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Grand-White Lake Landbridge Protection (ME-19): 2018 land-water classification The Louisiana State Legislature created the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Grand-White Lake Landbridge Protection (ME-19) project for 2018. This data is used as a basemap land-water classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: CWPPRA, Ecology, Geography, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Land Use Change, Land Use Change, Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, ME-19, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Broadly Shared Information Needs Among Grassland Managers in the North Central Region The broadly shared information needs for grassland managers in the North Central region to meet conservation goals in a changing climate are presented and ranked as highly relevant, somewhat relevant, or not relevant for federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental grassland-managing entities. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Grasslands, Information Needs, Kansas, Landscapes, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Central Region, North Dakota, Resource Managers, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, Fewer tags Data Release for Holocene Paleohydrology from alpine lake sediment, Emerald Lake, Wasatch Plateau of central Utah, USA Holocene sediments at Emerald Lake in central Utah (3090 m a.s.l), document the paleohydroclimatic history of the western Upper Colorado River headwater region. Multi-proxy analyses of sediment composition, mineralogy, and stable isotopes of carbonate (d18O and d13C) show changes in effective moisture for the past ca. 10,000 years at millennial to decadal timescales. Emerald Lake originated as a shallow closed-basin cirque pond during the early Holocene. By ca. 7000 cal yr BP, higher lake levels and carbonate d18O values indicate rising effective moisture and higher proportions of summer precipitation continued at least until ca. 5500 cal yr BP when a landslide entered the lake margin. Between ca. 4500 and 2400... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecology, Geomorphology, Great Basin, Holocene, Hydrology, All tags... Limnology, Sedimentology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Colorado, Utah, Wasatch Plateau, high elevation lake, lake level, late Holocene dry period, oxygen isotopes, paleoclimatology, paleohydrology, Fewer tags Wetlands in the state of Arizona We created a single map of surface water presence by intersecting water classes from available land cover products (National Wetland Inventory, Gap Analysis Program, National Land Cover Database, and Dynamic Surface Water Extent) across the U.S. state of Arizona. We derived classified samples for four wetland classes from the harmonized map: water, herbaceous wetlands, wooded wetlands, and non-wetland cover. In Google Earth Engine (GEE) we developed a random forest model that combined the training data with spatially explicit predictor variables of vegetation greenness indices, wetness indices, seasonal index variation, topographic variables, and hydrologic parameters. The final product is a wall-to-wall map of... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, Ecology, Geography, Hydrology, Land Use and Land Cover Map, All tags... Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), desert ecosystems, deserts, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, land use and land cover, wetlands, wetlands, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network 1985-2017: Average annual yields Nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads, and changes in loads, in major rivers across the Chesapeake Bay watershed have been calculated using monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay River Input Monitoring Network (RIM) stations for the period 1985 through 2017. Nutrient and suspended-sediment loads and changes in loads were determined by applying a weighted regression approach called WRTDS (Weighted Regression on Time, Discharge, and Season). Yields (represents the mass of constituent transported from a unit area of a given watershed) are used to compare the export loads from one basin to another. Yield results are obtained by dividing the annual load (pounds) of a given constituent by the respective... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, All tags... United States, Virginia, WRTDS, Washington DC, West Virginia, load analysis, nitrogen, nutrients, phosphorus, rivers, suspended sediment, trends, water quality, weighted regression, Fewer tags Niche model results predicting fundamentally suitable and unsuitable habitat for freshwater mussel concentrations in the Meramec Basin This layer represents fundamentally suitable and unsuitable habitat for freshwater mussels in the Meramec Basin as modeled by these authors on May 17, 2017 based on spatial data ranging from 1990 to 2014. Identification of habitat characteristics associated with the presence of freshwater mussels is challenging but crucial for the conservation of this declining fauna. Most mussel species are found in multi-species assemblages suggesting that physical factors influence presence similarly across species. In lotic environments, geomorphic and hydraulic characteristics appear to be important factors for predicting mussel presence. We used maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling to evaluate hydrogeomorphic variables associated... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Hydrology, MaxEnt, Meramec, All tags... Missouri, Ozark, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, conservation planning, freshwater mussels, hydrogeomorphology, riverscape, unionids, Fewer tags Active channel in the Lower Virgin River before a 40 yr flood (December 2010) Active channel as defined by remote sensing before (2010) a 40 year return period flood (December 2010) within the lower Virgin River, Nevada. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Nevada, Virgin River, active channel, biota, All tags... lidar, orthophotography, remote sensing, Fewer tags Integrated modeling of climate and land change impacts on future dynamic wetland habitat – a case study from California’s Central Valley This dataset consists of raster geotiff and tabular outputs of annual map projections of land use and land cover for the California Central Valley for the period 2011-2101 across 5 future scenarios. Four of the scenarios were developed as part of the Central Valley Landscape Conservation Project. The 4 original scenarios include a Bad-Business-As-Usual (BBAU; high water, poor management), California Dreamin’ (DREAM; high water, good management), Central Valley Dustbowl (DUST; low water, poor management), and Everyone Equally Miserable (EEM; low water, good management). These scenarios represent alternative plausible futures, capturing a range of climate variability, land management activities, and habitat restoration... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, California Valley, Ecology, Land Use Change, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Water Resources, agriculture, boundaries, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, farming, geoscientificInformation, land use and land cover, location, planningCadastre, wetlands, Fewer tags Greater sage-grouse population change (percent change) in a low oil and gas development, high population estimate scenario, and with no effects of climate change (2006-2062) This data set defines boundaries of oil and gas project areas, greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) core areas, and non-core and non-project areas within the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI; southwestern Wyoming). Specifically, the data represents results from the manuscript “Combined influences of future oil and gas development and climate on potential Sage-grouse declines and redistribution” for low oil and gas development, high population size, and no climate component. The oil and gas development scenario were based on an energy footprint model that simulates well, pad, and road patterns for oil and gas recovery options that vary in well types (vertical and directional) and number... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Climate, Cumulative effects, Distribution, Greater sage-grouse, Individual based model, All tags... Landscape change, Multiple stressors, Oil and gas development, United States, WLCI, WY, Wyoming, Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, Fewer tags Breeding bird species in peatland habitats, Seney NWR, 2007-2009 The avian community of peatland habitats were surveyed along belt transects established in multiple units of Seney National Wildlife Refuge, representing peatland habitats dominated by a range of sedge to shrub cover at varying levels. Surveys were conducted during the 3-week period of mid-May to early June and again during mid-June-early July in three years (2007–2009). Three datasets are included here 1) data of presence/absence of breeding bird species detected in each 100-m segment of belt transects, 2) four-letter codes for bird species, and 3) environmental and land-cover attributes summarized for 200-m buffers around the bird-survey segments (100m x 100m), and number of years since each segment was burned,... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecology, Michigan, Schoolcraft County, Seney National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, aquatic birds, biota, birds, breeding, fire ecology, fire effects, freshwater ecosystems, inland waters, land use and land cover, landscape, landscape factors, local factors, transect sampling, wetland birds, wetlands, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 6 (Wyoming), Interim wy_lvl6_coarsescale: Wyoming hierarchical cluster level 6 (coarse-scale) for Greater sage-grouse We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, United States, Wyoming, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 2 (Nevada), Interim nv_lvl2_finescale: Nevada hierarchical cluster level 2 (fine-scale) for Greater sage-grouse We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Nevada, United States, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 7 (Nevada), Interim nv_lvl7_coarsescale: Nevada hierarchical cluster level 7 (coarse-scale) for Greater sage-grouse We developed a hierarchical clustering approach that identifies biologically relevant landscape units that can 1) be used as a long-term population monitoring framework, 2) be repeated across the Greater sage-grouse range, 3) be used to track the outcomes of local and regional populations by comparing population changes across scales, and 4) be used to inform where to best spatially target studies that identify the processes and mechanisms causing population trends to change among spatial scales. The spatial variability in the amount and quality of habitat resources can affect local population success and result in different... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Nevada, United States, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Estimated habitat suitability for the American burying beetle using land cover classes in the Southern Plains (ver. 1.1, June 2020) Potentially suitable habitat for the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) was identified within the Southern Plains. The American burying beetle (ABB) is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, but in 2019 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to reclassify this species as threatened. We applied a deductive model for the ABB that identified potentially suitable habitat using LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Types (EVT). The habitat model ranked each EVT using one of four categories: (1) favorable; suitable vegetation to support all or critical portions of the ABB life cycle, (2) conditional; favorable only under certain conditions including seasonality of flooding and land management... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: American burying beetle, Arkansas, Kansas, LANDFIRE, Missouri, All tags... Nicrophorus americanus, Oklahoma, Southern Plains, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, endangered species, entomology, habitat suitability, habitats, insects, surface disturbance, vegetation, vegetation classification, wildlife biology, Fewer tags Mesocarnivore Survey of Crater Lake National Park, Klamath Network, 2016 Remote camera stations were set up in Crater Lake National Park from June to October 2016 to document occurrence of mesocarnivores and other wildlife. 124 cameras were set up at 31 primary sampling units (clusters of 4 cameras) throughout the park. Random locations for primary sampling units were chosen using a 3-km sampling grid over the park area. The dataset contains all species observed within the study time-frame, the date and time of observation and the number of individuals detected as well as identification for individual locations, cameras and images. Of the three target species of conservation concern (Pacific fisher (Pekania pennanti), Pacific marten (Martes caurina), Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Crater Lake National Park, Ecology, Klamath, Klamath Monitoring Network, Oregon, All tags... Pacific Northwest, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, camera survey, carnivores, environment, image collections, insects, mammals, mesocarnivores, wildlife, Fewer tags Timing of Occurrence of Waterfowl in U.S. Counties and Canadian Counties, Boroughs, Census Districts, and Other Populated Area Designations with Modeled Exposure Status to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus in 2021-2022 This data provides county level occurrence information for all individuals used in modelling potential exposure and spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAIv) from the 2021-2022 North American outbreak. The data set contains individual identifiers and taxa information, an indicator of exposure, exposure status (Susceptible, Exposed by HPAIv detection in the county, or Exposed by secondary contact with an exposed bird), and date of first occurrence of each individual bird and that bird's exposure status within each visited county. Herein, county refers to any county, parish, borough, census area, or geographic region identified in the associated geospatial data US_CAN_AI.shp (ESRI shapefile format). Occurrence... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Canada, Ecology, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, All tags... Wildlife Disease, avian influenza, biogeography, biota, birds, disease vectors, economy, geoscientificInformation, location, maps and atlases, migratory species, Fewer tags 6. Strata boundaries for nesting Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) surveys at Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kauaʻi, in 2019 We used a stratified-random sampling approach to estimate the total abundance of Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna pacifica) nest sites across Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR), Kauaʻi, during 1-7 July 2019. We first identified strata as unique geographic areas of the refuge to account for potential differences in nesting habitat and non-uniform nest site clustering. We then sub-divided strata where we expected high, low, minimal, or no nest site abundance. These distinctions were based on knowledge of shearwater nesting distribution gained while performing extensive ground-searching for tropicbirds across the entire refuge in April and May 2019. We delineated strata boundaries using recent satellite... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Kauai, USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Seabirds, animal and plant census, biota, plot sampling Greater Sage-grouse Nest Site Source-Sink, Nevada and California 2019 Ranked index of model-projected nest site selection integrated with nesting productivity (i.e., nest survival), demonstrating the spatial distribution of adaptive vs. maladaptive habitat selection at each 30 m pixel. Hierarchical models of nest selection and survival were fit to landscape covariates within a Bayesian modeling framework in Nevada and California from 2009 through 2017 to develop spatially explicit information about nest site selection and survival consequences across the landscape. Habitat was separated into 16 classes ranking from high (1) to low (16). Habitat ranked highest where the top nest selection and survival classes intersected (adaptive selection), whereas the lowest rank occurred where... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Nevada, Western U.S., biota, All tags... environment, geospatial analysis, habitat alteration, maladaptive habitat selection, nest survival, source-sink, Fewer tags WNS Summer Surveillance: DATA Bats occupying hibernacula during summer months may play an important role in the epidemiology of white-nose syndrome (WNS). For example, bats exposed to viable Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the causative agent of WNS, in late summer could spread the fungus by transmitting it to other bats or to other locations suitable for establishment of new environmental reservoirs. To explore risks for transmission of Pd during the non-hibernal season, we screened bats using hibernacula between July 18 to August 22, 2012 and associated environmental samples for presence of Pd. Study sites within the eastern United States included six hibernacula known to harbor Pd and two hibernacula in which bats with WNS had not been... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Virginia, environmental reservoir, guano, human-assisted movement, summer surveillance, white nose syndrome, Fewer tags Summer Season Habitat Suitability Index Raster Dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California during summer (July to mid-October), which is a surrogate for habitat conditions during the sage-grouse brood-rearing period. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... 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