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Basic User Support Guide
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This guide covers how to request an account with the Appalachian LCC portal, logging in to the portal, and posting content.
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How-To Guides and Handouts
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Bat Summary for Appalachian LCC Cave/Karst Study
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This document contains a list of the bat species that regularly use caves and mines in the Appalachian LCC region, federal status of these species, and sources of bat data.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Bat Records by County
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Biodiversity Hotspots and the UTRB
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Map depicting biodiversity hotspots in the eastern United States along with the boundary of the Upper Tennessee River Basin and USFWS National Wildlife Refuge locations.
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Bog turtle
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The bog turtle is protected under the Endangered Species Act as a federally threatened species.
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TRB Images
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Carbonate/Non-carbonate Contact Linear Sum
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Cumulative lengths of contacts between karst and non-karst, measuring both patchiness of available habitat and perhaps dispersal corridors if cave passages are differentially developed along these contacts. This information can be used to predict presence/absence of particular ecological groups in caves.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Study Overview Maps and Foundational Datasets
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Cave Count per 20km Grid Cell
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Total number of caves within a 20 kilometer grid cell. Each cell represents a range of caves found within that area.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Study Overview Maps and Foundational Datasets
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Cave Species Richness Hotspots
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Caves with the most aquatic and terrestrial species. The number of species is highly dependent on sampling intensity, including the number of sampling trips.
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Gallery: Cave and Karst Maps
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Study Overview Maps and Foundational Datasets
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Clinch Mountain WMA Waterfall
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Waterfall located at the Clinch Mountain Wildlife Management Area
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TRB Images
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Cluster Analysis Using Marxan
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This manual describes how to use cluster anlaysis with R to analyze Marxan solutions.
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Marxan Training Resources
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Marxan User Manuals
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Conservation in the face of climate change: The roles of alternative models, monitoring, and adaptation in confronting and reducing uncertainty
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The broad physical and biological principles behind climate change and its potential large scale ecological impacts on biota are fairly well understood, although likely responses of biotic communities at fine spatio-temporal scales are not, limiting the ability of conservation programs to respond effectively to climate change outside the range of human experience. Much of the climate debate has focused on attempts to resolve key uncertainties in a hypothesis-testing framework. However, conservation decisions cannot await resolution of these scientific issues and instead must proceed in the face of uncertainty. We suggest that conservation should precede in an adaptive management framework, in which decisions are guided by predictions under multiple, plausible hypotheses about climate impacts. Under this plan, monitoring is used to evaluate the response of the system to climate drivers, and management actions (perhaps experimental) are used to confront testable predictions with data, in turn providing feedback for future decision making. We illustrate these principles with the problem of mitigating the effects of climate change on terrestrial bird communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA.
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