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Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Access to the Site for Relative Cost of Restoration Model This dataset represents ease of access to bottomland areas for vegetation treatments. Access may be by road, 4x4 near road, hike in by field crews or requiring overnight camping or raft access. Access is considered for each side of the river separately. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bottomland Boundary of the Colorado River Divided at Homogeneous River Reaches This data set shows the extent of the Colorado River Conservation Planning project bottomland area as delineated by topography and vegetation, The bottomland area is subdivided into 1 km polygons measured from the upstream project boundary. Reach breaks were determined by large topographic shifts and/or tributary junctions by John Dohrenwend. Please see the project report for more details. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags Pathology and bacteriology of 178 tadpoles with histologically confirmed Severe Perkinsea Infections: Data (i) This dataset presents macroscopic and microscopic pathological findings and bacteriology of 178 tadpoles diagnosed with Severe Perkinsea Infections. (ii) Specimen were collected and submitted to the NWHC as part of mortality investigations and collection of specimen from apparently healthy populations as part of ongoing amphibian health monitoring. (iii) Necropsies and gross evaluation of carcasses were carried out under a dissecting microscope. (iv) Severe Perkinsea Infection was confirmed in each specimen by histological observation of pathological changes in tissues with presence of Perkinsea-like organisms in at least one organ, including brain, eyes, gastrointestinal tract, gills, heart, liver, lungs, kidney,... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Unites States of Ameica, amphibian, biota, case definition, All tags... emerging infectious disease, histopathy, pathogenesis, pathogenic Perkinsea Clade, ranavirus, tadpoles, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 7 (Wyoming), Interim wy_lvl7_coarsescale: Wyoming 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, United States, Wyoming, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Cave and Karst Biota Modeling in the Appalachian LCC - Predicted Amphipods in sampled 20km grid cells We developed spatial summary (GIS) layers for a study of factors influencing the distribution of cave and karst associated fauna within the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative region, one of 22 public-private partnerships established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to aid in developing landscape scale solutions to conservation problems (https://lccnetwork.org/lcc/appalachian). We gathered occurrence data on cave-limited terrestrial and aquatic troglobiotic species from a variety of sources within the Appalachian LCC region covering portions of 15 states. Occurrence records were developed from the scientific literature, existing biodiversity databases, personal records of the authors, museum... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: biota, caves, karst Cave and Karst Biota Modeling in the Appalachian LCC - Predicted spiders in all 20km grid cells in karst We developed spatial summary (GIS) layers for a study of factors influencing the distribution of cave and karst associated fauna within the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative region, one of 22 public-private partnerships established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to aid in developing landscape scale solutions to conservation problems (https://lccnetwork.org/lcc/appalachian). We gathered occurrence data on cave-limited terrestrial and aquatic troglobiotic species from a variety of sources within the Appalachian LCC region covering portions of 15 states. Occurrence records were developed from the scientific literature, existing biodiversity databases, personal records of the authors, museum... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: biota, caves, karst Cave and Karst Biota Modeling in the Appalachian LCC - Predicted endemics in sampled 20km grid cells We developed spatial summary (GIS) layers for a study of factors influencing the distribution of cave and karst associated fauna within the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative region, one of 22 public-private partnerships established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to aid in developing landscape scale solutions to conservation problems (https://lccnetwork.org/lcc/appalachian). We gathered occurrence data on cave-limited terrestrial and aquatic troglobiotic species from a variety of sources within the Appalachian LCC region covering portions of 15 states. Occurrence records were developed from the scientific literature, existing biodiversity databases, personal records of the authors, museum... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: biota, caves, endemic species, karst Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - General Diversity Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah This is a model showing general habitat diversity, including both the structural and cover type diversity. See Open File Report, Rasmussen and Shafroth, Colorado River Conservation Planning for geoprocessing details. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Open Areas for Open Land Species Model This dataset represents the relative average amount of non-woody cover within 2 ha) of bottomland along the Colorado River from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. Traditional image interpretation cues were used to develop the polygons, such as shape, size, pattern, tone, texture, color, and shadow, from high resolution, true color, aerial imagery (0.3m resolution), acquired for the project. Additional, public available aerial photos (NAIP, 2011) were used to cross-reference cover classes. As with any digital layer, this layer is a representation of what is actually occurring on the ground. Errors are inherent in any interpretation... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags A polygon shapefile of bottomland vegetation cover and geomorphic features of the Escalante River, Utah mapped from 1981 aerial imagery We used the 1981 historical imagery of the Escalante River, Utah in ArcGIS to quantify channel area and average width and quantify woody riparian vegetation cover in two reaches of the river. Reach 1 was approximately 15 river kilometers (rkms) long and located between Sand and Boulder creeks within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Reach 2 was approximately 16 rkms in length, extending from the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area boundary to just upstream of Choprock Canyon. We delineated the extent of active channel. Active channel was defined as the portion of the channel free of vegetation. We also delineated fluvial geomorphic features such as point bars, mid-channel bars, lateral bars and floodplain.... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Escalante River, Utah, Riparian ecosystems, Southwestern U.S., biota, channel narrowing, All tags... geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, non-native plant invasion, Fewer tags Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Diversity of All Structural Types for General Diversity Model This dataset represents the variety (unique structural classes: water, bare, herbaceous, short shrubs, medium shrubs, short trees, tall trees) within 1 ha of bottomland areas. Traditional image interpretation cues were used to develop the polygons, such as shape, size, pattern, tone, texture, color, and shadow, from high resolution, true color, aerial imagery (0.3m resolution), acquired for the project. Additional, public available aerial photos (NAIP, 2011) were used to cross-reference cover classes. As with any digital layer, this layer is a representation of what is actually occurring on the ground. Errors are inherent in any interpretation of ground qualities. Due to the "snapshot" nature of the aerial photos,... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags SPV field trials bait uptake data These data were collected as part of a field trial to test the effectiveness of a sylvatic plague vaccine (see Rocke et al., 2017 for details). Vaccine and control plots were selected randomly from the available pairs at each location. Baits containing Rhodamine B, a biomarker, were distributed at each plot. At least 1 week and no more than 2 months post-baiting each year, local collaborators captured, marked, and sampled prairie dogs. Hair and whisker samples were collected from up to 50 unique prairie dogs from each plot each year. Sex, age, weight, and the identity of all current-year and prior-year recaptures were recorded for each captured animal. In the laboratory, hair/whiskers were assessed for the presence... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, Awapa Plateau, Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, Cedar City, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Colorado, Coyote Basin, Espee Ranch, Gunnison, Larimer, Lower Brule, Montana, Pitchfork Ranch, Rita Blanca National Grasslands, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wind Cave National Park, biota, health, prairie dogs, sylvatic plague vaccine, Fewer tags Hierarchically nested and biologically relevant monitoring frameworks for Greater Sage-grouse, 2019, Cluster Level 2 (Wyoming), Interim wy_lvl2_finescale: Wyoming 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, United States, Wyoming, adaptive management, All tags... biota, boundaries, graph theory, habitat connectivity, hierarchical sampling units, population monitoring, Fewer tags Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Stillness of water for Bat Watering Model This map shows the channel boundary (2011) of the Colorado River mainstem between the Utah Colorado border and the upper pool of Lake Powell, Utah (146 miles). The channel boundary was mapped from public available NAIP imagery flown on June 28, 2011, when the river flow was 886 m3/s at the Cisco gage. The channel is subdivided into channel types: fast water (main channel, secondary channel), and still water types (backwater, isolated pool and tributary channel). Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Colorado River, Grand County, Moab, All tags... San Juan County, Upper Colorado River, Utah, biota, conservation planning, environment, habitat suitability, inlandWaters, riparian, tamarisk, Fewer tags Attributed North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Master Sample and Grid-Based Sampling Frame: Mexico The NABat sampling frame is a grid-based finite-area frame spanning Canada, the United States, and Mexico consisting of N total number of 10- by 10-km (100-km2) grid cell sample units for the continental United States, Canada, and Alaska and 5- by 5-km (25km2) for Hawaii and Puerto Rico. This grain size is biologically appropriate given the scale of movement of most bat species, which routinely travel many kilometers each night between roosts and foraging areas and along foraging routes. A Generalized Random-Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) Survey Design draw was added to the sample units from the raw sampling grids (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9M00P17). This dataset represents the final 2018 NABat Sampling grid with... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Puerto Rico, All tags... United States, biota, ecosystem monitoring, location, Fewer tags High resolution earthquake catalogs from the 2018 Kilauea eruption sequence The 2018 Kīlauea eruption and caldera collapse generated intense cycles of seismicity tied to repeated large seismic (Mw ~5) collapse events associated with magma withdrawal from beneath the summit. To gain insight into the underlying dynamics and aid eruption response, we applied waveform-based earthquake detection and double-difference location as the eruption unfolded. Here, we augment these rapid results by grouping events based on patterns of correlation-derived phase polarities across the network. From April 29 to August 6, bracketing the eruption, we used ~2800 events cataloged by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory to detect and precisely locate 44,000+ earthquakes. Resulting hypocentroids resolve complex,... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Geophysics, Kilauea, Kilauea Crater, Seismology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Volcanology, biota, earthquake occurrences, volcanology, Fewer tags DisMOSH, Cost, MOSH_Shoreline: Distance to foraging areas for piping plovers including foraging shoreline, cost mask, and least-cost path distance: Smith Island, VA, 2014 Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Raster, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Barrier Island, Bayesian Network, CMGP, Charadrius melodus, All tags... Coastal Habitat, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Delmarva Peninsula, Foraging Ecology, GIS, Geographic Information Systems, MHW, Mean High Water, North America, Piping Plovers, Smith Island, Smith Island, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, United States, VA, Virginia, Virginia Coast Reserve, Virginia Coast Reserve, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, biota, ecology, environment, geography, geomorphology, geospatial analysis, geospatial datasets, Fewer tags Fish Population and Hemlock data in Delware Water Gap Forest- Data collected once using GIS prior to fish sampling. Our approach was to focus the study on smaller, headwater catchments because larger streams drained areas containing both hemlock and mixed hardwood forest, making forest-specific comparison intractable. In addition, most of these larger watersheds were impacted by humans (e.g., impoundments, agriculture, quarries) that could confound our assessment of the influence of hemlock. Even after limiting the study to headwater catchments, other possible confounding factors remained; we controlled for landscape variability (i.e., terrain and stream size) through the sampling design and we excluded others (i.e., minimum catchment area,beaver activity) through... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: biota Summary and Initial Evaluation of Enduring Features Information for the Conterminous USA, with Evaluation of Potential Use for Ecoregion Assessment Concerns about the influence of climate change on biota have emerged over the past decade, and responses in species populations and distribution patterns have already been documented (Parmesan 1996, Thomas and Lennon 1999). Current climates and communities will not simply migrate, but rather will re-form in novel ways over time (Fox 2007; Hunter et al. 1988; Williams and Jackson 2007). Due to the uncertainty of future climatic patterns and species responses, enduring features of the landscape (geophysical settings) are appropriate targets of assessment, planning, and conservation (Anderson and Ferree 2010, Beier and Brost 2010, Brost and Beier 2012; Hunter et al. 1988). Only recently have enduring features been... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climate, Completed, Conservation planning, Consevation design, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... Datasets/Database, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE PATTERNS, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE > LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, Ecoregion, Enduring features, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Species distributions, Targets, biota, biota, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Circumboreal Vegetation Map for Northwest Canada and Alaska The circumboreal vegetation mapping (CBVM) project is an international collaboration among vegetation scientists to create a new vegetation map of the boreal region at a 1:7.5 million scale with a common legend and mapping protocol (Talbot and Meades 2011). The map is intended to portray potential natural vegetation, or the vegetation that would exist in the absence of human or natural disturbance, rather than existing vegetation that is commonly generated at larger scales. This report and map contributes to the CBVM effort by developing maps of bioclimatic zones, geographic sectors with similar floristic variability, and vegetation in boreal Alaska, Yukon, northwestern British Columbia, and a mountainous portion... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Data, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, All tags... Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LAND COVER, LCC Network Science Catalog, Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, VEGETATION, VEGETATION SPECIES, Vegetation, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... »