This ArcView interface was developed to provide easy access for viewing and querying the Wyoming Gap Analysis data. This data is freely available to natural resource managers, decision-makers, and the general public... anyone who has an interest in learning more about the biodiversity of Wyoming. The interface was designed to make the data more "user-friendly" and accessible.

This example shows an area highlighted in red which was defined by the user, in the northwestern portion of Wyoming. The results of this query show the number of mammal species that are "predicted to occur" within the selected area, based on the GAP modeling procedure.

After clicking "Okay", the interface then prepares a listing of the selected species and related information about them such as their ranking, sensitivity, range, habitat, references and issues encountered in modeling the species' distribution. There are a total of 445 terrestrial vertebrate species within the GAP database for Wyoming, as well as additional data on land cover (vegetation communities), land ownership and other base information such as roads, rivers, shaded refief and township/range/sections.

Users can specify whether they want to view only sensitive species (e.g. endangered, threatened), GAP species, or all species. Options also exist for selecting species based on their occurrence: confirmed, probable, possible for a given area.

The interface is now available (as of Sept. 1999) as part of a 2 CD set, including the Wyoming Gap Analysis Final Report (1996) and complete GIS data sets. 200 copies of the CD set are available for free on a first-come first-serve basis. Please call SDVC at 307-766-2532 or email us at sdvc-l@uwyo.edu to order a set.

The interface was developed by Margo Berendsen, a GIS Analyst with the Spatial Data and Visualization Center, as part of the Wyoming Bioinformation Node.