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These data were compiled to assess the recovery of vegetation on reclaimed oil and gas sites. Objective(s) of our study were to assess patterns in reclamation outcomes relative to 1) soil attributes, climate, and time since 39 reclamation and 2) plant and soil reference benchmarks. These data represent observations of vegetation and soil cover from 134 reclaimed oil and gas well pads and 583 AIM reference plots. These data were collected on lands impacted by oil and gas development on the Colorado Plateau as well as Arizona and New Mexico Plateau of New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Data was collected from July- September of 2020 and May-September of 2021. These data were collected by Assessment Inventory and Monitoring...
Categories: Data;
Tags: AIM reference plots,
Arizona and New Mexico Plateau,
Assessment Inventory and Monitoring (AIM),
Botany,
Colorado, All tags...
Colorado Plateau,
Ecology,
Four Corners Region,
Geography,
Information Sciences,
New Mexico,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
biogeography,
biota,
climate,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
data release,
environment,
field inventory and monitoring,
field methods,
field observations,
field sampling,
geoscientificInformation,
land use and land cover,
line point intercept measurement,
percent cover,
plant community recovery,
plants (organisms),
plot sampling,
reclaimed oil and gas well sites,
remediation,
soil cover,
soil resources,
species cover,
time periods,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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Climate change predictions include warming and drying trends, which are expected to be particularly pronounced in the southwestern United States. In this region, grassland dynamics are tightly linked to available moisture, yet it has proven difficult to resolve what aspects of climate drive vegetation change. In part, this is because it is unclear how heterogeneity in soils affects plant responses to climate. Here, we combine climate and soil properties with a mechanistic soil water model to explain temporal fluctuations in perennial grass cover, quantify where and the degree to which incorporating soil water dynamics enhances our ability to understand temporal patterns, and explore the potential consequences of...
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From 2011-2018 USGS biologists recorded vegetation and biological soil crust (BSC) cover by species and tracked survival of tagged individual plants (388 in total) across 40 locations where paired experimental plots had been installed in 2010. Plant cover was visually estimated using four 75 x 100 cm survey frames. Each site contained a two plots measuring 1.5 by 2.0 meteres: a control plot and a plot covered by a shelter that excluded 35% of incoming precipitation. Plots were selected to represent shallow vs. deep soils, sandstone vs. shale parent material, and dominant plant species on the Colorado Plateau around Moab, Utah. We used an information theoretic approach using generalized linear models to determine...
Tags: Botany,
Canyonlands,
Colorado Plateau,
Ecology,
Geography, All tags...
Grand County,
Indian Creek,
Information Sciences,
Moab,
Salsola,
San Juan County,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
biogeography,
biological soil crust,
biota,
bromus,
cheatgrass,
climate change,
control plot,
deep soils,
experimental plot data,
geology,
graminoids,
grass,
grassland ecosystem,
parent material,
perennial,
plant populations,
plant species,
plot sampling,
sandstone,
shale,
shallow soils,
shelter plots,
shrubland ecosystem,
shrubs,
shrubs,
soil sciences,
species cover,
vegetation, Fewer tags
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These data were compiled to support analysis of remote sensing data using the Disturbance Automated Reference Toolset (Nauman et al., 2017). The objective of our study was to assess results of pinyon and juniper land treatments. These data represent major soil types as defined primarily by soil texture and depth, but also geology, parent material, and geomorphology for relevant features that distinguish major ecological land units. These data were created from field soil descriptions collected in the upper Colorado River watershed mostly since 2000, but include some older data catalogued in USDS Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) databases. These soils data used in model training were collected by NRCS...
Tags: Arizona,
Colorado,
Colorado Plateau,
Colorado River,
Colorado River Basin, All tags...
Ecology,
Geography,
Information Sciences,
Lake Mead,
Lake Powell,
Nevada,
New Mexico,
Soil Sciences,
US Soil Taxonomy,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
digital elevation models,
digital soil mapping,
ecological communities,
ecological land units,
ecological potential,
ecological processes,
ecological sites,
ecosystems,
field soil descriptions,
geology,
geomorphology,
geoscientificInformation,
geospatial datasets,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
land use,
model training,
parent material,
raster grid,
raster soil map,
remote sensing,
soil depth,
soil ecology,
soil family particle size class,
soil mapping,
soil properties,
soil sciences,
soil texture,
soil type classes,
soil types,
soil variability,
soils,
soils data,
taxonomic family particle size class,
taxonomy, Fewer tags
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Abstract The distribution of rainfed agriculture, which accounts for approximately ¾ of global croplands, is expected to respond to climate change and human population growth and these responses may be especially pronounced in water limited areas. Because the environmental conditions that support rainfed agriculture are determined by climate, weather, and soil conditions that affect overall and transient water availability, predicting this response has proven difficult, especially in temperate regions that support much of the world’s agriculture. Here, we show that suitability to support rainfed agriculture in temperate dryland climates can be effectively represented by just two daily environmental variables: moist...
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