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This is a grant to support the continuation of the Fishes of Texas Program. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and their recipient, University of Texas at Austin, manage the Fishes of Texas program and the Native Fish Conservation Network (NFCN). This funding will support staff (i.e., research associate) operations that are required for continued stewardship of these important resources that are utilized by state and federal agencies as well as private and academic institutions. This effort has five main Objectives:For Objective 1, the research associate will compile and collate all research, monitoring, and restoration projects conducted within the 20 Texas Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) since the...
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This report summarizes the methods and results of utilizing the Edwards to Gulf Conservation Blueprint to achieve specific tasks for various conservation entities. The goal of this effort is to provide real world examples of the use of our spatial products to ensure that stakeholders understand how to use and incorporate the blueprint into their own decision-making processes. This report covers a suite of demonstration projects that illustrate a variety of tasks likely to be of interest to the broader stakeholder community. These include using the habitat protection rankings to prioritize areas within a predefined focal area within the Edwards to Gulf region (Figure 1), mapping a route of least impact for a proposed...
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This project will refine the hierarchical prioritization within and across the Texas Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) for integration into the comprehensive revisions of the Texas Conservation Action Plan in 2025. Research products (SDMs and hierarchical prioritization of NFCAs) will guide efforts that result in long-term focus for management and make the most efficient use of limited conservation resources for maintaining or improving conditions for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) fishes. Research products can subsequently be used to support efforts such as: updating Species Status Assessments used to inform revisions of the SGCN and State Threatened and Endangered species lists, refining the...
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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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Managers typically estimate wildlife abundance using surveys within a timeframe that favors increased detectability; however, the ability to account for probabilities of inclusion, detection, and/or presence within a given sampling area is often limited. Cranes provide a good opportunity to research count accuracy because they are large, conspicuous, and often congregate during part of the year, typically on staging areas (i.e., fall and spring) or on wintering grounds. The objectives of this paper are twofold: (1) to evaluate how environmental factors influence crane movement in and out of crane survey areas to identify the best window of availability for annual survey counts, and (2) to evaluate environmental...
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While managing habitats in the context of climate change is increasingly important in western North America, management recommendations are often lacking at fine-scales relevant for management. Identifying management actions for climate adaptation requires an understanding of how wildlife (i) might vary in their response to habitat conditions across their range and (ii) the spatial scale of environmental effects. We quantified summering habitat use of the Interior population of Band-tailed Pigeons in the Southwestern U.S. by analyzing data from satellite-tagged birds with a resource selection function. We used Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) to quantify habitat use of Band-tailed Pigeons across...
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The United States is rapidly expanding production of renewable energy to meet increased energy demands and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wind energy is at the forefront of this transition. A central challenge is understanding the nexus between wind energy development and its capacity for negative effects on wildlife causing population declines and habitat loss. Collaboration among conservationists and developers, early in the planning process, is crucial for minimizing wind-wildlife conflicts. Such collaborations require data showing where wind and wildlife impacts occur. To meet this challenge and inform decision-making, we provide natural resource agencies and stakeholders information regarding where future...
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We leveraged the Land Change Modeler within the Clark Labs’ TerrSet 2020 Geospatial Monitoring and Modeling Software package to produce vulnerability assessments and land use change products for several land use land cover types (TerrSet 2020, https://clarklabs.org/terrset/). TerrSet is an integrated geospatial software system for monitoring and modeling the earth system for sustainable development.We examined land use change and persistence across the southwestern US during an 18-yr window using 2001 and 2019 NLCD products reclassified into 9 categories. We investigated 15 potential variables to evaluate the top drivers responsible for the observed change. The targeted land use land cover categories included development,...
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CART is a platform that enhances collaborative conservation efforts at all scales by facilitating issue-based, not geography-based, peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. By connecting hundreds of individuals from dozens of organizations across North America, CART helps bridge the gaps between work at project, landscape, and operational scales. The CART Team, comprised of USDA Southwest Climate Hub, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Southwest and South Central Climate Adaptation Science Centers, help improve the outcomes of on-the-ground conservation by: Managing a central location for knowledge sharing based on Case Studies Co-developing tools that help diverse organizations meet their objectives...
    map background search result map search result map Outreach and end-user support to implement shared conservation priority actions from the Edwards Plateau to the Gulf of Mexico Final Report: Edwards to Gulf Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Project - Outreach and Demonstration Report Watershed-Based Conservation Planning to Inform Restoration and Recovery of Texas Threatened and Endangered Freshwater Fishes Species Distribution Modeling and Native Fish Conservation Area Prioritization to Guide Landscape-Level Conservation Linking Ecological Processes and Animal Movements to Inform Timing of Long-term Surveys of a Migratory Game Bird Forecasting Suitable Areas for Wind Turbine Occurrence to Proactively Improve Wildlife Conservation Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox Habitat use of conifer forests for Interior Band-tailed pigeons is mediated by precipitation Land Use Land Cover Change Products and Vulnerability Assessment (Southwest US) Outreach and end-user support to implement shared conservation priority actions from the Edwards Plateau to the Gulf of Mexico Final Report: Edwards to Gulf Landscape Conservation Design Pilot Project - Outreach and Demonstration Report Habitat use of conifer forests for Interior Band-tailed pigeons is mediated by precipitation Species Distribution Modeling and Native Fish Conservation Area Prioritization to Guide Landscape-Level Conservation Watershed-Based Conservation Planning to Inform Restoration and Recovery of Texas Threatened and Endangered Freshwater Fishes Conservation and Adaptation Resources Toolbox Linking Ecological Processes and Animal Movements to Inform Timing of Long-term Surveys of a Migratory Game Bird Forecasting Suitable Areas for Wind Turbine Occurrence to Proactively Improve Wildlife Conservation Land Use Land Cover Change Products and Vulnerability Assessment (Southwest US)