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Correlations between burrowing owl and black-tailed prairie dog declines: A 7-year analysis Concern over the status of species associated with prairie dog colonies has increased with the recent proposed listing of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). We monitored burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) populations and prairie dog densities in 17 black-tailed prairie dog colonies in the Nebraska panhandle between 1990 and 1996. All prairie dog colonies were controlled at least once during the study. We observed a 63% decline in nesting pairs of burrowing owls and significant declines in burrow densities. Results indicated a time lag in owl response to changes in active burrow densities. However, in the later years of the study when burrow densities were lowest, owl numbers were positively correlated... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Athene cunicularia, Cynomys ludovicianus, Great Plains, Journal of Wildlife Management, Nebraska, All tags... North American badger, Speotyto cunicularia, Taxidea taxus, black-tailed prairie dogs, burrowing owl, fledging success, prairie dog control, predation, Fewer tags Flood reduction through wetand restoration: the Upper Mississippi River Basin as a case history. Synopsis: This article outlines how wetlands can significantly reduce flooding in the Upper Mississippi watershed. The authors first provide a historical context by estimating the original and lost wetland storage capacities of the Upper Mississippi and Missouri River Basins. Historically, about 10% of the basin would have been classified as wetland in 1780. By 1980, wetland acreage had been reduced to only 4% of the basin, representing about 26 million acres of wetlands eliminated since 1780. The area of wetland restoration required to reduce the risk of future flooding adequately was estimated based on the total amount of excess floodwater beyond bank-full discharge that passed through the City of St. Louis during... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, All tags... Montana, Natural cover amount, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Upper Mississippi floodplains, Wisconsin, Wyoming, flooding, meso-regional, water quality, wetland extent, Fewer tags Publication: Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity Stream fragmentation alters the structure of aquatic communities on a global scale, generally through loss of native species. Among riverscapes in the Great Plains of North America, stream fragmentation and hydrologic alteration (flow regulation and dewatering) are implicated in the decline of native fish diversity. This study documents the spatio–temporal distribution of fish reproductive guilds in the fragmented Arkansas and Ninnescah rivers of south-central Kansas using retrospective analyses involving 63 years of fish community data. Pelagic-spawning fishes declined throughout the study area during 1950–2013, including Arkansas River shiner (Notropis girardi) last reported in 1983, plains minnow (Hybognathus... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Final Report: Integrated monitoring within BCR’s: Creating a wildlife monitoring grid for the GPLCC We used the United States National Grid to develop a sampling grid for monitoring programs in the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, delineated by Bird Conservation Regions 18 and 19. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are science based partnerships with the goal to inform and guide conservation at regional landscape levels. Developing a standardized sampling grid for a LCC is a new endeavor and is designed to reduce program costs, avoid repetition in sampling, and increase efficiency in monitoring programs. This is possible because the grid’s nationwide coverage, uniform starting point, and scalability allow researchers to expand their monitoring programs from a small, local level to a regional or... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, Final Report, All tags... Final Report, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Regional & county planners, Report, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, South Dakota, South Dakota, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Monitoring, Wildlife Monitoring, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Publication: Fragmentation and dewatering transform Great Plains stream fish communities Biodiversity in stream networks is threatened globally by interactions between habitat fragmentation and altered hydrologic regimes. In the Great Plains of North America, stream networks are fragmented by 19,000 anthropogenic barriers, and flow regimes are altered by surface water retention and groundwater extraction. We documented the distribution of anthropogenic barriers and dry stream segments in five basins covering the central Great Plains to assess effects of broad-scale environmental change on stream fish community structure and distribution of reproductive guilds. We used an information-theoretic approach to rank competing models in which fragmentation, discharge magnitude, and percentage of time streams had... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags The value of wetlands: importance of scale and landscape setting. Conclusions:Wetlands and riparian zones should be strategically placed in watersheds to optimize nitrogen removal, as, for example, in tile-drained farmlands prone to high concentrations of nitrateThresholds/Learnings:Restoring 10 million hectares of riparian zones and wetlands, representing 3.4% of the Mississippi River basin, would reduce nitrogen in the Mississippi River Basin and its tributaries by an average of 40% Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Land use configuration, Landscape fragmentation, All tags... Minnesota, Mississippi River basin, Missouri, Montana, Natural cover amount, Natural cover heterogeneity, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming, meso-regional, nitrogen uptake, riparian systems, water quality, wetland position, wetlands, Fewer tags Historical Stream Fish Distribution Database for the Conterminous United States (1950-1990): IchthyMaps Fish occurrence data to support high-resolution distribution models and test various community and macroecological hypotheses have not been available at the national scale. We present IchthyMaps, a database of high-quality historical fish occurrences covering fishes of the conterminous United States. Designed on the principles of metacommunity ecology, IchthyMaps is a compilation of presence records from atlases up to 1990, at the resolution of the 1:100,000 National Hydrography Database Plus (NHDPlus) inter-confluence stream segment, readily aggregated into hierarchically coarser units (e.g. hydrologic unit code 8-digit and 12-digit watersheds). IchthyMaps contains about 606,550 presence records for 1,038 species... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Biological Data, Biological sampling, All tags... California, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Deleware, District of Columbia, Ecological distribution, Florida, Freshwater fishes, Georgia, Historical data, Historical data, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Lentic, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV2, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Spatial distribution, Species presence, Species presence, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags Drainage Structure Datasets and Effects on LiDAR-Derived Surface Flow Modeling With extraordinary resolution and accuracy, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)-derived digital elevation models (DEMs) have been increasingly used for watershed analyses and modeling by hydrologists, planners and engineers. Such high-accuracy DEMs have demonstrated their effectiveness in delineating watershed and drainage patterns at fine scales in low-relief terrains. However, these high-resolution datasets are usually only available as topographic DEMs rather than hydrologic DEMs, presenting greater land roughness that can affect natural flow accumulation. Specifically, locations of drainage structures such as road culverts and bridges were simulated as barriers to the passage of drainage. This paper proposed... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, All tags... Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, LCC Network Science Catalog, LiDAR, LiDAR, Nebraska, Nebraska, Playas, Playas, Publication, Rainwater Basin, Regional & county planners, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Broadly Shared Information Needs Among Grassland Managers in the North Central Region The broadly shared information needs for grassland managers in the North Central region to meet conservation goals in a changing climate are presented and ranked as highly relevant, somewhat relevant, or not relevant for federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental grassland-managing entities. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Grasslands, Information Needs, Kansas, Landscapes, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Central Region, North Dakota, Resource Managers, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, Fewer tags Publication: Comparative riverscape genetics reveals reservoirs of genetic diversity for conservation and restoration of Great Plains fishes We used comparative landscape genetics to examine the relative roles of historical events, intrinsic traits and landscape factors in determining the distribution of genetic diversity of river fishes across the North American Great Plains. Spatial patterns of diversity were overlaid on a patch-based graphical model and then compared within and among three species that co-occurred across five Great Plains watersheds. Species differing in reproductive strategy (benthic vs. pelagic-spawning) were hypothesized to have different patterns of genetic diversity, but the overriding factor shaping contemporary patterns of diversity was the signature of past climates and geological history. Allelic diversity was significantly... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CATFISHES/MINNOWS, Colorado, Colorado, FISH, Federal resource managers, All tags... GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Publication, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Stream Fragmentation, Stream Fragmentation, Texas, Texas, Wyoming, Wyoming, biota, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex Vegetation Map 2012 This shapefile maps the 2012 vegetation communities for all historic wetlands in the Rainwater Basin region of Nebraska, USA. Vegetation communities include cropped areas that rarely pond water, cropped areas that often pond water, bare soil or mudflat, standing water, moist soil species, wetmeadow species, grasses, reed canarygrass, river bulrush, cattail, and woody species. Communities are based on training data from 2012 field vegetation surveys of over 12,000 points. This map is an update of a RWB vegetation map created in 2004. These data were processed by Ele Nugent, Roger Grosse, and Andy Bishop with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture (RWBJV), with help from RWBJV Geographic Information Systems Laboratory... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Biology, Ecology, Nebraska, Wetlands, environment Publication: Holocene records of environmental change in High Plains playa wetlands, Kansas, US Holocene environmental change is poorly characterized throughout much of the High Plains. Playa wetlands are sites with appreciable potential for reconstructing environmental change because of their environmental sensitivity. Radiocarbon, litho- and magneto-stratigraphic, and stable carbon isotope (δ13C) data for four playas on the Kansas High Plains indicate significant change occurred throughout the Holocene, which had profound impacts on playa ecosystem functions (e.g. groundwater recharge, surface water storage, and habitat). Minimum δ13C values and buried soils observed during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition suggest sufficient moisture to support vegetative cover and promote pedogenesis. Low magnetic susceptibility,... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Colorado, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, All tags... Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Habitat Management, Habitat Management, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Playas, Playas, Publication, Regional & county planners, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, Texas, Texas, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, environment, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Rotational Grazing and Land Conversion in South Dakota An increase in land conversion from grassland to cropland in the United States has attracted attention in recent years. According to Claassen et al. (2011a), grassland to cropland conversion is concentrated in the Northern Plains, including Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, which encompasses only 18% of U.S. rangeland but accounted for 57 percent of U.S. rangeland to cropland conversion during the study period of 1997 to 2007. Focusing on land cover data in the Western Corn Belt, Wright and Wimberly (2013) also pointed out that grassland conversion was mostly concentrated in the Dakotas, east of the Missouri River and between 2006 and 2011. Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Cropland conversion, Data Visualization & Tools, Grasslands and Plains, Kansas, Landscapes, All tags... Nebraska, North Central CASC, North Dakota, Northern Plains, Science Tools For Managers, South Dakota, grassland, Fewer tags NHD Swamp/Marsh for the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (COPY) Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Artificial Path, Canal / Ditch, Colorado, FWHydrography, GPLCC, All tags... Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Hydrography, Kansas, Lake / Pond, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Reach Code, Reservoir, South Dakota, Spring / Seep, Stream / Water, Swamp / Marsh, Texas, US, Wyoming, Fewer tags Loess Hills Whooping Crane and Waterfowl Wetland Priority Habitat Suitability Index Working with the conservation partnership in the Central Loess Hills BUL, this project was designed to develop the necessary baseline data and species habitat models needed to guide targeted conservation. Development of a conservation portfolio for the Central Loess Hills required five separate, but equally important elements. The elements of this project were: 1) Develop a spatially accurate landcover that delineates key habitats for which at-risk species respond, 2) Analyze landcover to develop meaningful landscape indices that can be used to develop spatially explicit species habitat models, 3) Collect and compile occurrence data for priority species (greater prairie chicken, whooping crane, and waterfowl), 4)... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Conservation, Nebraska, Wetlands, biota Species of Greatest Conservation Need in the North Central Region This file provides a table of all the of Species of Greatest Conservation Need listed in the North Central states' (MT, WY, CO, ND, SD, NE, and KS) State Wildlife Action Plans as of summer 2020. Species are organized by the number of states which listed them as Species of Greatest Conservation Need, and then by scientific name. Federal status is also provided for each species. This table is adapted from an unpublished species list compiled by the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Grasslands, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, All tags... North Central Region, North Central region, North Dakota, SGCN, SWAP, South Dakota, Species, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, Fewer tags Examining Playa Wetland Inundation Conditions for National Wetland Inventory, Soil Survey Geographic Database, and LiDAR Data Inundation is a critical parameter of wetland hydrologic performance. This study uses Annual Habitat Survey data from 2004 to 2012 in the Rainwater Basin in south-central Nebraska to examine differences between the actual inundation conditions and three datasets: the National Wetland Inventory (NWI), the Soil Survey Geographic database (SSURGO), and LiDAR-derived depressions. The results show that current wetland inundated areas were well overlaid with these datasets (99.9% in SSURGO data, 67.9% in NWI data, and 87.3;% in LiDAR-derived depressions). However, the hydrologic degradation of playa wetlands was not reflected in these datasets. In SSURGO data, only 13.3% of hydric soil footprint areas were inundated and... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, All tags... Habitat Modeling, Habitat Modeling, LCC Network Science Catalog, LiDAR, LiDAR, Nebraska, Playas, Playas, Publication, Regional & county planners, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, SEDIMENTATION, Sediment Accumulation, Sediment Accumulation, State agencies, WETLANDS, Wetlands, Wetlands, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, Fewer tags