity of habitat for the pygmy rabbit

On December 5, 2016, Marjorie Matocq, University of Nevada Reno, and John Kasbohm, Greater Sheldon-Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, discussed functional continuity of habitat for the pygmy rabbit.Pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) are habitat specialists of sagebrush communities throughout the Great Basin. Overgrazing, altered fire regimes, invasive plants and energy development are expected to impact natural patterns of dispersal and gene flow among wildlife populations in sagebrush ecosystems, including pygmy rabbits. In turn, these impacts may reduce the adaptive potential and persistence of local populations. This study seeks to identify the spatial distribution of genetic variation in pygmy rabbits....

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Completed, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, Great Basin, All tags... Great Basin, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, State agencies, biota, climate change, connectivity, corridor, environment, location, modeling, presentation, pygmy rabbit, Fewer tags

Seismic cutlines, changing landscape metrics, and grizzly bear landscape use in Alberta

Conclusions: Seismic cutline proportion did not explain landscape use by grizzly bears, but secondary effects of cutlines on landscape structure did. Declining use was mainly associated with increasing proportions of closed forest, and increasing variation of inter-patch distances, while use was mainly increasing with increasing mean patch size. Thresholds/Learnings: Bears appear to use areas more when landscape patches tend to be larger, and mean patch size is generally reduced with additional seismic cutlines. Also, bears appear to use areas more when landscape patches are consistently spaced, and the spacing between landscape patches becomes more variable with additional seismic cutlines. Synopsis: This study...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Binning, GPS locations, Generalized linear models (GLM), Land use configuration, Landscape configuration, All tags... Landscape ecology, Landscape fragmentation, Landscape structure, Satellite imagery, Seismic cutlines, Ursus arctos, West Central Alberta/Canadian Rockies, connectivity, energy exploration/seismic lines, fragmentation, grizzly bears, linear disturbance, seismic lines, species at risk, sub-regional, terrestrial mammals, Fewer tags

A Linkage Network for the California Deserts

The rapidly increasing demands being placed on our deserts points to the urgent need for a connectivity assessment that spans multiple jurisdictional boundaries and promotes the partnerships needed to implement a regional conservation strategy for this diverse and striking landscape. The vast scale of renewable energy developments proposed in the California deserts are likely to impact habitat connectivity, alter essential ecosystem functions, and eliminate opportunities for species to shift their ranges in response to climate change. The potential impacts of energy development on our existing public lands, specifically to wildlife and their ability to move across the landscape, are enormous. The primary goal of...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, California, GIS, OHV, assessment, All tags... biodiversity, climate, connectivity, development, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, land cover, management, map, mining, model, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, renewable, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE II)

Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE-II) is a Department of Fish and Wildlife project that was begun in 2009 to provide data to help guide and inform conservation priorities in California.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, US, biodiversity, connectivity, All tags... development, ecoregion, endangered, groundwater, land cover, map, model, ownership, plant, protected area, rare, riparian, stream, threat, threatened, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Mojave Basin and Range Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA)

REAs synthesize the best available information about resource conditions and trends within an ecoregion. They highlight and map areas of high ecological value, including important wildlife habitats and corridors, and gauge their potential risks from climate change, wildfires, invasive species, energy development, and urban growth. REAs also map areas that have high energy development potential, and relatively low ecological value, which could be best-suited for siting future energy development. In addition, REAs establish landscape-scale baseline ecological data to gauge the effect and effectiveness of future management actions. The Mojave Basin and Range REA was initiated in July 2010. It has been completed and...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, OHV, US, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, burro, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, horse, invasive, land cover, mammal, map, mining, model, oil, ownership, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, riparian, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, threat, threatened, topography, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, 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