Landscape Partnership Resources Library
Landscape-scale conservation design across biotic realms - sequential integration of aquatic and terrestrial landscapes
Systematic conservation planning has been used extensively throughout the world to identify important areas for maintaining biodiversity and functional ecosystems, and is well suited to address large-scale biodiversity conservation challenges of the twenty-first century. Systematic planning is necessary to bridge implementation, scale, and data gaps in a collaborative effort that recognizes competing land uses. Here, we developed a conservation planning process to identify and unify conservation priorities around the central and southern Appalachian Mountains as part of the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (App LCC). Through a participatory framework and sequential, cross-realm integration in spatial optimization modeling we highlight lands and waters that together achieve joint conservation goals from LCC partners for the least cost. This process was driven by a synthesis of 26 multi-scaled conservation targets and optimized for simultaneous representation inside the program Marxan to account for roughly 25% of the LCC geography. We identify five conservation design elements covering critical ecological processes and patterns including interconnected regions as well as the broad landscapes between them. Elements were then subjected to a cumulative threats index for possible prioritization. The evaluation of these elements supports
Riparian Restoration Decision Support Tool
funded research: USFS, UMass
Stream Classification System for the Appalachians
funded research: TNC-Boston/NE
Stream Impacts from Water Withdrawals in the Marcellus Shale Region
funded research: Cornell University
Classifi cation and Mapping of Cave and Karst Resources
funded research: AmU, USGS, FL State University
Assessing Future Energy Development Across the Appalachian Region
funded research: TNC-VA Chapter
Ecosystem Benefits and Risks
funded research: USFS
Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats to Large-scale Impacts
funded research: NatureServe
Post-Meeting Report: 2017 Tennessee River Basin Network Meeting
August 15-16, 2017 Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, TN Post-Meeting Summary
WKY-TN Site Map
Spreadsheet site map
Meeting Agenda
Find here the agenda for the Sept 26th meeting at Land Between the Lakes.
Training Materials to Download
Please find here a folder to download prior to the meeting.
RPCCR how-to Handout
Find here a document which outlines how to use the RPCCR too. This was developed for the Crossville TWRA workshop in Feb 2017.
Fact Sheet: Assessing Vulnerability of Species and Habitats
New vulnerability assessments for 41 species and 3 habitats in the Appalachians now available.
Fact Sheet: Cave and Karst Resources
Addressing knowledge gaps to better protect unique landforms and their wealth of hidden biodiversity.
Fact Sheet: Stream Classification
Developing consistent region-wide information to ensure enough water for people and wildlife.
