NatureServe Vista
Features
- Identifies conservation elements, including species, habitats, ecosystems, or land use activities
- Creates value maps to depict concepts such as element diversity, ecological or habitat condition, or data confidence
- Integrates maps and other information to show cumulative effects of what is happening on the ground and in the water
- Generates ecological condition layers to help determine areas for conservation or appropriate uses
- Explores sites within a project area and creates mitigation plans
- Generates scenario solutions by interoperating with Marxan
- Documents analyses and generates reports
Overview
NatureServe Vista is a powerful, flexible, and free spatial decision-support system that helps users integrate data and expert knowledge on conservation with land use and resource planning of all types. Planners, resource managers, scientists, and conservationists can use NatureServe Vista to assess cumulative effects for any number of scenarios, including climate change, investigate site conflicts, and design on-site or off-site mitigation strategies or entire alternative future scenarios. The tool also supports ongoing adaptive management by integrating monitoring data and new knowledge or models to understand how well an area is meeting a set of conservation objectives.
