1685C1BE-40DB-489C-A0D1-E0871A4B3172 eng utf8 dataset dataset Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact 2025-08-22 ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification 2007 4269 EPA Region 6 REAP Diversity Geodatabase 2011-06-28 publication Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information pointOfContact The Regional Ecological Assessment Protocol (REAP) is a screening level tool created as a way to identify priority ecological resources within the five EPA Region 6 states (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas). The REAP divides eighteen individual measures into three main sub-layers: diversity, rarity, and sustainability. This geodatabase contains the diversity layers. There are 2 diversity grids within this geodatabase (diversity & diversityrank). The diversity layer shows land cover continuity and diversity. There are three measures that make up the diversity layer: appropriateness of land cover, contiguous size of undeveloped area, and the Shannon land cover diversity index. Each cell in the final diversity grid has a score of between 1 and 100 based on the average of the three measures. Cells with higher scores represent areas that are more diverse. Cells with lower scores represent areas that are the least diverse. In the diversityrank grid, the cells are placed into the following 5 groups based on the score: 1 (top 1% of scores), 10 (top 10% of scores), 25 (top 25% of scores), 50 (top 50% of scores), and 100 (all the rest of the scores). See each individual feature class for more detailed metadata. U.S Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Teresa Tran U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6 IT Specialist - GIS 214-665-6787 1201 Elm Street Ste 500 Dallas TX 75270 tran.teresa@epa.gov https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-central website information publisher Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma Texas place EPA Place Names 2015-01-31 publication Conservation Ecosystem Environment Impact Indicator Land Management Modeling Natural Resources theme EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus 2007-11-02 publication 020:070 theme Federal Program Inventory 2013-09-16 publication None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. EPA Public Domain License licenseUnrestricted https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html eng utf8 true -109 -89 25 37 2005-03-01T00:00:00 2011-06-30T00:00:00