20230131 raster digital data Recommended Citation: Dybala KE, Sesser KA, Reiter ME, Shuford WD, Golet GH, Hickey CM, Gardali T. 2023. Priority Bird Conservation Areas in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Petaluma, CA: Point Blue Conservation Science. [Accessed:(date accessed)]. Available from: XXX. Funding: These analyses were funded by Proposition 1 Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Program, Grant Agreement Number – Q1996022, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. These analyses also build on extensive prior data collection and analyses supported with funding from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and the Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership. https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/BIOS https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/3000_3099/ds3066.zip [reference details, publication date, and link to be updated once finalized] This dataset was developed by Point Blue Conservation Science for a project funded through the Proposition 1 Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Program administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife titled "Trade-offs and Co-benefits of Landscape Change Scenarios on Bird Communities and Ecosystem Services in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Grant Agreement Number Q1996022). Priority Bird Conservation Areas were defined as the top 5% highest priority pixels resulting from spatial prioritization analyses conducted on the predicted distributions of 9 species of riparian landbirds during the breeding season and 6 groups of waterbirds during the fall and winter portions of the non-breeding season (see related dataset: "Spatial prioritization for bird conservation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta"), based on a recent representation of the land cover and land use in the Delta in 2018 (see related dataset: "Baseline and projected future land use and land cover in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta"). These Priority Bird Conservation Areas are encoded as those in the top 5% for waterbirds during either season (value = 1), for riparian landbirds (value = 2), or both (value = 3). See Dybala et al. (In review) for additional details on the development, assumptions, and limitations of these analyses and the underlying species distribution models. In particular, the decisions to give each species equal weight and to use the top 5% as a threshold for inclusion as a Priority Bird Conservation Area were arbitrary, and could be further refined by establishing clearer target species and conservation objectives for birds in the Delta. To explore other threshold values, see the related dataset "Baseline and projected future land use and land cover in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta" which provides the underlying priority ranks resulting from each analysis. The highest priority areas of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for the conservation of waterbird groups (value = 1, blue), riparian landbirds (value = 2, green), or both (value = 3, red), which can be used to inform and facilitate conservation planning, management, and prioritization. Complete None planned -122.192774 -120.943070 38.756191 37.461586 ISO 19115 Topic Categories biota, environment, priority areas, conservation, birds, riparian, wetlands, landbirds, waterbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds, cranes None Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California None Disclaimer: The State makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or adequacy of these data and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in these data. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to these data. Point Blue Conservation Science Kristen Dybala Principal Ecologist kdybala@pointblue.org Point Blue Conservation Science Kristen Dybala Principal Ecologist kdybala@pointblue.org Point Blue Conservation Science Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362 Raster Grid Cell 4239 2871 NAD 1983 California Teale Albers 34.0 40.5 -120.0 0.0 0.0 -4000000.0 coordinate pair 0.000000003754707655900803 0.000000003754707655900803 meter D North American 1983 GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 VAT_ds3066 OBJECTID Internal feature number. Esri Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Value Count Red Green Blue Opacity Value_Name 20230302 Point Blue Conservation Science Kristen Dybala Principal Ecologist kdybala@pointblue.org FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time