2025-08-22EPA Region 6 REAP Diversity Geodatabase2011-06-28EPA Directory516fe25e981da293858a8a95b27e14c5c7403d7fU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6Teresa TranIT Specialist - GIS1201 Elm Street Ste 500DallasTX 75270tran.teresa@epa.gov214-665-6787https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-centralwebsiteTrue[EPA Directory] Teresa TranThe 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 6None. 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 Place Names2015-01-31https://ofmpub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/termreg/searchandretrieve/taxonomies/search.do?search=&searchString=&taxonomyName=WBT%20-%20Geographic%20LocationsWeb Taxonomy - Geographic LocationsArkansasLouisianaNew MexicoOklahomaTexasEPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus2007-11-02https://www.epa.gov/geospatial/epa-metadata-technical-specificationEPA Metadata Technical SpecificationConservationEcosystemEnvironmentImpactIndicatorLandManagementModelingNatural ResourcesFederal Program Inventory2013-09-16https://www.performance.gov/federalprograminventoryFederal Program Inventory020:0701-109-8925372005-03-01T00:00:002011-06-30T00:00:00Unrestricted Licensehttps://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htmlEPA Public Domain LicenseEPA Directory516fe25e981da293858a8a95b27e14c5c7403d7fU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6Teresa TranIT Specialist - GIS1201 Elm Street Ste 500DallasTX 75270tran.teresa@epa.gov214-665-6787https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-centralwebsiteTrue[EPA Directory] Teresa Tran1685C1BE-40DB-489C-A0D1-E0871A4B317215000000050001.0ISO19115_3EPA Directory516fe25e981da293858a8a95b27e14c5c7403d7fU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6Teresa TranIT Specialist - GIS1201 Elm Street Ste 500DallasTX 75270tran.teresa@epa.gov214-665-6787https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-region-6-south-centralwebsiteTrue[EPA Directory] Teresa Tran