20090101 vector digital data 20090101 This dataset represents all Strategic Habitat Conservation Areas (SHCA) in Florida for selected focal species, in binary format (true/false). Strategic Habitat Conservation Areas are areas of potential habitat that are not currently managed for conservation of the species. In 1994, researchers in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission completed a project, entitled Closing The Gaps in Florida's Wildlife Habitat Conservation System (Cox et al 1994), assessing the security of rare and imperiled species on existing conservation lands in Florida. These biologists used a variety of species occurrence data, habitat data and a geographic information system (GIS) to determine the protection afforded to focal species on publicly owned lands and identify important habitat areas in Florida with no conservation protection. These areas, known as Strategic Habitat Conservation Areas (SHCA), serve as a foundation for conservation planning in Florida by clearly depicting the crucial need for species protection through habitat conservation. The results of this research have provided biologists, policy-makers, land-use planners and the citizens of Florida the tools and opportunity to help meet our wildlife conservation goals. Over time, the Closing the Gaps report became outdated. Since 1994, landscape-level habitat changes, transfer of land from private to public ownership and changes in land use altered the ability to accurately assess Florida's biodiversity and wildlife conservation status. As a result, Commission biologists and managers recognized the urgent need for a revisiting of Florida's Closing the Gaps project. Advances in technological capabilities, revised habitat data, and more extensive species occurrence data facilitated a reassessment of Florida's biodiversity protection status. Additionally, advances in population viability modeling techniques allowed examination of wildlife habitat needs with a degree and clarity that was not available in the previous report. The results of this project have helped determine how habitat protection needs have changed since 1994 and where protection efforts need to be focused to ensure conservation of Florida's wildlife for future generations. Data are intended to provide landscape-scale guidance to decision makers involved in public land acquisition, land use planning and other land conservation efforts at regional scales. Data were primarily based on medium-scale (30m) land cover data classified from Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery, therefore should be used only at 1:100000 or smaller scales. --Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI). The institute name has not been changed in historical data sets or references to work completed by the Florida Marine Research Institute. The institute name has been changed in references to ongoing research, new research, and contact information.-- 20030401 ground condition Complete None planned -87.638589 -79.889451 31.042598 24.510729 FWCtheme land use/ land cover habitat mapping wildlife GIS ISO 19115 Topic Category Geoscientific Information Wildlife distribution habitat FWCplace Statewide Florida Available without restriction. All data must be verified by Principal Investigator or Group Database Analyst prior to release. It is strongly recommended that this data is directly acquired from FWC and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. FWC makes no claims as to the data's suitability for other purposes. Acknowledgement of the FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) as the data source would be appreciated in any products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices for data source is expected by users of this data. Please cite the original metadata when using portions of the record to create a similar record of slightly altered data, such as reprojection. If any data are modified or adjusted, please share the edited information with FWC. Users should be aware that comparison with other data sets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in mapping conventions, data collection, and computer processes over time. FWC shall not be liable for improper or incorrect use of this data. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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St. Petersburg Florida 33701 US 727-896-8626 727-893-1679 GISLibrarian@MyFWC.com 8:00-5:00 Eastern time Endries et al. 2009 FWRI-DC Available without restriction Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000 Potenrial habitats were delineated based on land cover, soils, proximity to known locations, distance from certain features (e.g., roads, urban areas), and other species-specific spatial features. Potential habitat includes areas that have been occupied by the species and areas where occupancy is unknown based on available occurrence records. Attribute accuracy of SHCA are highly dependent on accuracy of FLMA layer. Logically consistent. All attribute values fall within defined values Visually inspected for completeness to ensure all values fell within speciified ranges and all pixel cells were classified. Data were primarily based on medium-scale (30m) land cover data classified from Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery, therefore should be used only at 1:100000 or smaller scales. Spatial accuracy of SHCA are highly dependent on spatial accuracy of FLMA layer. 20090101 100000 None 20090101 publication date Potential Habitats of [Species Name] in Florida, 2009 Habitats were delineated based on land cover, soils, proximity to known locations, distance from certain features (e.g., roads, urban areas), and other species-specific spatial features. Potential habitat includes areas that have been occupied by the species and areas where occupancy is unknown based on available occurrence records. No quantitative measures for habitat were used in developing the potential-habitat maps. However, for many species, potential habitat exists statewide but their range is limited. We could not restrict the habitat mapping in this way for species lacking known distributions. 20050101 24000 None 20050101 publication date Florida Land Managed Areas Managed-habitat layer that designates protected and unprotected habitat. We took the potential habitat layers created for each focal species and extracted areas not currently managed for conservation of the species. Like potential habitats, SHCA are binary representations (yes|no). A merging of all individual species' SHCA into a single binary grid. 20090101 Converted the composite raster into a vector polygon with script "Convert to polygon" created by Robert Kawula, FWC, 2009. When possible (i.e., when the number of polygons was not too large) used Dissolve Tool in ArcMap to combine all the records representing individual grid cells into one record. 20090901 Vector 0 Grid Cell 24531 24903 1 GIS_Web.FWC.SHCA_2009_poly Value attribute table for the GRID file ESRI Shape.len GRIDCODE Shape.area Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. OBJECTID Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Each pixel contains a cell value of either 1 or 0. Values of 1 indicate potential habitat while 0 values indicate non-habitat FWC_FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute) Records Technician Records Technician mailing and physical

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