Great Lakes Research Vessel Operations 1958-2018: OP. (ver. 3.0, April 2019)

These data have been collected on various vessel operations on the Great Lakes and select connecting waterways. This vessel operations data set is part of and connected to a larger database of Great Lakes research that includes trawl and gillnet catch data, sample information of fish species caught, as well as effort applied, operation conditions, and location details. The larger database also contains data on hydroacoustics, ichthyoplankton, zooplankton, zebra mussel, and benthos samples collected. Multiple operations were conducted on all Great Lakes each year (1958-2016) beginning in early spring and ending in late fall. Each vessel operation was completed for a specific purpose, or target mission, which are...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alewife, Bathythermograph, Benthos, Bloater, Cisco, All tags... Deepwater, Deepwater Sculpin, Detroit River, Emerald Shiner, Gillnet, Habitat, Hydroacoustic, Ichthyoplankton, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Saint Clair, Lake Superior, Lake Trout, Lake Trout Population Dynamics, Laurentian Great Lakes, Mensuration, Mysis, Prey fish, Prey fish population dynamics, Rainbow Smelt, Round Goby, Saint Clair River, Sea Lamprey, Slimy Sculpin, Spoonhead Sculpin, Trawl, Walleye, White Perch, Yellow Perch, Zebra Mussel, Zooplankton, acoustics, age estimation methods, age structure, biogeography, biological sampling, biomass, biota, environment, fall forage fish, field sampling, fishery management, food web, freshwater fishes, geospatial datasets, gillnets, inlandWaters, invasive species, population dynamics, surface water temperature, time series datasets, transect sampling, trawl nets, trawling, water temperature, Fewer tags

Measurements of bed grain size on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona - 2000 to 2014

These data were compiled to better understand sedimentation patterns on the bed of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, and the way these patterns relate to suspended sediment grain size and concentration. These data were collected by the US Geological Survey Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center from 2000 to 2014, primarily using the "Flying Eyeball" underwater imaging system. This dataset is composed of over 50,000 samples, as part of 16 individual data tables from 16 research expeditions. On each expedition, grain size measurements were made in a grid-like pattern over short segments of the river. Each point sample includes mean grain size, geographic coordinates, date, and geomorphic setting.

Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Geography, Geomorphology, Glen Canyon, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Marble Canyon, Sedimentology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, beaches, boulders, channel, channels (waterways), cobbles, eddies, geological sampling, geoscientificInformation, grain size, grain-size analysis, imaging, inlandWaters, river ecosystems, river systems, rivers, sand, sand deposits, sandbars, sediment analysis, sediments, unconsolidated deposits, underwater imaging, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data (linked to NHDPLUSV1) for Western Native Trout Initiative

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the Western Native Trout Initiative. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the boundary of the Western Native Trout Initiative. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled;...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

NFHAP Inland Assessment - Fish Habitat Condition Index Scores by HUC8basin - Tiled Map Service

This map service contains summaries of habitat condition indices (HCI scores) from the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) 2010 National Assessments for 8 digit Hydrological Unit Codes (HUC8s) of the United States. Initial HCI scores were developed in three separate assessments (Conterminous U.S., Hawaii, and Alaska) due to differences in data availability across these regions. In the initial NFHAP 2010 Alaska assessment HCI values were attributed to HUC12s. For this reason, to summarize data into HUC8s for Alaska an area-weighted average was used (i.e. the cumulative HCI score assigned to each HUC12 within a HUC8 was weighted by reach area using the formula (H1*A1+H2*A2...+HX*AX)/(A1+A2...+AX) where H = HCI...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, California, Catchment areas, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inland water environments, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape ecology, Louisiana, Lower 48 states, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, South Dakota, Streams, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Characterization of whooping crane migrations and stopover sites used in the Central Flyway, 2010-2016

These data were developed to support an effort to characterize migration strategies in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairies and to explore sources of heterogeneity in their migration strategy, including space use, timing, and performance. Data come from locations and other information related to 58 marked Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) from 2010–2016. These data represent basic information about migrations of marked whooping cranes, including dates of initiation and termination of migration, time in migration, distance of migration, number of stopover sites used, and other metrics. Also included are data related to individual sites used by whooping cranes during migration.

Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags

Catalogue of Photographs Showing Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Grand Canyon, 1889-2012

This metadata references a comma-delimited file describing 492 digitized prints of large-format photographs from 160 viewpoints. The photographic images themselves are referenced in a separate metadata file entitled "Photographs Showing Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Grand Canyon, 1889-2012". The viewpoints were first photographed by Stanton in 1889-1890, and then re-photographed in about 1989-1992 and 2010-2012. This set of photos focuses on change in riparian vegetation and partially overlaps a larger set of Stanton viewpoints re-photographed by Webb and others and available at http://wwwpaztcn.wr.usgs.gov/fscc/stanton-repeat-photography/index.php. The file of descriptive information gives viewpoint stake...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Glen Canyon, Grand Canyon, Prosopis, All tags... Repeat photography, Salix, Tamarix, United States, floods, riparian, vegetation, Fewer tags

Whooping Crane historic observation records, 1722-1941

The tabular dataset is a compilation of all historic observations of whooping crane locations up through 1941. Most of the records were obtained from Robert Porter Allen's 1952 report, "The Whooping Crane"; an additional 73 records were added from records found since 1952. Records include source (Allen 1952 [The Whooping Crane, Audubon]or other), location name, county, state or province, country (Canada, US, Mexico), estimated latitude and longitude, year, month, day, life stage (breeding, summering, wintering, migration, unknown), season (spring, summer, fall, winter), observer's name, and logical indicators of nesting, specimen taken, observer identified, or if captive bird. Completeness of each record is variable....

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Canada, Ecosystems, Mexico, United States, aquatic birds, All tags... biogeography, biota, breeding sites, conservation, habitat preferences, history, migration, protected species, species distribution, wetlands, winter, Fewer tags

Provenance, classification, and abundance of RNA sequence fragments used to assess virus infections in honey bees, Apis mellifera

Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a major pathogen of concern to apiculture, and recent reports have indicated the local predominance and potential virulence of recombinants between DWV and a related virus, Varroa destructor virus 1 (VDV). However, little is known about the frequency and titer of VDV and recombinants relative to DWV generally. In this study, I assessed the relative occurrence and titer of DWV and VDV in public RNA-seq accessions of honey bee using a rapid, kmer-based approach. Three recombinant types were detectable graphically and corroborated by de novo assembly. Recombination breakpoints did not disrupt the capsid-encoding region, consistent with previous reports, and both VDV- and DWV-derived capsids...

Tags: Animal diseases, Genetic diversity, Genetics, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Viral diseases, All tags... Wildlife Disease, biota, farming, Fewer tags

Montana: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Montana. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Montana. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

Nevada: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Nevada. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Nevada. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

Wisconsin: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Wisconsin. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Wisconsin. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2010 HCI Scores for the Conterminous United States - by EDU

This shapefile contains summaries of habitat condition indices (HCI scores) from the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) 2010 assessment for Ecological Drainage Units (EDUs) in the Conterminous United States. Initial HCI scores were developed using landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches throughout the Conterminous United States. Habitat condition scores were based on responsiveness of biological metrics to anthropogenic landscape disturbances throughout ecoregions. Separate scores were created by considering disturbances within local catchments, network catchments, and a cumulative score that accounted for the most limiting disturbance...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alabama, Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Catchment areas, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inland water environments, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape ecology, Louisiana, Lower 48 states, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, National Assessment Data, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Maryland: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Maryland. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Maryland. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

Oklahoma: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Oklahoma. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Oklahoma. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

Nebraska: NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Disturbances

This shapefile contains landscape factors representing human disturbances summarized to local and network catchments of river reaches for the state of Nebraska. This dataset is the result of clipping the feature class 'NFHAP 2010 HCI Scores and Human Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to NHDPLUSV1.gdb' to the state boundary of Nebraska. Landscape factors include land uses, population density, roads, dams, mines, and point-source pollution sites. The source datasets that were compiled and attributed to catchments were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) representative of conditions...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Anthropogenic factors, Aquatic habitats, Atlantic Coast FHP, Catchment areas, Connecticut, All tags... DC, Delaware, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Habitat suitability, Inland water environments, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, National Assessment Data, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Streams, Vermont, Virginia, Water quality measurement, West Virginia, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2010 Community Fish Data

This geodatabase contains a comparable set of community fish samples from 12 sources, spanning the conterminous United States. The data were compiled through efforts of Michigan State University for the 2010 National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) and with support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Aquatic GAP Program. All fish sample locations were verified and linked to flowlines of the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) using the COMID identifier. Fish records were provided by the following organizations and agencies: USGS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Iowa Department of Natural...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 2010 National Assessment, 2010 National Assessment, Abundance (organisms), Alabama, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, Biological Data, Biological sampling, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Freshwater fishes, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inland water environments, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lotic, Louisiana, Lower 48 states, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rivers, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Spatial distribution, Species composition, Streams, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, Virginia, Visual, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Spatial data for estimating whooping crane migration corridor

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a bird species in North America currently protected under federal endangered species legislation in the United States and Canada. The only self-sustaining and wild population of whooping cranes nests in and around Wood Buffalo National Park near the provincial border of Northwest Territories and Alberta, Canada. Cranes from this population migrate through the Great Plains of North America and winter along the Gulf Coast of Texas at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding lands. These data support efforts to delineate a migration corridor for this population that can be used for conservation planning activities, including targeting conservation, mitigation, and recovery...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alberta, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, All tags... Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags

Characterization of whooping crane migrations and stopover sites used in the Central Flyway, 2010-2016

These data were developed to support an effort to characterize migration strategies in the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairies and to explore sources of heterogeneity in their migration strategy, including space use, timing, and performance. Data come from locations and other information related to 58 marked Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) from 2010–2016. These data represent basic information about migrations of marked whooping cranes, including dates of initiation and termination of migration, time in migration, distance of migration, number of stopover sites used, and other metrics. Also included are data related to individual sites used by whooping cranes during migration.

Tags: Alberta, Ecology, Iowa, Kansas, Manitoba, All tags... Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags

Predictive soil property map: Bulk density (oven dry)

These data were compiled to demonstrate new predictive mapping approaches and provide comprehensive gridded 30-meter resolution soil property maps for the Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam. Random forest models related environmental raster layers representing soil forming factors with field samples to render predictive maps that interpolate between sample locations. Maps represented soil pH, texture fractions (sand, silt clay, fine sand, very fine sand), rock, electrical conductivity (ec), gypsum, CaCO3, sodium adsorption ratio (sar), available water capacity (awc), bulk density (dbovendry), erodibility (kwfact), and organic matter (om) at 7 depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200 cm) as well as depth to restrictive...

Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin above Hoover Dam, All tags... Hoover Dam, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, accuracy and error estimated, available water capacity, bulk density, calcium carbonate, digital soil mapping, electrical conductivity, environmental conditions, environmental raster layers, erodibility, geoscientificInformation, gypsum, interpolate, machine learning, maps and atlases, organic matter, predicitve modeling, predictive mapping, predictive maps, random forest models, random forests, restrictive layer, rock, sodium adsorption ratio, soil conductivity, soil density, soil forming factors, soil pH, soil properties, soil property maps, soil sciences, soil texture, soils, surface rock cover, surface rock size, texture fractions, uncertainty, Fewer tags

Metagenetic analysis of stream community composition based on environmental DNA

A survey of environmental DNA was performed in Tunison Creek downstream of the USGS Tunison Aquatic Laboratory. The goal of the survey was to characterize the source ecological community at multiple trophic or taxonomic levels by associating DNA fragments with reference databases. Three taxonomically informative genetic loci were used: the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 locus, the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal locus, and the bacterial/organellar 16S ribosomal locus. The data set includes a list of sample and sequence accessions residing in the National Center for Biotechnology Information databases, which provide the raw data for analysis or re-use. The data also includes the representative sequences of operational...

Categories: Data; Tags: Cortland County, NY, DNA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, environment