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This data release includes maps characterizing soil geomorphic units (SGUs), climate zones, and ecological site groups that classify landscapes by ecological potential and behavior for use in land management in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) region. Soil geomorphic units were created by analysis and grouping of ecological sites (ESs), a more detailed local system of ecological units managed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS). Vegetation reference community production data of ESs were analyzed to determine discrete rules based on field soils data linked to the soil survey geographic (SSURGO) database of the USA to determine SGUs. Then both reference production data and state and transition model...
Tags: 30m resolution,
Arizaona,
Botany,
Climatology,
Colorado, All tags...
Colorado Plateau,
Ecology,
Geography,
Geomorphology,
Information Sciences,
Land Use Change,
National Cooperative Soil Survey,
New Mexico,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Upper Colorado River Basin,
Utah,
Wyoming,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
cartography,
climate zones,
digital soil mapping,
ecological potential,
ecological potential and behavior,
ecological processes,
ecological site groups,
ecological sites,
geomorphology,
land management,
predictive mapping model,
rangeland management,
soil geomorphic units,
soil resources,
soil sciences,
soil survey geographic (SSURGO) database,
state and transition model,
terrestrial ecosystems, Fewer tags
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Identifying ecologically relevant reference sites is important for evaluating ecosystem recovery, but the relevance of references that are temporally static is unclear in the context of vast landscapes with varying disturbance and environmental contexts over space and time. This question is pertinent for landscapes dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) which face a suite of threats from disturbance and development but also have lengthy recovery times. Here, we applied a dynamic reference approach to studying and projecting recovery of sagebrush on former oil and gas well pads in southwest Wyoming, USA, using over 3 decades of remote sensing data (1985-2018). We also used quantile regression to evaluate factors...
Tags: Southwestern Wyoming,
USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Sagebrush Steppe,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Native Species Restoration,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Oil and gas,
United States of America, All tags...
Upper Colorado River Basin,
Wyoming,
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
biota,
habitat alteration and disturbance,
natural resource management,
remediation,
soil moisture, Fewer tags
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Identifying ecologically relevant reference sites is important for evaluating ecosystem recovery, but the relevance of references that are temporally static is unclear in the context of vast landscapes with varying disturbance and environmental contexts over space and time. This question is pertinent for landscapes dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) which face a suite of threats from disturbance and development but also have lengthy recovery times. Here, we applied a dynamic reference approach to studying and projecting recovery of sagebrush on former oil and gas well pads in southwestern Wyoming, USA using over 3 decades of remote sensing data (1985-2018). We also used quantile regression to evaluate factors...
Tags: Southwestern Wyoming,
USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Sagebrush Steppe,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Greater sage-grouse,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Native Species Restoration,
USGS-EMA-LOW-SS Oil and gas, All tags...
United States of America,
Upper Colorado River Basin,
Wyoming,
Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
biota,
habitat alteration and disturbance,
habitats,
natural resource management,
remediation,
soil moisture, 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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This raster data depicts the modeled distribution of three grassland states: Biocrust, Grass-bare, and Annualized-bare. We developed models of bare ground, total vegetation, exotic grasses and biological soil crust using spectral data from three year composites of growing season (March-October) Landsat data in Google Earth Engine and field data that were collected over the same period at monitoring sites. The resulting regression models were used to characterize the spatial distribution of putative grassland ecological states across our 251,430 ha study area in and around Canyonlands National Park, UT. This model illustrates how a remote sensing approach to land-cover change can be implemented to guide dryland ecosystem...
Tags: Canyonlands National Park,
Colorado Plateau,
Ecology,
Indian Creek grazing allotment,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Landsat,
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
arid land,
biological soil crust,
ecological state mapping,
grasslands,
land cover change,
state and transition,
vegetation indices,
vegetation monitoring, Fewer tags
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