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Submerged aquatic vegetation and environmental data along a salinity gradient in Barataria Bay, Louisiana (2015) This data set includes bi-monthly data on submerged aquatic vegetation species composition, percent cover, above and below ground biomass and environmental data at coastal sites across the fresh to saline gradient in Barataria Bay, LA. This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Gulf Coast Prairie and the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. An alternate reference to this product can be found here. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climatology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Coastal, Plants, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, All tags... South Central CASC, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, aquatic vegetation, coastal zone management, coastal zones, estuary, salinity, wetland, wetland ecosystems, wetlands, Fewer tags Informing adaptation strategies for maintaining landscape connectivity for Northern Rockies wildlife in the face of climate change Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,... Categories: Data; Tags: Alpine, Connectivity, Environment and Conservation, Forestry, Forests, All tags... Grasslands and Plains, Idaho, Land Use Change, Landscapes, Mammals, Montana, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountains, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, Wyoming, climate change, environment, natural resource management, Fewer tags Process-guided deep learning predictions of lake water temperature Climate change has been shown to influence lake temperatures in different ways. To better understand the diversity of lake responses to climate change and give managers tools to manage individual lakes, we focused on improving prediction accuracy for daily water temperature profiles in 68 lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin during 1980-2018. The data are organized into these items: Spatial data - One shapefile of polygons for all 68 lakes in this study (.shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj files) Model configurations - Model parameters and metadata used to configure models (1 JSON file, with metadata for each of 68 lakes, indexed by "site_id") Model inputs - Data formatted as model inputs for predicting temperature a. Lake... Tags: 007, 012, Ecology, Fish, Limnology, All tags... MN, Minnesota, Northeast CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, US, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, WI, Water Quality, Water Resources, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, deep learning, environment, hybrid modeling, inlandWaters, machine learning, modeling, reservoirs, temperate lakes, temperature, thermal profiles, water, Fewer tags Impact of Drought on Southwestern Pronghorn Population Trends and Predicted Trajectories in the Southwest in the Face of Climate Change Climate often drives ungulate population dynamics, and as climates change, some areas may become unsuitable for species persistence. Unraveling the relationships between climate and population dynamics, and projecting them across time, advances ecological understanding that informs and steers sustainable conservation for species. Using pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) as an ecological model, we used a Bayesian approach to analyze long-term population, precipitation, and temperature data from 18 populations in the southwestern United States. We determined which long-term (12 and 24 months) or short-term (gestation trimester and lactation period) climatic conditions best predicted annual rate of population growth... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Antilocapra americana, Arizona, Climatology, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Land Use Change, Mammals, National CASC, New Mexico, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, climate change, density dependence, integrated Bayesian population models, large herbivores, population dynamics, rainfall effects, southwestern US, southwestern United States, southwestern United States, standardized precipitation index, ungulates, western Texas, Fewer tags Seed biomass from shallow coastal water areas along a salinity gradient in Barataria Bay, Louisiana (2015) This dataset provides bi-monthly data on seed biomass collected in shallow water habitats across the fresh to saline gradient at coastal sites in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Gulf Coast Prairie and the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. An alternate reference to this product can be found here. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Climatology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Coastal, Mississippi Coastal, All tags... Plants, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, South Central CASC, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, coastal ecosystems, coastal zones, wetlands, Fewer tags Effects of Climate on Scaled Quail Reproduction and Survival Grassland birds are among the most imperiled bird guilds in North America. Scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) are a semi-arid grassland bird whose populations have declined over the past half century. We monitored scaled quail in New Mexico to study the effects of habitat, temperature and precipitation on survival of scaled quail adults, nests, and broods. Seasonal nest survival (39.4%) had a positive relationships with increasing average weekly maximum temperature and grass density, and negative relationships with increasing average minimum temperature and percent bare ground. Seasonal brood survival (49.0%) had a negative relationship with increasing average weekly minimum and maximum temperature, and with increasing... Tags: Birds, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Ecology, Land Use Change, All tags... National CASC, New Mexico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, scaled quail, southwestern US, southwestern United States, Fewer tags Climate warming of Wisconsin lakes can be either amplified or suppressed by trends in water clarity While climate change is rapidly warming lakes and reservoirs, warming rates can be highly variable among systems because lake characteristics can modulate atmospheric forcing. While it is known that water clarity changes can alter lake water temperatures, it is unknown if frequently observed water clarity trends are sufficient to meaningfully impact the thermal trajectories of diverse lake populations. Using process-based modeling and empirical observations, this study demonstrates that water clarity changes of about 1% per year amplifies or suppresses warming at rates comparable to climate-induced warming. These results demonstrate that trends in water clarity, which are occurring in many lakes, may be as important... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Climatology, Fish, Northeast CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Quality, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Projected shifts in fish species dominance in Wisconsin lakes under climate change Temperate lakes may contain both coolwater fish species such as walleye (Sander vitreus) and warmwater species such as largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Recent declines in walleye and increases in largemouth bass populations have raised questions regarding the future trajectories and appropriate management actions for these important species. We developed a thermodynamic model of water temperatures driven by downscaled climate data and lake specific characteristics to estimate daily water temperature profiles for 2151 lakes in Wisconsin, USA under contemporary (1989-2014) and future (2040-2064 and 2065-2089) conditions. We correlated contemporary walleye recruitment success and largemouth bass relative abundance... Tags: Aquatic Biology, Fish, Northeast CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags Submerged aquatic vegetation and environmental data for coastal areas from Texas through Alabama, 2013-2015 This projects primary goal was to provide data on occurrence and abundance of SAV resources within the fresh to saline coastal waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico, and to relate these findings to key environmental variables. The data set provides the collected data from 2013, 2014 and 2015 on site location, discrete water quality, aquatic vegetation cover and biomass by species. The same 384 sites were collected each year, between June and September. This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Gulf Coast Prairie and the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. An alternate reference to this product can be found here. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Coastal, All tags... Mississippi Coastal, Plants, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, South Central CASC, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, aquatic vegetation, estuary, marsh, wetland ecosystems, wetlands, Fewer tags Seed biomass from shallow coastal water areas from Texas through Alabama, 2013-2015 This projects primary goal was to provide data on biomass of potential seed resources located within shallow water coastal areas within fresh to saline coastal waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico. The data set provides biomass of seeds, by species or lowest practical taxon from 2013, 2014 and 2015 across 384 randomly selected sites located in shallow water coastal areas. The data were collected between June and September of each year. This data set can be merged with a dataset which reports submerged aquatic vegetation and environmental data collected at the same time (La Peyre et al. 2017; https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GH9G44). This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Aquatic Biology, Climatology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Coastal, All tags... Mississippi Coastal, Plants, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, South Central CASC, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, aquatic vegetation, coastal ecosystems, coastal zones, submerged aquatic vegetation, waterfowl seed resources, wetland, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Evaluating Adaptive Capacity of Desert Bighorn Sheep to Climate Change: Identifying Genetic Links to Climate Adaptations Natural selection may result in local adaptation to different environmental conditions across the range of a species. Understanding local adaptation, in turn, informs management decisions such as translocation to restore locally-extinct populations. We used a landscape genomics approach to detect genetic signatures of selection related to climatic variation among desert bighorn sheep populations across their indigenous range in the western United States. This approach allowed us to investigate broad patterns of both neutral and adaptive genetic variation across very different environments. Analyses suggested that ancestry and isolation by distance were the most significant forces driving genetic variation in desert... Tags: Arizona, California, Data, Data Release, Genetic capacity, All tags... Mammals, National CASC, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife and Plants, desert bighorn sheep, Fewer tags Data release: A large-scale database of modeled contemporary and future water temperature data for 10,774 Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes Climate change has been shown to influence lake temperatures globally. To better understand the diversity of lake responses to climate change and give managers tools to manage individual lakes, we modelled daily water temperature profiles for 10,774 lakes in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin for contemporary (1979-2015) and future (2020-2040 and 2080-2100) time periods with climate models based on the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, the worst-case emission scenario. From simulated temperatures, we derived commonly used, ecologically relevant annual metrics of thermal conditions for each lake. We included all available supporting metadata including satellite and in-situ observations of water clarity, maximum... Types: Citation; Tags: 007, 012, Climatology, Ecology, Fish, All tags... IA, IL, IN, Illinois, Illinois, Indiana, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa, MI, MN, Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Minnesota, Northeast CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, SD, South Dakota, South Dakota, US, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, WI, Water Resources, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, climate change, environment, inlandWaters, modeling, reservoirs, temperate lakes, thermal profiles, water, Fewer tags Water and Air Temperature Throughout the Range of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout in Colorado and New Mexico; 2010-2015 V2 This data set characterizes the thermal regime in a number of Colorado and New Mexico streams that contain populations of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis) or have been considered potential restoration areas for the fish. The majority of these streams had no previous record of continual temperature records. When compared to Colorado water temperature criteria (Cold Tier 1), a portion of these populations appeared to be at risk from elevated stream temperatures, as indicated by exceedance of both acute and chronic water quality metrics. Summer water temperature profiles recorded at sites within current Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout habitat indicated that although the majority of currently... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Air Temperature, Aquatic Biology, Birds, Colorado, Cutthroat Trout, All tags... Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fish, Land Use Change, Mammals, National CASC, New Mexico, Rio Grande, Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Colorado and New Mexico, Rio Grande Watershed, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Temperature, Wildlife and Plants, environment, geoscientificinformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags FishTail, Indices and Supporting Data Characterizing the Current and Future Risk to Fish Habitat Degradation in the Northeast Climate Science Center Region Human impacts occurring throughout the Northeast and Midwest United States, including urbanization, agriculture, and dams, have multiple effects on the region’s streams which support economically valuable stream fishes. Changes in climate are expected to lead to additional impacts in stream habitats and fish assemblages in multiple ways, including changing stream water temperatures. To manage streams for current impacts and future changes, managers need region-wide information for decision-making and developing proactive management strategies. Our project met that need by integrating results of a current condition assessment of stream habitats based on fish response to human land use, water quality impairment,... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Aquatic habitats, Connecticut, Data Visualization & Tools, Delaware, All tags... Fish, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Land Use Change, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Northeast CASC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Science Tools For Managers, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vermont, Virginia, Washington D.C., Water, Coasts and Ice, West Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, Wisconsin, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, drainage basins, habitat fragmentation, inlandWaters, land use and land cover, rivers, streams, water quality, Fewer tags Extreme precipitation variability, forage quality and large herbivore diet selection in arid environments Nutritional ecology forms the interface between environmental variability and large herbivore behaviour, life history characteristics, and population dynamics. Forage conditions in arid and semi-arid regions are driven by unpredictable spatial and temporal patterns in rainfall. Diet selection by herbivores should be directed towards overcoming the most pressing nutritional limitation (i.e. energy, protein [nitrogen, N], moisture) within the constraints imposed by temporal and spatial variability in forage conditions. We investigated the influence of precipitation-induced shifts in forage nutritional quality and subsequent large herbivore responses across widely varying precipitation conditions in an arid environment.... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Land Use Change, Large herbivore foraging ecology, All tags... Mammals, National CASC, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, biota, foraging ecology, herbivore, ovis canadensis mexicana, primary production, ruminant, Fewer tags Sediment carbon, submerged aquatic vegetation and environmental variables in deltaic southeast Louisiana (2015-2016) These present data on sediment carbon within submerged aquatic vegetation beds from fresh to saline coastal locations in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Water quality, site location, vegetation biomass and species composition are presented. This project was co-funded by the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative and Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks LCC. An alternate reference to this product can be found here. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Louisiana Coastal, Plants, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, South Central CASC, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, Wildlife and Plants, aquatic vegetation, carbon sequestration, coastal ecosystems, coastal zones, oceans, salinity, Fewer tags