CONTRIBUTORS

This web section is a product of a Conservation Network Design workshop that Defenders of Wildlife hosted in spring 2003. Click here to view a list of workshop participants who contributed to the concepts of the web section in varying capacities.

SOFTWARE AND DATA SOURCES

California Digital Conservation Atlas (An online tool that includes data from a variety of local, state, and national sources, and allows users to mix and match those layers of information at different scales for creating custom maps in California.)

Community Viz Decision Support Software (Useful at local scales.)

Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) (A tool to assess the water quality impacts of land use change. It assists in the evaluation of potential effects of land use change and to identify the best location of a particular land use so as to have minimum impact on a community's natural environment. Useful at the local scale.)

Natureserve's Accessing Biodiversity Information page

NatureServe's Decision-Support System Software
(aids with integrating biodiversity information into land use planning at regional-to-local scales)

Sites
(A customized ArcView software tool that facilitates design and analysis of conservation networks. The Nature Conservancy has used Sites in the development of some their ecoregional plans. Useful at broad scales.)


PRINT RESOURCES

Beach, D. 2002. Coastal Sprawl: The Effects of Urban Design on Aquatic Ecosystems in the United States. Pew Oceans Commission, Arlington, Virginia.

Benedict, M.A. and E.T. McMahon. 2002. Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century. Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse Monograph Series. Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse, Washington D.C.

Bennett. A.F. 1998. Linkages in the Landscape: The Role of Corridors and Connectivity in Wildlife Conservation. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Carr, M.H., G. Lewis, and P.D. Zwick. 2003. Identification of Environmentally Sensitive Lands in Clay, Duval, Putnum, and St. Johns Counties, Florida Using Geographic Information Systems. Defenders of Wildlife, St. Petersburg, FL.

Cox, J., R. Kautz, M. MacLaughlin, and T. Gilbert. 1994. Closing the Gaps in Florida's Wildlife Habitat Conservation System: Recommendations to meet minimum conservation goals for declining wildlife species and rare plant and animal communities. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL.

Cox, J.A. and R.S. Kautz. 2000. Habitat and Conservation Needs of Rare and Imperiled Wildlife in Florida. Technical Report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, FL.

Defenders of Wildlife. 1998. Oregon's Living Landscape: Strategies and opportunities to conserve biodiversity. Lake Oswego, OR.

Dramstad, W.E, J.D. Olson, and R.T.T. Forman. 1996. Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning. Island Press, Washington D.C.

Ecological Society of America's Committee on Land Use. 2000. Ecological Principles for Managing Land Use. Ecological Society of America, Washington, DC.

Forman, R.T.T. 1995. Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Groves, C.R. 2003. Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for Biodiversity. Island Press, Washington D.C.

Groves, C.R., D.B. Jensen, L.L. Valutis, K.H. Redford, M.L. Shaffer, J.M. Scott, J.V. Baumgartner, J.V. Higgins, M.W. Beck, and M.G. Anderson. 2002. Planning for Biodiversity Conservation: Putting Conservation Science into Practice. BioScience 52 (6): 499-512.

Gutzwiller, K.G., editor. 2002. Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer, New York, NY.

Hoctor, T.S., M.H. Carr, P.D. Zwick. 2000. Identifying a Linked Reserve System Using a Regional Landscape Approach: The Florida Ecological Network. Conservation Biology 14 (4): 984-1000.

Kautz, R. S. and J. A. Cox. 2001. Strategic Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation in Florida. Conservation Biology 15: 55-77

Kennedy, C., J. Wilkinson, and J. Balch. 2003. Conservation Thresholds for Land Use Planners. Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. 2001. BioMap: Guiding land conservation for biodiversity in Massachusetts. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.

Niles, L.N., J. Tash, M. Valent, and J. Myers. 2001. New Jersey's Landscape Project: Wildlife habitat mapping for community land-use planning and endangered species conservation (pdf). New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Trenton, NJ.


WEB RESOURCES

Biodiversity Partnership

Florida Closing the Gaps publications

Florida Ecological Network Project

Green Infrastructure

Maryland's Green Infrastructure

Massachusetts BioMap

Metro
Technical Report for Goal 5
Fish and Wildlife Habitat maps

The Nature Conservancy's Conservation By Design

Natureserve

New Jersey Landscape Project

Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan

Southeast Ecological Framework Project

Wildlands Project


CONSULTANTS

Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Inc.

Community Viz
(utilizes decision support software and visualization tools to provide GIS decision support for planning and resource management)

Natureserve
(provides support for their Decision-Support System Software)

University of Florida GeoPlan Center