{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Sarah R Weiskopf", "hasEmail": "mailto:sweiskopf@usgs.gov"}, "description": "Ecological restoration is essential to meet global biodiversity conservation goals. Given limited conservation budgets, deciding where to restore habitat is a key challenge for the coming decade. This dataset includes optimal restoration sites selected from multiple restoration model scenarios. We developed a modeling approach to maximize conservation benefit/restoration cost ratios to prioritize restoration, and we illustrate this approach using a case study for highly threatened grassland ecosystems in the Great Plains region of Kansas, USA. We selected five grassland wildlife species [greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido), lesser prairie chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), swift fox (Vulpes velox), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), and regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia)] as indicators of restoration benefit across taxa.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P139JZZK", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.689151a5d4be024587b896db.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_689151a5d4be024587b896db", "keyword": ["Kansas", "USGS:689151a5d4be024587b896db", "United States", "biota", "grassland ecosystems", "modeling", "natural resource management"], "modified": "2025-09-29T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-102.0500, 36.9800, -94.6000, 40.0000", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Model outputs showing optimized grassland restoration sites in the Great Plains region of Kansas"}