Cali L Roth

Cottonwood Lake Study Area – Digital Elevation Model with Topobathy

This dataset contains a bare earth digital elevation model (DEM), with a 0.5-square-meter (m2) cell size, of the Cottonwood Lake Study Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota. The DEM was based primarily on airborne lidar data acquired by Fugro Horizons of Rapid City, South Dakota, and made into a DEM by USGS personnel using the ArcGIS extension LP360 (QCoherent Software, 2013). Additional DEM processing to incorporate the bathymetry of study wetlands was done using survey-grade global positioning system (GPS) data collected by soundings of the bottom of each wetland. Through these steps, a continuous elevation model representing both the surrounding uplands and wetland basins was produced for the site (Mushet and Scherff...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Cottonwood Lake Study Area, EARTH SCIENCE>BIOSPHERE>ECOSYSTEMS>TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS>WETLANDS, LIDAR images, North Dakota, Northern Great Plains, All tags... Prairie Pothole Region, Stutsman County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, bathymetry, bathymetry measurement, digital elevation models, elevation, environment, inlandWaters, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Post-Fire Change in Greater Sage-Grouse Nest Selection and Survival in the Virginia Mountains, Nevada (2018)

We evaluated nest site selection and nest survival both before and after a fire disturbance occurred. We then combined those surfaces to determine the areas which were most heavily impacted by the fire.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: biota, fires, habitat alteration and disturbance, human impacts, native species, All tags... western US, Fewer tags

Modeling effects of crop production, energy development and conservation-grassland loss on avian habitat: dataset of BBS data, ND, with habitat rankings

This dataset is North American Breeding Bird Survey bird-count data for the routes and stops in North Dakota, USA, in which ten mixed-grass-prairie-endemic species occurred, as well as the mean habitat-quality ranking scores derived from applying the Habitat Quality Module of the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) to spatial layers for landuse/landcover from the National Agricultural Statistics Survey, CRP from USDA, urban and road areas from US Census Bureau (Tiger/Line), and energy development from USGS. The bird-count data is the total sum of counts for the focal ten species; individual species counts are not part of the dataset.

Categories: Data; Tags: North Dakota, Prairie Pothole Region, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, birds, All tags... ecosystem services valuation, grassland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Sage-grouse habitat management categories within phase 1 Pinyon-Juniper expansion in Nevada and northeastern California, derived from 2016 and 2017 Raster Products

This raster dataset depicts phase 1 pinyon-juniper expansion , where shrubs and herbs are the dominant vegetation and conifers occupy greater than zero percent to ten percent, intersecting documented sage-grouse habitat management categories (Coates et al., 2016a, Coates et al., 2016b). These data support the following publication: K. Benjamin Gustafson, Peter S. Coates, Cali L. Roth, Michael P. Chenaille, Mark A. Ricca, Erika Sanchez-Chopitea, Michael L. Casazza, Using object-based image analysis to conduct high- resolution conifer extraction at regional spatial scales, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 73, December 2018, Pages 148-155, ISSN 0303-2434, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.06.002....

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Great Basin, Nevada, Northeastern California, United States of America, biota, All tags... birds, ecosystem management, environment, image analysis, shrubland ecosystems, spatial analysis, vegetation, Fewer tags

Priority Areas for Habitat Restoration Post-Fire in the Virginia Mountains, Nevada (2018)

Sage-grouse continue to use habitat following wildfire, so prioritizing high selection, low survival areas can help ameliorate potential post-wildfire ecological traps. This shapefile represents areas within the burn scars at the Virginia Mountains field site which are high selection and high or low survival which have been deemed to be 'priority' targets for post-fire restoration efforts. The 'burn scar' used in this project is an amalgamation of multiple fires which occurred within the field site during the summers of 2016 and 2017.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: biota, fires, habitat alteration and disturbance, human impacts, native species, All tags... western U.S., Fewer tags