Ecosystem-based river basin management: Its approach and policy-level application

P>1. Habitats are often connected by fluxes of energy and nutrients across their boundaries. For example, headwater streams are linked to surrounding riparian vegetation through invertebrate and leaf litter inputs, and there is evidence that consumers in downstream habitats are subsidised by resources flowing from headwater systems. However, the strength of these linkages and the manner in which potential headwater subsidies vary along climatic and disturbance gradients are unknown. 2. We quantified the downstream transport of invertebrates, organic matter and inorganic sediment from 60 fishless headwater streams in the Wenatchee River Basin located on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Washington, U.S.A....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecoregion, headwater, influence, invertebrate, land-use, All tags... streams, transport, Fewer tags

SEFSC CAGES Alabama Fish Length Data with CPUE

The CAGES program (Comparative Assessment of Gulf Estuarine Systems) is designed to examine the differences between estuarine ecosystems and investigate why some are more productive than others. The program focuses on estuarine areas important to commercial fisheries and includes data on commercial finfish and invertebrate species, as well as other species commonly captured in trawl sampling. This Louisiana dataset is a subset of the CAGES Relational Database which is a compilation of fishery-independent data contributed by natural resource agencies of the Gulf States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida). This data set includes data from trawls collected by the Alabama Department of Conservation...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alabama, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Annelida, Arnica Bay, Bay Minette Creek, All tags... Blakely River, Bon Secour River, CAGES, CPUE, Chickasaw Creek, Coelenterata, Crustacea, Deer River, Dog River, East Fowl River, Echinodermata, Eleven Mile Creek, Eslava Creek, Fish River, GIWW, Grand Bay, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Gulf Intercoastal Waterway, Gulf of Mexico, Halls Mill Creek, Little Lagoon, Magnolia River, Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, Mobile River, Mollusca, Perdido Bay, Porifera, Rabbit Creek, Tensaw River, Theodore Industrial Canal, Vertebrata, Water Body, Weeks Bay, West Fowl River, Wolf Bay, Wolf Creek, Xiphosura, abundance, catch per unit effort, coastal bay, comparative assessment of gulf estuarine systems, crustacean, dissolved oxygen, distribution, estuary, finfish, fisheries, fishery independent data, hydrographic, hydrological, invertebrate, nekton, occurrence, salinity, temperature, trawl, vertebrate, Fewer tags

Publication: Assessment of ecosystem response to a temporary water level drawdown and subsequent refilling at Topock Marsh, Arizona

Abstract: Topock Marsh is a large wetland adjacent to the Colorado River and the main feature of Havasu National Wildlife Refuge (Havasu NWR) in southern Arizona. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and Bureau of Reclamation began a project to improve water management capabilities at Topock Marsh and protect habitats and species. Initial construction required a drawdown, which caused below-average inflows and water depths in 2010–11. U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) scientists collected an assemblage of biotic, abiotic, and hydrologic data from Topock Marsh during the drawdown and immediately after, thus obtaining valuable information needed by FWS. Building upon that work,...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, AZ-04, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CA-08, All tags... California, Data Acquisition and Development, Data.gov Desert LCC, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Federal resource managers, GIS, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Mojave Desert Pilot Area, Monitoring, Policy makers & regulators, Publication, Report, Report, State agencies, United States, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT, aquatic, biota, completed, fish, hydrology, invasive, invertebrate, map, model, monitoring, native, plant, product, protected area, vegetation, water availability, water management, water quality, wetland, Fewer tags

iMapInvasives Arizona

iMapInvasives Arizona is an online data management tool that is a standardized, central repository of location information for all invasive species taxon. The tool facilitates data sharing and utilization by land managers, the public and other organizations. The database stores basic point locations of invasive species observations, but also allows for advanced data management, including the capability to input treatment records, survey records, and track infestations over time. Use this tool by contributing data, planning and collaborating projects, or monitoring infestations.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, amphibian, fish, invasive, inventory, All tags... invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, reptile, Fewer tags

HabiMap™ Arizona

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (Department) recently revised its State Wildlife Action Plan that provides a framework and information to assist in setting conservation priorities for the state’s wildlife and habitats. Data gathered for Arizona’s State Wildlife Action Plan represents myriad sources and extensive public comment, and is used to support the Department’s efforts to develop proactive conservation goals and objectives. Much of that data (more than 300 data layers) is compiled into a single model of wildlife conservation potential, the Species and Habitat Conservation Guide. To ensure the State Wildlife Action Plan information is accessible and useful to everyone, the Arizona Game and Fish Department...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Mojave Desert, OHV, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, agriculture, amphibian, bird, burro, connectivity, contamination, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, groundwater, horse, invertebrate, mammal, map, mining, model, oil, ownership, plant, priority, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, threat, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wildlife, Fewer tags

Linking the Agricultural Landscape of the Midwest to Stream Health with Structural Equation Modeling: Model Input Data

Biological, chemical, physical habitat, riparian, and land-use data collected from the Midwest streams by the National Water Quality Project Regional Stream Quality Team. Data were used to develop structural equation models for the purpose of understanding how networks of potential stressors influence stream ecological health. For more information about the Midwest Regional Stream Quality Assessment please go to https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20123124.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Environmental Health, Geomorphology, Illinois, All tags... Indiana, Iowa, KAnsas, Kentucky, Land Use Change, Michigan, Midwest United States, Minnesota, Missouri, National Water Quality Program, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Wisconsin, agriculture, algae, biota, ecological condition, fish, habitat, invertebrate, land use, multiple stressors, pesticides, urban, Fewer tags

The ecosystem, energy and human values

P>1. Habitats are often connected by fluxes of energy and nutrients across their boundaries. For example, headwater streams are linked to surrounding riparian vegetation through invertebrate and leaf litter inputs, and there is evidence that consumers in downstream habitats are subsidised by resources flowing from headwater systems. However, the strength of these linkages and the manner in which potential headwater subsidies vary along climatic and disturbance gradients are unknown. 2. We quantified the downstream transport of invertebrates, organic matter and inorganic sediment from 60 fishless headwater streams in the Wenatchee River Basin located on the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Washington, U.S.A....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecoregion, headwater, influence, invertebrate, land-use, All tags... streams, transport, Fewer tags

Temporal changes in aquatic-invertebrate and fish assemblages in streams of the north-central and northeastern US

Many management agencies seek to evaluate temporal changes in aquatic assemblages at monitoring sites, but few have sites with ecological time series that are long enough for this purpose. Trends in aquatic-invertebrate and fish assemblage composition were assessed at 27 long-term monitoring sites in the north-central and northeastern United States. Temporal changes were identified using serial trend analysis. Sites with significant serial trends were further evaluated by relating explanatory environmental variables (e.g., streamflow, habitat, and water chemistry) to changes in assemblage composition. Significant trends were found at 19 of 27 study sites; however, differences in the sensitivity of the aquatic fauna...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Ecological trends, Fish, Invertebrate, Land-use, All tags... Landscapes, Metrics, Northeast CASC, Other Landscapes, Science Tools For Managers, Time series, Fewer tags

National Gap Analysis Program (GAP)

How well are we protecting common plants and animals? Gap Analysis is the science of answering this question. Developing the data and tools to support that science is the mission of the USGS Gap Analysis Program (GAP). GAP works to ensure that common species – those that are not officially endangered – remain common by identifying those species and plant communities that are not adequately represented in existing conservation lands. Learn more about Gap Analysis >> We work with a wide range of government, academic, non-profit and private partners, providing them with essential data and analyses that they can use to protect the habitats on which the survival of common species depends.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, United States, agriculture, amphibian, bird, All tags... development, fish, grassland, invertebrate, land cover, land cover, mammal, map, model, protected area, reptile, vegetation, Fewer tags

Renewable Energy in the California Desert

Solar development has the potential to have widespread impacts on the California desert. Thus, it is important to have as much information as possible regarding the impacts of facilities and related infrastructure on the natural ecosystem and surrounding desert communities, how current policies are influencing development, and how the federal process is working on evaluating solar development applications. This research is detailed in this website. "Renewable Energy in the California Desert: Mechanisms for Evaluating Solar Development on Public Lands" is the result of sixteen months of research conducted by ten graduate students from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environmen t through...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, English, GIS, Mojave Desert, OHV, All tags... US, agriculture, assessment, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, economic, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grazing, groundwater, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, program, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, research, restoration, riparian, road, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation , vulnerability, water, wetland, wildlife, wind, Fewer tags

Jornada Bibliography

Chihuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability, and management challenges in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The goal of the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research program (JRN LTER) established in 1982 is to understand and quantify the key factors and processes controlling ecosystem dynamics and patterns in Chihuahuan Desert landscapes. In collaboration with the Jornada Experimental Range (USDA ARS), studies initiated in 1915 have been incorporated into the JRN LTER program. Previous research focused on desertification, a state change from perennial grasslands to woody plant dominance that occurs globally. Based on findings from growing long-term databases, the...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: CMQ3, Chihuahuan Desert, DLCC, Desert LCC, English, All tags... Mojave Desert, New Mexico, OHV, Sonoran Desert, US, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, condition, connectivity, development, ecoregion, elevation, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fossil fuel, geology, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land use, landscape, mammal, management, mining, model, monitoring, ownership, plan, plant, priority, program, protected area, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, road, runoff, scrub, shrubland, slope, soil, stream, target, terrestrial, threat, threatened, transportation, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, wind, Fewer tags

Assessment of Grassland Ecosystem Conditions in the Southwestern United States: Wildlife and Fish, Volume 2

This report is volume 2 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broad-scale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an assessment area. Volume 1 of this assessment focused on the ecology, types, conditions, and management practices of Southwestern grasslands. Volume 2 (this volume) describes wildlife and fish species, their habitat requirements, and species-specific management concerns, in Southwestern grasslands. This assessment is regional in scale and pertains primarily...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, Chihuahuan Desert, English, Sonoran Desert, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, condition, connectivity, contamination, development, endangered, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, monitoring, ownership, plan, priority, program, protected area, rare, recreation, reptile, research, restoration, riparian, river, road, scrub, shrub, soil, spring, stream, terrestrial, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Sonoran Desert Rapid Ecoregional Assessment (REA)

REAs synthesize the best available information about resource conditions and trends within an ecoregion. They highlight and map areas of high ecological value, including important wildlife habitats and corridors, and gauge their potential risks from climate change, wildfires, invasive species, energy development, and urban growth. REAs also map areas that have high energy development potential, and relatively low ecological value, which could be best-suited for siting future energy development. In addition, REAs establish landscape-scale baseline ecological data to gauge the effect and effectiveness of future management actions. The Sonoran Desert REA was initiated in July 2010. It has been completed and peer reviewed...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: English, GIS, OHV, US, agriculture, All tags... amphibian, biodiversity, bird, burro, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, grazing, groundwater, horse, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, map, mining, model, oil, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, renewable, reptile, reservoir, riparian, river, road, scrub, soil, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Microcosms to Evaluate Elevated Major Ions

Description of Work Elevated concentrations of major ions are associated with a variety of discharges to aquatic ecosystems, including urban wastewater, mountain top removal and valley fill operations, and coal bed methane production. There is considerable uncertainty regarding the toxicity of major ions to aquatic organisms, particularly given the variability of constituents that comprise these effluents. Because the relative toxicity of major ions is highly variable, predicting effects based on conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS) or other composite measures may be simplistic. Furthermore, most of the available information on sensitivity of aquatic organisms to major ions has been derived from short-term...

Categories: Project; Tags: GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Invertebrate, Major ion, All tags... Mesocosom, Template 147, Toxic Substances, Uploaded in Batch, Fewer tags

Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) Project

This virtual flora and fauna was created to serve as a gateway for the environmental research community, as well as the general public, to access and contribute to a growing collection of specimen records and observations. These data represent the products of MABA research expeditions as well as historic data from herbaria, museum collections, and scientific literature. Sky Island Alliance's MABA project is a visionary initiative to catalog, protect, and restore one of the world's premier biodiversity hotspots - the Southwestern U.S. and Northwestern Mexico’s Madrean Sky Island region (Sonora, Arizona, Chihuahua, and New Mexico). MABA is committed to inventorying the wildlands and wildlife of these Sky Islands —...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, English, Madrean, Mexico, New Mexico, All tags... Sonora, US, amphibian, biodiversity, bird, ecoregion, fish, inventory, invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, reptile, wildlife, Fewer tags

Assessment of Grassland Ecosystem Conditions in the Southwestern United States, Volume 1

This report is volume 1 of a two-volume ecological assessment of grassland ecosystems in the Southwestern United States. Broadscale assessments are syntheses of current scientific knowledge, including a description of uncertainties and assumptions, to provide a characterization and comprehensive description of ecological, social, and economic components within an assessment area. Volume 1 of this assessment focuses on the ecology, types, conditions, and management practices of Southwestern grasslands. The second volume, due to be published in 2005, describes wildlife and fish species, their habitat requirements, and species-specific management concerns, in Southwestern grasslands. This assessment is regional in...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BMP, Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, OHV, All tags... Sonoran Desert, agriculture, amphibian, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, development, endangered, energy, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, map, mining, model, monitoring, oil, ownership, plan, plant, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, reptile, research, resilience, restoration, riparian, road, scrub, shrub, soil, stream, threat, threatened, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

Arizona's Natural Heritage Program

Heritage Data Management System - HDMS The HDMS is part of a global network of more than 80 Natural Heritage Programs and Conservation Data Centres. HDMS information is available so Arizonans can make prudent decisions weighing future development, economic growth, and environmental integrity. Using published and unpublished reports, data collected by cooperating agencies, review of scientific collections, collaboration with professionals and many other sources of information, HDMS identifies wildlife, plants and geographic areas of special concern in Arizona, and consolidates information about their status and distribution within the State. Learn more about Arizona HDMS. -On-line Environmental Review Tool (ERT)....

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, amphibian, bird, fish, invertebrate, All tags... mammal, map, plant, reptile, Fewer tags

Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA)

NPS is transforming the way park resource information is managed and delivered to parks, partners, and the public. IRMA (Integrated Resource Management Applications) is the name given to the project that has guided this transformation, and to the web portal that is its end result. View or download the IRMA project brief (.pdf). IRMA is a portfolio of tools and applications, and the beginnings of a "one-stop" for data and information on park-related resources. From IRMA you can search for, view, and download documents, reports, publications, data sets, and park species lists. You can get information on park visitor numbers, park projects, and apply for a park research permit. Park staff can navigate to certain internal...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, adaptation, agriculture, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, cultural, desertification, development, ecoregion, endangered, energy, fish, grazing, groundwater, invasive, inventory, invertebrate, land cover, management, map, mining, monitoring, national, oil, ownership, plan, priority, protected area, rare, recreation, remote sensing, renewable, reptile, research, reservoir, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, soil, spring, stream, threat, threatened, topography, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, water, watershed, wetland, Fewer tags

Sevilleta LTER Library

The Sevilleta LTER supports a long-term, integrated, interdisciplinary research program addressing key hypotheses on pattern and process in aridland ecosystems. Sevilleta LTER research includes studies in desert grassland and shrubland communities, and riparian and mountain forests emphasizing pulse driven processes in space and time. Key drivers (e.g., climate, fire, water, resource availability) govern dynamics in each landscape component. Our focus on how biotic and abiotic drivers affect spatial and temporal dynamics of aridland ecosystems allows us to conduct long-term research that addresses important basic theories and yet has significant relevance to regional, national and international priorities. The...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, US, All tags... agriculture, assessment, biodiversity, bird, climate, connectivity, contamination, desertification, ecoregion, erosion, fire, fish, grassland, grazing, groundwater, invasive, invertebrate, land cover, mammal, management, mining, model, monitoring, plant, protected area, remote sensing, reptile, resilience, restoration, riparian, river, scrub, shrub, soil, stream, topography, vegetation, vulnerability, water, wetland, wildlife, Fewer tags

The Nature Conservancy's Priority Conservation Areas

The Nature Conservancy has been a leader in spatial conservation planning for many years. The primary planning tool used by the Conservancy for landscape-scale conservation planning over the past decade has been Ecoregional Assessments. Our United States Ecoregional Assessments identify priority areas for conservation within the United States. This includes data from 67 Ecoregional Assessments, which identified over 9,000 conservation priority areas. Importantly, this dataset contains the conservation targets that we hope to conserve within these priority areas. Conservation targets include both species and habitat types (e.g. plant communities; ecosystems). Our dataset includes 8,507 unique species and 6,633 habitat...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, ecoregion, endangered, fish, grassland, invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, priority, rare, reptile, scrub, shrub, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags