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Distribution Models Predicting Groundwater Influenced Ecosystems in the Northeastern United States Globally, groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly vulnerable to groundwater extraction and land use practices. Groundwater supports these ecosystems by providing inflow, which can maintain water levels, water temperature, and chemistry necessary to sustain the biodiversity that they support. Many aquatic systems receive groundwater as a portion of base flow, and in some systems (e.g., springs, seeps, fens) the connection with groundwater is significant and important to the system’s integrity and persistence. Groundwater management decisions for human use may not consider ecological effects of those actions on GDEs, which rely on groundwater to maintain ecological function. This disconnect between... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Ecology, Hydrology, Land Use Change, New England, Remote Sensing, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, groundwater, groundwater influenced ecosystems, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, modeling, northeastern United States, northeastern states, prediction, Fewer tags Movement of two prairie fishes in Oklahoma, USA, October-June (2018-2020) This dataset provides field tagging and recapture information used to examine the movement patterns of Arkansas River Shiner Notropis girardi and Emerald Shiner Notropis atherinoides. Fish were tagged and recaptured from October 2018 to June 2020 over two field seasons. Tagged fish were collected using seine netting at seven locations in the first field season and four locations in the second field season. Once captured, all fish were anesthetized using buffered tricaine methanesulfonate before measuring and tagging. Over the first field season (2018-2019), all fish were tagged with two visible implant elastomer (VIE) tags. Arkansas River Shiner ≥ 50 mm total length were also tagged with a passive integrated transponder... Tags: Canadian River, animal behavior, aquatic biology, field sampling, fish Range-wide habitat suitability maps for at-risk species in the longleaf system The data contained in child items of this page were developed to support the Species Status Assessments conducted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and conservation planning for State, Federal, and non-government researchers, managers, landowners, and other partners for five focal herpetofauna species: gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), southern hognose snake (Heterodon simus), Florida pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus), gopher frog (Lithobates capito), and striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus). These data were developed by the USGS Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Georgia in collaboration with other partners. The three child items contain the following data: (1)... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Florida Pine Snake, Georgia (GA), Gopher Frog, All tags... Gopher Tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, Heterodon simus, Lithobates capito, Louisiana (LA), Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), Notophthalmus perstriatus, Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus, South Carolina (SC), Southeast, Southern Hognose Snake, Striped Newt, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), amphibians, at-risk species, habitat suitability models, longleaf pine, reptiles, Fewer tags Effects of Wetland Management and Associated Abiotic Processes on Rare Plant Communities of Spring-fed Arid Wetlands at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge 2019-2020 This dataset consists of three datafiles: 1) vegetation, 2) abiotic factors, and 3) groundwater levels. Vegetation data were collected twice per month between July and September of 2019 and 2020. Data was collected by establishing 1m x 1m subplots within 12 5m-radius sampling plots distributed across the management units of Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Subplots were established to represent plot-level vegetation structure and facilitate estimates of rare plant relative abundance. The abiotic factors dataset includes observations of surface soil moisture, salinity, groundwater quality data, and rare plant presence taken weekly between March – October 2019 and May – October 2020 at each established plot within... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Hydrology, New Mexico, New Mexico, All tags... Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, biota, endangered, groundwater, rare plant, wetland, Fewer tags Microsatellite genotypes and metadata for white-tailed deer samples from the Mid-Atlantic region of USA Dataset containing information for white-tailed deer samples from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and New York, genotyped for 11 microsatellites markers. Marker OvirQ should not be used as it presents alleles inconsistent with reported pattern, with some alleles separated by only 1 base pair and inconsistent between runs. Projected coordinates representing sampling location are in a user-defined CRS, similar to USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic: "+proj=aea +lat_1=29.3 +lat_2=45.3 +lat_0=23 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs". Categories: Data; Tags: Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... United States, Virginia, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, genetics, population and community ecology, wildlife population management, Fewer tags Pre- and post-White-nose Syndrome Bat Capture Models These data are the collection of generalized linear mixed models run for AIC comparison of the pre- and post-White-nose Syndrome bat mist-net captures and percent juveniles in capture by year, time since White-nose Syndrome at collection set, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service designated geographic units, states or NABAT grid cell, collection site mean temperature, collection site temperature range and collection site elevation. Models are inclusive of data from 1999-2019 for the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) and the tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, All tags... bats, biota, Fewer tags Bat Detector Type Comparison Data from Fort Knox, Kentucky These data are night level totals of bat calls by species and phonic group recorded at Fort Knox, Kentucky during the summer of 2017. Data contain recordings from zero-crossing frequency division and full spectrum receiving units. Categories: Data; Tags: Hardin County, Kentucky, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Knox, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, All tags... acoustic, bat, detector, Fewer tags Southern hognose snake Species Status Assessment data products The three datasets were used in a model estimating the current and future persistence of 222 populations of southern hognose snakes, as estimated as part of the USFWS Species Status Assessment. Because these datasets contain information about sensitive species at risk of overcollection and harassment, they do not contain any spatial identifying information. The "HESIM_locs" dataset contains a list of southern hognose snake occurrence records with associated year of observation and population ID. The "SEsnakes_locs" dataset contains a list of non-target snake species occurrence records with associated year of observation and population ID. The "HESIM_pops_all" dataset contains a list of southern hognose snake populations... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 3 Rs, Alabama (AL), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Heterodon simus, All tags... Mississippi (MS), North Carolina (NC), South Carolina (SC), Southeast, Southern Hognose Snake, Species Status Assessment (SSA), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), at-risk species, longleaf pine, population persistence, Fewer tags Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Volume 1 (2022 - 2023) This volume's release consists of 64642 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated"... Categories: Data; Tags: AMBER, AMMonitor, American marten, American mink, Canada lynx, All tags... Ecology, Maine, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, bobcat, coyote, ecosystem monitoring, environment, ermine, field inventory and monitoring, fisher, long-tailed weasel, moose, raccoon, red fox, red squirrel, snowshoe hare, time series datasets, trail camera wildlife monitoring, vertebrates, white-tailed deer, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags Input and output shapefiles used in the hydraulic modeling for selected streams in Stark County, Ohio. Digital flood-inundation maps for selected streams in Stark County were created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and the Stark County Commissioners as part of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Study (FIS). The flood-inundation maps show estimates of the areal extent corresponding to the 1% and 0.2% annual-exceedance probability floods. Flood profiles were computed for the stream reach by means of the one-dimensional step-backwater model. Tags: Ohio, Stark County, Stark County, Ohio, hydraulic, modeling Photo files for SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project Data Release Volume 1 (4) The compressed files shown below consist of approximately 63000 out of 281258 total raw media files (photos) associated with the data release entitled SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project Data Release Volume 1; doi:10.5066/P1VUKJQK. Data describing hypoxia vulnerability in the salmon watersheds of Southeast Alaska This .zip file contains five products that will allow users to recreate the analyses and spatial data figures used in Sergeant et al. 2023, Hypoxia Vulnerability in the Salmon Watersheds of Southeast Alaska: 1) Hypoxia vulnerability calculations (.csv file) at water temperature monitoring sites, 2) Hypoxia vulnerability calculations (.csv file) for stream reaches near hatchery release sites, 3) Habitat characteristics (.csv file) at water temperature monitoring sites, 4) R code (.R file) for recreating Figure 3, modeled contours of the estimated number of pink salmon/m2 to create hypoxia in Southeast Alaska streams across all potential combinations of velocity, depth, and water temperature, 5) Esri map package (.mpk... Tags: Alaska, Aquatic Biology, Coastal ecosystems, Dissolved oxygen, Hatchery, All tags... Pacific salmon, Reaeration, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water temperature, biota, farming, Fewer tags Stream hydrology and a pulse subsidy shape patterns of fish foraging Pulsed subsidy events create ephemeral fluxes of hyper-abundant resources that can shape annual patterns of consumption and growth for recipient consumers. However, environmental conditions strongly affect local resource availability for much of the year, and can heavily impact consumer foraging and growth patterns prior to pulsed subsidy events. Thus, a consumer’s capacity to exploit pulse subsidy resources may be influenced by antecedent environmental conditions, but this has rarely been shown in nature and is unknown in aquatic ecosystems. We sampled fish at a high frequency (daily - weekly measurements) to examine the importance of hydrologic variation and a salmon pulse subsidy on the foraging patterns of two... Categories: Data; Tags: Coho Salmon, Dolly Varden, Fish foraging, Southeast Alaska, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, Fewer tags Study attributes and summary results of fish responses to restoration extracted from systematic review of studies published between 2010 and 2020 Study attributes and summary results of fish responses to restoration extracted from systematic review of studies published between 2010 and 2020. Data were used in meta-analysis as part of the publication "Are river restoration projects designed and evaluated to effectively address current stressors to inland fish and fisheries?" by Rogosch et al. Each row is data extracted from a study with comparative design (i.e. Before-After or Control-Impact) and sufficient information to be analyzed in a quantitative meta-analysis. Study attributes include the type of restoration measure, species of interest, target age group of species, control and treatment descriptors, years of monitoring before and after restoration,... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, fish, freshwater ecosystems, All tags... remediation, river systems, Fewer tags Point locations and species and behavioral identifications of colonial nesting seabirds on Maine's coastal islands interpreted from 2019 plane-based imagery This dataset includes XY coordinates and species and behavioral observations of birds detected in aerial imagery captured over coastal islands along Maine's coast during 30 May. - 3 June 2019. The Partenavia P.68 Observer plane flew over 268 islands within the Gulf of Maine (GOM). The plane flew at an altitude of 310 m above ground level and was equipped with a PhaseOne iXU-RS1000 (100 megapixel) multispectral camera and 70 mm lens to capture 4-band (red, green, blue, (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) light) imagery with a ground sampling distance of 2 cm/px. Timing for the aerial image collection was selected to reflect peak nesting periods for the focal species (Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Double-crested... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy, Maine Coastal, North Atlantic, Remote Sensing, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, aerial photography, biota, birds, wildlife population management, Fewer tags Sample locations 2022 SARS-CoV-2 testing in little brown bats The potential introduction of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, into North American bat populations is of interest to wildlife managers due to recent declines of several species. Populations of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) have collapsed due to white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by the introduction and spread of the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). Throughout much of the United States and southern Canada, large colonies of the species routinely established diurnal roosts in anthropogenic structures creating the potential for direct human contact and cross-species disease transmission. Given recent declines and the potential for further disease impacts,... Categories: Data; Tags: Maryland, Myotis lucifugus, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, All tags... Rhode Island, SARS-CoV-2, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Wildlife Disease, biota, little brown bat, Fewer tags Wyoming Range Physicochemical and Biological Data (2016) This data release supports the manuscript: Walker, R.H. and A.W. Walters. 2019. A mechanistic understanding of ecological responses to anthropogenic surface disturbance in headwater streams. Ecosphere 10(10):e02907. 10.1002/ecs2.2907. It includes one data set with physicochemical and biological data from 40 stream sites (100 m length) in the Wyoming Range for summer 2016. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Green River basin, Water Resources, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Range, biota, conductivity, environment, fish, food availability, habitat, inlandWaters, land-use change, macroinvertebrates, mechanisms, oil and natural gas development, streams, structural equation modeling, Fewer tags Roundtail Chub and Flannelmouth Sucker movement data within the Blacks Fork subbasin, Wyoming 2019-2021 The dataset includes Roundtail Chub and Flannelmouth Sucker detections at passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag antenna systems. We installed nine instream Biomark PIT-tag antenna systems (five 24-meter and four 9-meter antennas) in a pass-over orientation throughout the Blacks Fork subbasin. In addition to the fixed antennas, we used a Biomark inflatable antenna and two Biomark submersible PIT-tag antenna systems to increase detections. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, biota, All tags... environment, fish, movement, Fewer tags Photo files for SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project Data Release Volume 1 (2) The compressed files shown below consist of approximately 63000 out of 281258 total raw media files (photos) associated with the data release entitled SiMPL Wildlife Magnet Project Data Release Volume 1; doi:10.5066/P1VUKJQK. Expert assessments of hypotheses concerning the etiological agent(s) of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease collected during a rapid prototyping project This dataset is from expert elicitation of a panel of 15 experts with knowledge of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) and its impacts on coral reefs. We gathered this group of 15 participants with diverse expertise who had previously studied SCTLD including at universities and various government agencies as microbiologists, pathologists, disease ecologists, population ecologists, and coral experts. Participants represented marine disease experts in Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina, and the US Virgin Islands. We then used a rapid prototyping approach (Runge and Converse, 2017) to elicit, structure, and evaluate existing knowledge regarding the etiology of SCTLD. Our approach began with eliciting hypotheses about... Categories: Data; Tags: Caribbean, Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Disease, All tags... biota, coral reefs, disease ecology, etiology, expert elicitation, hypothesis testing, stony coral tissue loss disease, wildlife disease, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 »