Welcome to the home page of the New York State GAP project! The GAP project is a National Effort to systematically inventory and plot the distribution of all plants and animal species in the U.S. For a more detailed description of this project at the state level, click on the Overview on the left. The Final Product is completed and can now be ordered. Click here to access the USGS press release.
There are two projects related to gap analysis in New York State. The first is the Terrestrial GAP. This involves mapping the distribution of animals and plants on land. The second is the Aquatic GAP which involves mapping the distribution of aquatic organisms and factors that might affect their distribution (like water chemistry). For a look at some of the current research being conducted, see the Abstracts.
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Please cite this Page as:
New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Cornell Institute for Resource Information Systems. May 1998. The New York Gap Analysis Project Home Page, Version 98.05.01. Departments of Natural Resources and Soil, Crop, and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY [http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/gap/gap.htm].
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please e-mail Charles R. Smith at crs6@cornell.edu.
Last updated February 8, 2002