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2011 and 2017 Pika Pathology Colorado American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are small lagomorphs that live in mountainous talus areas of western North America. Studies on the histopathology of American pikas are limited. This report summarizes the clinical histories, and gross and histologic findings of 12 American pikas, including nine captive and three wild animals. Death was often attributed to stress (transport, handling, and anesthesia) with few to no premonitory clinical signs. Two cases died due to infection: one had bacterial pyogranulomatous dermatitis, cellulitis, and lymphadenitis with sepsis; the other case had fungal necrotizing colitis. Incidental parasite infections included sarcocystosis, nematodiasis (oxyurids), and ectoparasitism. Most... Categories: Data; Tags: American pika, Colorado, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, All tags... biota, histopathology, Fewer tags Guam, Post-storm Mariana swiftlet colony size and nest counts, 2023 The Yǻyaguak (Mariana Swiftlet; Aerodramus bartschi) is an endangered cave-roosting species native to Guam and southern Mariana Islands, Micronesia. On May 24-25, 2023, Guam was hit by the category-4 Typhoon Mawar, which brought wide-spread destruction to the island. Approximately 6 weeks prior to the typhoon in April 2023 we conducted surveys of the three known colonies of Yǻyaguak at Mahlac, Maemong, and Fachi caves. This April 2023 pre-Mawar survey provided a baseline population estimate prior to Typhoon Mawar’s landfall. In July 2023, we re-surveyed the caves to estimate colony size and assess whether the cave colonies experienced significant declines in the immediate aftermath of the storm. In November 2023,... Categories: Data; Tags: Guam, Mariana swiftlet, Talofofo, Typhoon Mawar, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, farming, yǻyaguak, Fewer tags The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat): A Database and Interactive Tool for Inland Fisheries Management and Research (Depreciated April 2023) Note: this data release has been deprecated. Please see new data release here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DSOPHD. The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat) contains data compiled from 14,766 creel and angler surveys conducted by state natural resource management agencies (including Washington DC and Puerto Rico) in inland waters across the United States. Data is are contained in eight .csv files which contain information about survey characteristics (Survey_Data.csv), angler effort (AngEffort_Data.csv), catch and harvest (FishDataCompiled.csv), angler demographics (Demographic_Data.csv), angler preferences (AngPrefDataCompiled.csv), taxonomic classifications (Taxa_Data.csv), issues with catch and... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, United States, biota, fish, fisheries resources, All tags... fishery management, inland fishery resources, recreation, recreational fishery resources, Fewer tags Digital Archive of the R.S. Thompson Packrat Midden Collection, Version 1.0 This data release provides a digital inventory of the Robert S. Thompson packrat midden collection consisting of 1,740 midden samples and subsamples primarily collected in the Great Basin region of Nevada, as well as in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, and Washington, USA, by Robert S. Thompson (USGS scientist emeritus) and others between 1977 and 2006. Middens are waste piles composed of the urine and feces of packrats (Neotoma spp.) also containing plant materials, bones, and insects. Radiocarbon dating of middens indicates they can be preserved for as long as 50,000 years, and their fossil plant assemblages document changes in plant community composition through time, providing important records... Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Tags: Botany, Climatology, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Scavenging and frugivory data in the Greater Everglades, 2019 Mid-sized mammals (i.e., mesomammals) fulfill important ecological roles, serving as essential scavengers, predators, pollinators, and seed dispersers in the ecosystems they inhabit. Consequently, declines in mesomammal populations have the potential to disrupt ecological processes and degrade ecosystems. However, ecosystems characterized by high functional redundancy, where multiple species can fulfill similar ecological roles, may be less impacted by the loss of mesomammals and other vertebrates. The Greater Everglades Ecosystem in southern Florida is a historically biodiverse region that has recently been impacted by multiple anthropogenic threats, most notably the introduction of the Burmese python (Python bivittatus).... Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Everglades, Everglades National Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, All tags... biota, invasive species, natural resources, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and volatile organic compounds measured in laboratory microcosm experiments with soil from Fort Drum, New York Anaerobic microcosm experiments were conducted in April-May 2018 with PFAS-contaminated soil from a U.S. Army installation (Fort Drum, New York) and simulated groundwater. All microcosms, except for a live sediment control, were amended with perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), and 6:2 fluorotelomer sulfonate (6:2 FtS). Replicate treatments were prepared with and without bioaugmentation with the WBC-2 dehalogenating culture and with and without addition of chlorinated volatile organic compounds (1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane and trichloroethylene). Two additional treatments were prepared containing granular activated carbon. All microcosms were prepared in duplicate and sacrificed for sampling.... Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, Fort Drum, Genetics, Jefferson County, New York, All tags... New York, PFAS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, bacteria, bacteria, bacterial digestion of pollutants, biodegradation, biogeochemical cycling, biological laboratory methods, environment, laboratory experiments, reductive dehalogenation, sediment-pollutant interaction, Fewer tags Dedicated Dredging on the Barataria Basin Landbridge (BA-36): 2018 and 2021 land-water classifications 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 Dedicated Dredging on the Barataria Basin Landbridge (BA-36) project for 2018 and 2021. This data is used as a basemap land-water classifications. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems... Tags: BA-36, CWPPRA, Geography, Gulf of Mexico, Land Use Change, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana Coastal, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, aerial photography, conservation, digital elevation models, ecosystem monitoring, farming, geographic information systems, image collections, image mosaics, remote sensing, wetland ecosystems, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Invasive carp harvest data and surveys of commercial fishers in support of stock assessment and abundance models, Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, 2009-2021 The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency conducted observations onboard commercial fishing vessels. During these observations total lengths were collected from a subset of that capture which we have used to develop a length-based stock assessment of invasive carp. The first dataset represent harvest from the invasive carp harvest program in Kentucky and Tennessee from 2009-2021 only in Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake where the majority of harvest occurs. The second data are length data from a subset of those fish harvested in 2018-2021. The last dataset are the results from a survey delivered to fishers participating in the invasive carp harvest program in Kentucky... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Fisheries, Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, commercial fishery resources, invasive species, relative abundance analysis, species abundance, Fewer tags Data for Infectivity of Wild-Bird Origin Influenza A Viruses in Minnesota Wetlands Across Seasons This data set represents an ecological and laboratory-based experiment to understand influenza virus viability in surface water. Data tables included in this release consist of 1) daily mean water temperature, 2) viability of viruses maintained in water, 3) influenza detection in duck samples, 4) viral titers of experimentally inoculated water samples, and 5) water chemistry. Categories: Data; Tags: Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, Animal disease, Animal diseases/disorders/pests, Animals/vertebrates, Aquatic Biology, All tags... Avian influenza, Biota, Birds, Disease reservoirs, Disease/epidemic, Ducks/geese/swans, Environment, Environmental Health, Freshwater ecosystems, Genetics, Health, Health and disease, Influenza A virus, Lakes/reservoirs, Migratory birds, Minnesota, Persistence, Roseau River Wildlife Management Area, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virus Diseases, Viruses, Waterfowl, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, Wildlife disease, Fewer tags Data Describing Effects of Telemetry Collars on Horses and Burros Between 2016 and 2020 This dataset includes a number of datasets collected to assess the potential effects of GPS telemetry collars on free-roaming feral equid species in North America: horses and burros. The behavior dataset (Behavioral_data_collared_uncollared.csv) includes frequency of maintenance behaviors of collared and un-collared horses at Conger Herd Management Area (HMA), and burros at Lake Pleasant and Sinbad Herd Management Areas (HMAs). The dataset also includes data on collar effects to fur and superficial effects observed, showing the count of fur effects (i.e., sweaty neck, indented fur, broken fur) and superficial effects (chafe, wound, or scab) on horses and burros over the time that they wore a collar (Collar_fur_and_superficial_effects_over_time.csv).... Categories: Data; Tags: Adobe Town, Arizona, Conger Mountain, Ecology, Equus, All tags... Frisco Peak, Lake Pleasant, Sinbad, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS-EMA-LOW-SB SMC: Wild horses, Utah, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, animal behavior, biota, burro, donkey, feral donkey, feral horse, foal, mortality, telemetry, wild burro, wild horse, Fewer tags Clothianidin concentrations in milkweed leaves that leads to prepupal mortality in monarch butterflies A set of experiments was conducted to determine the dietary clothianidin exposures that cause prepupal mortality in the absence of other adverse effects. Monarch larvae were raised from hatch to pupae on clothianidin contaminated swamp milkweed plants. Larval growth, larval survival, and prepupal survival were monitored throughout the experiments in which the exposures ranged from 1.4 – 2,793.1 ng/g leaf. Exposures of 5.4 – 46.9 ng/g leaf resulted exclusively in prepupal mortality while higher exposures of 1,042.4 – 2,793.1 ng/g leaf resulted exclusively in larval mortality. An LC50 and LC10 of 37 and 6 ng/g, respectively, were estimated based on prepupal mortality. Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, butterflies, insecticides, All tags... toxicity, Fewer tags Simulations of larval fish transport and environmental conditions in Lake Michigan Data files contain the simulated mean daily environmental conditions experienced by particles (which can be assumed to be planktonic larval alewife or yellow perch) in Lake Michigan during March 15 - July 31 of past and future years. Simulations were generated by integrating a series of climatic, hydrodynamic, biogeochemical, and Lagrangian particle dispersion (LPD) models. For each year, 42,765 particles (i.e., each representing a theoretical larval fish) were released from coastal and nearshore locations and tracked sub-hourly for 50-days following their release. Each year's dataset summarizes individual particle experiences (e.g., light, zooplankton prey, temperature) into daily averages. Categories: Data; Tags: Environmental Health, Lake Michigan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biological and physical processes, early life history, All tags... ecosystem model, environment, match-mismatch, physical processes, recruitment, Fewer tags The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat): A Database and Interactive Tool for Inland Fisheries Management and Research (Depreciated April 2024) Note: this data release has been deprecated. Please see new data release here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P1WOQBRN. The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat) contains data compiled from 14,729 creel and angler surveys conducted by state natural resource management agencies (including Washington DC and Puerto Rico) in inland waters across the United States. Data is are contained in eight .csv files which contain information about survey characteristics (Survey_Data.csv), angler effort (AngEffort_Data.csv), catch and harvest (FishDataCompiled.csv), angler demographics (Demographic_Data.csv), angler preferences (AngPrefDataCompiled.csv), taxonomic classifications (Taxa_Data.csv), issues with catch and... Categories: Data Release - Revised; Tags: Aquatic Biology, United States, biota, fish, fisheries management, All tags... fisheries resources, inland fisheries resources, recreation, recreational fisheries resources, Fewer tags Corrected Fire Perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges This data package includes 481 geospatial vector polygons of historic fire perimeters associated with National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. These polygons, originally held within the Alaska Large Fire Database (ALFD), were reviewed and found to have geospatial inaccuracies with respect to the fire they represent. They were corrected and updated based on a variety of remote sensing resources; the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) database (https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html), geospatial rasters of historic fire activity derived from Landsat 1-9 imagery in the Google Earth Engine(https://earthengine.google.com) environment, and historical air photos acquired through EarthExplorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/).... Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, Disturbance, All tags... Environment, Fires, Forestry, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Izembeck National Wildlife Refuge, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Land Use / Land Cover, Land Use Change, Landsat, Landscape, Landscape Processes, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Remote Sensing, Remote sensing, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildland fire, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey Dataset Boreal Partners in Flight developed the Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey (ALMS) primarily to monitor breeding populations of landbirds in the vast off-road areas of Alaska in conjunction with data collected from the roadside North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). ALMS is a collaborative program in which agencies and other entities conduct standardized surveys of breeding birds and their habitats on the lands they manage and then provide the data to the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center for analysis and archiving. The ALMS monitoring program comprises a set of survey blocks that have been selected in a stratified-random design primarily across state and Federal natural resource lands in Alaska with... Categories: Data; Tags: Admiralty Island, Alaska, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Andreafsky Wilderness, Animal and plant census, Animals/vertebrates, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Biota, Bird behavior, Birds, Chugach National Forest, Chugach State Park, Copper River Census Area, Copper River Delta Fish and Wildlife Management Area, Cranes and allies, Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali State Park, Detection distance, Ducks/geese/swans, Eagle/falcons/hawks and allies, East Fork Skagway River, Ecology, Ecology, Environment, Environmental conditions, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Field inventory and monitoring, Fort Greely, Grebes, Habitats, Herons/egrets and allies, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, James Dalton Mountain, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Wilderness, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk River, Loons, Migratory birds, Mitkof Island, Mount Fairplay, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Natlaratlen River, North Slope Borough, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Ornithology, Perching Birds, Resident birds, Sandpipers, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, South Baranof Wilderness, Spatial distribution, Taku Glacier, Terrestrial ecosystems, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Tongass National Forest, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waders/gulls/auks and allies, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags