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Exotic and perennial grass cover for pastures in the Soda Fire (2016) The point data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Point Data.csv") includes 2016 vegetative cover values of exotic annual grass and perennial grass measured within three different types of plots for 75 pastures in the Soda Fire, which burned in 2015: 6m² plot using a grid-point intercept photo software, SamplePoint (Booth et al. 2006), 1m² quadrat using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field, 531m² circular plot using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field. Smaller plots were nested within larger plots. The pasture data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Pasture Data.csv") includes pasture level metrics of area, elevation, precipitation, slope, heatload, soils, and herbicide... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Idaho BLM, Land Use Change, All tags... Malheur County, Oregon, Owyhee County, Soda Wildfire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, exotic annual grass, fires, grid point intercept, perennial grass, sample size, vegetation, vegetation cover, Fewer tags Lake Erie Ecological Investigations 1980-2000: Benthic Invertebrate Community Analysis This Benthic Invertebrate Community Analysis dataset, a conceptual subgroup of the Lake Erie Ecological Investigations (LEEI) dataset, focuses on the benthic invertebrates sampled at Areas of Concern (AOCs) on Lake Erie. Per the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP), the invertebrate samples were taken from sediments remaining from the sediment analysis. Identification of the invertebrates was completed by the same invertebrate taxonomist for both the 1998-2000 evaluation and 1986-87 historical evaluation (Smith et al. 1994) for increased consistency. Oligochaetes were identified to species if possible, chironomids were identified to genus, as adult specimens are needed for specific identification, and other taxa... Categories: Data; Tags: AOCs, Ameiurus nebulosus, Ashtabula, Ashtabula River, Black River, All tags... Black River, Buffalo, Buffalo River, Cleveland Harbor, Cleveland Harbor, Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga River, Detroit, Detroit River, Detroit River, Great Lakes, Great Lakes, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Areas of Concern, Huron River, Lake Erie, Lake Erie, Lake Erie, Lake or marine sediment, Love Canal (historical), Maumee River, Michigan, Michigan, Mud Brook, Mud Brook, New York, New York, Niagara River, Niagara River, Ohio, Ohio, Old River, Old Woman Creek, Old Woman Creek, Ottawa River, PAHs, PCBs, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Presque Isle Bay, Presque Isle Bay, aquatic ecosystems, benthos, benthos, biomarkers, biota, brown bullhead, contamination and pollution, datasets, ecotoxicology, environment, field sampling, fish, fish, freshwater ecosystems, heavy metal pollution, histology, industrial pollution, inlandWaters, invertebrates, invertebrates, liver tumors, metal elements, pathology, pesticide and herbicide contamination, plant and animal testing, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, population and community ecology, remediation, sediment, sediment analysis, species diversity, specimen collecting, toxic trace element contamination, water resources, Fewer tags Lethality of bloom forming cyanobacteria on zebra and quagga mussel veligers collected from the Detroit River Zebra and quagga mussel veligers were exposed to eleven distinct cultures (isolates) of cyanobacteria representing Anabaena, Aphanizomenon, Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix species and the cyanotoxin microcystin to determine the lethality of cyanobacteria on dreissenid veligers. Six-day laboratory bioassays were performed in microplates using dreissenid veligers collected from the Detroit River, Michigan, USA. Veligers were exposed to increasing concentrations of cyanobacteria and microcystin using the green algae Chlorella minutissima as a control. Raw data were fit to dose response curves formulated from a Probit model to calculate LC50 values. This data release presents the raw data summarized and... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Belle Isle, Detroit, Detroit River, Ecology, All tags... Environmental Health, Great Lakes, Michigan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, aquatic biology, developmental biology, environment, invasive species, Fewer tags FiCli: Fish and Climate Change Database (ver. 2.0, Oct 2023) Inland fishes provide important ecosystem services to communities worldwide and are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Fish respond to climate change in diverse and nuanced ways which creates challenges for practitioners of fish conservation, climate change adaptation, and management. Although climate change is known to affect fish globally, a comprehensive online, public database of how climate change has impacted inland fishes worldwide and adaptation or management practices that may address these impacts does not exist. We conducted an extensive, systematic primary literature review to identify peer-reviewed journal publications describing projected and documented examples of climate change... Categories: Data; Tags: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, All tags... Oceania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:63eff8edd34efa0476b039b7, climate adaptation, climate change, climate change, database, fish, fisheries management, inland, inland fishery resources, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Historical Ice Breakup Dates for Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, 1911 to 2021 (ver. 4.0, June 2021) Note: this data release has been superseded by version 5.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HT2NNP Ice breakup dates of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior from 1911 to 2021 were compiled by Lori Evrard (USGS, GLSC, Lake Superior Biological Station, Ashland, WI). Ice breakup date is the day in spring when winter ice cover substantially leaves a water body. Local residents deem "ice breakup" as when the ice moves northeast of a line straight across Chequamegon Bay out from Ellis Avenue (State highway 13). Another way ice breakup was determined has been if you could drive a boat from the outlet of Fish Creek to Houghton Point. The ice may move back and forth over that line but the ice is breaking up, moving... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Ashland, Chequamegon Bay, Climatology, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, All tags... Wisconsin, bays, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, lake ice, snow and ice cover, time series datasets, Fewer tags Cladophora biomass and supporting data collected in the Great Lakes, 2019 (ver. 2.0, December 2023) This dataset records Cladophora and associated submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) biomass collected approximately monthly during the growing season of 2019 at stations located along the U.S. shoreline of Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. It also records a variety of supporting data collected at Cladophora measurement stations. These supporting data include: - seasonal time series of light, currents, wave action, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen from moored sensors at a subset of stations; - measurements of Secchi disk depth and water chemistry; - water column profiles of temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll,... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: CTD measurement, Great Lakes Region, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, All tags... Lake Ontario, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), acoustic Doppler current profiling, algae, algal blooms, aquatic biology, aquatic vegetation, benthos, biota, environment, eutrophication, freshwater ecosystems, habitat alteration and disturbance, inlandWaters, invasive species, mollusks, nuisance species, nutrient content (water), optical methods, oxygen content (water), phosphorus, submerged aquatic vegetation, surface water quality, suspended material (water), turbidity, water pH, water sampling, water temperature, Fewer tags Juvenile Salmonid Densities in Orwell Brook and Trout Brook, New York 2014-2023 Individual point estimates of stream density by juvenile salmonid species in two small tributaries to the Salmon River, Lake Ontario, New York were recorded. Enumeration of salmonid species was observed using a backpack electrofisher in order to identify fish species. Stream density estimates were calculated using stream width measurements taken at equally spaced transects. Comparisons of species densities between the two streams were analyzed to infer competition or segregation. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Chinook Salmon, All tags... Coho Salmon, Ecology, Lake Ontario, New York, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus tshaytscha, Orwell Brook, Oswego County, Rainbow Trout, Salmo salar, Salmo trutta, Salvelinus fontinalis, Trout Brook, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, Fewer tags Adaptive management in native grasslands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Implications for grassland birds, 2011-2013 data release This database contains records of grassland bird abundance and vegetation structure on tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Specifically, under the adaptive-management decision framework (Native Prairie Adaptive Management [NPAM] intiative), we surveyed breeding birds and sampled vegetation on 89 native prairie NPAM units managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including 55 units in 2011, 87 units in 2012, and 87 units in 2013. The NPAM units occurred in 19 USFWS refuge complexes and wetland management districts, including 14 complexes in USFWS Region 6 (North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana) and five complexes in USFWS Region 3 (Minnesota). Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Minnesota, Montana, National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota, All tags... Prairie Pothole Region, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wetland Management District, Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, environment, grassland ecosystems, population and community ecology, Fewer tags Stream Segments Captures and Crossings Associated With 2012 Aquatic Organism Passage Study Siuslaw National Forest Stream segments, aquatic organism captures, stream surveys, and road-stream crossings described by these metadata accompany a 2012 electrofishing study of the distribution and abundance of aquatic organisms (fish, lampreys, amphibians and crayfish), conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Pacific Northwest Region Aquatic and Riparian Ecosystem Monitoring Project (AREMP) of the U.S. Forest Service, in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon, USA. The purpose of the study was to quantify the effectiveness of stream-road crossing restoration (culvert replacement to the stream simulation standard) in terms of numbers of fish and length of stream gained through restoration, and to quantify the continuing... Types: Citation; Tags: Alsea River, Aquatic Biology, Big Creek, Big Elk Creek, Cape Creek, All tags... Coast Range, Douglas County, Ecology, Five Rivers, Forestry, Horse Creek, Lane County, Lincoln County, Little Nestucca River, Maple Creek, Neskowin Creek, Nestucca River, North Fork Beaver Creek, North Fork Smith River, Oregon, Salmon River, Siuslaw National Forest, Siuslaw River, Tillamook County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Umpqua River, Wildlife Biology, Yamhill County, aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity, fishery resources, freshwater ecosystems, migratory species, seasonal migration, Fewer tags Chesapeake Bay Watershed historical and future projected land use and climate data summarized for NHDPlusV2 catchments This dataset consists of historical estimates and future projections of land use and climate data summarized within the 1:100,000 National Hydrography Dataset Version 2 (NHDPlusV2) framework for catchments and upstream accumulated watersheds. Historical land use data are for the year 2005 and future land use projections are for the years 2030, 2060, and 2090. The projections offer a unique combination of thematic detail (17 land-use and land-cover classes). Historical climate estimates are averaged over the time period 1980-1999 and future climate projections are averaged over 20-year periods centered around the years 2030, 2060, and 2090. Climate data include seasonal measures of average air temperature (℃) and... Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia, climate change, geographic information systems, geography, land use and land cover, natural resources, water quality, water resources, Fewer tags Cladophora biomass and supporting data collected in the Great Lakes, 2021 This dataset records Cladophora and associated benthic algae, collectively Cladophora community or submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), biomass collected during the growing season of 2021 at stations located along the U.S. shoreline of Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. It also records a variety of supporting data collected at Cladophora measurement stations. These supporting data include: - seasonal time series of light, currents, wave action, temperature, specific conductivity, turbidity, pH, phycocyanin, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen from moored sensors at a subset of stations; - measurements of Secchi disk depth and water chemistry; - water column profiles of PAR, temperature, specific conductivity,... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, CTD measurement, Ecology, Great Lakes Region, Lake Erie, All tags... Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Limnology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, algae, algal blooms, aquatic biology, aquatic vegetation, benthos, biota, environment, eutrophication, field sampling, freshwater ecosystems, habitat alteration and disturbance, inlandWaters, invasive species, mollusks, nuisance species, nutrient content (water), optical methods, oxygen content (water), phosphorus, submerged aquatic vegetation, surface water quality, suspended material (water), turbidity, water pH, water sampling, water temperature, Fewer tags Results of a U.S. General Public Survey to Inform the 2018 North American Waterfowl Management Plan Update (2017) This contains data from 1,030 surveys returned in 2017 from across the United States. Data were collected via a mail-out survey stratified by the population of each state. Data collected include nature-related activity participation, attitudes and barriers to hunting and birdwatching, knowledge of others who hunt and birdwatch, preferred birds, involvement in conservation activities, preferences for information channels on nature-related topics, trust in sources on nature-related topics, wetlands knowledge/visitation, evaluation of wetlands' ecosystem services, and demographics. The purpose of this survey was to inform the 2018 update of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, birds, culture and demographics, society Variation in pollen transport, Badlands NP, 2018 This dataset consists of data collected at Badlands National Park (Interior, SD) that were used in the analysis in support of the article titled "Conserving all the pollinators: Variation in probability of pollen transport among insect taxa," which has been submitted to "Natural Areas Journal." Data collected between May-October, 2010 and 2011, and June-July 2012 included insects found in contact with floral reproductive parts of focal plant species, or plant species within a 1 ha plot surrounding focal plant, and pollen species removed from the collected insects' bodies. Focal plant species included Astragalus barrii (May-June 2010-11), Eriogonum visheri (July-August, 2010-11), Chrysothamnus parryi (September-October... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Badlands National Park, Ecology, Great Plains, Hymenoptera, Jackson County, All tags... Oglala Lakota County, Pennington County, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, flower-visitors, non-Hymenoptera insects, pollination, Fewer tags USGS Dam Removal Science Database v4.0 This database is the result of an extensive literature search aimed at identifying documents relevant to the emerging field of dam removal science. In total the database contains 296 citations that contain empirical monitoring information associated with 207 different dam removals across the United States and abroad. Data includes publications through 2020 and supplemented with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams database, U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System and aerial photos to estimate locations when coordinates were not provided. Publications were located using the Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information. Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Australia, Austria, Canada, Connectivity, Dam Removal, All tags... Ecology, Ecosystems, Energy Resources, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, Hydrologic alteration, Japan, Korea, Land Use Change, Lentic, Lotic, Meta-Analysis, NFHP Cooperator, NoVisual, Norway, Spain, Spatial Data, Sweden, Taiwan, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wales, Water, Water Quality, Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Quagga mussel spawning and fertilization success in laboratory bioassays under exposure to cyanobacteria, 2014-2016 Laboratory bioassays were conducted between 2014-2016 at Wayne State University in cooperation with USGS to determine if different species of cyanobacteria influence quagga mussel spawning and fertilization success. The data describes the algal cultures tested and their density/concentration, the number of individuals tested, and the spawning and fertilization success of quagga mussels exposed to the cyanobacteria and those that were not (control). Categories: Data; Tags: Algae, Bivalvia, Cyanobacteria, Detroit River, Dreissena bugensis, All tags... Invasive species, Reproduction, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags Lake Erie Ecological Investigations 1980-2000: Sediment Analysis This Sediment Analysis dataset, a conceptual subgroup of the Lake Erie Ecological Investigations (LEEI) dataset, focuses on the sediments sampled at Areas of Concern (AOCs) on Lake Erie. Per the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP), sediment collections were a composite of at least five randomly selected samples collected from each site. Per an internal summary report, sediment samples were collected using a stainless steel Eckman dredge. Analytical methods and QA/QC were directed by the Patuxent Analytical Control Facility (PACF) of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Per Dora Passino-Reader, the Geochemical & Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University, College Station performed the analytical chemistry... Categories: Data; Tags: AOCs, Ameiurus nebulosus, Ashtabula, Ashtabula River, Black River, All tags... Black River, Buffalo, Buffalo River, Cleveland Harbor, Cleveland Harbor, Cuyahoga River, Cuyahoga River, Detroit, Detroit River, Detroit River, Great Lakes, Great Lakes, Great Lakes, Great Lakes Areas of Concern, Huron River, Lake Erie, Lake Erie, Lake Erie, Lake or marine sediment, Love Canal (historical), Maumee River, Michigan, Michigan, Mud Brook, Mud Brook, New York, New York, Niagara River, Niagara River, Ohio, Ohio, Old River, Old Woman Creek, Old Woman Creek, Ottawa River, PAHs, PCBs, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Presque Isle Bay, Presque Isle Bay, aquatic ecosystems, benthos, benthos, biomarkers, biota, brown bullhead, contamination and pollution, datasets, ecotoxicology, environment, field sampling, fish, fish, freshwater ecosystems, heavy metal pollution, histology, industrial pollution, inlandWaters, invertebrates, invertebrates, liver tumors, metal elements, pathology, pesticide and herbicide contamination, plant and animal testing, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, population and community ecology, remediation, sediment, sediment analysis, species diversity, specimen collecting, toxic trace element contamination, water resources, Fewer tags Pre-restoration biological and physical assessment of the lower Rouge River, MI, 2018 Data are from biological and physical environmental assessments conducted during 2018 in the lower Rouge River, MI. Sites were located upstream, downstream, and within the concrete channel section of the lower Rouge River. Water quality parameters, riparian zone characteristics, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, and river channel characteristics (water depth, flow, velocity) were assessed during 2018 from June-October. Previously established standardized sampling methods were used during all assessments. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Benthos, Ecology, Michigan, River Rouge, All tags... Rouge River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, acoustic doppler current profiling, amphibians, biota, environment, environmental assessment, fish, macrophytes, reptiles, Fewer tags Historical Ice Breakup Dates for Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior, 1911 to 2020 (ver. 3.0, June 2020) Note: this data release has been superseded by version 4.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HT2NNP. Ice breakup dates of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior from 1911 to 2020 were compiled by Lori Evrard (USGS, GLSC, Lake Superior Biological Station, Ashland, WI). Ice breakup date is the day in spring when winter ice cover substantially leaves a water body. Local residents deem "ice breakup" as when the ice moves northeast of a line straight across Chequamegon Bay out from Ellis Avenue (State highway 13). Another way ice breakup was determined has been if you could drive a boat from the outlet of Fish Creek to Houghton Point. The ice may move back and forth over that line but the ice is breaking up, moving... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Ashland, Chequamegon Bay, Climatology, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, All tags... Lake Superior, bays, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, lake ice, Fewer tags Bottom dissolved oxygen measurements from Lake Erie's Central Basin, 2021-2022 This data set, compiled by the USGS Lake Erie Biological Station, provides near-bottom measurements of temperature and dissolved oxygen for the Central Basin of Lake Erie. Data were recorded by self-contained environmental data loggers (PME, Inc., MiniDOT data loggers). The data loggers were deployed to collect data during August 2021 through November 2022 to better understand how hypoxia develops and influences fish habitat quality during lake stratification. The data loggers were deployed on acoustic telemetry receivers in a network designed to record tagged fish movements (Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System, GLATOS). Additional years of data collection are planned, and data release will be updated... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Canada, Ecology, Environmental Health, Lake Erie, All tags... Limnology, Ohio, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, farming, field sampling, freshwater ecosystems, inlandWaters, oxygen content (water), oxygen saturation (water), water temperature, Fewer tags Plant and soil data for nitrogen critical load experimental plots, Badlands and Wind Cave National Parks, South Dakota, 2010-2013 Plant and soil data were collected in experimental plots in two sites ("Terrace" and "Hilltop") at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, and one site ("BSV") at Badlands National Park, South Dakota. At each site, 70, 2.5 x 2.5 m plots were assigned randomly to nitrogen-alone or nitrogen+water addition treatments (or no treatment for the control). Treatments were applied and data collected 2010-2013. The dataset includes six tables: (1) experimental treatments by plot and year; (2) plant and soil metrics analyzed in the larger work; (3) plant tissue and soil total carbon and nitrogen raw data; (4) plant biomass raw data; (5) canopy and ground cover raw data; and (6) canopy and ground cover codes. Categories: Data; Tags: Badlands National Park, Botany, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wind Cave National Park, biodiversity, biological productivity, biota, environment, grassland ecosystems, invasive plants, invasive species, native species, nitrogen, plant communities, plants (organisms), vegetation, Fewer tags 1 2 3 »