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The 10th Annual National Gap Analysis Program Meeting will be
held August 13-17, 2000, in San Antonio, Texas. It will be hosted
by the Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the
Natural Science Research Laboratory at Texas Tech University. The
focus of this year’s meeting is looking back on the first 10 years of
GAP and forward to the next 10 years. Special emphasis at this
meeting is also placed on biological informatics and the Mexican
component of GAP. Concurrent sessions and workshops will cover
vegetation mapping, predicting species distributions, mapping con-
servation lands, accuracy assessments, conducting gap analyses,
building partnerships, interactive social science, and outreach.
The meeting is open to GAP investigators, their staff, project col-
laborators, and others interested in GAP methods and results. Ad-
ditional information on the conference can be found on the GAP
home page at http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Meetings/2000 or by con-
tacting Becky Sorbel at (208) 885-3555 or gap@uidaho.edu.
Elisabeth Brackney
National Gap Analysis Program, Moscow, Idaho
Bain, M.B., A.L. Harig, D.P. Loucks, R.R. Goforth, and K.E. Mills.
1999. Criteria for aquatic ecosystem protection and restora-
tion: Approaches using biological and physicochemical struc-
ture. Proceedings of the Conference on Power Generation Im-
pacts on Aquatic Resources, U.S. Department of Energy and
the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, 10
pp.
Bain, M.B. Spatial and temporal attributes of streams and fish
limiting the prediction accuracy of species-habitat models. For
Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and
Accuracy. Island Press, Washington, DC. Submitted July 1999.
Bain, M.B., A.L. Harig, D.P. Loucks, R.R. Goforth, and K.E. Mills.
In review. Criteria for aquatic ecosystem protection and resto-
ration: Approaches using biological and physicochemical struc-
ture.
Journal of Environmental Science and Policy
.
Boone, R.B., and W.B. Krohn. 1999. Modeling the occurrence of
bird species: Are the errors predictable?
Ecological Applica-
tions
9:835-848.
Boone, R.B., and W.B. Krohn. 2000. Predicting broad-scale oc-
currences of vertebrates in patchy landscapes.
Landscape Ecol-
ogy
15:63-74.
Crist, P.J., T.W. Kohley, and J. Oakleaf. 2000. Assessing land-use
impacts on biodiversity using an expert systems tool.
Land-
scape Ecology
15:47-62.
Deitner, R.A., B.C. Thompson, and J.S. Prior-Magee. 1999. As-
sessing inter-project data compatibility and information distri-
bution for conservation planning using New Mexico Gap Analy-
sis data. New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
Unit, Las Cruces, New Mexico. 25 pages + Appendices A-G.
Groves, C.R., L.S. Kutner, D.M. Stoms, M.P. Murray, J.M. Scott,
M. Schafale, A.S. Weakley, and R.L. Pressey. 2000. Owning
up to our responsibilities: Who owns lands important for
biodiversity? Pages 275-297 in B.A. Stein, L.S. Kutner, and
J.S. Adams, editors. Precious heritage: The status of biodiversity
in the United States. Oxford University Press, New York.
Hepinstall, J.A., S.A. Sader, W.B. Krohn, R.B. Boone, and R.I.
Bartlett. 1999. Development and testing of a vegetation and
land cover map of Maine. Technical Bulletin 173. Maine Agri-
cultural and Forest Experiment Station, University of Maine,
Orono, Maine. 104 pp.
Jennings, M.D. 2000. Gap analysis: Concepts, methods, and re-
cent results.
Landscape Ecology
15:5-20.
Karl, J.W., N.M. Wright, P.J. Heglund, and J. M. Scott. 1999.
Obtaining environmental measures to facilitate vertebrate habi-
tat modeling.
Wildlife Society Bulletin
27:357-365.
Krohn, W.B., R.B. Boone, and S L. Painton. 1999. Quantitative
delineation and characterization of hierarchical biophysical re-
gions of Maine.
Northeastern Naturalist
6:139-164.
Loucks, D.P, M.B. Bain, and R.J. Pendall. Socioeconomic, physi-
cal, and ecological processes in watersheds characterized by
sprawl development, limited water, and quality impairment:
Research needs, approaches, and opportunities. Natural Re-
sources Forum. Submitted June 1999.
Meixler, M.S., and M.B. Bain. 1999. Application of Gap Analy-
sis to New York State waters. Final project report by the New
York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, to the U.S. Geological Survey,
Gap Analysis Program.
Meixler, M.S., and M.B. Bain. Accuracy of a GIS model that inte-
grates fish species and stream habitat at the river basin scale.
For Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale
and Accuracy. Island Press, Washington, DC. Submitted July
1999.
Scott, J.M. 1999. A representative biological reserve system for
the United States?
Society for Conservation Biology Newslet-
ter
6(2):1, 9.
Scott, J.M. 1999. Vulnerability of forested ecosystems in the Pa-
cific Northwest to loss of area. Pages 33-42 in J.A. Rochelle,
L.A. Lehmann, and J. Wisniewski, editors. Forest fragmenta-
tion: Wildlife and management implications. Brill, Leiden, The
Netherlands.
Scott, J.M., B. Csuti, R.G. Wright, P.J. Crist, and M.D. Jennings.
1999. Regional approaches to managing and conserving
biodiversity. Pages 55-70 in R.K. Baydack, H. Campa III, and
J. B. Haufler, editors. Practical approaches to the conservation
of biological diversity. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 313 pp.
Scott, J.M., F.W. Davis, G. McGhie, R.G. Wright, C. Groves, and
J. Estes. Nature reserves: Do they capture the full range of
America’s biological diversity?
Ecological Applications
. Ac-
cepted.
Scott, J.M., E.A. Norse, H. Arita, A. Dobson, J.A. Estes, M. Fos-
ter, B. Gilbert, D.B. Jensen, R.L. Knight, D. Mattson, and M.E.
Soule. 1999. The issue of scale in selecting and designing bio-
logical reserves. Pages 19-35 in M.E. Soulé and J. Terborgh,
editors. Continental conservation: Scientific foundations of re-
gional reserve networks. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 227
pages.
Stevenson, M. 1999. A different look at the land. Planning . July:8.