## Credits
Authors: **Cassie Buhler** ([CIRES](https://cires.colorado.edu/), [ESIIL](https://esiil.org/), CU Boulder) and **Carl Boettiger** (UC Berkeley \& [ESIIL](https://esiil.org/))

Made in collaboration with the [California Biodiversity Network (CBN)](https://cabiodiversitynetwork.org/)

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License: BSD-2-clause

Data: https://data.carlboettiger.info/public-ca30x30

#### Data sources
1. **CA Nature (2024)**. *30x30 Conserved Areas (Terrestrial)*. Data: https://www.californianature.ca.gov/datasets/CAnature::30x30-conserved-areas-terrestrial-2024/about. License: Public Domain

2. **Ackerly Lab & Kling, M.** *Climate Zones*. Data: https://github.com/matthewkling/climclust/tree/master/hclust.

3. **CAL FIRE (2022)**. *California Vegetation by Wildlife Habitat Relationship Type*. Data: https://www.fire.ca.gov/Home/What-We-Do/Fire-Resource-Assessment-Program/GIS-Mapping-and-Data-Analytics

4. **The Nature Conservancy**. *Resilient and Connected Network*. Data: https://crcs.tnc.org/pages/data. Citation: Anderson et al. (2023). PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2204434119.

5. **California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)**. *Areas of Conservation Emphasis (ACE)*. Data: https://data.ca.gov/dataset/terrestrial-biodiversity-summary-ace-ds2739

6. **Kling et al. (2018)**. *Rarity-Weighted Endemic Plant Richness and Plant Richness*. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0397.

7. **U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2019)**. *National Wetland Inventory – Wetlands Data (Freshwater and Estuarine/Marine)*. Data: https://www.fws.gov/program/national-wetlands-inventory/wetlands-data.

8. **Howard et al. (2016)**. *California Freshwater Species Database*. Data: https://filelib.wildlife.ca.gov/Public/BDB/GIS/BIOS/Public_Datasets/1100_1199/ds1197.zip.

9. **California Department of Conservation, FMMP (2018)**. *Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program (FMMP): Farmland and Grazing Lands.* Data: https://gis.conservation.ca.gov/portal/home/group.html?id=b1494c705cb34d01acf78f4927a75b8f#overview.

10. **California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA)**. *Disadvantaged Communities*. Data: https://calepa.ca.gov/envjustice/ghginvest/

11. **Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) (2021)**. *CalEnviroScreen 4.0: Priority Populations (Low-Income Communities)*. Data: https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-40

12. **CAL FIRE (2023)**. *Historic Fire Perimeters*. Data: https://www.fire.ca.gov/Home/What-We-Do/Fire-Resource-Assessment-Program/GIS-Mapping-and-Data-Analytics

#### LLMs
This app can use a selection of open-weights language models hosted on the National Research Platform (https://nrp.ai/documentation/userdocs/ai/llm-managed/), and Open Router (https://openrouter.ai/models).

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