[Taxacom] documented use of occurrence data
Weakley, Alan
weakley at bio.unc.edu
Mon Jan 28 14:20:27 CST 2013
2013
As further corrobratioin of John Shuey's post, as a Trustee of the North Carolina Trust Fund (a state government-funded entity), I can state that we have dispersed > $300,000,000 over the past 30 years for conservation of lands, largely based on species "occurrences".
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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of John Shuey
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Go to - http://east.tnc.org/reports/all_assessments. You will find many such assessments that have shaped conservation policies and strategies across major portions of the globe. Reports range from "Alaska - Coastal Forests and Mountains Ecoregion Assessment and Resource Synthesis" to "Yunnan Great Rivers Project Conservation Assessment" and many between!
Note that only North American assessments dwell on species occurrence data, and the majority of that data are derived from NatureServe's database. Species-level occurrences only work well for planning if you have fairly consistent data across a geographic unit drawn from representative taxa. That is what NatureServe specializes in relative to "imperiled" species. Note that if you go to the NatureServe web site, most of the data you access is a distillation of the data available to subscribers and member organizations.
Here are three data lines from our GIS that show the data fields NatureServe supports for GIS. (sorry for the crappy paste job - but plain text doesn't support database entries. There are three occurrences here, the data are broken into three pastes to accommodate primitive email! Note some data fields are empty)
OBJECTID EO_ID ELCODE SNAME SCOMNAME NAME_CATEG EONUM GRANK SRANK SPROT LASTOBS EORANK USESA LONGDEC LATDEC
857 9082 AMAJF04010 Taxidea taxus American BadgeVertebrate Animal 279 G5 S2 SSC 3/28/1999 -85.319396 41.5111
3850 10726 PMLIL28032 Zigadenus elegans var. glaucus White Camas Vascular Plant 22 G5T4T5 S2 SR 8/3/1986 BC -85.327697 41.5065
5672 9008 PMLIL1Y035 Tofieldia glutinosa False Asphodel Vascular Plant 4 G4G5 S2 SR 6/3/1986 BC -85.330497 41.5046
ACRES PRECISION_ SOURCE REGIONAL SITENAME MISCCOMMEN WATERSHED COUNTY_NAM MANAGED_AR NRCODE_CD QUADNAME
0 M BOB AND KELLY KELLEY NE 4050001 Noble 4 Wolcottville
0 S LEE CASEBERE NE
0 S LEE CASEBERE NE NEEDHAM LAKE SITE 4050001 Noble SWAMP ANGEL NATURE PRESERVE 4 Wolcottville
SURVEY_SIT TRS TYPE Shape_Length Shape_Area
035N010E 12 Mammal 5049.498709 2023868.34
035N010E 11 SEQ NEQ Vascular Plant 627.52136 31256.67328
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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Shorthouse, David
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 2:06 PM
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Folks,
A colleague and I are hunting for documented examples of occurrence data whose release/accessibility/analysis has resulted in new government policy, conservation or otherwise. What I'm trying to do is illustrate to the uninitiated that use/reuse of occurrence data has an effect on government policy makers. If there are no examples, well then, I guess that's just as telling...
Links to reprints and policies most welcome,
David P. Shorthouse
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