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Macroinvertebrate and water quality data from the Prairie Pothole Region of the Williston Basin (2014-2016) These datasets contain aquatic macroinvertebrate and water quality data collected from 159 wetlands in Montana and North Dakota within the Prairie Pothole Region of the Williston Basin. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Energy Development, Energy Resources, All tags... Montana, North Dakota, Prairie Pothole Region, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Wetland, Williston Basin, biota, Fewer tags UMRR LTRM 2020 LCU Mapping - Mississippi River Pool 12 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program, through its Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) element, collected aerial imagery of the systemic Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) during the summer of 2020. A Land Cover/Land Use (LCU) spatial database was developed based on the 2020 aerial imagery, which adds a fourth systemic-wide database to the existing 1989, 2000, and 2010/11 LCU databases. While a crosswalk was used to update the 1989 LCU database (originally developed using a different classification system), the 2000, 2010/11, and 2020 LCU databases share the same classification, making them directly comparable from a classification standpoint. Furthermore, protocols... Tags: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Ecology, All tags... USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Mississippi River, Wisconsin, aquatic vegetation, biota, ecology, floodplains, long-term ecological monitoring, maps and atlases, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetlands, Fewer tags Vegetation dynamics related to climate and land use in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands We are analyzing spatial factors of land cover transition in Puerto Rico and conducting state and transition simulation modeling of vegetation dynamics. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Conservation NGOs, Conservation planning, All tags... Conservation planning, Datasets/Database, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Map, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population and Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Publication, Regional & county planners, Regional & county planners, State agencies, State agencies, biota, completed, environment, project, Fewer tags Effects of Non-native Brown Trout and Temperature on the Production of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Populations Native Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii spp. populations in the western U.S. have declined in part due to displacement by nonnative trout, but mechanisms to explain displacement vary by species and geography. Using a production framework, we demonstrated allopatric populations of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout O. c. virginalis (RGCT) exhibited consistently higher biomass and secondary production rates (0.19–0.92 g DM·m-2·yr-1) than sympatric populations with Brown Trout Salmo trutta (0.01–0.05 g DM·m-2·yr-1) and that an interactive temperature effect on RGCT biomass and production was overshadowed by the presence of Brown Trout across cold and warm streams. Interestingly, over half of trout production was fueled... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Biological Production, New Mexico, Rocky Mountain SW, biota, ecology, All tags... freshwater ecosystems, Fewer tags Arizona Mule Deer South of I 40 Stopovers South of Interstate 40 mule deer reside in Game Management Units (GMU) 8 and 6B in Arizona. The herd summers in high-elevation open meadows and ponderosa pine habitat southwest of Flagstaff, Arizona. In late October, the herd migrates west to lower elevation pinyon-juniper and shrub habitats near the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 89. With funding support by the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI) through Secretarial Order 3362, research on this herd’s migration began in February 2020. Additional GPS collars were deployed in January 2022 with support from the U.S. Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation, and other partners. Primary threats to the herd’s migration involve high volume roads including Interstate... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Arizona, Ash Fork, Bellemont, Flagstaff, Parks, All tags... United States, Williams, animal behavior, biota, migration (organisms), migration route, migratory species, Fewer tags California Mule Deer Siskiyou Routes The Siskiyou mule deer herd migrates from winter ranges primarily north and east of Mount Shasta (i.e., Day Bench, Lake Shastina, Montague, Mount Dome, Mount Hebron, Sheep-Mahogany Mountain, Tionesta, and Wild Horse Mountain) to sprawling summer ranges scattered between the Mount Shasta Wilderness in the west and the Burnt Lava Flow Geological Area in the east. A small percentage of the herd are residents, residing largely within winter ranges across the central and northeast areas of the herd’s annual distribution. The total population size of the Siskiyou herd is unknown, but adult deer densities averaged 6.01 deer per km2 on summer ranges in 2017 and 5.16 deer per km2 on winter ranges in 2019 (Wittmer and others,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Mount Shasta, United States, animal behavior, biota, All tags... migration (organisms), migration route, migratory species, Fewer tags Wyoming Mule Deer Jackson Routes Mule deer within the Jackson segment of the Sublette herd winter mainly in the valley and south-facing slopes of the buttes. These geologic features are characteristic of the Jackson Hole area near Jackson, Wyoming. Winter ranges in the Jackson valley are a mixture of national forest public land as well as private urban and exurban land. The lower elevation, south-facing hillslopes are typified by stands of Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper) or mixed mountain shrub communities of Artemisia tridentata (mountain big sagebrush), Artemisia tripartite (three-tip sagebrush), Purshia tridentata (antelope bitterbrush), Amelanchier alnifolia (Saskatoon serviceberry), Symphoricarpos albus (common snowberry), chokecherry,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Jackson, United States, Wyoming, animal behavior, biota, All tags... migration (organisms), migration route, migratory species, Fewer tags UMRR LTRM 2020 LCU Mapping - Mississippi River Pool 01 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program, through its Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) element, collected aerial imagery of the systemic Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) during the summer of 2020. A Land Cover/Land Use (LCU) spatial database was developed based on the 2020 aerial imagery, which adds a fourth systemic-wide database to the existing 1989, 2000, and 2010/11 LCU databases. While a crosswalk was used to update the 1989 LCU database (originally developed using a different classification system), the 2000, 2010/11, and 2020 LCU databases share the same classification, making them directly comparable from a classification standpoint. Furthermore, protocols... Tags: Minnesota, USGS-EMA-LOW-MR Landscape Ecology, USGS-EMA-LOW-PL Mississippi River, aquatic vegetation, biota, All tags... ecology, floodplains, long-term ecological monitoring, maps and atlases, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, wetlands, Fewer tags Overview of Sampled Lakes, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where sampling occurred, approximate geographic coordinates of each lake, historical dynamics of the lake, and indication of measurements taken at the lake. Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Biogeochemical cycles, Biomass, Biomass dynamics, Biota, All tags... Community ecology, Environment, Landscape ecology, Primary production, Yukon Flats, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags Aboveground Net Primary Production Estimates from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, the historical dynamics of that lake, the sampled community type, and the dry mass of annual new growth. Shrub community measurements are a combination of understory mass from quadrat harvests and shrub stem mass derived from published allometric equations. Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Biogeochemical cycles, Biomass, Biomass dynamics, Biota, All tags... Community ecology, Environment, Landscape ecology, Primary production, Terrestrial ecosystems, Wetland ecosystems, Yukon Flats, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags Soil Properties of Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water content (VWC), and bulk density (BD) of soil core samples within organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities. Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Biogeochemical cycles, Biota, Environment, Lake drying, All tags... Landscape ecology, Nutrient cycling, Terrestrial ecosystems, Wetland ecosystems, Yukon Flats, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags Vulnerability of Sagebrush Ecosystem to Oil and Gas Development for the Green River Basin For the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD) assessment, we mapped the vulnerability of the sagebrush ecosystem to oil and gas development for each 12-digit hydrologic unit. Using a vulnerability framework, we defined Sensitivity (S) as the multi-scale average of sagebrush ecosystem land cover derived from LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type (LANDFIRE 2014). Exposure (E) to oil and gas development was quantified as the average kernel density of active oil and gas wells at multiple scales. Potential Impact (PI) is the square root transformed product of oil and gas development exposure and sagebrush ecosystem sensitivity. Adaptive Capacity (AC) for sagebrush ecosystem was quantified as the inverse... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Utah, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, biota, completed, environment, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, map, oil and gas, oil and gas, sagebrush, sagebrush, vulnerability, vulnerability, Fewer tags Vulnerability of Critical Fish Habitat to Oil and Gas Development in the Green River Basin For the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD) assessment, we mapped the vulnerability of the critical habitat for threatened and endangered fish species to oil and gas development for each 12-digit hydrologic unit. The following threatened and endangered fish species were included in this vulnerability assessment: Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), Bonytail Chub (Gila elegans), Humpback chub (Gila cypha), and razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus). Using a vulnerability framework, we defined Sensitivity (S) as the average combined area of critical fish habitat within HUC12 polygons. Exposure (E) to oil and gas development was quantified the log transformed upstream flow accumulation of... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Utah, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, biota, bonytail chub, bonytail chub, colorado pikeminnow, colorado pikeminnow, completed, critical fish habitat, critical fish habitat, environment, gila cypha, gila cypha, gila elegans, gila elegans, humpback chub, humpback chub, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, map, oil and gas, oil and gas, ptychocheilus lucius, ptychocheilus lucius, razorback sucker, razorback sucker, vulnerability, vulnerability, xyrauchen texanus, xyrauchen texanus, Fewer tags Vulnerability of Riparian Habitat to Land Uses in the Green River Basin For the Green River Basin Landscape Conservation Design (GRB LCD) assessment, we mapped the vulnerability of riparian habitat for terrestrial species and process. Using a vulnerability framework, we defined Sensitivity (S) as the percent riparian vegetation within the valley bottom and Exposure (E) as the amount of human modification within the valley bottom. For each 12-digit hydrologic unit code within the GRB LCD we summarized the riparian sensitivity and exposure to human modification. We also computed Potential Impact (PI), and Adaptive Capacity (AC) metrics at the HUC12 level. PI is the square root transformed product of human modification exposure and riparian sensitivity. AC for riparian exposure to human... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, All tags... LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Utah, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, biota, completed, environment, green river basin, human modification, human modification, human modification, land uses, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, landscape conservation design, map, riparian, riparian, riparian, vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability, Fewer tags Buildings with Elevation in Babeldaob, Palau Palau buildings (from PALARIS) with elevation data (extracted from USGS DEM) Categories: Data; Tags: Buildings, Pacific Islands, Palau, Sea level rise, biota Datasets for Evaluation and Review of Ecology Focused Stream Studies to Support Cooperative Monitoring, Fountain Creek Basin, Colorado The data in this release were used to help evaluate and understand the distribution of fish and invertebrates as well as ecological response to streamflow, water temperature, and water chemistry within the Fountain Creek Basin. This data release consists of invertebrate data collected between 1985 and 2022, fish data collected between 2003 and 2022, as well as the data neccesary to recreate the tables and figures in the associated U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report (http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sirXXXXXXXX). See Zuellig and others (2022) for sampling methodology and site information. Categories: Data Release - In Progress; Tags: Aquatic biology, Benthic environments, Colorado, Community ecology, Ecology, All tags... Rivers, United States, aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, biota, ecology, fish, invertebrates, surface water (non-marine), Fewer tags Fish Datasets for Evaluation and Review of Ecology Focused Stream Studies to Support Cooperative Monitoring, Fountain Creek Basin, Colorado These data were used to describe temporal trends in fish communities in the Fountain Creek basin. Fish data were collected between 2003 and 2022. Datasets include fish frequency of occurrence and flathead chub catch per unit of effort. Description of fish sampling methodology are documented in the associated publication (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PUY4FC). Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado, United States, aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, biota, All tags... ecology, freshwater ecosystems, population and community ecology, surface water (non-marine), Fewer tags Shale gas data used in development of the Disturbance Intensity Index for the Pennsylvania portion of the Upper Susquehanna River basin in Maloney et al. 2018 Data on 17 metrics of shale gas development in the Pennsylvania portion of the Upper Susquehanna River basin that was collated from a variety of sources and summarized at the upstream catchment scale. Data were also standardized by upstream area and transformed into rank scores based on metric distribution and then summarized into a Disturbance Intensity Index (DII). See Maloney et al. 2018 for detailed descriptions of each data sets and limitations of data. (Maloney, K. O., J. A. Young, S. P. Faulkner, A. Hailegiorgis, E. T. Slonecker, and L. E. Milheim. 2018. A detailed risk assessment of shale gas development on headwater streams in the Pennsylvania portion of the Upper Susquehanna River Basin, U.S.A. Science... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Ecology, Pennsylvania portion of the Upper Susquehanna River basin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, environment, All tags... inlandWaters, Fewer tags NW-Interior Nevada time series (2018-2068) of potential habitat and 50-year change Potential future greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat restoration was projected (2018-2068) for three sage-grouse Priority Area for Conservation (PACs) populations located along the northwestern, central, and eastern edge of the Great Basin using outputs from a spatially explicit state-transition simulation model (STSM) developed for sagebrush ecosystems. These datasets, for the NW-Interior Nevada, USA (NWINV) sage-grouse population, include: 1) a set of 78 categorical raster layers illustrating a time series (decade intervals) of potential future habitat, and 2) a set of 15 uncategorized raster layers illustrating potential change in habitat classification across space, after simulating 50 years... Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, NW-Interior Nevada Priority Area for Conservation, Nevada, Sagebrush biome, All tags... United States, biota, environment, perennial grass cover, post-fire restoration, sage-grouse habitat, sagebrush cover, sagebrush revegetation, state-and-transition simulation model, vegetation change, Fewer tags State-and-Transition Simulation Models, parameters, input data, and simulation results This is a spatially-explicit state-and-transition simulation model (STSM) of sagebrush-steppe vegetation dynamics for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs) in the Great Basin. The STSM was built using the ST-Sim platform and uses an integrated stock-flow submodel (STSM-SF) to simulate and track continuous vegetation component cover changes caused by annual growth, natural regeneration, and post-fire sagebrush seeding and planting restoration. Spatially explicit models were built for three sage-grouse PACs (Klamath Oregon/California [KLAM], NW Interior Nevada [NWINV], Strawberry Utah [STRAW]) that differed in historic wildfire patterns and the amounts of various component... Tags: California, Centrocercus urophasianus, Greater sage-grouse, Klamath OR/CA Priority Area for Conservation, NW Interior NV Priority Area for Conservation, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Sagebrush biome, Simulation model, Strawberry Priority Area for Conservation, United States, Utah, annual grass cover, biota, environment, perennial grass cover, pinyon-juniper cover, post-fire restoration, sage-grouse habitat, sagebrush cover, sagebrush revegetation, state-and-transition simulation model, vegetation change, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 ... 27 »