Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute unpublished material raster digital data St. Petersburg, Fl Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-Fish and Wildlife Research Institute State of Florida myfwc.com Priority Wetlands 2012 updates the original priority wetlands map produced in 1994, developed by Kautz et al. This raster dataset identifies Florida wetlands important to wetland-dependent vertebrates listed by the State of Florida as endangered, threatened, or species of special concern. The dataset also ranks the relative importance of wetland areas based on species richness of the selected vertebrate species. We selected 33 wetland-dependent species based on the species used to create the original version (see Table 1 in Kautz et al. 1994; also see Entity and Attribute Information section). Changes from the species selected in the 1994 version include removing Bald Eagles (Federal and State delisting) and Dusky Gopher Frogs (extirpated in FL). We also added striped mud turtles (Lower Keys) to the 2012 version. This species was not included in the 1994 version due to insufficient data. Wetland habitats were identified using known occurrence records and vegetative cover derived from the Florida Land Cover image, produced in 2003 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC Land Cover). For the selected suite of species, we used the potential habitats modeled in this and previous efforts to identify used FL wetlands and their adjacent uplands. The potential habitat models are binary rasters of potential habitat | non-habitat with 30- x 30-m resolution. Sometimes, potential-habitat maps were re-sampled to a larger pixel size because the software package had processing limitations on the maximum number of pixels. We calculated species richness to rank the relative importance of the identified wetland areas. After receiving the original grid from FFWCC, GeoPlan executed a reclass on the priority field. This reduced the number of values from 2844 down to 7. To identify Florida wetlands important to the long-term survival of wetland- dependent vertebrates listed as endangered, threatened, or species of special concern in the State of Florida. 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 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. 20120306 publication date Complete As needed -87.639541 -79.812180 31.042869 24.354654 None species richness mapping GIS wetlands None species of special concern threatened habitat endangered None biota ISO 19115 Topic Categories biota FWRIplace Florida Statewide 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. This is not a survey data set and should not be utilized as such. These data are not to be used for navigation. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute GISLibrarian GIS Data Librarian mailing and physical

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