More than 80 ecosystems in the Amazon Basin of Peru and Bolivia are classified and mapped in this report. The map is the first in Latin America to use the same criteria, scales and field validation to illustrate the natural vegetation across the two countries, and is expected to serve as a model to future vegetation maps in the region.PublicationScientific Report
What are we losing when we fail to regulate wetlands with legally debatable connections to navigable waters? NatureServe researchers offer a new, concrete, and sobering response.PublicationJournal ArticleNational Wetlands Newsletter
Overview and detailed descriptions for nearly 70 conservation sites throughout Nevada, sites that have been identified as harboring significant populations of rare species at highest risk of loss or serious decline without immediate new protection. PublicationScientific Report
This report presents NatureServe's approach to helping establish performance standards for wetlands mitigation using an improved version of our methodology for conducting ecological integrity assessments. In addition to the main report, separate reports are provided with indicators and metrics for assessing each of 18 wetland ecological systems of New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Southeast.PublicationScientific Report
The purpose of this report was to help the National Park Service develop a standing data exchange protocol intended to ensure that data acquired by either NatureServe, the member programs, or the National Park Service NETN is shared. This protocol would ensure that the datasets held by either organization contains the most current available information.PublicationScientific Report
The Bioclim, Doman, GARP and Maxent modeling methods are put to the test across 18 different species, with Maxent emerging as the best for small sample sizes.PublicationJournal ArticleEcography
This first quantitative assessment of bird community change at La Selva drives home the need to more deeply study the mechanisms and consequences of biological diversity change in tropical forest fragments.PublicationJournal ArticleConservation Biology
Long the forgotten river in the Washington D.C. region, the Anacostia River is increasingly the focus of efforts designed to protect and restore the river and its associated watershed.PublicationScientific Report