To achieve the goal of sustaining healthy diverse, and resilient coastal and marine habitats and living marine species in the Gulf of Mexico, resource managers need a way to take the pulse of this vast ecosystem, to evaluate its health and its ability to provide needed ecosystem services.PublicationScientific ReportNatureServe
The purpose of the EcoVeg classification approach is to describe the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems across the globe and inform decisions about conservation and resource management.PublicationJournal ArticlePhytocoenologia
2017 has been a year of change. As our scientists often say, “change is the new normal.” With each day that passes, the forces of global change—the warming climate, expanding human footprint, and loss of forests, grasslands, shores, and waters—threaten biodiversity and all life that depends on it. PublicationScientific ReportNatureServe Annual Report FY17
A 2018 study using the Climate Change Vulnerability IndexPublicationScientific ReportClimate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Species in the Ontario Great Basin
New study published in prestigious journalPublicationJournal ArticleSpecies diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas
Global variation in species richness is widely recognized, but the explanation for what drives it continues to be debated.PublicationJournal ArticleProceedings of the Royal Society B
NatureServe's strategic plan uses a results-chain framework drawn from the realm of conservation planning and identifies our target results and outcomes, key activities for achieving them, and metrics for tracking our implementation of the planPublicationScientific ReportNatureServe
In support of natural resource agencies in Canada, the USA, and Mexico, we report on a series of component analyses and an updated Landscape Conservation Design for temperate grassland conservation. We targeted twelve major grassland ecosystem types that occur across the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert regions. Component analyses included: a) documenting long-term trends in extent by grassland type, b) identifying species of concern associated with the major grassland types, c) documenting current protected areas including each grassland type, d) assessing landscape intactness and connectivity among grassland areas, and, e) identifying Grassland Potential Conservation Areas to advance grassland conservation. PublicationJournal ArticleNatural Areas Journal
This report provides an update to our 2005 analysis of the conservation status of Canadian plants and animals in a global context, finding that 6.3 percent — 333 species and subspecies — are of global conservation concern. The assessment draws mostly on data from NatureServe and the network of Canadian conservation data centres. PublicationScientific ReportNatureServe Canada
