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EM: Prioritizing wetland conservation for birds, Midwestern USA (EM-113)
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EM Identity and Description
EM Identification
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EM ID
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EM-113 |
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EM Short Name
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Wetland conservation for birds, Midwestern USA |
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EM Full Name
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Prioritizing wetland conservation for birds, Midwestern USA |
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EM Source or Collection
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None |
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EM Source Document ID
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122 |
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Document Author
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Thogmartin, W. A., Potter, B. A. and Soulliere, G. J. |
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Document Year
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2011 |
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Document Title
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Bridging the conservation design and delivery gap for wetland bird habitat maintenance and restoration in the midwestern United States |
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Document Status
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Peer reviewed and published |
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Comments on Status
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Published journal manuscript |
Software and Access
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Contact Name
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Wayne Thogmartin, USGS |
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Contact Address
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Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, 2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI 54603 |
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Contact Email
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wthogmartin@usgs.gov |
EM Description
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Summary Description
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ABSTRACT: "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s adoption of Strategic Habitat Conservation is intended to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of conservation delivery by targeting effort in areas where biological benefits are greatest. Conservation funding has not often been allocated in accordance with explicit biological endpoints, and the gap between conservation design (the identification of conservation priority areas) and delivery needs to be bridged to better meet conservation goals for multiple species and landscapes. We introduce a regional prioritization scheme for North American Wetlands Conservation Act funding which explicitly addresses Midwest regional goals for wetland-dependent birds. We developed decision-support maps to guide conservation of breeding and non-breeding wetland bird habitat. This exercise suggested ~55% of the Midwest consists of potential wetland bird habitat, and areas suited for maintenance (protection) were distinguished from those most suited to restoration. Areas with greater maintenance focus were identified for central Minnesota, southeastern Wisconsin, the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and the shore of western Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay. The shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior accommodated fewer waterbird species overall, but were also important for wetland bird habitat maintenance. Abundant areas suited for wetland restoration occurred in agricultural regions of central Illinois, western Iowa, and northern Indiana and Ohio. Use of this prioritization scheme can increase effectiveness, efficiency, transparency, and credibility to land and water conservation efforts for wetland birds in the Midwestern United States." |
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Specific Policy or Decision Context Cited
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Strategic habitat conservation by USFW for Wetland Conservation Act funding |
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Biophysical Context
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Boreal Hardwood Transition, Eastern Tallgrass Prairie, Prairie Hardwood Transition, Central Hardwoods |
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EM Scenario Drivers
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Conservation efforts for: marsh-wetland breeding birds, regional marsh and open-water for non-breeding birds, mudflat/shallows for birds during non-breeding period. |
EM Relationship to Other EMs or Applications
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Method Only, Application of Method or Model Run
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Method + Application |
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New or Pre-existing EM?
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New or revised model |
Related EMs (for example, other versions or derivations of this EM) described in ESML
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Document ID for related EM
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Doc-169 | Doc-170 | Doc-171 | Doc-172 | Doc-173 | Doc-174 | Doc-175 |
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EM ID for related EM
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None |
EM Modeling Approach
EM Relationship to Time
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EM Temporal Extent
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2007 |
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EM Time Dependence
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time-stationary |
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EM Time Reference (Future/Past)
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Not applicable |
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EM Time Continuity
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Not applicable |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Value
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Not applicable |
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EM Temporal Grain Size Unit
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Not applicable |
EM Spatial Extent
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Bounding Type
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Physiographic or ecological |
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Spatial Extent Name
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Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Region |
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Spatial Extent Area (Magnitude)
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>1,000,000 km^2 |
Spatial Distribution of Computations
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EM Spatial Distribution
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spatially distributed (in at least some cases) |
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Spatial Grain Type
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area, for pixel or radial feature |
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Spatial Grain Size
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1 ha |
EM Structure and Computation Approach
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EM Computational Approach
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Analytic |
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EM Determinism
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deterministic |
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Statistical Estimation of EM
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Model Checking Procedures Used
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Model Calibration Reported?
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No |
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Model Goodness of Fit Reported?
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No |
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Goodness of Fit (metric| value | unit)
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None |
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Model Operational Validation Reported?
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No |
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Model Uncertainty Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Reported?
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No |
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Model Sensitivity Analysis Include Interactions?
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Not applicable |
EM Locations, Environments, Ecology
Location of EM Application
Terrestrial location (Classification hierarchy: Continent > Country > U.S. State [United States only])
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Marine location (Classification hierarchy: Realm > Region > Province > Ecoregion)
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Centroid Lat/Long (Decimal Degree)
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Centroid Latitude
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42.05 |
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Centroid Longitude
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-88.6 |
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Centroid Datum
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WGS84 |
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Centroid Coordinates Status
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Estimated |
Environments and Scales Modeled
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EM Environmental Sub-Class
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Inland Wetlands |
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Specific Environment Type
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Not reported |
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EM Ecological Scale
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Ecological scale is finer than that of the Environmental Sub-class |
Scale and taxa of organisms modeled
Scale of differentiation of organisms modeled
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EM Organismal Scale
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Species |
Taxonomic level and name of organisms or groups identified
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EnviroAtlas URL
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| GAP Ecological Systems, U.S. EPA (Omernik) ecoregions |
EM Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) potentially modeled, by classification system
CICES v 4.3 - Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (Section > Division > Group > Class)
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(Environmental Subclass > Ecological End-Product (EEP) > EEP Subclass > EEP Modifier)
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EM Variable Names (and Units)
Predictor
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Driving Variables (and Units)
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Constant or Factor Variables (and Units)
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None |
Intermediate
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Intermediate (Computed) Variables (and Units)
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None |
Response
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Observed Response Variables (and Units)
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None |
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Computed Response Variables (and Units)
view details (1 variable)
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