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Downloads

The two tables below contain links to download every dataset that makes up Nature’s Network. The first table — Comprehensive data list — offers individual downloads for each dataset. The second table — Bundled download packages — contains three downloadable sets of bundled data:

  1. Nature’s Network
  2. Species models
  3. Supporting data

All of the datasets included in each download set are listed.

Jump to bundled downloads

Comprehensive list of downloads

Nature's NetworkData Basin linkDirect download link
Nature's Network Conservation Design
NOTE: This download contains a simplified composite layer, and its components, including Core Habitat for Imperiled Species, Terrestrial Core-Connector Network, Grassland Bird Core Areas, Lotic Core Areas, and Lentic Core Areas.
OpenDownload
Imperiled SpeciesData Basin linkDirect download link
Habitats for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
  • Core Habitat for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
  • Habitat Condition for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
  • Habitat Importance for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
OpenDownload
TerrestrialData Basin linkDirect download link
Terrestrial and Wetland Core Network
  • Terrestrial Core-Connector Network, Northeast U.S.
  • Terrestrial Cores with Road-bounded Natural Blocks, Northeast U.S.
  • Grassland Bird Core Areas, Northeast U.S.
OpenDownload
Supporting data
Terrestrial Ecosystem Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Index of Ecological Integrity, Stratified by Ecosystem, Region-wide, Version 3.2, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Resilience Stratified by Setting and Ecoregion with Regional Override, 2016, Eastern U.S. and CanadaOpenDownload
Probability of Development, 2030, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Probability of Development, 2080, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
AquaticData Basin linkDirect download link
Aquatic Core Networks
  • Lotic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
  • Lentic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
  • Aquatic Buffers, Northeast U.S.
OpenDownload
Supporting data
Aquatic Core Networks, Regional Unstratified
  • Lotic Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.
  • Lentic Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.
OpenDownload
Aquatic Index of Ecological Integrity, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Freshwater Resilience by Watershed, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Important Anadromous Fish Habitat, including Salmon, Northeast U.S.
  • Important Anadromous Fish Habitat, Northeast U.S.
  • Atlantic Salmon Rearing Areas, Maine
OpenDownload
Brook Trout Probability of Occurrence, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Landscape Capability for Common Loon, Version 3.0, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
ConnectivityData Basin linkDirect download link
Marsh Migration Zones, Northeast U.S.OpenDownload
Regional Flow, Anthropogenic Resistance (Simplified Categories), Eastern U.S. and CanadaOpenDownload

Bundled downloads

The items listed below are being packaged together in bundles to make downloading data easier.  Links will be provided as they become available. Currently, these files are available for download as individual files or on Data Basin.

Nature's NetworkDirect download linkSize
Bundle 1
  • Nature's Network Conservation Design
  • Terrestrial Core-Connector Network, Northeast U.S.
  • Terrestrial Cores with Road-bounded Natural Blocks, Northeast U.S.
  • Grassland Bird Core Areas, Northeast U.S.
  • Lotic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
  • Lentic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
  • Aquatic Buffers, Northeast U.S.
  • Core Habitat for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
  • Habitat Condition for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
  • Habitat Importance for Imperiled Species, Northeast U.S.
Download2.5 GB
Bundle 2
  • Marsh Migration Zones, Northeast U.S.
  • Regional Flow, Anthropogenic Resistance (Simplified Categories), Northeast U.S.
  • Index of Ecological Integrity, Stratified by Ecosystem, Region-wide, Version 3.2, Northeast U.S.
  • Resilience Stratified by Setting and Ecoregion with Regional Override, 2016, Northeast U.S.
  • Terrestrial and Aquatic Habitat Map (DSLland), Version 3.1, Northeast U.S.
  • Watershed Boundaries, HUC6 Level, Northeast U.S.
Download2.7 GB
Species Modeling status for all 29 species
Download individual species datasetsSpecies Gallery-Data Basin
Bundle 1
  • Landscape Capability Representative Species Models A - B
  • Brook Trout Probability of Occurrence, Northeast U.S.
  • Anadromous Fish Habitat, Northeast U.S.Atlantic Salmon Rearing Areas, Maine
Download2.5 GB
Bundle 2
  • Landscape Capability Representative Species Models C - O
Download4.0 GB
Bundle 3
  • Landscape Capability Representative Species Models P - W
Download2.9 GB
Supporting data
Bundle
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.
  • Lotic Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.
  • Lentic Core Areas, Unstratified, Northeast U.S.
  • Aquatic Index of Ecological Integrity, Northeast U.S.
  • Freshwater Resilience by Watershed, Northeast U.S.

  • Aquatic Core Networks
    • Lotic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
    • Lentic Core Areas, Stratified by Watershed, Northeast U.S.
    • Aquatic Buffers, Northeast U.S.



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Welcome to the Nature's Network Prioritization Tool

Using this tool, you can create custom models based on a catalog of over 400 metrics that will help address particular conservation and restoration questions. Some key features:

  • Quickly create custom prioritization maps
  • PDF and CSV outputs
  • Over 400 metrics

Metric description

Name:

Description:

Unit:

Full documentation link:

How does this work?

Load a model

What do these weights mean?

Each weight is a multiplier

When deciding how to assign weights, it is important to understand that each weight is a multiplier for its coresponding metric. After the tool standardizes the raw units of a metric to a quantile scale (0-1), it then multiplies that new value by the given weight. Any negative weight is flipped to a positive number and multiplied by the inverse of the metric's quantile score (this is to ensure a positive weighted score that is more intuitive for comparison). For more information, click "How does this work?" in the first panel above.

Caution

Use this control with a single map

This control limits the display of both the left and right maps. However, because the maps share the same legend, it can be difficult to distinguish them when parts of each are transparent. To avoid confusion, we recommend that this subset control be used when displaying a single map.

May not be useful for datasets with a small range or limited sample size

Each rank represents the percent of planning units less than or equal to this rank. As a result, for datasets with very small range (e.g. count of restoration practices in a single year) or limited sample size, there may be many planning units that share the same value (e.g., 0). In some of those cases, the minimum percentile rank could be relatively high and the subset controls may not seem to have an effect. If this appears to be happening, try clicking on a planning unit with a low score color to see what its percentile rank is.

Metric list