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Geospatial Resources for Freshwater Conservation
Valuable information for freshwater management from the Biodiversity Informatics Facility at the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.
The section on Geospatial Resources for Freshwater Conservation provides links to geospatial data sets* relevant for freshwater conservation and software** commonly used in freshwater studies.
*Geospatial datasets
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW)
Global lakes and wetlands database
National Wetlands Inventory Geodatabase
Atlas of Canada freshwater maps
National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
Global Gateway to GIS, Remote Sensing and Mapping for Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries
The African Water Resource Database
**Software
The African Water Resource Database Tools
Nonpoint Source Pollution and Erosion Comparison Tool (N-SPECT)
USGS Water resource applications software
Watershed Modeling sytem (WMS)
Better Assessment Science Integrating Point & Nonpoint Sources (BASINS)
USGS Hydrologic and geochemical models
Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Tools Network
Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA)
Functional Linkage of Watersheds and Streams (FLoWS)
GIS tools for stream and lake classification and watershed analysis
