Pacific Marten Suitable Habitat

The Pacific martin is a species of special concern, but it is not federally, or state listed at the present time. It is identified as a focal species by Region 5 of the US Forest Service. The Pacific marten is a high elevation, old forest associate that is sensitive to forest management and is an important carnivore in high elevation food webs. This metric evaluates the 1000 ac around each 30m pixel to determine if it meets the minimum habitat requirements to support a territory. The Pacific Marten includes the subspecies, Humboldt marten, which is limited to the coastal region of the northern California region. The Humboldt marten subspecies in California is covered in a separate metric.

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Last Updated January 17, 2025, 06:42 (UTC)
Created January 17, 2025, 06:42 (UTC)
category /Biodiversity Conservation/Focal Species/Mammals
collection_name California Landscape Metrics
creation_method CWHR classifications are based on a combination of FVEG canopy cover, FVEG size class and vegetation data. The vegetation data includes a variety of tree, shrub, grassland, and water dominated habitats. Species are considered present, and habitats considered suitable for each 30m cell for which the canopy cover-size-vegetation combination have been deemed highly or moderately suitable for the reproduction or feeding of that species in the California Wildlife Habitat Relationship database. Each cell was assigned the maximum suitability value, i.e. if a cell was moderately suitable for feeding and highly suitable for reproduction, it was considered highly suitable. * Suitable foraging vegetation types: WHRTYPE = MRI, RFR, DFR, WTM, LPN, SCN, MHC * Suitable foraging habitat: size/density classes = 4M, 4D, 5M,5D, 6 * Suitable denning vegetation types: WHRTYPE = MRI, RFR, DFR, LPN, SCN, MHC * Suitable denning habitat: size/density classes = 4M, 4D, 5M, 5D, 6
data_resolution 30m Raster
data_units Categorical classified into one of the following habitat suitability categories:
data_vintage 2021
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file_name PacificMartenSuitHab_202304_202406_T2_v5
format GeoTiff
harvest_object_id 39e9db15-1c2c-4aed-9cb5-2118043dde32
harvest_source_id a2637971-af12-457f-ae4a-831d2202a539
harvest_source_title WIFIRE Commons
maximum_value 22.0
metric_definition_and_relevance The Pacific martin is a species of special concern, but it is not federally, or state listed at the present time. It is identified as a focal species by Region 5 of the US Forest Service. The Pacific marten is a high elevation, old forest associate that is sensitive to forest management and is an important carnivore in high elevation food webs. This metric evaluates the 1000 ac around each 30m pixel to determine if it meets the minimum habitat requirements to support a territory. The Pacific Marten includes the subspecies, Humboldt marten, which is limited to the coastal region of the northern California region. The Humboldt marten subspecies in California is covered in a separate metric.
minimum_value 0.0
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tier 2