Data from: A national geographic framework for guiding conservation on a landscape scale

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, along with the global conservation community, has recognized that the conservation challenges of the 21st century far exceed the responsibilities and footprint of any individual agency or program. The ecological effects of climate change and other anthropogenic stressors do not recognize geopolitical boundaries and, as such, demand a national geographic framework to provide structure for cross-jurisdictional and landscape-scale conservation strategies. In 2009, a new map of ecologically based conservation regions in which to organize capacity and implement strategic habitat conservation was developed using rapid prototyping and expert elicitation by an interagency team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey scientists and conservation professionals. Incorporating Bird Conservation Regions, Freshwater Ecoregions, and U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic unit codes, the new geographic framework provides a spatial template for building conservation capacity and focusing biological planning and conservation design efforts. The Department of Interior's Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are being organized in these new conservation regions as multi-stakeholder collaborations for improved conservation science and management.

美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service）与全球保护界均已意识到，21世纪的保护挑战早已远超任何单个机构或项目所能承担的职责与覆盖范围。气候变化与其他人为胁迫因子的生态影响不受地缘政治边界限制，因此亟需一套国家级地理框架，为跨辖区、景观尺度的保护战略提供架构支撑。2009年，由美国鱼类及野生动物管理局与美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey）的跨部门科学家及保护专业人员组成的团队，采用快速原型开发与专家征询（expert elicitation）方法，绘制了一套基于生态特征的保护区域地图，用于统筹保护能力建设并落实战略性栖息地保护工作。该新地理框架整合了鸟类保护区域（Bird Conservation Regions）、淡水生态区（Freshwater Ecoregions）以及美国地质调查局水文单元编码，可为保护能力建设、聚焦生物规划与保护设计工作提供空间模板。美国内政部（Department of the Interior）下属的景观保护合作组（Landscape Conservation Cooperatives）正依托这些全新的保护区域组建，以多利益相关方协作模式推动保护科学与管理工作提质增效。