Looking for maps and data from The Nature Conservancy? If you haven't been to http://maps.tnc.org/ recently, you're missing out! So far this year we've released 10 new web maps (see http://maps.tnc.org/web_maps.html to explore them), as...

Happy New Year! The Conservation Data and Information Systems unit of Central Science is pleased to announce a major update to the map of The Nature Conservancy’s Portfolio of Conservation Priorities.      The Portfolio now...

Previous national and global conservation assessments have relied on habitat conversion data to quantify conservation risk. However, in addition to habitat conversion to crop production or urban uses, ecosystem alteration (e.g., from logging,...

Ecoregional assessments represent the science foundation of The Nature Conservancy’s work and reputation, and the Conservancy is committed to preserving and sharing one of our most important bodies of science-based work.   To that...

Overwhelmed with conservation data? No idea where you're possibly going to keep it all? Check out this NIMBioS Tutorial, Migration from the Desktop: HPC Application of R and other codes for biological research. This course is designed for...

This workshop is a practical step-by-step guide to establish and manage monitoring protocols for plant community work. Date: March 7-12, 2011 Location: Lake Placid, Florida Course website: http://nata.snre.ufl.edu/vegmonit.htm

The Vegetation Departure Calculator (VDC) provides a comprehensive look at vegetation conditions across the contiguous United States. The VDC is a MS Excel spreadsheet, and includes a Pivot Table that allows users to interactively summarize and...