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
Targeting conservation actions efficiently requires information on vulnerability of and threats to conservation targets, but such information is rarely included in conservation plans.PublicationJournal ArticleLandscape and Urban Planning
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
A recently published global assessment of the conservation status of goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis, Ranunculaceae) has found that the species is Vulnerable to ExtinctionPublicationJournal ArticleHerbalGram
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
NatureServe and the U.S. Geological Survey organized and hosted a biodiversity and ecological informatics workshop at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. The workshop objective was to identify user-driven future directions and areas of collaboration in advanced applications of environmental data applied to forecasting and decision making for the sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem services.PublicationJournal ArticleU.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
A 2018 study using the Climate Change Vulnerability IndexPublicationScientific ReportClimate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Species in the Ontario Great Basin
Conservation status and threat assessments evaluate species’ relative risks of extinction globally, regionally, nationally, or locally and estimate the degree to which populations of species are already safeguarded in existing conservation systems, with the aim of exposing the critical gaps in current conservation.PublicationJournal ArticleNorth American Crop Wild Relatives: Conservation and Use
New study published in prestigious journalPublicationJournal ArticleSpecies diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas
