Southeast Collaboration and Partnership Portal Community

Southeast Collaboration and Partnership Portal Community: A Framework for Sharing Biodiversity Knowledge

Partnerships and collaborations among diverse stakeholders including individuals, organizations, universities, and agencies enrich our understanding of Southeast's Natural Resources. Supporting existing partnerships and encouraging further collaboration, the Southeast Collaboration and Partnership (SECAP) portal community provides a web-based, secure infrastructure to foster collaboration among communities of interest encompassing a spectrum of issues related to management, use, or conservation of biological resources in the Southeast.

Southeast Collaboration and Partnership Portal Community Features:

  • Community Calendar
  • Task Management
  • Document Management
  • Discussion Threads
  • Push-Pull E-mail Notifications
  • Managed Access to the Portal Community and Projects

For more information and to set up a collaboration space, visit http://my.nbii.gov/secap

Management Resources

Electronically available resource management tools presented here include management plans, computer mapping data layers, fire management resources, state and federal agency resources, and further online information sources.

Best Practices and Decision Support Tools

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U.S. EPA GeoBook
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The Southeastern Ecological Framework (SEF) GeoBook
U.S. EPA GeoBook

The SEF GeoBook is a decision support tool hosting natural resource data about critical Southeastern ecosystems. Critical ecosystems are identified by the SEF as constituents of a hub and corridor network in eight states: Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Within these states, the SEF highlights natural areas contributing to clean air, water, and ecosystem conservation.

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Best Sustainability Practices in Southern Appalachia
Towards Best Practices

A searchable database of examples of best practices in growth management, sustainable development, and environmental conservation in the Southern Appalachian Highlands.

Databases and GIS Mapping Tools

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NBII-SAIN Live Maps and Data
SAIN Live Maps and Data

The NBII-SAIN "Live Maps and Data" community features searchable databases and regional mapping applications.

  • Aquatic Biota Survey Database
  • Regional GIS Source Data Layers
  • Invasive Plants Databases
  • SAVEM Water Quality Database
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SEWF GIS Mapping Layer
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Southeast Watershed Forum Community Resource Mapper
Community Resource Mapper

Integrate natural resource protection into your community planning efforts with our mapping service. This service will allow you to create maps at a county, watershed or state level, showcasing your satellite imagery, impaired streams, impervious surface, protected lands, State Wildlife Action Plans and much more.

Web Resources for Management Plans and Reports about the Southeastern United States
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Southern Fire Portal

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FRAMES - Southern Fire Portal

The Southern Fire Portal (SFP) is a geographic focus of the Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES).

The SFP improves fire science organization and accessibility by integrating and expanding three comprehensive, complementary sources of fire information:

  1. Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES)
  2. The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS)
  3. The Tall Timbers Research Station E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database and Thesaurus.

As a nexus of fire effects information and technology transfer, the Southern Fire Portal is the Southeast's gateway for continuing collaboration between fire management and research communities and their publics.

Visit the SFP for fire-related research data, documents, projects, tools, and Web sites.

U.S. Drought Portal

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From the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS):

"The U.S. Drought Portal is part of the interactive system to:

  • Provide early warning about emerging and anticipated droughts
  • Assimilate and quality control data about droughts and models
  • Provide information about risk and impact of droughts to different agencies and stakeholders
  • Provide information about past droughts for comparison and to understand current conditions
  • Explain how to plan for and manage the impacts of droughts
  • Provide a forum for different stakeholders to discuss drought-related issues"
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