The Alaska Gap Analysis Project (AKGAP) was developed in 2014 as part of a nation-wide program administered by the USGS. The goal of the project was to assess the extent to which species and vegetation communities are represented within protected...
Amphibians are ectotherms (cold-blooded) that require relatively mild temperatures to survive. In Alaska, they hibernate in the winter to cope with low temperatures and are primarily restricted to Southeast Alaska. Only the cold-adapted wood...
Alaska’s vast size, sparse human population, and access challenges often result in the state’s relatively thin data coverage compared to the other 49 US States for a number of key datasets including the USGS stream gauging network. Forty-one...