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Here you will be able to navigate a GIS map of Panama to learn each specific calculation of vulnerability for all of the Panamanian ecosystems.

Visit http://maps.cathalac.org/Portal/ and search "Panama ecosystem vulnerability." The data should be available by the end of February 2008.


Original Data

World Bank and CCAD. 2001. “Ecosystems of Central America (ArcView regional map files at 1:250,000).” World Bank, Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD), World Institute for Conservation and Environment (WICE), and the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Washington, D.C. http://www.worldbank.org/ca-env.

Void-filled seamless SRTM data V1, 2004, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), available from the CGIAR-CSI SRTM 90m Database: http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org

Hijmans, R.J., S.E. Cameron, J.L. Parra, P.G. Jones and A. Jarvis, 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978 (pdf)http://www.worldclim.org/worldclim_IJC.pdf

Ogelsby, Robert, Jayanthi Srikshen, and Joel Perez. 2005. Central America Climate Change Modeling. Physical downscaling of Global Climate Models to Regional Climate Model. http://maps.cathalac.org/downloads/
GEOSS/Climate_Change/CAclimatemodel.doc.

InfoNatura: Animals and Ecosystems of Latin America [web application]. 2007. Version 5.0. Arlington, Virginia (USA): NatureServe. Available: http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura.