Wildlife Resource Priorities in the Highlands Region

Clipped from USFWS Northeast Region Areas of Agreement Map, version 2. Composed of 4 conservation designs: Nature's Network, NatureServe's Map of Biodiversity Importance, Esri's Green Infrastructure, The Nature Conservancy's Resilient and Connected Networks. Each layer is coded as a 1, so the number of layers is indicative of how many layers overlap in a given area. The concept is that if multiple analyses indicate an area is important for conservation, then it is likely to have a higher importance than other areas. This approach offers a couple of advantages: it is not necessary to "choose" a single conservation design over others, and it narrows down where the most important areas may be for conservation much further than most other designs, which often identify up to 50% of the landscape as important. Future updates will include a new version of Esri Green Infrastructure and and updated version of the Imperiled Species Cores part of Nature's Network.本数据集裁剪自美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（USFWS）东北地区协议区域地图第二版。该数据集由4类保护规划方案构成：自然网络（Nature's Network）、NatureServe生物多样性重要性地图、Esri绿色基础设施（Esri's Green Infrastructure）以及大自然保护协会（The Nature Conservancy）的韧性连通网络（Resilient and Connected Networks）。每个图层均编码为1，因此图层总数可反映特定区域内重叠的图层总数量。本方案的核心逻辑为：若多项分析均判定某区域具有保护价值，则该区域相较于其他区域，其保护重要性层级更高。该方法具备两大优势：其一，无需在多种保护规划方案中进行偏好性选择；其二，相较于多数仅能将至多50%的陆地景观标记为保护重要区域的现有方案，本方法可更为精准地圈定保护优先级最高的区域。未来的更新版本将包含Esri绿色基础设施的新版数据，以及自然网络（Nature's Network）模块中濒危物种核心区域的更新内容。