Idaho Mammal Hyperdistribution and Richness by Hexagon

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Landscape Dynamics Lab

Publication_Date: 20010101

Title: Idaho Mammal Hyperdistribution and Richness by Hexagon

Edition: Version 1.0

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Moscow, ID

Publisher: Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Online_Linkage: <http://www.wildlife.uidaho.edu/idgap.htm>

Description:

Abstract:

The Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit's Landscape Dynamics Lab created hyperdistribution grids and calculated species richness using wildlife habitat relationship (whr) models for 317 (amphibians = 13, birds = 193, mammals = 90, reptiles = 21) native, non-anthropogenic (species not adapted to human landscapes) vertebrates in Idaho. Measures of species richness are simple, straight- forward assessments of the diversity of wildlife within a given area. Although species richness does not account for species composition and the accuracy of richness measures have many inherent shortcomings, the hyperdistribution grids created for the IDGAP project are useful for characterizing regional biological diversity and for assessing the relative contribution of a proposed area. However, caution is needed in their interpretation. Please refer to the final Idaho GAP report.

Purpose:

These data were developed for the Idaho Gap Analysis Project. They comply to minimum standards of the Gap Analysis Program of the Biological Resources Division, US Geological Survey as of January 1, 1999. These data are intended to aid in state level assessment of natural resources and are not intended for use at a scale greater than 1:100,000.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20010101

Currentness_Reference: Current as of publication date of each source

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned

Spatial_Domain:

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.8213021

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -110.59569566

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.13585278

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.69658246

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: Vertebrate Species Distributions

Theme_Keyword: Predicted Habitat

Theme_Keyword: Biodiversity

Theme_Keyword: Conservation

Theme_Keyword: Mammals

Theme_Keyword: American badger

Theme_Keyword: American beaver

Theme_Keyword: American black bear

Theme_Keyword: American marten

Theme_Keyword: American mink

Theme_Keyword: American pika

Theme_Keyword: Belding's ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Big brown bat

Theme_Keyword: Bighorn sheep

Theme_Keyword: Bobcat

Theme_Keyword: Bushy-tailed woodrat

Theme_Keyword: California myotis

Theme_Keyword: Canada lynx

Theme_Keyword: Canyon mouse

Theme_Keyword: Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat

Theme_Keyword: Cinereus (masked) shrew

Theme_Keyword: Cliff chipmunk

Theme_Keyword: Coast mole

Theme_Keyword: Dark kangaroo mouse

Theme_Keyword: Desert woodrat

Theme_Keyword: Dwarf shrew

Theme_Keyword: Elk

Theme_Keyword: Ermine

Theme_Keyword: Fisher

Theme_Keyword: Fringed myotis

Theme_Keyword: Golden-mantled ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Gray wolf

Theme_Keyword: Great basin pocket mouse

Theme_Keyword: Grizzly bear

Theme_Keyword: Hoary bat

Theme_Keyword: Hoary marmot

Theme_Keyword: Idaho ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Idaho pocket gopher

Theme_Keyword: Least chipmunk

Theme_Keyword: Little pocket mouse

Theme_Keyword: Long-eared myotis

Theme_Keyword: Long-legged myotis

Theme_Keyword: Long-tailed vole

Theme_Keyword: Long-tailed weasel

Theme_Keyword: Meadow vole

Theme_Keyword: Merriam's shrew

Theme_Keyword: Montane (dusky) shrew

Theme_Keyword: Moose

Theme_Keyword: Mountain goat

Theme_Keyword: Mountain lion

Theme_Keyword: Mule deer

Theme_Keyword: Muskrat

Theme_Keyword: Northern bog lemming

Theme_Keyword: Northern flying squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Northern grasshopper mouse

Theme_Keyword: Northern pocket gopher

Theme_Keyword: Northern river otter

Theme_Keyword: Nuttall's (mountain) cottontail

Theme_Keyword: Ord's kangaroo rat

Theme_Keyword: Pallid bat

Theme_Keyword: Pinyon mouse

Theme_Keyword: Piute ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Prebles shrew

Theme_Keyword: Pronghorn

Theme_Keyword: Pygmy rabbit

Theme_Keyword: Pygmy shrew

Theme_Keyword: Red squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Red-tailed chipmunk

Theme_Keyword: Rock squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Sagebrush vole

Theme_Keyword: Silver-haired bat

Theme_Keyword: Snowshoe hare

Theme_Keyword: Southern red-backed vole

Theme_Keyword: Spotted bat

Theme_Keyword: Townsend's big-eared bat

Theme_Keyword: Townsend's pocket gopher

Theme_Keyword: Uinta chipmunk

Theme_Keyword: Uinta ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Vagrant shrew

Theme_Keyword: Water shrew

Theme_Keyword: Water vole

Theme_Keyword: Western harvest mouse

Theme_Keyword: Western heather vole

Theme_Keyword: Western jumping mouse

Theme_Keyword: Western pipistrelle

Theme_Keyword: Western small-footed myotis

Theme_Keyword: Western spotted skunk

Theme_Keyword: White-tailed antelope squirrel

Theme_Keyword: White-tailed jack rabbit

Theme_Keyword: Wolverine

Theme_Keyword: Woodland caribou

Theme_Keyword: Wyoming ground squirrel

Theme_Keyword: Yellow-bellied marmot

Theme_Keyword: Yellow-pine chipmunk

Theme_Keyword: Yuma myotis

Theme_Keyword: Alces alces

Theme_Keyword: Ammospermophilus leucurus

Theme_Keyword: Antilocapra americana

Theme_Keyword: Antrozous pallidus

Theme_Keyword: Brachylagus idahoensis

Theme_Keyword: Canis lupus

Theme_Keyword: Castor canadensis

Theme_Keyword: Cervus elaphus

Theme_Keyword: Clethrionomys gapperi

Theme_Keyword: Corynorhinus townsendii

Theme_Keyword: Dipodomys microps

Theme_Keyword: Dipodomys ordii

Theme_Keyword: Eptesicus fuscus

Theme_Keyword: Euderma maculatum

Theme_Keyword: Glaucomys sabrinus

Theme_Keyword: Gulo gulo

Theme_Keyword: Lasionycteris noctivagans

Theme_Keyword: Lasiurus cinereus

Theme_Keyword: Lemmiscus curtatus

Theme_Keyword: Lepus americanus

Theme_Keyword: Lepus townsendii

Theme_Keyword: Lontra canadensis

Theme_Keyword: Lynx canadensis

Theme_Keyword: Lynx rufus

Theme_Keyword: Marmota caligata

Theme_Keyword: Marmota flaviventris

Theme_Keyword: Martes americana

Theme_Keyword: Martes pennanti

Theme_Keyword: Microdipodops megacephalus

Theme_Keyword: Microtus longicaudus

Theme_Keyword: Microtus pennsylvanicus

Theme_Keyword: Microtus richardsoni

Theme_Keyword: Mustela erminea

Theme_Keyword: Mustela frenata

Theme_Keyword: Mustela vison

Theme_Keyword: Myotis californicus

Theme_Keyword: Myotis ciliolabrum

Theme_Keyword: Myotis evotis

Theme_Keyword: Myotis thysanodes

Theme_Keyword: Myotis volans

Theme_Keyword: Myotis yumanensis

Theme_Keyword: Neotoma cinerea

Theme_Keyword: Neotoma lepida

Theme_Keyword: Ochotona princeps

Theme_Keyword: Odocoileus hemionus

Theme_Keyword: Ondatra zibethicus

Theme_Keyword: Onychomys leucogaster

Theme_Keyword: Oreamnos americanus

Theme_Keyword: Ovis canadensis

Theme_Keyword: Perognathus longimembris

Theme_Keyword: Perognathus parvus

Theme_Keyword: Peromyscus crinitus

Theme_Keyword: Peromyscus truei

Theme_Keyword: Phenacomys intermedius

Theme_Keyword: Pipistrellus hesperus

Theme_Keyword: Puma concolor

Theme_Keyword: Rangifer tarandus

Theme_Keyword: Reithrodontomys megalotis

Theme_Keyword: Scapanus orarius

Theme_Keyword: Sorex cinereus

Theme_Keyword: Sorex hoyi

Theme_Keyword: Sorex merriami

Theme_Keyword: Sorex monticolus

Theme_Keyword: Sorex nanus

Theme_Keyword: Sorex palustris

Theme_Keyword: Sorex preblei

Theme_Keyword: Sorex vagrans

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus armatus

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus beldingi

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus brunneus

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus elegans

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus lateralis

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus mollis

Theme_Keyword: Spermophilus variegatus

Theme_Keyword: Spilogale gracilis

Theme_Keyword: Sylvilagus nuttallii

Theme_Keyword: Synaptomys borealis

Theme_Keyword: Tamias amoenus

Theme_Keyword: Tamias dorsalis

Theme_Keyword: Tamias minimus

Theme_Keyword: Tamias ruficaudus

Theme_Keyword: Tamias umbrinus

Theme_Keyword: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Theme_Keyword: Taxidea taxus

Theme_Keyword: Thomomys idahoensis

Theme_Keyword: Thomomys talpoides

Theme_Keyword: Thomomys townsendii

Theme_Keyword: Ursus americanus

Theme_Keyword: Ursus arctos

Theme_Keyword: Zapus princeps

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Place_Keyword: Idaho

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: Northwestern United States

Access_Constraints: None

Use_Constraints:

This database in not intended for site-specific analyses. Interpretations derived from its use are suited for regional and planning purposes only (<1:100,000). Please read the final Idaho GAP report for help in interpreting species richness measures. Acknowledgment of the Landscape Dynamics Lab and the Idaho Gap Analysis Project is appreciated.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Landscape Dynamics Lab

Contact_Person: Leona Svancara

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

City: Moscow

State_or_Province: Idaho

Postal_Code: 83844-4412

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-885-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: leonab@uidaho.edu

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Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Image of species richness.

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Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Measures of species richness can only be as accurate as the WHR models from which they are derived. Of the Idaho GAP WHR models assessed (222 of 379 with more than 10 assessment areas) for accuracy, 93% had greater than 80% correct present. Because errors in WHR models are not randomly distributed across the landscape and because lack of information on a species tends to result in models that overestimate habitat, the species richness of an area can be artifically high. Extreme caution is needed in their interpretation. Please see the final Idaho GAP Analysis Report for more information.

Logical_Consistency_Report: Not applicable for raster data.

Completeness_Report: All cells within Idaho are assigned a richness value.

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Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Landscape Dynamics Lab

Publication_Date: 20010101

Title: Idaho Mammal WHR Models

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Moscow, Idaho

Publisher: Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Source_Scale_Denominator: 100000

Type_of_Source_Media: Wildlife Habitat Relationship Model

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Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20010101

Source_Currentness_Reference: Current as of publication date.

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Source_Contribution: Individual species models

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Compiled a list of native, non-anthropgenic vertebrates known to regularly breed in Idaho.

Process_Date: 20010101

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Created a hypergrid of the 30m wildlife habitat relationship models based on hexagons using an ArcInfo AML (hyperzone_v2.aml) written by Jason Karl & Leona Svancara of the Landscape Dynamics Lab.

Process_Date: 20020301

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Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The hypergrids were constructed from WHR models for the native, non-anthropogenic species in each taxon. Each species included is listed as a separate attribute using the TNC element code with the value of 1 indicating presence and 0 indicating absence. The last item, richness, is the sum of all species predicted to occur in that hexagon. See the Idaho GAP Modeling database and the final Idaho GAP report for informtion on each species and interpretation of richness.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

Idaho Gap Analysis Final Report. Landscape Dynamics Lab, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

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Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: Landscape Dynamics Lab

Contact_Person: Leona Svancara

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

City: Moscow

State_or_Province: Idaho

Postal_Code: 83844-4412

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-885-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: leonab@uidaho.edu

Distribution_Liability:

Not to be used at scales greater than 1:100,000. Not to be used for navigational purposes.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Ree Brannon

Contact_Organization: National GAP Analysis Program

Contact_Position: Senior GIS Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 530 S. Asbury St., Suite 1

City: Moscow

State_or_Province: ID

Postal_Code: 83843

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-885-3720

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 208-885-3618

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: abrannon@uidaho.edu

Hours_of_Service: 8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday

Distribution_Liability:

Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the US Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The US Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.

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