Terrestrial Resilience Stratified by Land Facet and Ecoregion

This map depicts the resilience scores stratified by ecoregions and ecofacets, with the best score of the two retained as the final resilience score for each cell. These are the data used in subsequent analyses and prioritizations.
 
Resil_Quint: Terrestrial Resilience was calculated as a product of Terrestrial Permeability and Topoclimate Diversity. All 270m pixels for each Land Facet stratified by Ecoregion (or EcoFacet) were scored from low to high terrestrial resilience, relative to all other examples of their type. These EcoFacet scores were broken into 5 equal classes (quintiles). A consequence of forcing equal numbers of cells into each resilience category is that a small number of cells in heavily developed areas spilled into higher resilience categories than may have been warranted. Therefore, a 6th class was added for pixels which are in resilient settings but which have been predominantly converted to agriculture, or to a lesser degree, urban development.

These data are part of a land facet terrestrial resilience project created for the Pacific Northwest to identify the most resilient terrestrial sites in the Northwest U.S. that will collectively and individually best sustain native biodiversity even as the changing climate alters current distribution patterns. The central idea is that by mapping key geophysical features and evaluating them for landscape characteristics that buffer against the effects of climate change, we can identify the most resilient places in order to guide future conservation investments.  All the datasets, along with the full report containing methods and maps is available at:  http://nature.ly/resilienceNW

See a gallery of all datasets from this report on Data Basin:  http://nplcc.databasin.org/galleries/e41a3ea84e78463bbf9f03ce2f8e9205