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Quick Start Guide to Core Networks On DataBasin: This document is intended to guide you through accessing the Terrestrial and Aquatic Core Networks, two of the datasets that comprise the Connect the Connecticut gallery of science products on Data Basin.

Cartwright, Jennifer: Dr. Cartwright is an ecologist and GIS analyst with experience in climate-change ecology, soil science, remote sensing, ecological flow analysis, and habitat for rare and endemic plants.

Interactive Conservation Planning: The Appalachian LCC is currently engaged in an effort to develop a draft regional conservation plan for the Cooperative using an interactive and iterative spatial prioritization framework. Using available data and modeling approaches that are well supported in the literature, researchers from Clemson University are developing conservation planning models that include site selection, ecological threat assessments, and broad ranging habitat and ecological connectivity analyses.

Data Needs Assessment: The Data Needs Assessment project was undertaken to evaluate existing data for the Appalachian LCC region, package relevant datasets, review commonly used conservation planning tools, provide interpretive text and graphics for datasets and tools, and identify data gaps that could improve conservation planning in the Appalachians. A suite of core conservation planning products and data from principal investigators at Clemson University are now available to the Cooperative.

Data Needs Assessment: The Data Needs Assessment research project was undertaken to review the variety of resources on conservation planning to provide packages of products, data, and identified data gaps to improve conservation planning in the Appalachian LCC. A suite of core conservation planning products and data from principal investigators at Clemson University are now available to the Cooperative.

Interpretive Text and Graphics for AppLCC Web Portal (data): This document presents map images and text that describes the data that can be posted to the AppLCC web portal. The arrangement follows the layout of the Appalachain Landscape Conservation Cooperative GIS Datasets.

Interpretive Text and Graphics for AppLCC Web Portal (conservation planning tools): We have provided some interpretation material and text for conservation planning tools. These programs have been grouped into broad, sometime overlapping purposes. These brief descriptions of the various conservation planning tools can be put up on the AppLCC web portal, for users to get an idea about the tools available and what purposes they could serve. We have alo provided other links, where users can get detailed information about the tool.

Make up of LCCs across the Country by States: List of number of states within each LCC.

An Analysis of State Wildlife Action Plans in the Appalachian LCC: In this synthesis, we describe how the information contained in the individual State Wildlife Action Plans and conservation plans by other agencies can be linked together towards identifying opportunities to integrate state and local scale efforts into regional conservation framework for the AppLCC. Specifically, our aim was to quantify the objectivity and efforts across the 15 partner states. We are particularly interested in the commonalities of methodology and results across plans. Throughout the document, we integrate our previous efforts in this data needs assessment to figure out ways that state efforts can be upscaled to meet regional planning goals.

List of Conservation Planning Tools, Functions, and Relevance to AppLCC Conservation Planning Goals: The number of conservation planning tools and approaches is a growing and dynamic field of research. Here, we present description and evaluation of 21 conservation planning tools. To reduce the complexity of the conservation planning tools we decided to take a functional-grouping approach. These six groups are: reserve planning, habitat connectivity, species distribution modeling and viability, planning process integration, threats and climate change. To do the review, we used our own knowledge of conservation planning software and approaches, surveyed the literature for references to published programs, and searched the internet for emerging programs. We have condensed this information into a table (Table 1) and used it as a springboard for further exploration and discussion.

Appalachian LCC Data Needs Assessment Final Report: This project was undertaken to evaluate existing datasets for the Appalachian LCC region, package relevant datasets, review of some of the most commonly used conservation planning tools, provide interpretive text and graphics for datasets and tools, and identify data gaps that could improve conservation planning in the Appalachian LCC. Additionally, we reviewed and analyzed State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAP) from 15 states that intersect with the LCC, and corresponded with the SWAP coordinators to get their input on summaries and information on the upcoming 2015 revisions.

Appalachain Landscape Conservation Cooperative GIS Datasets: The Appalachain Landscape Conservation Cooperative Datasets are located in a folder named “AppLCC_USGS_ConicEA_Projection” and each theme has its own folder. Most folders have a layer file for displaying the raster datasets, however if there is more than one raster in the folder, it may be necessary to point the layer to the desired raster each time it is loaded. Also there are a few layer files and one geodataset (NWI) that will only work in ArcGIS 10.x. The layer file with the same name as the raster dataset should work in both ArcGIS 9.x and 10.x. In each case we attempted to download the latest (Spring 2013) revision of the dataset that completely covered the Appalachain LCC.

Interior Low Plateau Climate Change Vulnerability Species Assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois.

Interior Low Plateau subregion climate change vulnerability species assessments: These results are a compilation of climate change vulnerability assessments in the western portion of the LCC, covering the area from Western Kentucky, northeastern Alabama and western Tennessee west to southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Results included are from Bruno et al. (Cumberland Piedmont Network of the National Park Service; and Walk et al. 2011 (illinois). It also includes the results from species assessed as part of the current study (Sneddon et al. 2015).

Species assessments by the Virginia Division of Natural Heritage: This spreadsheet contains the full results of climate change vulnerability assessments conducted in 2010 in Virgiinia.

Protecting southern Appalachian wildlife in an era of climate change: These materials are the results of a project conducted by the Open Space Institute in 2011. They include a project review presentation describing methodology, and species assessment results. The full assessment area, referred to as Research Region, includes most of the Cumberland - Southern Appalachian and portions of the Central Appalachian subregions. A second smaller assessment area, referred to as Research Subregion, is confined to southeastern Tennessee, northeastern Alabama, and northwestern Georgia. Species assessment results are provided in the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) tool as four separate spreadsheets: terrestrial species in Research Region, terrestrial species in Research Subregion, aquatic species in Research Region, and aquatic species in Research Subregion.