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Request for Spatial Data Download from The Appalachian LCC
by Paul Leonard — published Jan 13, 2015 — last modified Jan 14, 2015 09:28 PM — filed under: , ,
Located in Resources / Data / Share Appalachian LCC and Partner Spatial Data
File D source code Conservation Planning in a Changing World
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 10:50 AM
Conservation planning is the process of locating, configuring, implementing and maintaining areas that are managed to promote the persistence of biodiversity and other natural values. Conservation planning is inherently spatial. The science behind it has solved important spatial problems and increasingly influenced practice. To be effective, however, conservation planning must deal better with two types of change. First, biodiversity is not static in time or space but generated and maintained by natural processes. Second, humans are altering the planet in diverse ways at ever faster rates.
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
File Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 10:56 AM
Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify regions of faunal stability or high species turnover. An alternative approach is to adopt an evolutionary timescale and ask ultimately what factors control total diversity, so that over the long run the major drivers of total species richness can be protected. Within a single climatic region, the temperate area encompassing all of the Northeastern U.S. and Maritime Canada, we hypothesized that geologic factors may take precedence over climate in explaining diversity patterns. If geophysical diversity does drive regional diversity, then conserving geophysical settings may offer an approach to conservation that protects diversity under both current and future climates.
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
File Incorporating Climate Change into Systematic Conservation Planning
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 10:58 AM
The principles of systematic conservation planning are now widely used by governments and non-government organizations alike to develop biodiversity conservation plans for countries, states, regions, and ecoregions. Many of the species and ecosystems these plans were designed to conserve are now being affected by climate change, and there is a critical need to incorporate new and complementary approaches into these plans that will aid species and ecosystems in adjusting to potential climate change impacts. We propose five approaches to climate change adaptation that can be integrated into existing or new plans.
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
File x-conference/x-cooltalk Planning for Biodiversity Conservation: Putting Conservation Science into Practice
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 10:59 AM
A seven-step framework for developing regional plans to conserve biological diversity, based upon principles of conservation biology and Ecology, is being used extensively by The Nature Conservancy to identify priority areas for conservation.
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
File Systematic Conservation Planning
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 10:59 AM — filed under:
The realization of conservation goals requires strategies for managing whole landscapes including areas allocated to both production and protection. Reserves alone are not adequate for nature conservation but they are the cornerstone on which regional strategies are built. Reserves have two main roles. They should sample or represent the biodiversity of each region and they should separate this biodiversity from processes that threaten its persistence. Existing reserve systems throughout the world contain a biased sample of biodiversity, usually that of remote places and other areas that are unsuitable for commercial activities. A more systematic approach to locating and designing reserves has been evolving and this approach will need to be implemented if a large proportion of today’s biodiversity is to exist in a future of increasing numbers of people and their demands on natural resources.
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
File Use of Population Viability Analysis and Reserve Selection Algorithms in Regional Conservation Plans
by Paul Leonard — published Nov 12, 2013 — last modified Apr 23, 2014 11:01 AM
Current reserve selection algorithms have difficulty evaluating connectivity and other factors necessary to conserve wide-ranging species in developing landscapes. Conversely, population viability analyses may incorporate detailed demographic data, but often lack sufficient spatial detail or are limited to too few taxa to be relevant to regional conservation plans. We developed a regional conservation plan for mammalian carnivores in the Rocky Mountain region using both a reserve selection algorithm (SITES) and a spatially explicit population model (PATCH).
Located in Conservation Planning / Conservation Planning Literature
Data Basin
by Paul Leonard — published Dec 18, 2013 — last modified Jun 10, 2014 12:40 PM
Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research, and sustainable environmental stewardship. What you can do here; explore and organize data & information, create custom visualizations, drawings, & analyses, use collaborative tools in groups, publish datasets, maps, & galleries, develop decision-support and custom tools.
Located in Tools & Resources / Decision Support & Web Map Viewers
National Map
by Paul Leonard — published Dec 18, 2013 — last modified Jun 10, 2014 12:40 PM
Use The National Map Viewer to inspect, and download our most current topographic base map data and products for free. Managed by the USGS National Geospatial Program (NGP), The National Map Viewer provides access to all eight primary data themes of The National Map to include US Topo and historical topographic map products. The viewer platform is extended upon the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's (NGA) Palanterra x3 Viewer.
Located in Tools & Resources / Decision Support & Web Map Viewers
The National Atlas
by Paul Leonard — published Dec 13, 2013 — last modified Sep 30, 2016 03:13 PM
In the National Atlas Map Maker, you can assemble, view, and print your own maps. You can choose from hundreds of layers of geographic information to make maps. Each map layer can be displayed individually or mixed with others as you tailor a map to your needs. For example, you can make a map showing America's streams and lakes. And you can add new map layers showing additional geographic information, such as state boundaries, county boundaries, roads, railroads, and towns and cities.
Located in Tools & Resources / Decision Support & Web Map Viewers