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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing an online map of potentiometric-surface altitude contours in the Magothy and Jameco aquifers on Long Island, New York, April-May 2013. USGS serves this map and geospatial data as a REST Open Map Service (as well as HTTP, JSON, KML, and shapefile), so end-users can use the map and data on mobile and web clients. A companion report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3326 (Como and others, 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3326) further describes data collection and map preparation and presents 68x22 in. PDF versions, 4 sheets, scale 1:125,000. This polyline shapefile consists of digital contours that represent the potentiometric-surface...
Efforts to conserve regional biodiversity in the face of global climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation will depend on approaches that consider population processes at multiple scales. By combining habitat and demographic modeling, landscape-based population viability models effectively relate small-scale habitat and landscape patterns to regional population viability. We demonstrate the power of landscape-based population viability models to inform conservation planning by using these models to evaluate responses of prairie warbler (Dendroica discolor) and wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) populations in the Central Hardwoods Bird Conservation Region to simulated conservation scenarios. We assessed the...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset represents interpolated estimates of precipitation (in decimal inches) for 120 quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades, for a period of time from 6 days (144 hours) prior to the field visit day up until 3 days (72 hours) prior to the field visit day. At each field visit, precipitation data was collected at four rain gauges installed at STRI. Rain gauge measurements were obtained on the following dates (which correspond to 3 days prior to the fields in the dataset): February 3, 2012; March 2, 2012; March 30, 2012; April 20, 2012; May 22, 2012;...
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This dataset represents data collected at 120 quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades and contains measurements of relative humidity (percent) at the ground surface for each point. Measurements were obtained on the following dates (which correspond to the fields in the dataset): February 6, 2012; March 5, 2012; April 2, 2012; April 23, 2012; May 25, 2012; June 21, 2012; July 19, 2012; August 23, 2012; September 27, 2012; November 5, 2012; December 17, 2012; January 21,2013; February 18, 2013; March 19, 2013; April 15, 2013; and May 13, 2013. Points classified into four groups (identified by the field "Group") and were visited on a rotating sampling schedule, such that each group of points was...
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This dataset represents data collected at 120 quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades and contains measurements of soil temperature (at 4 centimeters depth) for each point. Measurements were obtained on the following dates (which correspond to the fields in the dataset): February 6t, 2012; March 5, 2012; April 2, 2012; April 23, 2012; May 25, 2012; June 21, 2012; July 19, 2012; August 23, 2012; September 27, 2012; November 5, 2012; December 17, 2012; January 21, 2013; February 18, 2013; March 19, 2013; April 15, 2013; and May 13, 2013. Points were classified into four groups (identified by the field "Group") and were visited on a rotating sampling schedule, such that each group of points was visited...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset contains measurements of volumetric soil water content at certain quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades. All soil water content measurements in this file were obtained using a portable time-domain reflectometry (TDR) unit (FieldScout TDR 300 Soil Moisture Meter; Spectrum Technologies, Inc., Plainfield, IL, USA) that was fitted with the shortest probe length, 3.8 centimeters (cm). Six measurements were obtained per quadrat, and the values present in the fields of this dataset represent the means of these six measurements. In some cases, equipment...
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Emerging applications of ecosystem resilience and resistance concepts in sagebrush ecosystems allow managers to better predict and mitigate impacts of wildfire and invasive annual grasses. Soil temperature and moisture strongly influence the kind and amount of vegetation, and consequently, are closely tied to sagebrush ecosystem resilience and resistance (Chambers et al. 2014). Soil taxonomic temperature and moisture regimes can be used as indicators of resilience and resistance at landscape scales to depict environmental gradients in sagebrush ecosystems that range from cold/cool-moist sites to warm-dry sites. We aggregated soil survey spatial and tabular data to facilitate broad-scale analyses of resilience and...
Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: California, Colorado, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Greater sage-grouse, Greater sage-grouse, All tags...
Conserving a network of representative physical environments is a strategy that could conserve species both now and into the future, while allowing them to move in response to the climate. The key to implementing such a strategy is to define the physical environments in a way that is maximally relevant to species. We created comprehensive maps of geology, elevation zones, and landforms for the Eastern U.S. and then examined the relationships between these factors and 3434 rare species at 85,613 locations. Based on an index of importance derived from the number of species samples and an index of the percent above expected that a species was found on a feature, most species showed strong preferences for specific settings:...
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Dr. Richard Janda of the USGS began a channel monitoring program in Redwood Creek in northern coastal California in 1973. The USGS continued this work through 2013, when the Research Geologist, Dr. Mary Madej retired. This effort produced 40 years of channel change data in rivers that were disrupted by severe erosion following timber harvest of old-growth redwood forests, a portion of the program's data (plus 1953 data) has been preserved in this data release. Original field surveys documented bank erosion, aggradation, and degradation at 60 cross-sectional transects at annual or biannual timesteps. Three river reaches also have long-term longitudinal channel bed surveys which document the distribution and development...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset contains measurements of soil organic matter content (percent) at certain quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades. These measurements were obtained according to the following protocol: (1) for each quadrat location (point), one soil sample was obtained under sterile conditions, using a trowel wiped with methanol and rinsed with distilled water, and was placed into an autoclaved jar with a tight-fitting lid and placed on ice, (2) soil samples were transported to lab facilities on ice and immediately refrigerated, (3) soil samples were transferred...
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Spawning migrations of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) to coastal watersheds provide a rich resource subsidy to freshwater consumers. However, variation in thermal regimes and spawning activity across the landscape constrain the ability of poikilothermic consumers to assimilate eggs and carcasses. We investigated how sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) spawning density and stream temperature affect the growth, body condition, and fatty acid composition of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), a known egg predator, in seven tributaries of the Wood River in Southwest Alaska. We compared mean body size of juvenile coho salmon in late summer among 3–7 years per stream and found that the largest mean size occurred...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset contains information on soil microbial density (Most Probable Number of heterotrophic, culturable microbes per gram of soil) for soil samples obtained from certain quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades. This information was obtained by performing a Plate Dilution Frequency Assay (PDFA) on a series of serial dilutions for each soil sample.For each quadrat location (point), one soil sample was obtained under sterile conditions, using a trowel wiped with methanol and rinsed with distilled water, and was placed into an autoclaved jar with a tight-fitting...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset represents data collected at 120 quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades and contains measurements of ground surface temperature for each point. Measurements were obtained on the following dates (which correspond to the fields in the dataset): February 6, 2012; March 5, 2012; April 2, 2012; April 23, 2012; May 25, 2012; June 21, 2012; July 19, 2012; August 23, 2012; September 27, 2012; November 5, 2012; December 17, 2012, January 21, 2013, February 18, 2013; March 19, 2013; April 15, 2013; and May 13, 2013; Points classified into four groups...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing an online map of water level measurements in the Lloyd and North Shore aquifers on Long Island, New York, April-May 2013. USGS serves this map and geospatial data as a REST Open Map Service (as well as HTTP, JSON, KML, and shapefile), so end-users can use the map and data on mobile and web clients. A companion report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3326 (Como and others, 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3326) further describes data collection and map preparation and presents 68x22 in. PDF versions, 4 sheets, scale 1:125,000. This point shapefile consists of digital points that represent water level altitudes in the Lloyd and...
Habitat condition, both acres flooded and timing of inundation, were determined using remote sensing images from Landsat 5 and 8 for the Lower Klamath Basin, the representative basin for the southern Oregon and northeast California (SONEC) region. The dataset includes proportional water coverage (acres) for 8,825 distinct patches in Lower Klamath over 6 different time periods (1984-89; 1990-94; 1995-99; 2000-04; 2005-09; 2010-16), with a total of 368,301 acres of possibly foreageable land.
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Habitat loss and fragmentation are widely recognized as among the most important threats to global biodiversity. New analytical approaches are providing an improved ability to predict the effects of landscape change on population connectivity at vast spatial extents. This paper presents an analysis of population connectivity for three species of conservation concern [swift fox (Vulpes velox); lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus); massasuaga (Sistrurus catenatus)] across the American Great Plains region. We used factorial least-cost path and resistant kernel analyses to predict effects of landscape conditions on corridor network connectivity. Our predictions of population connectivity provide testable...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset represents interpolated estimates of precipitation (in decimal inches) for 120 quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades, for a period of time from 3 days (72 hours) prior to the day of measurement up until the day of measurement. At each field visit, precipitation data was collected at four rain gauges installed at STRI. Rain gauge measurements were obtained on the following dates (which correspond to the fields in the dataset): February 6, 2012; March 5, 2012; April 2, 2012; April 23, 2012; May 25, 2012; June 21, 2012; July 19, 2012; August 23,...
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This dataset contains data collected within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield (STRI) near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This dataset contains measurements of volumetric soil water content at certain quadrat locations (points) within 12 selected cedar glades. For points at which soil water content was measured by thermogravimetric analysis (oven-drying), which are points indicated by the code OD in the field SWC_Meth, the soil-water-content values contained in this dataset are identical to those for the matching dates and points in the file STRI_Glades_Soil_Water_Content_OD.shp. For details on the procedure used to calculate volumetric soil water content using the thermogravimetric method, see...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing an online map of potentiometric-surface altitude contours in the Lloyd and North Shore aquifers on Long Island, New York, April-May 2013. USGS serves this map and geospatial data as a REST Open Map Service (as well as HTTP, JSON, KML, and shapefile), so end-users can use the map and data on mobile and web clients. A companion report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3326 (Como and others, 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3326) further describes data collection and map preparation and presents 68x22 in. PDF versions, 4 sheets, scale 1:125,000. This polyline shapefile consists of digital contours that represent the potentiometric-surface...
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​ The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is providing an online map of water-table altitude measurements in the upper glacial and Magothy aquifers on Long Island, New York, April-May 2013. USGS serves this map and geospatial data as a REST Open Map Service (as well as HTTP, JSON, KML, and shapefile), so end-users can use the map and data on mobile and web clients. A companion report, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3326 (Como and others, 2015; http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sim3326) further describes data collection and map preparation and presents 68x22 in. PDF versions, 4 sheets, scale 1:125,000. Water level altitudes were measured at 334 observation wells and 1 supply well screened...
map background search result map search result map Journal Article: Soil Temperature and Moisture Regimes across Sage-Grouse Range Ground-surface temperature data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Interpolated precipitation data (second interval) for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Interpolated precipitation data (first interval) for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Relative humidity data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Soil organic matter data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Plate Dilution Frequency Assay (PDFA) data for soil samples from for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Soil temperature at 4 centimeters depth for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Volumetric soil water content, measured both by time-domain reflectometry and by thermogravimetric anaysis, for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Volumetric soil water content data measured by time-domain reflectometry for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Potentiometric Surface Contours of the Lloyd and North Shore Aquifers, April-May 2013 Potentiometric Surface Contours of the Magothy and Jameco Aquifers, April-May 2013 Water Level Data in the Lloyd and North Shore Aquifers, April-May 2013 Water Level Data in the Upper Glacial and Magothy Aquifers, April-May 2013 Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains River Channel Survey Data, Redwood Creek, California, 1953-2013 Thermal constraints on stream consumer responses to a marine resource subsidy Water Coverage Data in Lower Klamath Basin, 1984-2016 Soil organic matter data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Plate Dilution Frequency Assay (PDFA) data for soil samples from for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Ground-surface temperature data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Interpolated precipitation data (second interval) for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Interpolated precipitation data (first interval) for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Relative humidity data for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Soil temperature at 4 centimeters depth for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Volumetric soil water content, measured both by time-domain reflectometry and by thermogravimetric anaysis, for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Volumetric soil water content data measured by time-domain reflectometry for 120 point locations within limestone cedar glades at Stones River National Battlefield near Murfreesboro, Tennessee River Channel Survey Data, Redwood Creek, California, 1953-2013 Water Coverage Data in Lower Klamath Basin, 1984-2016 Potentiometric Surface Contours of the Magothy and Jameco Aquifers, April-May 2013 Water Level Data in the Lloyd and North Shore Aquifers, April-May 2013 Potentiometric Surface Contours of the Lloyd and North Shore Aquifers, April-May 2013 Water Level Data in the Upper Glacial and Magothy Aquifers, April-May 2013 Thermal constraints on stream consumer responses to a marine resource subsidy Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains Journal Article: Soil Temperature and Moisture Regimes across Sage-Grouse Range