Gap Analysis Bulletin Number 7: December 1998
Contents
Director's Corner
Michael Jennings
Features
Decision Support Systems: New Tools for Data Users
Patrick Crist
Refuge-GAP: A GAP Decision Support System for Refuge Planning
Margo Herdendorf and Patrick Crist
Gap Analysis for Ant Species
Craig R. Allen, L. Pearlstine, and D. P. Wojcik
Unprotected At-Risk Plant Communities of the Western U.S.
R. Gerald Wright, J. Michael Scott, Shannon Mann, & Michael Murray
Compositional Groups and Ecological Complexes: A Method for
Alliance Based Vegetation Mapping
Leonard Pearlstine, Alexa McKerrow, Milo Pyne, Steve Williams, and Stacy McNulty
Gap Analysis in Riverine Environments
Scott P. Sowa
Final Report Summary: New York Aquatic GAP Pilot Project
Marcia S. Meixler and Mark B. Bain
Making Gap Analysis Work for New York Waters: A State
Perspective on Aquatic GAP
Mark B. Bain and Marcia S. Meixler
Gap Analysis for Plant Species
Walter Fertig, William A. Reiners, and Ronald L. Hartman
Vegetation Alliance Descriptions of the Western U.S.
Marion Reid and Patrick Comer
Rule-Based Image Interpretation
Alexa J. McKerrow and Steven G. Williams
Applying Gap Analysis to County Land Use Planning in Washington
State
Matt Stevenson
The NatureMapping Program’s First Five Years
Karen Dvornich
Illinois GAP Partners with Conservation 2000
Jocelyn L. Aycrigg, Mark G. Joselyn, Michael R. Jeffords, and Patrick W. Brown
A Partnership Providing Field Data for Gap Analysis: Texas
Tech Museum and Texas GAP
Nick C. Parker, Robert J. Baker, Robert D. Bradley, Clyde Jones, R. Richard Monk,
David J. Schmidly, Raymond W. Sims, and Frank D. Yancey, II
Gap Analysis for Mexico: An Emerging Program
Vincent Burke and Carlos Gonzalez-Rebeles
A Technique for Representing Diminishing Habitat
Occupation: Feathering Predicted Species Distributions Near Range Limits in Maine
Randall B. Boone and William B. Krohn
State Project Reports
Project Status Summary
Notes and Announcements
A Survey of GAP Land Cover
Mapping Protocols
AMLs for Air Video Interpretation
Using GAP for
Nonpoint Water Pollution Management
Enhancing TM with 10-Meter
SPOT in Louisiana
Posters at 1998 Annual GAP Meeting
Next Annual National GAP Meeting
Annual Southeast Regional GAP
Meeting
Symposium on
Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences
Team Award Goes to New Mexico-GAP
The Gap Analysis Bulletin is published annually by the USGS Biological
Resources Division’s Gap Analysis Program. The editors are Elisabeth S. Brackney and
Michael D. Jennings. To receive the bulletin, write to: Gap Analysis Bulletin,
USGS/BRD/Gap Analysis Program, 530 S. Asbury Street, Suite 1, Moscow, ID 83843, fax: (208)
885-3618, e-mail:
brackney@uidaho.edu.
Suggested citation: Brackney, E.S., and M.D. Jennings, editors. 1998. Gap
Analysis Bulletin No. 7. USGS/BRD/Gap Analysis Program, Moscow, Idaho.
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