This report classifies and maps the natural vegetation of Voyageurs National Park --which contains 54,243 hectares of terrestrial, sub-boreal habitat -- using the USNVC, with ‘alliance’ and ‘association’ as base units. PublicationScientific ReportApplied Vegetation Science
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
This 2007 report describes a pilot study to classify and map South Florida’s coastal and marine habitats using the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS). 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
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
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
Seventeen years ago, the Monteverde harlequin frog and the golden toad vanished from the mountains of Costa Rica. This article traces those and other extinctions to a fungal outbreak spurred by global warming.PublicationJournal ArticleNature
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
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
