Florida Mammal Species Distributions and Species Richness

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Florida GAP
Publication_Date: May 2000
Title: Florida Animal Species Distributions and Species Richness
Edition: Version 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Gainesville, Florida
Publisher: Florida GAP
Online_Linkage: <http://janzen.wec.ufl.edu/gap/>
Description:
Abstract:
All species range maps are predictions about the occurrence of those species within a particular area. Traditionally, the predicted occurrences of most species begin with samples from collections made at individual point locations. Most species range maps are small-scale (e.g., >1:10,000,000) and derived primarily from point data to construct field guides.
Purpose:
The purpose of the GAP species maps is to provide more precise information about the current predicted distribution of individual native species within their general ranges.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: unknown
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -88.323205
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -79.851601
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.606566
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 24.307619
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: mammals Distribution
Theme_Keyword: species
Theme_Keyword: range
Theme_Keyword: mammals
Theme_Keyword: Jamaican fruit-eating bat
Theme_Keyword: Southern short tailed shrew
Theme_Keyword: American beaver
Theme_Keyword: domestic dog
Theme_Keyword: coyote
Theme_Keyword: sambar deer
Theme_Keyword: least shrew
Theme_Keyword: nine-band armadillo
Theme_Keyword: virginia oppossum
Theme_Keyword: big brown bat
Theme_Keyword: mastiff bat
Theme_Keyword: domestic cat
Theme_Keyword: panther
Theme_Keyword: bobcat
Theme_Keyword: southeast pocket gopher
Theme_Keyword: southern flying squirrel
Theme_Keyword: eastern red bat
Theme_Keyword: Northern yellow bat
Theme_Keyword: seminole bat
Theme_Keyword: black-tailed jackrabbit
Theme_Keyword: northern river otter
Theme_Keyword: rhesus monkey
Theme_Keyword: striped skunk
Theme_Keyword: Meadow vole
Theme_Keyword: pine vole
Theme_Keyword: common ho
Theme_Keyword: long-tailed weasal
Theme_Keyword: house mouse
Theme_Keyword: mink
Theme_Keyword: southeastern myotis
Theme_Keyword: nutria
Theme_Keyword: round-tailed muskrat
Theme_Keyword: eastern woodrat
Theme_Keyword: evening bat
Theme_Keyword: golden mouse
Theme_Keyword: white-tailed deer
Theme_Keyword: silver rice rat
Theme_Keyword: marsh rice rat
Theme_Keyword: cotton mouse
Theme_Keyword: oldfield mouse
Theme_Keyword: eastern pipistrelle
Theme_Keyword: rafinesque's big-eared bat
Theme_Keyword: Florida mouse
Theme_Keyword: common raccoon
Theme_Keyword: Norway rat
Theme_Keyword: black rat
Theme_Keyword: eastern harvest mouse
Theme_Keyword: eastern mole
Theme_Keyword: red-belli
Theme_Keyword: eastern grey squirrel
Theme_Keyword: hispid cotton rat
Theme_Keyword: hispid cotton rat
Theme_Keyword: southeastern shrew
Theme_Keyword: eastern spotted skunk
Theme_Keyword: wild boar
Theme_Keyword: eastern cottontail
Theme_Keyword: marsh rabbit
Theme_Keyword: Brazilian free-tailed bat
Theme_Keyword: eastern chipmunk
Theme_Keyword: black bear
Theme_Keyword: gray fox
Theme_Keyword: red fox
Theme_Keyword: Artibeus jamaicensis
Theme_Keyword: Blarina carolinensis
Theme_Keyword: Castor canadensis
Theme_Keyword: Canis familiaris
Theme_Keyword: Canis lat
Theme_Keyword: Cervus un
Theme_Keyword: Cryptotis parva
Theme_Keyword: Dasypus novemcinctus
Theme_Keyword: Didelphis virginia
Theme_Keyword: Eptesicus fuscus
Theme_Keyword: Eumops glaucinus
Theme_Keyword: Felis cat
Theme_Keyword: Felis concolor
Theme_Keyword: Lynx rufus
Theme_Keyword: Geomys pinetis
Theme_Keyword: Glaucomys volans
Theme_Keyword: Lasiurus borealis
Theme_Keyword: Lasiurus intermedius
Theme_Keyword: Lasiurus seminolus
Theme_Keyword: Lepus californicus
Theme_Keyword: Lutra canadensis
Theme_Keyword: Macaca mulatta
Theme_Keyword: Mephitis mephitis
Theme_Keyword: Microtus pennsylvanicus
Theme_Keyword: Microtus pinetorum
Theme_Keyword: Molossus
Theme_Keyword: Mustela frenata
Theme_Keyword: Mus musculus
Theme_Keyword: Mustela vison
Theme_Keyword: Myotis austroriparius
Theme_Keyword: Myocaster
Theme_Keyword: Neofiber alleni
Theme_Keyword: Neotoma floridana
Theme_Keyword: Nycticeius humeralis
Theme_Keyword: Ochrotomy nuttalli
Theme_Keyword: Odocoileus virginianus
Theme_Keyword: Oryzomys palustris natator
Theme_Keyword: Oryzomys palustris
Theme_Keyword: Peromyscus gossypinus
Theme_Keyword: Peromyscus polionotus
Theme_Keyword: Pipistrellus subflavus
Theme_Keyword: Plecotus rafinesquii
Theme_Keyword: Podomys floridanus
Theme_Keyword: Procyon lotor
Theme_Keyword: Rattus norvegicus
Theme_Keyword: Rattus rattus
Theme_Keyword: Reithrodontomys humulis
Theme_Keyword: Scalopus aquaticus
Theme_Keyword: Sciurus a
Theme_Keyword: Sciurus carolinensis
Theme_Keyword: Sciurus niger
Theme_Keyword: Sigmodon hispidus
Theme_Keyword: Sorex longirostris
Theme_Keyword: Spilogale putorius
Theme_Keyword: Sus scrofa
Theme_Keyword: Sylvilagus floridanus
Theme_Keyword: Sylvilagus palustris
Theme_Keyword: Tadaria brasilensis
Theme_Keyword: Tamias striatus
Theme_Keyword: Ursus americanus
Theme_Keyword: Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Theme_Keyword: Vulpes vulpes
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Florida
Place_Keyword: State of Florida
Place_Keyword: Florida Counties
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints: None
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Florida Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Contact_Person: Leonard Pearlstine
Contact_Position: Associate in Systems Ecology
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 117 Newins-Ziegler Hall
Address: PO Box 110450
Address: University of Florida
City: Gainesville
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 32611
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 352-846-0630
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 352-846-0841
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pearlstinel@wec.ufl.edu
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Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Total native species richness
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Data_Set_Credit: Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Native_Data_Set_Environment: UNIX-ARC/INFO
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Refer to the Florida Gap Analysis Project final report
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Tests of Valid Values: sample areas are chosen and traced back to the source data to detect any errors in the used GIS models. No invalid values were found. Results evaluation still in the testing stage.
Completeness_Report: Pending.
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Methodology:
Methodology Type: Lab
Methodology Keyword Thesaurus: None
Methodology Description:
Species ranges were originally delineated at the county-level. We surveyed national museums for records for mammals, and especially for rare endangered species, utilized published range maps. All resulting county-level maps for each species were reviewed by experts of the respective faunas. County-level distribution was converted to a species by county matrix for use as a filter in ARC/INFO prior to incorporation of habitat information.Counties were attributed as either "0", "1".  A value of 0 corresponded to an absence of the species in question in that particular county. Values of 1 corresponds to presence. Animal distribution data for the state of Florida was almost exclusively at the level of counties. Thus, our original distributions for the taxa included in the Florida Gap Analysis were made at the county-level.These distributions were then joined with the coverage of EMAP hexagons to provide a distribution coverage that was based on EMAP hexagons. This was done so that the Florida distribution coverage was compatible with animal coverages generated by other adjacent states. That process extended some animal distributions partly into counties where they have not been recorded.  However, these extensions were minimal, and the final maps for individual species were based upon suitable habitat being available within a given hexagon.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Species ranges were originally delineated at the county-level. County-level distribution was converted to a species by county matrix for use as a filter in ARC/INFO prior to incorporation of habitat information. Counties ere attributed as either "0", "1". A value of 0 corresponded to an absence of the species in question in that particular county. These distributions were then joined with the coverage of EMAP hexagons to provide a distribution coverage that was based on EMAP hexagons.Tthe final maps for individual species were based upon suitable habitat being available within a given hexagon. Refere to the "predicted Animal Species Distributions and Species Richness" Chapter in the GAP report for more details.
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Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
The current predicted distribution of individual mammal species within their general ranges.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
Refer to the "Predicted Animal Species Distributiona and Species Richness" chapter in the Florida GAP report
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Contact_Person: Leonard Pearlstine
Contact_Position: Associate in Systems Ecology
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 117 Newins-Ziegler Hall
Address: P. O. Box 110450
Address: University of Florida
City: Gainesville
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 32611
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 352-846-0630
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 352-846-0841
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pearlstinel@wec.ufl.edu
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S.Geological Survey, no warrenty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warrenty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data re directly acquited from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirecly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geoligogical Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
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Metadata_Date: 20000405
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Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Contact_Person: Leonard Pearlstine
Contact_Position: Associate in Systems Ecology
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 117 Newins-Ziegler Hall
Address: P. O. Box 110450
Address: University of Florida
City: Gainesville
State_or_Province: Florida
Postal_Code: 32611
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 352-846-0630
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 352-846-0841
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pearlstinel@wec.ufl.edu
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