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Columbia Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Columbia Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Subalpine meadow plant communities in Yosemite and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 2011-2012 This publication presents data collected within meadows from samples used to assess meadow plant community responses to recreational pack stock as part of a USGS Natural Resources Preservation Project. High elevation meadows are a vital ecological component of mountain systems throughout western North America. They provide critical habitat for wildlife, supply key ecosystem services, and are favored destinations for people visiting the mountains. The biophysical characteristics of meadows are highly variable, especially related to hydrologic regimes and associated plant community types. In the semi-arid landscape of the Sierra, water availability operates at multiple scales strongly influencing meadow plant community... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Meadows, Pack Stock, Plant Communities, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Sierra Nevada, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Yosemite National Park, Fewer tags Northern Great Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Northern Great Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Northern Great Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Invasive Plant Cover in the Mojave Desert, 2009 - 2013 (ver. 2.0, April 2021) We assessed the impacts of co-occurring invasive plant species on fire regimes and postfire native communities in the Mojave Desert, western USA by analyzing the distribution and co-occurrence patterns of three invasive annual grasses known to alter fuel conditions and community structure: Red Brome (Bromus rubens), Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), and Mediterranean grass (Schismus spp.: Schismus arabicus and Schismus barbatus), and an invasive forb, red stemmed filaree (Erodium cicutarium) which can dominate postfire sites. We developed species distribution models (SDMs) for each of the four taxa and analyzed field plot data to assess the relationship between invasives and fire frequency, years postfire, and the impacts... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Mojave desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, co-occurance invasives, desert ecosystems, All tags... ecosystems, field methods, fire disturbance, fire frequency, fires, geographic information systems, habitat alteration, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, vegetation, Fewer tags Great Basin Sage-Grouse Concentration Areas Indices of habitat suitability and animal abundance provide useful proxy-based measures adaptive management (Coates et al. 2015a). Doherty et al. (in review) derived a range-wide population index model for sage-grouse using such indices that incorporated sage-grouse habitat suitability generated from Random Forest models (Evans et al. 2011), and spatially explicit abundance measures based on fixed kernel density functions informed by distributions of lek locations (lek locations defined by Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, see Coates et al. 2015b). The kernels were generated using two bandwidth distances representing the majority of breeding habitat in relation to leks (6.4 km) and seasonal movements... Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Fire Suppression, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Monitoring Trends in Widlifire Severity (MTBS), All tags... Wildfire, Fewer tags Table of Fire Frequencies among Sagebrush Types and Soil Regimes (1984-2013) This table summarizes land area occuring within unique combinations of sage-grouse management zones, sagebrush community types, soil temperature/moisture regimes, and times burned from 1984 to 2013. Methods used to derive these data are detailed in the report [Brooks, M.L., Matchett, J.R., Shinneman, D.J., and Coates, P.S., 2015, Fire patterns in the range of greater sage-grouse, 1984-2013; Implications for conservation and management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1167, 66 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151167] Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado Plateau, Columbia Basin, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northern Great Basin, All tags... Snake River Plain, Southern Great Basin, Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Modifed Great Basin Extent (Buffered) Two different great basin perimeter files were intersected and dissolved to create the outer perimeter of the great basin for use modeling long-term wildfire effects on sage-grouse population growth, and development of sage-grouse concentration areas based on modeled habitat quality, lek density, and population abundance (Coates et al. 2015). These two perimeter files included a 1:1,000,000 map of hydrographic areas in the Great Basin) (Buto 2009), and vegetation characteristics (Karl et al. 2001). The resulting Modified Great Basin Extent represented a combination of hydrographic and floristic features best suited for the defining the spatial extent of the analyses. To ensure moving window analyses of habitat and... Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Boundary, California, Cheatgrass, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, All tags... Idaho, Nevada, North America, Oregon, Planning Tool, United States, Utah, Wildfire, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Wyoming Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Wyoming Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones. Methods... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Biophyiscal settings and wildfire frequencies in the Mojave Desert ecological section of California, 1984 to 2013 This raster dataset contains biophysical settings (band 1) and wildfire frequencies (band 2) within the Mojave Desert ecological section of California. Biophysical settings were developed by the LANDFIRE program and fires occurences were mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Mojave Desert, biophysical settings, deserts, wildfire frequency Fire Patterns in the Range of the Greater Sage-Grouse, 1984–2013—Implications for Conservation and Management Fire ranks among the top three threats to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) throughout its range, and among the top two threats in the western part of its range. The national research strategy for this species and the recent U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3336 call for science-based threats assessment of fire to inform conservation planning and fire management efforts. The cornerstone of such assessments is a clear understanding of where fires are occurring and what aspects of fire regimes may be shifting outside of their historical range of variation. Analyses are stratified by major vegetation types and the seven greater sage-grouse management zones, delineated regionally as... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Columbia Basin, Columbia Basin, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), greater sage-grouse, greater sage-grouse, All tags... soil-vegetation relationships, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildfires, wildland fires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Predictive Model of Burn Severity (dNBR) in the Mojave Desert This raster dataset represents spatially explicit predictions of burn severity (dNBRPredict.tif) in the Mojave Desert based on models developed from data on the difference normalized burn ratio (dNBR) within perimeters of fires greater than 405 hectares that burned between 1984 to 2010. Raster resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grass-fire cycle, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Predictive models, Random forests, All tags... biota, burn severity, dNBR, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fire regimes, fires, geographic information systems, heterogeneity, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, spatial models, vegetation, Fewer tags Fire Regimes in the Mojave Desert (1972-2010) This U.S. Geological Survey data release consists of 3 raster datasets representing estimates of probability of ignition (ProbIgnitPredict.tif), fire frequency (FrequencyPredictRF.tif), and burn severity (dNBRPredictRF.tif) in the Mojave Desert from 1984 to 2010. The data include: (1) A shapefile of the Mojave Desert that was used as our study area boundary (MojaveEcoregion_TNS_UTM83.shp). The original shapefile was obtained from NatureServe in 2009; (2) Three Tagged-Interchange Format (TIF) raster datasets representing probability of ignition, fire frequency, and burn severity. Resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. These data support the following publication: Klinger, R., Underwood, E.C.,... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Ecology, Environmental Health, Mojave Desert, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, burn severity, co-occurence invasives, desert ecosystems, ecosystems, environmental gradients, field methods, fire disturbance, fire frequency, fires, geographic gradients, geographic information systems, grass-fire cycle, habitat alteration, ignition, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive plant species, invasive species, machine learning, maximum entropy, plants (organisms), random forests, remote sensing, spatial dynamics, vegetation, Fewer tags Ecological zones of California deserts The dataset delineates ecological zones within California deserts. We derived ecological zones by reclassifying LANDFIRE vegetation biophysical setting types, plus defined various non-wildland (e.g. developed urban/agriculture/roads) and non-burnable (e.g. open water/barren) areas using LANDFIRE existing vegetation types. The 43 biophysical setting types present within the study area were grouped into 13 general vegetation types, which were further grouped into 4 elevation-based ecological zones plus one riparian zone according to their constituent plant associations. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Colorado Desert, Great Basin, Mojave Desert, Mono, All tags... Sonoran Desert, deserts, wildfire regimes, Fewer tags Biophyiscal settings and wildfire frequencies in the Southeastern Great Basin ecological section of California, 1984 to 2013 This raster dataset contains biophysical settings (band 1) and wildfire frequencies (band 2) within the Southeastern Great Basin ecological section of California. Biophysical settings were developed by the LANDFIRE program and fires occurences were mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Southeastern Great Basin, biophysical settings, deserts, wildfire frequency Snake River Plain Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Snake River Plain sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Snake River Plain, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Southern Great Basin Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Southern Great Basin sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Southern Great Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Table of Fire Severity, Sagebrush Types, and Soil Regimes within Large Wildfires (1984-2013) This table summarizes areas of burn severity, sagebrush biophysical types, and soil temperature/moisture regimes within large wildfires from 1984 to 2013 occuring within greater sage-grouse population areas. Methods used to derive these data are detailed in the report [Brooks, M.L., Matchett, J.R., Shinneman, D.J., and Coates, P.S., 2015, Fire patterns in the range of greater sage-grouse, 1984-2013; Implications for conservation and management: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1167, 66 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151167] Categories: Data; Tags: Colorado Plateau, Columbia Basin, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northern Great Basin, All tags... Snake River Plain, Southern Great Basin, Wyoming Basin, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Great Plains Image of Sagebrush Types, Soil Regime Classes, and Fire Frequencies (1984-2013) This three-band, 30-m resolution raster contains sagebrush vegetation types, soil temperature/moisture regime classes, and large fire frequencies across greater sage-grouse population areas within the Great Plains sage-grouse management zone. Sagebrush vegetation types were defined by grouping together similar vegetation types from the LANDFIRE biophysical settings layer. Soil moisture and temperature regimes were from an USDA-NRCS analysis of soil types across the greater sage-grouse range. Fire frequencies were derived from fire severity rasters created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. The area of analysis included the greater sage-grouse populations areas within specific management zones. Methods... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Great Plains, greater sage-grouse, soil-vegetation relationships, wildfires, wildland fires, All tags... wildlife conservation, Fewer tags Predictive Model of Probability of Ignition in the Mojave Desert This raster dataset represents spatially explicit predictions of probability of ignition in the Mojave Desert based on models developed from data on perimeters of fires greater than 405 hectares that burned between 1972 to 2010. Raster resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grass-fire cycle, Maxent, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Predictive models, All tags... biota, burn severity, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fire regimes, fires, geographic information systems, heterogeneity, igntion probability, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, spatial models, vegetation, Fewer tags Species distribution model of the invasive annual forb Erodium cicutarium (red-stemmed filaree) in the Mojave Desert Geotiff raster of habitat suitability for the invasive annual forb Erodium cicutarium (red-stemmed filaree) across the Mojave Desert (NatureServe ecoregional boundary). Raster resolution = 30 m, projection = UTM Zone 11N Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Biological invasions, Bromus rubens, Bromus tectorum, Co-occurrence, Erodium cicutarium, All tags... Grass-fire cycle, Invasive species, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Schismus spp, Species distribution models, biota, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fires, geographic information systems, habitat alteration, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, vegetation, Fewer tags 1 2 »