Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Conservation easements in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota: characteristics of wetland catchments and key factors for determination of drainage setback distances

This data release includes characteristics of wetland catchments associated with U.S. Fish and Wildlife conservation easement lands located in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota. Characteristics include wetland catchment areas, slope length, land use, soil mapping unit, and slope grades of representative soils. County and ecoregion also are included. Summary data pertaining to lateral setback distances, or drainage setbacks, also are presented by county and soil mapping unit for a range of subsurface drainage system characteristics (i.e., drain pipe depth and diameter). Additionally, calculated variables used for data analyses and presentation in the manuscript associated with this data release are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: North Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), conservation easements, environment, hydrology, All tags... inlandWaters, lateral effect distance, subsurface drainage systems, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Database of seasonality of wolf mortality

Radio-collared wolves in the Superior National Forest that were killed by other wolves or probably killed by wolves between 1968 and 2014

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Canis lupus, Gray wolves, Minnesota, Theme_Keyword, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wolves, mammals, Fewer tags

Wetland birds of the Prairie Pothole Region of North and South Dakota, 1995-1997, data release

The data set consists of data collected in 1995, 1996, and 1997 in wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of North Dakota and South Dakota. The data were summarized and used in the analysis for two publications in peer-reviewed journals. The data consists of one data set that includes bird abundance and richness data, wetland class (temporary, seasonal, semipermanent, permanent, alkali), and wetland type (private or federal). In conjunction with surveys of wetland birds, the following wetland variables also were recorded: wetland size, date, local-level habitat variables (percent coverage of open water, emergent vegetation, wet meadow, and shoreline/mudflat), and landscape-level habitat variables (percent cover...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Aquatic birds, Arrowwood Wetland Management District, Audubon Wetland Management District, Biodiversity, All tags... Chase Lake Wetland Management District, Des Lacs Wetland Management District, Devils Lake Wetland Management District, Ecology, Environmental restoration, Huron Wetland Management District, J. Clark Salyer Wetland Management District, Kulm Wetland Management District, Lake Andes Wetland Management District, Land Use Change, Land ownership, Landscape, Long Lake Wetland Management District, Lostwood Wetland Management District, Madison Wetland Management District, North Dakota, Prairie Pothole Region, Sand Lake Wetland Management District, South Dakota, Species diversity, Tewaukon Wetland Management District, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Valley City Wetland Management District, Waubay Wetland Management District, Wetlands, Wildlife Biology, biodiversity, biota, birds, landscape factors, local factors, wetland birds, wetland classification, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Whooping crane stopover habitat use and migration movement data in relation to drought severity, 2010-2022

Wildlife species face threats from climate and land use change, which may exacerbate how extreme climatic events influence population persistence and biodiversity. Migratory waterbirds are especially vulnerable to hydrological drought via reduced availability of surface water habitats. We assessed how whooping cranes, an endangered species in the U.S. and Canada, modified habitat use and migration strategies during drought to understand this species’ resilience to changing conditions and adaptive capacity. The data included 8,555 night-roost sites used by 145 cranes, 2010–2022, under non-drought conditions, moderate drought, and extreme drought conditions.

Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Colorado, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, All tags... Manitoba, Migratory birds, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, environment, migration (organisms), plant and animal tagging, Fewer tags

Vascular plant data collected at the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA in 1996

This data release contains three data sets. The data were collected in 1996 at the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND, USA. The main data set comprises the list of plant species observed and includes the transect, plot number, plot size, and vegetation type where each species was found. A second data set has the locations of the transects, along with their IDs which can be linked to the species list. The final data set is a list of nomenclature updates and species that had duplicates in ITIS, along with the currently accepted scientific names of these species.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Land Use Change, North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, flowering plants, grassland ecosystems, vascular plants, Fewer tags