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Historical and 21st century soil temperature and moisture data for drylands of western U.S. and Canada These data represent simulated soil temperature and moisture conditions for current climate, and for future climate represented by all available climate models at two time periods during the 21st century. These data were used to: 1) quantify the direction and magnitude of expected changes in several measures of soil temperature and soil moisture, including the key variables used to distinguish the regimes used in the R and R categories; 2) assess how these changes will impact the geographic distribution of soil temperature and moisture regimes; and 3) explore the implications for using R and R categories for estimating future ecosystem resilience and resistance. Tags: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, All tags... Climatology, Colorado, Ecology, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Saskatchewan, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, aridification, aridity, big sagebrush ecosystems, biota, cheatgrass, clay loam, climate, climate change, climate models, concentration pathways, drought resistance, droughts, ecological model, ecological transformation, ecosystem resilience, future time periods, historical conditions, resilience, sandy loam, silt loam, soil temperature, soil types, vulnerability, Fewer tags Western Spadefoot Habitat Selection Based on Radio Telemetry in Orange County, California 2019 We conducted a radio telemetry study of adult western spadefoots (Spea hammondii) at 2 sites in southern California to characterize their survival, behavior, and movements from breeding through aestivation to inform conservation and management for the species. These data support the following publication: Halstead, B.J., Baumberger, K.L., Backlin, A.R., Kleeman, P.M., Wong, M.N., Gallegos, E.A., Rose, J.P., and Fisher, R.N., 2021. Conservation implications of spatiotemporal variation in the terrestrial ecology of an ephemeral pool-breeding amphibian. The Journal of Wildlife Management. Categories: Data; Tags: California, Orange County, Southern California, Spea hammondii, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, activity, amphibians, anuran, biota, ecology, environment, habitat selection, home range, movement, survival, western spadefoot, Fewer tags Humpback Chub (Gila cypha) capture history data (2009-2017), and code for mark-recapture analysis and stochastic matrix projections, Colorado River and Little Colorado River, Arizona These data represent capture histories for humpback chub (Gila cypha) that spawn in the Little Colorado River (LCR) from 2009-2017. Capture histories pertain to size class (<150mm total length [TL], 150-199mm TL, 200-249mm TL, and >250mm TL) and spatial location (the juvenile chub monitoring [JCM] reach in the Colorado River [63.4-65.0 river miles downstream of Lees Ferry], lower LCR [0-13.56 km upstream of Colorado River confluence], and upper LCR [13.57-17.9 km upstream of Colorado River confluence]). Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Colorado River, Ecology, Geography, All tags... Gila cypha, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, PIT tag, Translocation (threatened and endangered species), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, capture histories, conservation action, decision-making, humpback chub, lower Colorado River, multistate model, natural resource management, size class, spatial location, translocation, Fewer tags Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags MIROCESM Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags BNU Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags Pre-fire satellite derived and field calculated functional cover across Great Basin megafires Data includes satellite derived pre-fire functional group cover of annual and perennial herbaceous, shrubs, bareground and litter across four rangeland megafires in the Western US, as well as field estimated invasive annual grass measurements from the 2nd to 3rd years post-fire. Additional landscape and restoration treatment covariates hypothesized to influence post-fire invasive annual grass cover are included. Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia tridentata, Botany, Bromus tectorum, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Land Use Change, Nevada, Oregon, Poa secunda, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, lichens, mosses, vegetation, Fewer tags Data describing the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry facilities on Delmarva by wild waterfowl These data support a paired USGS publication and document the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry farms by wild waterfowl. Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, avian influenza, biota, All tags... domestic poultry, wild waterfowl, Fewer tags Hydrodynamic model of the Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona: tables of model results and accuracy assessment These data were compiled to provide a resource for other researchers interested in water-surface elevations and flow velocity across a wide range of discharge in the study reach for the project. Objective(s) of our study were to construct a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for the 15.8 mile tailwater reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona. These data represent the results of the two-dimensional modeling effort with each data table (50) including the results of each run of the model. Additionally, other data represent a comparison of modeled water surface elevations to measured water surface elevations for historic Bureau of Reclamation cross sections in the study... Tags: Arizona, Coconino County, Colorado River, Geography, Glen Canyon, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:6595800dd34e3265ab152e47, Water Resources, accuracy assessment, bathymetry, bathymetry measurement, bed shear stress, data release, digital elevation models, elevation, flow velocity, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic characteristics, hydrodynamics, hydrographic datasets, inlandWaters, mathematical modeling, shoreline extents, stream discharge, streamflow, tailwater reach, topography, two-dimensional hydrodynamic model, velocities, water depths, water surface elevation, Fewer tags Vegetation and water classifications for a segment of the Paria River upstream of the Colorado River Confluence, Arizona, USA These data represent total vegetation and surface water along approximately 12 kilometers of the Paria River upstream from the confluence of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona. They are derived from airborne, multispectral imagery obtained in late May 2009, 2013, and 2021, collected with a push-broom sensor with 4 spectral bands depicting Blue, Green, Red and Near-Infrared wavelengths at a spatial resolution of 20 centimeters. The vegetation classification data were created using a supervised classification algorithm provided by Harris Geospatial in ENVI version 5.6.3 (Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Boulder, Colorado). The water data were created using a Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index... Tags: Arizona, Botany, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF data, Colorado River, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Lonely Dell, Marble Canyon, Northern Arizona, Paria River, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, airborne imagery, biota, change detection, classification maps, data release, ecosystem monitoring, flooding, gNDVI, image classification, image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, maps and atlases, multispectral high resolution data, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, riparian vegetation, river ecosystems, river reaches, river systems, river tributaries, supervised classification, surface water (non-marine), total vegetation, vegetation, vegetation classification maps, water maps, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Various Lake Powell data used for predicting smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth based on thermal suitability below and downstream of Glen Canyon Dam These data were compiled to create models that estimate entrainment rates and population growth rates of smallmouth bass below Glen Canyon Dam. Objective(s) of our study were to predict smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth under different future scenarios of Lake Powell elevations and management. These data represent parameters needed for associated models and data needed to produce figures. These data were collected from publicly available online sources including published papers and federal government datasets. These data were assembled by researchers from U.S. Geological Survey, Utah State University, Colorado State University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These data can be used to run... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Global Horizon Irradiance, Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Page, Page Airport, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Williams, adaptive management, age class, air temperature, area, bathymetry, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, depth suitability, ecological processes, elevation, entrainment rates, environment, evaporation, field inventory and monitoring, inflow projections, inlandWaters, mean observed lengths, modeling, observed daily depths, outflow projections, population growth, precipitation (atmospheric), reproduction, reservoir water quality model CEQUAL-W2, smallmouth bass, solar, study areas, surface water (non-marine), surface water quality, temperature profiles, thermal suitability, water depths, water temperature, Fewer tags Data and software code from two long-term experiments (1996-2011 and 2005-2018) at three sites on the Colorado Plateau of North America These data were compiled to examine how climate change affects biocrust recovery from both physical and climate-induced disturbance. Objective(s) of our study were to uncover the trajectory of biological soil crust communities and soil stability following disturbance and under warming. These data represent biological soil crust surveys under 5 treatments at three sites. These data were collected at three sites: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Castle Valley. Data collection for a physical disturbance experiment where annual human-trampling occurred at the sites in Arches and Canyonlands began in 1996 and was concluded in 2018. Data collection for a 13-year full-factorial in situ climate manipulation... Tags: 20 point-intercept frames, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Castle Valley, Climatology, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Information Sciences, PRISM Climate Data, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, air temperature, altered precipitation, biocrust recovery, biological soil crusts, biota, climate change, climate manipulation experiment, climate-induced disturbance, effects of climate change, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field sampling, field soil aggregate stability kitshuman-trampling, geoscientificInformation, habitat alteration and disturbance, in situ, long-term experiment data, mechanical disturbance, physical disturbance experiment, precipitation (atmospheric), soil sciences, soil stability, surveys, treatmtents, undisturbed control, warming, warming and altered precipitation, Fewer tags In vitro expression, immunogenicity, and efficacy data from recombinant raccoon poxvirus-vectored rabies vaccine candidates tested in mice This work is part of an experimental trial to develop and assess novel recombinant raccoonpox virus (RCN) rabies vaccines in the mouse model, for potential use in bats. Briefly, our research group previously developed a recombinant RCN vaccine candidate expressing a mosaic glycoprotein (MoG) gene that protected mice and big brown bats when challenged with rabies virus (RABV). We developed two new recombinant RCN candidates expressing MoG (RCN-tPA-MoG and RCN-SS-TD-MoG) with the aim of improving RCN-MoG. We assessed and compared in vitro expression, in vivo immunogenicity, and protective efficacy in vaccinated mice challenged intracerebrally with RABV. In this data set, we share results of immunofluorescence assay... Categories: Data; Tags: A/J mice, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI, RABV, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI - Hanson Biomedical Sciences, All tags... Wildlife Disease, biota, rabies, rabies virus, raccoon poxvirus, recombinant, vaccine, Fewer tags Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks Mortality and Fire Data (1990-2019) for Competition-Fire-Drought Interaction Analysis This dataset records mortality-- including involvement of bark beetles-- and burn severity information for trees in long term forest dynamics plots in Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park that experienced fire. These data support the following publication: Furniss, T.J., Das, A.J., van Mantgem, P.J., Stephenson, N.L. and Lutz, J.A., 2021. Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees. Ecological Applications, p.e2507, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2507 Categories: Data; Tags: California, Forestry, Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Yosemite National Park, bark beetle, biota, fires, forest ecosystems, insects, plot sampling, temperate forest, tree mortality, Fewer tags Stream Temperature in the Lahontan Basin of Nevada and California, 2017-2019 This dataset includes hourly stream temperature data for 139 temperature logger sites throughout the Lahontan Basin Region of Northern Nevada and Eastern California. Data loggers were part a study beginning in 2017, with data available through 2019 for most locations. The spatial data layer contains site locations, geographic information, data summaries, mean August stream temperatures, and modeled NorWeST stream temperatures. The Wet-Dry delineation file contains daily flow status estimates derived from stream temperature data for each site. The Site Visit file contains the date and time of the site visit along with associated information on site flow conditions, water depths, logger conditions, and stream logger... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic Biology, California, Ecology, Hydrology, Intermittent, All tags... Nevada, Perennial, Stream / River, Stream Temperature, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Watershed, environment, inlandWaters, streamflow, surface water (non-marine), water temperature, Fewer tags Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, California is considered a mercury-impaired watershed. Elevated concentrations of mercury are found in water and sediment as well as fish and estuarine birds. Sources of mercury to the watershed since 1845 include sediment-associated mercury from mercury mining, mercury losses from gold amalgamation activities in mines of the Sierra Nevada, aerial deposition of mercury from global and regional emissions to air, and the direct discharge of mercury to Bay waters associated with the urbanization and industrialization of the estuary. We assessed historical trends in mercury bioaccumulation by measuring mercury concentrations in feathers of the endangered California Ridgway’s rail (formerly California... Categories: Data; Tags: California Ridgway's Rail, Feathers, Ice Cores, Lake Tahoe, Mercury, All tags... San Francisco Bay, Sediment, Structural Equation Model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, Fewer tags Plant trait and soil moisture data associated with ontogenetic trait shifts - seedlings display high trait variability during early stages of development These tabular data were compiled to document how key plant trait values change during plant development, particularly seedling stages, and in relation to soil moisture. An objective of our study was to answer three main research questions: (1) Do seedling trait values differ across early to late stages of seedling development and do those trajectories vary among plant species and functional types (i.e., forbs vs. grasses)?; (2) Does water availability influence seedling ontogenetic trait variation? and, if so, does this variation affect plant species drought performance?; and (3) Do seedling trait values at early stages of development differ from complied trait database values for species? These data represent key... Tags: Arizona, Botany, Ecology, Flagstaff, Information Sciences, All tags... Northern Arizona University, Research Greenhouse, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biological and physical processes, biota, functional types, laboratory experiments, life sciences, ontogeny, organism growth and development, plant development, plant traits, plants (organisms), root dry matter content, root:shoot ratio, roots, seed germination, seed treatments, seeding, seedling development, seedling traits, seeds, soil moisture, specific leaf area, specific root length, vegetation, Fewer tags Poplar Island Digitizing In order to allow for a comparison across years we visually digitized landcover of Poplar Island from a single image per year at a 1:1000 spatial extent with a minimum mapping unit of 300 square meters (no minimum dimensions aside from area). Images used to assign landcover were provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and were captured between July and October of their respective years. All images were 1 foot resolution. Categories: Map; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Digitizing, Ecology, Geographic Information Systems, All tags... Geospatial Datasets, Habitats, Information Sciences, Maps and Atlases, Poplar Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), mapping, Fewer tags Population genetic data for two species of tiger beetles, Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsalis and H. d. media This dataset includes microsatellite genotypes for 44 collections of Habroscelimorpha dorsalis dorsalis and 14 collections of H. d. media distributed from Massachusetts to Florida, United States. Categories: Data; Tags: Florida, Massachusetts, biota, genetic diversity, tiger beetle The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Analysis Results 1966 - 2018 This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 548 species of birds in 4 spreadsheets containing trend estimates and annual indices for 2 time periods. Estimates are derived for each species using the 1 of 4 alternative models, and a cross-validation model selection procedure was used to select the best model for each species. Categories: Data; Tags: Bird Annual Indices, Bird Lists, Bird Trend Estimates, Birds, Breeding Bird Density, All tags... Breeding Bird Survey, Breeding Bird Survey Analysis, Canada, Decision Science and Populations, North American Breeding Bird Survey, Population Estimation, Statistical Analysis, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 ... »