Survival and hydrodynamic behavior of grass carp eggs and larvae in relation to turbulence and in-stream obstructions

Data collected from a comprehensive set of hydrodynamic experiments conducted with live grass carp eggs and larvae, to evaluate drifting and swimming patterns with 3 different in-stream obstructions: (1) a gravel bump, (2) a single cylinder, and (3) submerged vegetation. The hydrodynamic behavior of eggs and larvae with each obstruction was continuously monitored for about 85 consecutive hours. Transient spatial distributions of the locations of eggs and larvae across the water column were generated for each flow scenario.

Tags: Fish, Grass carp, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), biota, All tags... mortality, swimming behavior, transport, transport of eggs and larvae, turbulence, Fewer tags

Bird Behavior and Mortality in Relation to Power Lines in Prairie Habitats, North Dakota, 1981to1982

A biologist and field crew from Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center observed bird flights at 7 study sites, twice weekly during two spring and two fall migration periods between April 3, 1981 and May 20, 1982. Study sites were located in south-central North Dakota in Barnes, Kidder, and Stutsman counties. The database includes flight observation's of bird species in the vicinity of power lines and transmission towers, number of birds in each flock, their reactions to power lines and transmission towers, weather conditions, and number of collisions.

Categories: Data; Tags: Barnes County, Ecology, Kidder County, North Dakota, Stutsman County, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, atmospheric and climatic processes, biota, bird strikes, birds, migratory species, mortality, power lines, prairie wetlands, riparian forest, Fewer tags

Avian morbidity and mortality data reported to the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership - event reporting system (WHISPers) in the continental United States for events beginning on or between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023

Avian morbidity and mortality events reported in WHISPers that began in calendar year 2023. Events reported in WHISPers represent only those events that are reported to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center or the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Studies at the University of Georgia, or that State, Federal, and Tribal partners voluntarily report into WHISPers, not legal, and marked as “Visible to the Public”.

Categories: Data; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, avian, cause of death, morbidity, All tags... mortality, none, wild bird, Fewer tags

Pinyon-juniper basal area, climate and demographics data from National Forest Inventory plots and projected under future density and climate conditions

These data were compiled to help understand how climate change may impact dryland pinyon-juniper ecosystems in coming decades, and how resource management might be able to minimize those impacts. Objective(s) of our study were to model the demographic rates of PJ woodlands to estimate the areas that may decline in the future vs. those that will be stable. We quantified populations growth rates across broad geographic areas, and identified the relative roles of recruitment and mortality in driving potential future changes in population viability in 5 tree species that are major components of these dry forests. We used this demographic model to project pinyon-juniper population stability under future climate conditions,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Colorado, Ecology, All tags... Forestry, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus osteosperma, Juniperus scopulorum, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pinus edulis, Pinus monophylla, Rocky Mountain juniper, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States Southwest, Utah, Utah juniper, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, droughts, dryland forests, ecosystem management, effects of climate change, field inventory and monitoring, forest ecosystems, forest inventory plot, forest management, mortality, oneseed juniper, pinyon-juniper forests, pinyon-juniper woodland, plot sampling, population and community ecology, population dynamics, population growth, recruitment, singleleaf pinyon, tree growth, tree mortality, tree recruitment, trees, twoneedle pinyon, vegetation, western United States, Fewer tags

Data on separated and dead foals from Conger and Frisco Herd Management Areas, Utah, USA, between 2017 and 2020

We studied factors affecting separation of feral horse foals from their mothers and foal mortality, including variables such as group changes by the mother and behavior of the foal. We include data on feral horse foals that died or were separated, and their siblings. We conducted this study between 2017 and 2020 at two Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in western Utah, USA: Conger and Frisco. We conducted demographic observations year round at both HMAs to record group composition and foaling rate. We additionally recorded behavioral observations for a subset of foals at Conger HMA annually between March and September. This dataset includes 2 .csv files: Data_foals_dead_separated_siblings.csv - These data contain 52...

Categories: Data; Tags: Conger Mountain, Ecology, Equus, Frisco Peak, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Utah, Wildlife Biology, animal behavior, biota, feral horse, foal, mortality, wild horse, Fewer tags

Diagnostic and field data from the Eastern Migratory Whooping Crane Population

Detailed data collected from the field and generated during diagnostic evaluation of whooping crane carcasses from the Eastern Migratory Population.

Categories: Data; Tags: Eastern Migratory Population, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, All tags... Michigan, Mortality, Tennessee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Whooping crane, Wildlife Disease, Wisconsin, biota, reintroduction (organisms), Fewer tags

Estimated tree mortality, basal area, climate, and drought conditions for ponderosa pine in forest inventory plots across the western U.S.

These data consist of environmental covariates and estimated plot-level mortality of ponderosa pine trees. Environmental covariates include growing season temperature and soil moisture, and values are summarized into long-term mean conditions, and anomalies observed between forest inventory sampling events for each plot. Data also include plot locations (with uncertainty introduced by the US Forest Service to maintain private property rights), plot basal area, and several variables related to estimated mortality rate of ponderosa pine trees under various assumptions about basal area conditions.

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Ecology, Forestry, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, air temperature, basal area, basal area conditions, biota, climate change, droughts, environmental changes, environmental covariates, estimated mortality rate, estimated plot-level mortality, field sampling, forest ecosystems, forest inventory, forest inventory plot, forest inventory sampling events, forest management, forest sampling, forestry, forests, growing season soil moisture, growing season temperature, long-term ecological monitoring, long-term mean conditions, mortality, pine forests, plot basal area, plot locations, plot sampling, ponderosa pine forest, ponderosa pine trees, sampling, soil moisture, tree mortality, vegetation, western United States, Fewer tags

White-tailed deer necropsy data from Wisconsin, 2017-2021

Necropsy data collected from naturally-occurring white-tailed deer mortalities in southwestern Wisconsin from 2017-2021. Hunter-harvest mortalities are not included.

Categories: Data; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, Wisconsin, biota, chronic wasting disease, All tags... mortality, pathology, Fewer tags

Bacteria identified in freshwater mussels in the Clinch River, VA, associated with mortality events from 2018 to 2020

We investigated the cultureable bacterial communities in the native freshwater mussel faunal in the Clinch River, VA/TN during mussel mortality events in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and examine the spatial and temporal distribution of bacterial genera among Pheasantshells and six other unionid species.

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Clinch River, Tennessee, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, All tags... bacteria, bacteria, biota, freshwater, mortality, mussel, Fewer tags

Necropsy reference number and summary collection information for Washington state population of northern sea otters examined during 1989-2010

Morbillivirus epidemics in marine mammals first gained prominence in 1988 when an outbreak of phocine distemper virus (PDV) occurred in European harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina). Prior to 2001, all serosurveys for morbilliviruses in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in California, Washington and Alaska documented a 0% seroprevalence. The first published serodetections of morbillivirus in sea otters occurred in 2001–2002 in live-captured Washington sea otters with a documented 80% seroprevalence. We conducted a retrospective study of sea otter cases from 1989–2010 compiled at the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center to identify cases of morbilliviral disease in Washington sea otters, and to characterize...

Categories: Data; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, Washington sea otter, Wildlife Disease, biota, All tags... encephalitis, immunohistochemistry, morbillivirus, mortality, neurologic manifestation, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, Fewer tags