Shale Plays for the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Publication Date

2011-05-06

This land-use dataset was one of several anthropogenic layers to provide best available conditions representing the landscape. The data collected and compiled for the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC) will inform regional-scale landscape assessments with spatially explicit representation of natural resource, habitat, conservation, management and other social and environmental values. Preliminary analyses will summarize spatial statistics, and data are ultimately expected to directly inform species and habitat distribution models and vulnerability assessments. Future research efforts applying these data may include regional hydrologic modeling, wetland habitat vulnerability and connectivity assessments, species distribution modeling, and investigation of interactions among land use, land cover and prairie habitat distributions. A simple summary of the data and discussion of potential applications and implications for future work (e.g., species distribution modeling and vulnerability assessments) will accompany the distribution of these data via the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GPLCC). Purpose provided by original data sources: "This is a blob map of the general areas for shale plays in the US as of 5-6-2011. The polygons are constructed in a variety of ways which cannot be consistent due to the variety of data available and the maturity of each shale play. For example, some are outlines around active drilled areas, others are the USGS interpretation of the assesment unit, etc. See the attribute "References" for the literature source for each outline."

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• Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative
• LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal