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Distribution and mapping of the snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, June to August 2012 We collected detailed spatial data on the density and size distribution of intertidal snails as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California estuaries. The survey area was Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Using nearly 4,000 transects in potential snail habitat, we mapped snails throughout the estuary. Specifically, we systematically placed transects at intervals stratified within targeted habitat types: channels, pans, or marsh (or planar habitat that was mixed marsh and pan). At a quarter of the quadrats, we also estimated snail size-frequency distributions.... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags Composite Habitat Suitability Index Raster Dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California. HSIs were calculated for spring (mid-March to June), summer (July to mid-October), and winter (November to March) sage-grouse seasons, and then multiplied together to create this composite dataset. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Radio telemetry data on nighttime movements of two species of migratory nectar-feeding bats (Leptonycteris) in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, late-summer 2004 and 2005 These bat location estimates have been reported by Bogan and others (In press) and come in the form of a GIS shape file. Three species of nectar-feeding phyllostomid bats migrate north from Mexico into deserts of the United States (U.S.) each spring and summer to feed on blooms of columnar cacti and century plants (Agave spp). However, the habitat needs of these important desert pollinators are poorly understood. We followed the nighttime movements of two species of long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae and L. nivalis) in an area of late-summer sympatry at the northern edges of their migratory ranges. We radiotracked bats in extreme southwestern New Mexico during 22 nights over two summers and acquired location... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Animas Mountains, Big Hatchet Mountains, Chihuahuan Desert, Chiroptera, Desert Southwest, All tags... Hidalgo County, New Mexico, Playas Valley, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, bats, biota, dispersal, foraging, habitat, migration, movement ecology, radio telemetry, southwestern New Mexico, Fewer tags Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a tool for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: Reconstructing established fish communities of north-temperate lakes and rivers To evaluate the ability of precipitation-based environmental DNA (eDNA) sample collection and mitochondrial 12S metabarcoding sequencing to reconstruct well-studied fish communities in lakes and rivers. Specific objectives were to 1) determine correlations between eDNA species detections and known community composition based on traditional field sampling, 2) compare efficiency of eDNA to detect fish biodiversity among systems with variable morphologies and trophic states, and 3) determine if species habitat preferences predicts eDNA detection. Fish community composition was estimated for seven lakes and two MIssissippi River navigation pools using sequence data from the mitochonrial 12S gene amplified from 10 to... Categories: Data; Tags: 12S gene, Aquatic Biology, Crystal Lake, Genetics, Lake Mendota, All tags... Lake Wingra, McDermott Lake, Sparkling Lake, Trout Bog, Trout Lake, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wisconsin lakes, biota, community ecology, environmental DNA, environmental DNA, fisheries, habitat, metagenomics, none, upper Mississippi River, upper Mississippi River Pool 13, upper Mississippi River Pool 19, Fewer tags Pelican Island and Pass La Mer to Chaland Pass restoration (BA-38): Chaland Island (2005, 2007) and Pelican Island (2011, 2013) habitat classifications The Louisiana State Legislature created Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed pursuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Pelican Island and Pass La Mer to Chaland Pass Resoration (BA-38) project for 2005, 2007, 2011, and 2013. This data is used as a basemap habitat classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any... Types: Citation; Tags: BA-38, CWPPRA, Coastal Louisiana, DEM, DOQQ, All tags... GIS, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Louisiana, South Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, coastal conservation, coastal enhancement, coastal restoration, habitat, image, monitoring, mosaic, rectification, satelite imagery, scan, wetlands, Fewer tags Wyoming Range Physicochemical and Biological Data (2016) This data release supports the manuscript: Walker, R.H. and A.W. Walters. 2019. A mechanistic understanding of ecological responses to anthropogenic surface disturbance in headwater streams. Ecosphere 10(10):e02907. 10.1002/ecs2.2907. It includes one data set with physicochemical and biological data from 40 stream sites (100 m length) in the Wyoming Range for summer 2016. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Green River basin, Water Resources, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Range, biota, conductivity, environment, fish, food availability, habitat, inlandWaters, land-use change, macroinvertebrates, mechanisms, oil and natural gas development, streams, structural equation modeling, Fewer tags Winter Season Habitat Categories Shapefile This shapefile represents habitat suitability categories (High, Moderate, Low, and Non-Habitat) derived from a composite, continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California during the winter season (November to March), and is a surrogate for habitat conditions during periods of cold and snow. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater sage-grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Monthly Trematode Infections of the Snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, February 2012 to January 2014 Each month (except March 2012), we collected detailed data on the infection status of intertidal snails from ten fixed sites as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California Estuaries. The study site was Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, California USA, (University of California Natural Reserve System), which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Each site was a fixed location in channel or flat habitat, with a diameter approximately 50 m in size, centered at the site location marker used in Kuris et al. (2008). At each site/month, we collected, measured, sexed, and dissected ~58 snails (11,643 dissections total,... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags Monthly densities of the snail Cerithideopsis (Cerithidea) californica at Carpinteria Salt Marsh, California USA, February 2012 to January 2014 Each month (except March 2012), we collected detailed data on the density, size distribution, and infection status of intertidal snails from ten fixed sites as part of a broader effort to understand food webs in California Estuaries. The study site was Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, California USA, (University of California Natural Reserve System), which comprises 9 Ha tidal channels, 2 Ha salt flats, 17 Ha upland habitat, 6 Ha tidal pans, 52 Ha vegetated marsh, 2 Ha tidal flats. Each site was a fixed location in channel or flat habitat, with a diameter approximately 50m in size, centered at the site location marker used in Kuris et al. (2008). At each site/month, we collected, measured, sexed, and dissected ~58... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Carpinteria, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, Santa Barbara County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... density, distribution, estuary, habitat, mapping, salt marsh, snail, trematodes, Fewer tags Microsatellite genotypes for Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Eggs and Larvae from Constructed Reefs in the St. Clair-Detroit River System (2015-2016) This dataset contains the physical collection information (e.g., sample location, date, gear type) and microsatellite DNA genotype of egg and larval Lake Sturgeon collected in the St. Clair and Detroit rivers in 2015 and 2016. Individuals were genotyped for 18 microsatellite loci (13 disomic and 5 polysomic). Alleles (base pair sizes) were recorded as presence absence scores (1:present, 2:absent, 0:missing data) for all previously observed alleles. Thus individual genotypes were recorded as pseudo diploid dominant phenotypes resulting in individual vectors of length n=205 for each genotyped egg or larval individual. Categories: Data; Tags: Acipenser, Acipenser fulvescens, Acipenseridae, Anthropogenic, Anthropogenic Rock, All tags... Anthropogenic Rock Reef Substrate, Anthropogenic Rock Rubble, Anthropogenic Substrate, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Setting, Artificial reef, Assessments, Biological Occurrence, Data Content Subjects, Data Content Types, Detroit, Detroit River, Dredge Deposit, Dredge Disturbance, Dredged/Excavated Channel, Fishes, Fishing from Shore, Fishing with Benthic Mobile Gear, Genetics, Grassy Island, Great Lakes, Habitat, Harvesting Living Resources, Huron, Lacustrine, Lake Saint Clair, Lake St. Clair, Living Resources, Macomb, Michigan, Middle Channel Saint Clair River, Motorized Boating, North Channel Saint Clair River, Pelagic Fishing, Port Huron, Recreational Nonextractive /Cultural Use, Sailing, Saint Clair, Saint Clair River, Shipping, Shore Use, St. Clair, St. Clair-Detroit, Substrate, Transportation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wayne, Western Lake Erie, animals, anthropogenic agents of coastal change, aquatic ecosystems, biological features, biological laboratory methods, biological observations, biological resources, biology, biota, biota, canal, capturing (animals), channels, chordates, conservation, construction, cultural resources, data processing, datasets, discipline, dredge spoils disposal, dredging operations, ecological change, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystem restoration, ecosystems, endemic species, environment, environmental assessment, eukaryotes, feature type, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, field observation, field sampling, fish, fish eggs, fish larvae, fisheries, fishery resources, food resources, freshwater ecosystems, genetic diversity, genetics, genotype, habitats, hot topics, hydrographic features, ichthyology, ichthyoplankton, inland fishery resources, inlandWaters, laboratory methods, landform, life sciences, management methods, methods, native species, natural resources, nekton and plankton, organism groupings (non-taxonomic), organisms, physiographic features, population and community ecology, population dynamics, product types, ray-finned fish ["bony fish"], recreational fishery resources, reef, reefs, regions, research method, resource management, resources, river, river basin development, river systems, rivers, sciences, shipping channels, species conservation, streams, sturgeon, topics, transportation resources, trapping, vertebrates, water resources, wetland destruction, zoology, Fewer tags Brady Canal hydrologic restoration (TE-28): 2016 habitat classification The Louisiana State Legislature created Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) in order to conserve, restore, create and enhance Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The wetland restoration plans developed persuant to these acts specifically require an evaluation of the effectiveness of each coastal wetlands restoration project in achieving long-term solutions to arresting coastal wetlands loss. This data set includes mosaicked aerial photographs for the Brady Canal Hydrologic Restoration (TE-28) project for 2016. This data set is used as a basemap for habitat classification. It also serves as a visual tool for project managers to help them identify any obvious problems or land loss within... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: CWPPRA, Coastal Louisiana, DOQQ, GIS, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Louisiana, Louisiana, South Louisiana, TE-28, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aerial photography, coastal conservation, coastal enhancement, coastal restoration, habitat, image, monitoring, mosaic, rectification, satelite imagery, scan, wetlands, Fewer tags Composite Management Categories Shapefile This shapefile represents proposed management categories (Core, Priority, General, and Non-Habitat) derived from the intersection of habitat suitability categories and lek space use. Habitat suitability categories were derived from a composite, continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California formed from the multiplicative product of the spring (mid-March to June), summer (July to mid-Octoer), and winter (November to March) HSI surfaces. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Spatially Explicit Modeling of Annual and Seasonal Habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Nevada and Northeastern California - an Updated Decision-Support Tool for Management Successful adaptive management hinges largely upon integrating new and improved sources of information as they become available. Updating management tools for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereafter referred to as “sage-grouse”) populations, which are indicators for the large-scale health of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Great Basin of North America, provide a timely example for this tenet. Recently developed spatially-explicit habitat maps derived from empirical data played a key role in the conservation of this species facing listing under the Endangered Species Act. Herein, this report provides an updated process for mapping relative habitat suitability and management categories... Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, North America, All tags... Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Annual California Sea Otter Census - 2016 Spring Census Summary The spring 2016 mainland sea otter count began on 1 May and was completed on 11 May. Overall viewing conditions this year were very good, being more favorable than those during the 2015 spring census (3.1 vs. 2.6, where 0=poor, 1=fair, 2=good, 3=very good, and 4=excellent) and contributed to the relatively short duration of the count. The surface canopies of kelp (Macrocystis sp.) were considered by most participants to be below normal for this time of year in the northern half of the range and about normal in the southern half. Sea otters along the mainland were surveyed (using a combination of ground-based and aerial-based surveys) from Pillar Point in San Mateo County in the north, to Rincon Point in the south... Types: Citation; Tags: California, Central California Coast, Coast, Southern California Coast, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... aerial counts, biota, environment, habitat, oceans, sea otter census, shore counts, trends, Fewer tags Summer Season Habitat Suitability Index Raster Dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California during summer (July to mid-October), which is a surrogate for habitat conditions during the sage-grouse brood-rearing period. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Evaluating if abundance and behavior of shorebird species are related to restoration and habitat at Whiskey Island and Caminada Headland, Louisiana from 2012 to 2020 Barrier islands provide resources and ecological services that are integral to economic and environmental interests, such as protection of coastal infrastructure and providing habitat for wildlife. Over time, barrier islands may become eroded and experience land loss, which require management actions to restore island integrity. The process of restoring barrier islands can create new habitats but also alter existing habitats, which can impact the organisms depending on coastal habitats, such as the Endangered Species Act-listed (ESA) Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) and Red Knot (Calidris canutus). Consequently, we aimed to understand the abundance and behavioral responses from a suite of shorebird species, including... Categories: Data; Tags: Barrier Island, Caminada Headland, Ecology, Geospatial Predictors, Habitat, All tags... Lafourche Parish, Machine Learning Approach, Restoration, Shorebirds, Terrebonne Parish, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Whiskey Island, biota, Fewer tags Hydrological Areas of Nevada for the Greater Sage-grouse The Great Basin is characterized by strong patterns of precipitation along approximate north-south gradients (Miller and others, 2013). Hence, we used a hydrographic boundary layer developed by Mason (1999), to divide the region-wide extent of sage-grouse habitat mapping analysis into North and South regions that align coarsely with respective mesic (wet) and xeric (dry) regions of the state. Flood regions are based largely on patterns of snowmelt, summer thunderstorms or cyclonic rainfall, and the 8-digit Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD, 2015) was used to select appropriate watersheds within our mapping extent that corresponded to the Mason (1999) boundary. Slight adjustments, made in ArcMap 10.3, included joining... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, United States, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Coastal California Gnatcatcher Habitat Suitability Model for Southern California (2015) This habitat model was developed to delineate a sampling frame for regional monitoring of coastal California gnatcatchers (Polioptila californica californica) to determine: 1) percent area occupied (PAO) in high and very high suitability habitat across conserved lands and participating military lands in the U.S. range in southern California; 2) changes in PAO over time; and 3) extinction and colonization rates. One purpose of the model is to identify areas recovering from disturbance, such as wildfire, that may not currently support coastal sage scrub vegetation used by coastal California gnatcatchers, but are otherwise highly suitable. In this way, we can monitor gnatcatcher occupancy associated with habitat changes... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Life sciences, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Partitioned Mahalanobis D2, All tags... Polipotila californica californica, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ventura County, Wildlife Biology, biota, coastal California gnatcatcher, endangered species, geospatial analysis, habitat, landscape modeling, multivariate statistical analysis, native species, niche modeling, shrubland ecosystems, species distribution models, statistical analysis, wildlife, Fewer tags Spatially Explicit Modeling of Annual and Seasonal Habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Northeastern California Successful adaptive management hinges largely upon integrating new and improved sources of information as they become available. Updating management tools for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus, hereafter referred to as “sage-grouse”) populations, which are indicators for the large-scale health of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Great Basin of North America, provide a timely example for this tenet. Recently developed spatially-explicit habitat maps derived from empirical data played a key role in the conservation of this species facing listing under the Endangered Species Act. The spatial data provided herein represent a previously unmapped area of northeastern California spanning 1,169,765... Tags: California, Ecology, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, All tags... Nevada, North America, Sagebrush Ecosystem Council, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wildlife Biology, biota, boundaries, environment, Fewer tags Winter Season Habitat Suitability Index Raster Dataset This raster represents a continuous surface of sage-grouse habitat suitability index (HSI) values for northeastern California during the winter season (November to March), and is a surrogate for habitat conditions during periods of cold and snow. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Great Basin, Greater Sage-Grouse, Habitat, Nevada, All tags... 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