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Filters Contacts (Less) Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative LCC Network Data Steward Lindsay Reynolds Robert C Klinger Jesse Langdon, University of Washington University of Washington Matthew P Miller U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase Matthew L Brooks Ecosystems Western Ecological Research Center Randy McKinley Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center Bryce Richardson Emma C Underwood Daren M Carlisle U.S. Geological Survey Jessica A Hopple Sydney S Foks Emma C Underwood Integrated Modeling & Prediction Division Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network Shannon Still Water Resources View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV

Predicted specific mean daily flow Our objective was to model specific mean daily flow (mean daily flow divided by drainage area [cubic feet per second per square mile]) on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate.We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between specific mean daily flow on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables. We then projected specific mean... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Predicted specific minimum flow Our objective was to model specific minimum flow (mean of the annual minimum flows divided by drainage area [cubic feet per second per square mile]) on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between specific minimum flow on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables. We then projected... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Predicted hydrology (intermittency) under drier climate conditions Our objective was to model the risk of becoming intermittent under drier climate conditions on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a conditional inference modeling approach to model the relation between intermittency status on gaged streams (115 gages) and selected mean and minimum flow metrics. We then projected intermittency status and if a stream... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Pacific-slope Flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis) Habitat Suitability Change Models This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Pacific-slope Flycatcher (Empidonax difficilis) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags american_beaver_map_service This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the American Beaver (Castor canadensis) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags collared_pika_map_service This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Collared Pika (Ochotona collaris) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags Monthly estimates of natural baseflow for 15,866 stream reaches, defined by the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.0 (NHDPlusV2), in the Delaware River Basin for the period 1950-2015 This metadata record describes monthly estimates of natural baseflow for 15,866 stream reaches, defined by the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.0 (NHDPlusV2), in the Delaware River Basin for the period 1950-2015. A statistical machine learning technique - random forest modeling (Liaw and Wiener, 2018; R Core Team, 2020) - was applied to estimate natural flows using about 150 potential predictor variables (Miller and others, 2018). Calibration data used for the random forest model are available from (Foks and others, 2020). Each model was run twice, first using all potential predictor variables, which represents a "full" model run, and a second time using the top 20 predictors from the original run, which... Categories: Data; Tags: Delaware, Delaware River Basin, Hydrology, National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.0, New Jersey, All tags... New York, Pennsylvania, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), anthropogenic modification, baseflow, environmental impacts, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, groundwater, hydrology, inlandWaters, natural flows, random forest modeling, random forests, river reaches, rivers/streams, streamflow, surface water hydrology, water resources, Fewer tags Modeled intermittency risk for small streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin under climate change Longer, drier summers projected for arid and semi-arid regions of western North America under climate change are likely to have enormous consequences for water resources and river-dependent ecosystems. Many climate change scenarios for this region involve decreases in mean annual streamflow, latesummer precipitation and late-summer streamflow in the coming decades. Intermittent streams are already common in this region, and it is likely that minimum flows will decrease and some perennial streams will shift to intermittent flow under climate-driven changes in timing and magnitude of precipitation and runoff, combined with increases in temperature. To understand current intermittency among streams and analyze the... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, Report, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Journal Article: Projections of contemporary and future climate niche for Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata subsp. wyomingensis): a guide for restoration Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) is one of the most widespread and abundant plant species in the intermountain regions of western North America. This species occupies an extremely wide ecological niche ranging from the semi-arid basins to the subalpine. Within this large niche, three widespread subspecies are recognized. Montane ecoregions are occupied by subspecies vaseyana, while subspecies wyomingensis and tridentata occupy basin ecoregions. In cases of wide-ranging species with multiple subspecies, it can be more practical from the scientific and management perspective to assess the climate profiles at the subspecies level. We focus bioclimatic model efforts on subspecies wyomingensis, which is the most... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, California, Completed, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... Great Basin, Great Basin, Idaho, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nevada, Oregon, Random Forests, Report, Utah, big sagebrush, bioclimatic model, biota, climate change, ecological restoration, environment, location, Fewer tags Predictive Model of Burn Severity (dNBR) in the Mojave Desert This raster dataset represents spatially explicit predictions of burn severity (dNBRPredict.tif) in the Mojave Desert based on models developed from data on the difference normalized burn ratio (dNBR) within perimeters of fires greater than 405 hectares that burned between 1984 to 2010. Raster resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grass-fire cycle, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Predictive models, Random forests, All tags... biota, burn severity, dNBR, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fire regimes, fires, geographic information systems, heterogeneity, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, spatial models, vegetation, Fewer tags Predicted mean annual number of zero-flow days Our objective was to model mean annual number of zero-flow days (days per year) for small streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin under historic hydrologic conditions on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between zero-flow days per year on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Predicted 7-day minimum flow Our objective was to model 7-day minimum flow (mean of the annual minimums of a 7-day moving average for each year [cubic feet per second]) on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between 7-day minimum flow on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables. We then projected 7-day minimum... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) Habitat Suitability Change Models This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags Predicted intermittency Our objective was to model intermittency (perennial, weakly intermittent, or strongly intermittent) on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate.We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between intermittency on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables. We then projected intermittency status to ungaged reaches in the Upper Colorado... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Predicted minimum flow coefficient of variation Our objective was to model minimum flow coefficient of variation (CV) on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between minimum flow CV (the standard deviation of annual minimum flows times 100 divided by the mean of annual minimum flows) on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Predictive Model of Fire Frequency in the Mojave Desert This raster dataset represents spatially explicit predictions of fire frequency in the Mojave Desert based on models developed from data on perimeters of fires greater than 405 hectares that burned between 1972 through 2010. Raster resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grass-fire cycle, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Predictive models, Random forests, All tags... biota, burn severity, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire return interval, fires, geographic information systems, heterogeneity, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, spatial models, vegetation, Fewer tags Mojave Desert Ecoregion This is a shapefile of the Mojave Desert, which was used as our study area boundary (MojaveEcoregion_TNS_UTM83.shp). Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Mojave Desert, biota, burn severity, co-occurence invasives, desert ecosystems, All tags... ecosystems, environmental gradients, field methods, fire disturbance, fire frequency, fires, geographic gradients, geographic information systems, grass-fire cycle, ignition, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive plant species, invasive species, machine learning, maximum entropy, plants (organisms), random forests, remote sensing, spatial dynamics, vegetation, Fewer tags Predicted frequency of low-flow pulse events Our objective was to model frequency of low-pulse events on small, ungaged streams in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Modeling streamflows is an important tool for understanding landscape-scale drivers of flow and estimating flows where there are no gaged records. We focused our study in the Upper Colorado River Basin, a region that is not only critical for water resources but also projected to experience large future climate shifts toward a drier climate. We used a random forest modeling approach to model the relation between frequency of low-pulse events on gaged streams (115 gages) and environmental variables. We then projected frequency of low-pulse events to ungaged reaches in the Upper Colorado River Basin... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Data, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, LCC Network Science Catalog, LCC Network Science Catalog, Random forests, All tags... Streamflow, Streamflow modeling, Ungaged streams, Upper Colorado River Basin, completed, environment, product, Fewer tags Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Habitat Suitability Change Models This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted from... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags American Marten (Martes americana) Habitat Suitability Change Models This dataset shows modelled habitat suitability for the American Marten (Martes americana) under current and projected future conditions. We built habitat suitability models for 237 bird, 117 mammal, and 12 amphibian species. Species were chosen for inclusion in the study based on a simple set of criteria. For a species to be included in the study, it had to be primarily associated with terrestrial habitats, have a digital map of its current range, and have some portion of its current distribution intersect with the study area extent. In addition, we restricted the list of species used in the study to those for which a well-performing continental-scale model could be built. Digital species range maps were converted... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: biota, climate change, environment, habitat, modeling, All tags... random forests, species, suitability, Fewer tags