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Outreach and end-user support to implement shared conservation priority actions from the Edwards Plateau to the Gulf of Mexico
This project builds off an ongoing effort to develop a suite of spatial products intended to assist regional stakeholders in planning and delivering conservation services (Tarbox et al. 2018c). The preceding project has been conducted in a participatory manner, with extensive stakeholder engagement and feedback. Upon completion, the spatial tools that comprise the conservation blueprint will be made accessible on ScienceBase, along with extensive documentation. The proposed project will make potential end users familiar with how these tools were developed, how they work, and how to best use them to guide their decision-making processes. Due to the complexity of some of the tools, intensive meetings and workshops...
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Developing a process and conservation application for Landscape Conservation Design for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative
This project will be conducted in 6 phases:Phase 1: Formulation - Compile a list of all interested stakeholders; work with Foundations of Success facilitators to provide background information, project goals, expectations and deliverables in preparation for Phase 2.Phase 2: Convening - facilitated webinars and face-to-face meetings among stakeholders; establishment of a core team of experts to guide the LCD process; draft conceptual model, conservation strategies,Phase 3: Draft blueprint for Focus Area - conduct spatial analysis to develop a draft ecological-social/political/economic blueprint for the Focus AreaPhase 4: Re-convening for review of Draft Blueprint and Decision Support Tool - The draft conservation...
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Quantification of Alligator Gar Recruitment Dynamics Using a River-Stage Specific Floodplain Inundation Model
Alligator Gar, Atractosteus spatula, is an iconic species native to lowland floodplain river systems where they play an important role as top predators and by linking landscapes through their movement. Alligator Gar is also an important native fisheries species in the Trinity River. Disruption of river-floodplain connectivity is implicated in declining populations of Alligator Gar across much of its range. Successful management and conservation of Alligator Gar populations will be aided by an understanding of the relationship between flow and recruitment, particularly the availability and suitability of off-channel habitats utilized by this species for reproduction.
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