Marvin-DiPasquale, M.C., Alpers, C.N., Windham-Myers, L, Fleck, J.A., Agee, J.L., Kieu, L.H., Kakouros, E., Arias, M., Orlando, J., Bennett, P.A., Stumpner, E., Kinnard, K.D., Ward, A.J., and Rose, S.L., 2018, Shallow Sediment Geochemistry in a Mercury-Contaminated Multi-Habitat Floodplain: Cache Creek Settling Basin, Yolo County, California, 2010–17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7W094TH.
Spatial information on the distribution of habitat categories within the CCSB boundaries allows for the statistical analysis of the sediment mercury and non-mercury data (see ‘Associated Items’) by landuse type, and allows for scenario testing and quantitative modeling based on landuse changes. The categories used for CCSB were representative of then-current landuse distributions, classifiable using spectral remote sensing, and are relevant to basin management as well as mercury biogeochemistry. Although validated in CCSB only, the 9 landuse categories represented herein are regionally significant and representative, allowing for some extrapolation of study findings, in terms of differences in Hg and non-Hg biogeochemistry by landuse type, to the larger Central Valley of California.