Montana Natural Heritage Program

Individual Species Models

Predicted habitat suitability models are being constructed for any species that has sufficient data for modeling. These include details on input data and environmental variables, modeling methodology, categorical thresholds for inductively modeled predicted optimal, moderate, low, and unsuitable habitats, model rules for deductive models, model performance, maps of output, and links to download layer package files of model output for 1 square‐mile hexagons.

Individual Species Models

Predicted Biodiversity Models

View maps of overall predicted habitat suitability for various biodiversity groups, including

  • Species of Concern vertebrate animals
  • Species of Concern vascular plants
  • Noxious weeds (cumulative risk of invasion)
  • Native vertebrate animals as well as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish
  • Non-native fish

For geographic areas of interest, view numbers and lists of species, turn on individual species models, and see summaries by land stewardship

Maps are 10 color classes with hotter colors indicting higher predicted habitat suitability for the biodiversity group selected.

Biodiversity Models