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Chloride in water, metals in sediment and amphibian tissues and amphibian capture information from wetlands in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, 2015-2017

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Start Date
2015
End Date
2017

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Smalling, K.L., Hossack, B.R., Honeycutt, R.K., Anderson, C.W., and Cozzarelli, I.M., 2018, Chloride in water, metals in sediment and amphibian tissues and amphibian capture information from wetlands in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, 2015-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90CEFRD.

Summary

The data presented includes chloride concentration and specific conductance in surface water collected from 33 wetlands in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota, 2015-2017 as well as count data for three species of amphibians captured at each wetland. Data also includes concentrations of metals in bed sediment and larval amphibians collected from 32 and 12 wetlands, respectively in 2015-2016. Abundance of barred tiger salamanders (Ambystoma mavortium), boreal chorus frogs (Pseudacris maculata), northern leopard frogs (Lithobates pipiens) was estimated at 33 wetlands from 2015-2017. Surface water was collected in the summer from each wetland in 2015-2017 at the same time as the amphibian surveys and analyzed for chloride. [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Kelly Smalling
Originator :
Kelly Smalling, Blake R Hossack, R. Ken Honeycutt, Chauncey W Anderson, Isabelle M Cozzarelli
Metadata Contact :
Kelly Smalling
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
New Jersey Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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NorthernPlainsMetadata_Final.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		43.74 KB application/fgdc+xml
NorthernPlainsSiteInformation.txt 5.78 KB text/plain
NorthernPlains SedimentMetalsData.txt 5.28 KB text/plain
NorthernPlainsTissueMetalsData.txt 8.16 KB text/plain
NorthernPlainsAmphibianCaptureData.txt 24.75 KB text/plain
NorthernPlainsTrappingData.txt 12.7 KB text/plain
NorthernPlainsHabitatWaterQuality.txt 4.46 KB text/plain

Purpose

The data were gathered to measure the effects of brine contamination on amphibian communities and to determine if metals are associated with brine contamination of freshwater wetlands in the Williston Basin located in Montana and North Dakota. Most of these wetlands had been contaminated from historical practices but some had also been affected by recent brine spills.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P90CEFRD

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