The Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment (GCVA) used an expert opinion approach to qualitatively assess the vulnerability of four ecosystems: mangrove, oyster reef, tidal emergent marsh, and barrier islands, and a suite of wildlife species that depend on them. More than 50 individuals participated in the completion of the GCVA, facilitated via Ecosystem and Species Expert Teams. The GCVA made use of the Standardized Index of Vulnerability and Value Assessment (SIVVA) (Reece and Noss 2014) to provide an objective framework for evaluating vulnerability by guiding assessors through a series of questions related to the changes an ecosystem or species might experience due to climate change and other threats. Assessors...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Alabama,
BARRIER ISLANDS,
BIOSPHERE,
BIOSPHERE,
Barrier Islands, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
Complete,
Conservation NGOs,
Data,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE,
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS > MARSHES,
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > REEF > OYSTER REEF,
ECOSYSTEMS,
ECOSYSTEMS,
ESTUARY,
Federal resource managers,
Florida,
GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
Gulf of Mexico,
LAND SURFACE,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Louisiana,
MANGROVE SWAMP,
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS,
MARSHES,
Mangrove,
Mississippi,
Oyster Reef,
State agencies,
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS,
Texas,
Tidal Emergent Marsh,
WETLANDS,
american oystercatcher,
black skimmer,
blue crab,
clapper rail,
eastern oysters,
environment,
kemp's ridley sea turtle,
mottled duck,
red drum,
roseate spoonbill,
spotted seatrout,
wilson's plover, Fewer tags
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