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Mississippi Alluvial Valley and West Gulf Coastal Plains & Ouachitas BCRs [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]

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Mississippi Alluvial Valley and West Gulf Coastal Plains & Ouachitas BCRs [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
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FOR non-AGOL ACCOUNT HOLDERS, DOWNLOAD THIS GEOSPATIAL DATA HERE:https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/search?tags=lmvjvBird Conservation Regions (BCRs) are geographic designations that have similar land-cover types, bird communities, and resource conservation issues. They are the fundamental biological units through which the NABCI promotes delivery of landscape-scale bird conservation. BCRs provide a consistent spatial framework for evaluation, planning, and in some instances implementation. By employing broad units that are ecologically meaningful to bird populations, conservation efforts can be tailored to support groups of species throughout their range. Land-cover composition, combined with soil characteristics, water chemistry, and wetland hydrology result in functional differences among BCRs that influence distribution and abundance of wetland birds. Understanding these functional differences and trends in key cover types across the JV region is important to making effective conservation decisions.BCRs were created by aggregating CEC level II, III, and IV ecoregions in combinations that reflect current understanding of bird species distribution and life history requirements. The map was presented to and approved by the US NABCI Committee during its November 1999, with the LMVJV last updates occurring in 2010.The Mississippi Alluvial Valley BCR is NABCI BCR 26 and the West Gulf Coastal Plain & Ouachitas is considered to be NABCI BCR 25.Established in 1999, the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) Committee is a coalition of state and federal government agencies, private organizations, and bird initiatives in the United States working to ensure the long-term health of North America's native bird populations. The U.S. NABCI Committee creates a unique forum for federal and state agencies and non-governmental organizations to address shared bird conservation challenges and priorities.
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Department of the Interior
Temporal Coverage
Last modified 2024-09-30
Date Issued
2024-08-15
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Public
Format
File
Language
English
Date Added
August 28, 2025

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    Department of the Interior (2024). Mississippi Alluvial Valley and West Gulf Coastal Plains & Ouachitas BCRs [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]. . https://gis-fws.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/fws::mississippi-alluvial-valley-and-west-gulf-coastal-plains-ouachitas-bcrs (web service)
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