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Natural landscapes in the Southwestern United States are changing. In recent decades, rising temperatures and drought have led to drier conditions, contributed to large-scale ecological impacts, and affected many plant and animal species across the region. The current and future trajectory of climate change underscores the need for managers and conservation professionals to understand the impacts of these patterns on natural resources. In this regional assessment of the Southwest Climate Change Initiative, we evaluate changes in annual average temperatures from 1951–2006 across major habitats and large watersheds and compare these changes to the number of species of conservation concern that are found within these...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Chihuahuan Desert,
English,
Madrean,
Mojave Desert,
Sonoran Desert, All tags...
US,
assessment,
biodiversity,
bird,
climate,
ecoregion,
endangered,
grassland,
groundwater,
mammal,
management,
map,
model,
monitoring,
ownership,
plant,
priority,
protected area,
rare,
research,
resilience,
restoration,
riparian,
river,
shrub,
stream,
threat,
threatened,
vulnerability,
water,
watershed,
wetland,
wildlife, Fewer tags
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MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System) is a static biogeography model that projects potential vegetation distribution and hydrological flows on a grid. It simulates type of vegetation and density for all upland vegetation from deserts to wet forests. It uses long term, average monthly climate data (mean monthly temperature, vapor pressure, wind speed, and precipitation) as well as soils information (texture, depth). MAPSS has been used widely for various climate change assessments including the 2000 National Assessment Synthesis Team's report. MAPSS assumes that vegetation distribution is constrained either by the availability of water or of energy for growth. In temperate latitudes, water is the primary constraint...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: GIS,
adaptation,
climate,
land cover,
map, All tags...
model,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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To help resource managers prioritize management actions across large landscapes, the Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) produced databases, reports, maps, analyses, and other information showing mid- to broad-scale (thousands to hundreds of thousands of hectares and larger areas) vegetation conditions and potential future trends, key wildlife habitat conditions and trends, wildfire hazard, potential economic value of products that might be generated during vegetation management, and other critical information for all lands and all major upland vegetation types in Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. ILAP work involved gathering and consolidating existing information, developing new information...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Arizona,
Chihuahuan Desert,
English,
GIS,
Madrean, All tags...
New Mexico,
Oregon,
Sonoran Desert,
US,
Washington,
amphibian,
bird,
climate,
economic,
ecoregion,
endangered,
erosion,
fire,
fish,
grassland,
land cover,
mammal,
management,
map,
model,
ownership,
priority,
rare,
reptile,
resilience,
restoration,
soil,
stream,
threatened,
vegetation,
water,
watershed,
wildlife, Fewer tags
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The LANDFIRE Data Distribution Site is the geospatial data gateway to search, browse, and download LANDFIRE data. The Data Distribution Site directs you to the LANDFIRE Viewer, where you can view the 30-meter resolution layers, metadata, and descriptions. This viewer provides assorted tools allowing the ability to interact and manipulate any data displayed within the viewer. Data extents are defined by dragging an extent or defining coordinates. All LANDFIRE data are free and available to everyone. The default download is an ESRI grid raster format with attributes and includes metadata in a zipped file. Options to specify different data formats and projections are available through the viewer's Modify Data Request...
Categories: Data;
Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service,
ArcGIS Service Definition,
Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: English,
GIS,
US,
agriculture,
development, All tags...
ecoregion,
fire,
grassland,
invasive,
land cover,
map,
model,
national,
ownership,
remote sensing,
reservoir,
roads,
streams,
topography,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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