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Species are adapted to particular environmental conditions, but are threatened as climate change shifts habitat conditions. One way species can respond is by moving to new suitable locations, known as climate-driven range shifts. But some species can move more easily and/or more quickly than others, and some landscapes are more difficult to cross. In the upper Midwest, the movement potential of many species is reduced by broad expanses of row-crop agriculture, roads and other types of development that fragment the remaining habitat. It is important to sustain and improve connectivity across landscapes so they can continue to support biodiversity and ecosystem services like water filtration, carbon storage, pollinator...
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Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2023,
CASC,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
Midwest, All tags...
Midwest CASC,
Plants,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
co-benefits,
connectivity,
restoration, Fewer tags
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This is a 30 meter grid that maps upland and wetland wildlife habitats/ecological systems for the Northeast, including all 13 states from Maine to Virginia, west to New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mapped habitat types are drawn from the Northeastern Terrestrial Habitat Classification System (NETHCS). The NETHCS is based on NatureServe’s Ecological Systems Classification, augmented with additional information from individual state wildlife classifications and other information specific to wildlife managers. A terrestrial ecological system is defined as a mosaic of plant community types that tend to co-occur within landscapes with similar ecological processes, substrates, and/or environmental gradients,...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Citation,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Data,
Ecological systems,
Ecological systems,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov, All tags...
Northeast association of fish and wildlife agencies,
Northeast association of fish and wildlife agencies,
USFWS AGOL,
completed,
northeast terrestrial habitat map,
northeast terrestrial habitat map, Fewer tags
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To create a wall-to-wall surface of landscape permeability we used the software CIRCUITSCAPE (McRae and Shah 2009), an innovative program that models species and population movements as if they were electric current flowing through a landscape of variable resistance. Circuit modeling is conceptually aligned with the concept of landscape permeability because it recognizes that movement through a landscape is affected by a variety of impediments, and it quantifies the degree and the directional outcomes of the compounding effects. One output is a “flow” map that shows the behavior of directional flows and highlights concentration areas and pinch-points.The results can highlight locally and regionally significant places...
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Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Downloadable,
Map Service;
Tags: Blocked/Low Flow,
Blocked/Low Flow,
Circuitscape,
Circuitscape,
Concentrated flow, All tags...
Concentrated flow,
Constrained Flow,
Constrained Flow,
Data,
Diffuse Flow,
Diffuse Flow,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov,
Resilience,
Resilience,
Resilient sites,
Resilient sites,
completed,
dataset,
dataset,
eastern North America,
eastern North America,
regional flows,
regional flows,
wall to wall,
wall to wall, Fewer tags
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This is a 30 meter grid that maps upland and wetland wildlife habitats/ecological systems for the Northeastern US, including all 13 states from Maine to Virginia, west to New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and for the Maritime provinces of Canada (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick) and southeastern Quebec. Mapped habitat types are drawn from the Northeastern Terrestrial Habitat Classification System (NETHCS) and from some ecological system types identifed by Canadian ecologists as being unique to Canada. The NETHCS is based on NatureServe’s Ecological Systems Classification, augmented with additional information from individual state wildlife classifications and other information specific...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Canada-Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map,
Canada-Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map,
Data,
Ecological systems,
Ecological systems, All tags...
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Maritime Provinces,
Maritime Provinces,
NETHCS,
NETHCS,
North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Data.gov,
Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Classification System,
Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Classification System,
Northeastern US,
Northeastern US,
Southeastern Quebec,
Southeastern Quebec,
Wildlife habitats,
Wildlife habitats,
biota,
biota,
biota,
completed,
environment,
environment,
environment, Fewer tags
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Resilience concerns the ability of a living system to adjust to climate change, to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with consequences; in short, its capacity to adapt. In this project we aim to identify the most resilient examples of key geophysical settings (e.g. sand plains, granite mountains, limestone valleys, etc.) to provide conservationists with a nuanced picture of the places where conservation is most likely to succeed over centuries. The project had three parts: 1) identifying and mapping the geophysical settings, 2) developing a quantitative estimate of resilience for each setting based on landscape complexity and permeability, and 3) identifying key linkages...
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