Midwest Terrestrial Habitat System [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] Full Details
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- Title:
- Midwest Terrestrial Habitat System [U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]
- Description:
- In recognition of the need for landscape-scale planning to address the conservation challenges of the Midwestern United States, the Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies passed a resolution endorsing the Midwest Landscape Initiative, a collaborative that identifies shared conservation priorities and develops solutions for healthy, functioning ecosystems in the Midwest (MAFWA 2019). To address these goals the Midwest Landscape Initiative identified an opportunity to create a regional terrestrial habitat system that could provide consistent and structured description of natural and cultural habitats across the region. The regional habitat data aids partners by providing a common lexicon through which conservation planning for priority habitats can be communicated and coordinated across states and geographies.The Midwest Terrestrial Habitat System (MWTHS) represents the distribution of a hierarchical classification of natural and cultural vegetation and landcover types. The MWTHS is derived from data that was initially modeled by LANDFIRE Consortium using AI methods and remote sensing to predict ecological systems (LANDFIRE 2016). NatureServe then cross walked the natural systems to the National Vegetation Classification (NVC) while also making additional spatial improvements to the current version (0.92) of the map (NatureServe, unpublished data). The MWTHS currently uses NatureServe's v0.92 map but, also includes the cultural habitats, originally specified by LANDFIRE. Three levels of the NVC classification are identified in the MWTHS: at the finest levels are NVC groups, then macrogroups, and finally divisions. Additionally, the MWTHS also incorporates current coordination between NatureServe and Midwestern states to cross walk NVC groups with each state's heritage vegetation classes (note: Kansas uses NVC classifications as their state heritage system, so Kansas did not require a cross walk and is not included as a separate column in the raster attribute table). Therefore, for each mapped group in the MWTHS viewers can explore the state heritage vegetation classes that overlap and vice versa.To download this data with full metadata,click here to navigate to ScienceBase.
- Creator:
- {'name': 'Department of the Interior'}
- Provider:
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open Data
- Resource Class:
- Imagery and Web services
- Resource Type:
- Raster data
- Temporal Coverage:
- Last modified 2024-06-06
- Date Issued:
- 2024-06-04
- Place:
- Rights:
- The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. While the Service makes every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data provided for distribution, it may not have the necessary accuracy or completeness required for every possible intended use. The Service recommends that data users consult the associated metadata record to understand the quality and possible limitations of the data. The Service creates metadata records in accordance with the standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee.As a result of the above considerations, the Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of the data. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the Service, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This applies to the use of the data both alone and in aggregate with other data and information.
- Access Rights:
- Public
- Format:
- Imagery
- Language:
- English
- Date Added:
- 2024-06-13