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range of landscape-scale conservation planning. The following information describes the information found on the COA portion of the online DST.
COA Tab
Select a natural community type to calculate how much of the predicted habitat is not protected within the ecoregion or select a river basin to identify the priority HUC12 subwatershed habitats described in the NCWAP. Figure 3. COA Ecoregions & Habitats Ecoregions
Natural communities are arranged by terrestrial, wetland, or aquatic type within the four ecoregions. Figure 3 shows the Coastal Plain ecoregion Terrestrial habitats. Habitats that occur statewide or in other ecoregions are listed multiple times. The number of SGCN associated with the habitat is shown to the right of the community name and may differ between ecoregions depending on predicted species distribution. Results of a COA analysis will show the top five HUC12s predicted to have the most unprotected habitat. These are shown with red boundaries.
The “ Legend ” color scale in Figure 4 can be used to compare the ranking with other HUC12s. Darker colors indicate the least amount of protection and lighter colors indicate there are more protected areas containing the selected habitat type or less habitat type in that area.
Figure 4. Example: COAs for Sandhills Mixed Hardwood, Pine Forest & Managed Timberland
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