Biodiversity of the Upper Colorado River Basin and Bonneville Basin
These data sets provide biodiversity information for the Upper Colorado River and Bonneville Basins. They were created from the Southwest Regional Gap Analysis Project Animal Habitat Models. Each of the animal habitat models was clipped to the region of interest and then recoded to 0 or 1, where 0 denotes no suitable habitat and 1 denotes any sort of suitable habitat. Once this was done, the resulting data sets were added together to get an idea of the number of species (out of 714) that might be found in any given location.
The recoded species habitat files are available here in GeoTIFF format. They do not have pyramid files nor have statistics been built for them. If you plan to display them in ArcGIS, you MUST build statistics first or they will not display correctly. Building pyramid files would be helpful, too.
The summed files are also available in GeoTIFF format, but statistics have already been built and they do have associated .rrd files. These files should display fine in ArcGIS. There is one sum file for each of the 30 categories shown below.
- All species - sum file for all species combined - preview image - 332 MB
- Amphibians - sum files for all amphibians combined and for three groups shown below (4 files) - preview image - 185 MB
- Frogs - species files - 41 MB, 19 files
- Salamanders - species files - 5 MB, 3 files
- Toads - species files - 105 MB, 15 files
- Birds - sum files for all birds combined and for eighteen groups shown below (19 files) - preview image - 1.2 GB
- Cranes, rails & allies - species files - 49 MB, 8 files
- Cuckoos - species files - 14 MB, 3 files
- Gallinaceous - species files - 119 MB, 18 files
- Grebes - species files - 13 MB, 6 files
- Herons, storks & allies - species files - 40 MB, 11 files
- Kingfishers & allies - species files - 4 MB, 1 file
- Loons - species files - 7 MB, 4 files
- Nightjars & allies - species files - 108 MB, 6 files
- Owls - species files - 211 MB, 16 files
- Pelicans & allies - species files - 8 MB, 3 files
- Perching
- species files 1 - 692 MB, 55 files
- species files 2 - 697 MB, 55 files
- species files 3 - 771 MB, 55 files
- species files 4 - 815 MB, 48 files
- Pigeons & doves - species files - 56 MB, 6 files
- Raptors - species files - 570 MB, 27 files
- Shorebirds, gulls &allies - species files - 155 MB, 49 files
- Swifts & hummingbirds - species files - 85 MB, 15 files
- Trogons - species files - 1 MB, 1 file
- Waterfowl - species files - 84 MB, 31 files
- Woodpeckers & allies - species files - 158 MB, 16 files
- Mammals - sum files for all mammals combined and for five groups shown below (6 files) - preview image - 818 MB
- Bats - species files - 401 MB, 28 files
- Carnivores - species files - 429 MB, 29 files
- Hoofed - species files - 132 MB, 11 files
- Other - species files - 234 MB, 29 files
- Rodents - species files - 1010 MB, 115 files
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