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Exotic and perennial grass cover for pastures in the Soda Fire (2016) The point data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Point Data.csv") includes 2016 vegetative cover values of exotic annual grass and perennial grass measured within three different types of plots for 75 pastures in the Soda Fire, which burned in 2015: 6m² plot using a grid-point intercept photo software, SamplePoint (Booth et al. 2006), 1m² quadrat using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field, 531m² circular plot using an unguided rapid ocular estimate in the field. Smaller plots were nested within larger plots. The pasture data file ("Soda Fire Point and Pasture Data (2016).Pasture Data.csv") includes pasture level metrics of area, elevation, precipitation, slope, heatload, soils, and herbicide... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Idaho BLM, Land Use Change, All tags... Malheur County, Oregon, Owyhee County, Soda Wildfire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, exotic annual grass, fires, grid point intercept, perennial grass, sample size, vegetation, vegetation cover, Fewer tags Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Camera Data) Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Lincoln County, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon Coast Range, Pacific Northwest, Polk County, Oregon, All tags... Tillamook County, Oregon, Yamhill County, Oregon, biodiversity, cervidae, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, management, plantation, silviculture, trophic, ungulate, Fewer tags Raster digital data sets identifying a range-wide network of priority areas for greater sage-grouse The delineation of priority areas in western North America for managing Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) represents a broad-scale experiment in conservation biology. The strategy of limiting spatial disturbance and focusing conservation actions within delineated areas may benefit the greatest proportion of Greater Sage-Grouse. However, land use under normal restrictions outside priority areas potentially limits dispersal and gene flow, which can isolate priority areas and lead to spatially disjunct populations. We used graph theory, representing priority areas as spatially distributed nodes interconnected by movement corridors, to understand the capacity of priority areas to function as connected... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, greater sage-grouse, habitat, habitat connectivity, habitat linkages, historic range, Fewer tags Stream Segments Captures and Crossings Associated With 2012 Aquatic Organism Passage Study Siuslaw National Forest Stream segments, aquatic organism captures, stream surveys, and road-stream crossings described by these metadata accompany a 2012 electrofishing study of the distribution and abundance of aquatic organisms (fish, lampreys, amphibians and crayfish), conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Pacific Northwest Region Aquatic and Riparian Ecosystem Monitoring Project (AREMP) of the U.S. Forest Service, in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon, USA. The purpose of the study was to quantify the effectiveness of stream-road crossing restoration (culvert replacement to the stream simulation standard) in terms of numbers of fish and length of stream gained through restoration, and to quantify the continuing... Types: Citation; Tags: Alsea River, Aquatic Biology, Big Creek, Big Elk Creek, Cape Creek, All tags... Coast Range, Douglas County, Ecology, Five Rivers, Forestry, Horse Creek, Lane County, Lincoln County, Little Nestucca River, Maple Creek, Neskowin Creek, Nestucca River, North Fork Beaver Creek, North Fork Smith River, Oregon, Salmon River, Siuslaw National Forest, Siuslaw River, Tillamook County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Umpqua River, Wildlife Biology, Yamhill County, aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity, fishery resources, freshwater ecosystems, migratory species, seasonal migration, Fewer tags Mariana swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) survey data from O'ahu, Hawai'i, 2005-2010 The data set contains Mariana swiftlet (Aerodramus bartschi) population survey data that were collected via evening arrival surveys on the island of O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands. Data were collected at a roosting/nesting tunnel used by Mariana swiftlets in North Halawa Valley. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aerodramus bartschi, Mariana swiftlet, O'ahu, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC) Nitrogen cycling rates from sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils in the Northern Great Basin (2008) This dataset contains data supporting the paper: DeCrappeo, N.M., DeLorenze, E.J., Giguere, A.T., Pyke, D.A., and Bottomley, P.J. Fungal and bacterial contributions to nitrogen cycling in cheatgrass-invaded and uninvaded native sagebrush soils of the western USA (accepted at the journal Plant and Soil). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of soil bacteria and fungi to inorganic nitrogen (N) cycling in sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils using a 15N isotope dilution experiment. Soils were collected from sagebrush and cheatgrass rhizospheres at six paired sites in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon. In order to partition the contribution of each microbial group to N cycling, soils... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biogeochemical cycling, biota, ecological processes, geoscientificInformation, invasive species, isotopic analysis, shrubland ecosystems, soil sciences, Fewer tags Total Mercury Concentrations in Fish Muscle from the Colorado River and Bright Angel Creek, AZ, USA (2015) Mercury is a globally distributed pollutant that threatens human and ecosystem health. Even protected areas, such as national parks, are subjected to mercury contamination because it is delivered via atmospheric deposition, often after long-range transport. In aquatic ecosystems, certain environmental conditions can promote microbial processes that convert inorganic mercury to an organic form (methylmercury). Methylmercury biomagnifies through food webs and is a potent neurotoxicant and endocrine disruptor. This dataset contains data on the length, mass, and muscle total mercury concentration of Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) and Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) collected from the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, Bright Angel Creek, Colorado River, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), mercury contamination, Fewer tags Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Lincoln County, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon Coast Range, Pacific Northwest, All tags... Polk County, Oregon, Tillamook County, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife, Yamhill County, Oregon, biodiversity, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, management, plantation, silviculture, trophic, Fewer tags Stream temperature data from Willow-Whitehorse and Little Blitzen watersheds, southeast Oregon, 2011-2015 Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Ecology, GNIS ID 1129010, All tags... GNIS ID 1129139, Harney County, Malheur County, National CASC, Oregon, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Stream / River, Stream temperature, Trout Creek Mountains, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Water, Coasts and Ice, Watershed, Whitehorse Creek, Wildlife Biology, Willow Creek, inlandWaters, water temperature, Fewer tags Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Community Data) Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Lincoln County, Oregon, Oregon, Oregon Coast Range, Pacific Northwest, Polk County, Oregon, All tags... Tillamook County, Oregon, Yamhill County, Oregon, biodiversity, community, deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, management, plantation, silviculture, trophic, Fewer tags Combined wildfire dataset for the United States and certain territories, 1870-2015 ***This data set is superseded by Welty, J.L., and Jeffries, M.I., 2020, Combined wildfire datasets for the United States and certain territories, 1878-2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Z2VVRT.*** The increase in wildfires, particularly in the western U.S., represents one of the greatest threats to multiple native ecosystems. Despite this threat, there is currently no central repository to store both past and current wildfire perimeter data. Currently, wildfire boundaries can only be found in disparate local or national datasets. These datasets are generally restricted to specific locations, fire sizes, or time periods. Our first objective was to create a comprehensive national... Types: Citation; Tags: Area burned, California, Idaho, Land Use Change, Nevada, All tags... Oregon, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Wildfire, Wildfires, Wildland fire, fires, Fewer tags Bullet fragments in Belding's ground squirrels in Oregon and California in 2014-2015 The dataset includes specifics on fragments of bullets recovered from shot Belding's ground squirrels from Oregon and California. Ground squirrels were radiographed and then we used ImageJ software to count and measure the area of those bullet fragments. A subset of shot carcasses were then digested and bullet fragments were recovered. Statistical models were developed to predict either the number or mass of bullet fragments in shot ground squirrel carcasses using the radiograph estimates and the digested recovered fragment data. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ammunition, California, Christmas Valley, Lake County, OR, Crane, Malheur County, OR, Exposure, All tags... Klamath Basin, Siskiyou County, CA, Lead, Lead toxicity, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags Summary of Total Mercury Concentrations in Dragonfly Larvae, Western Mosquitofish, and Tree Swallow Eggs Collected from Cosumnes River Preserve 2011 – 2013 The Cosumnes River Preserve in the California’s Central Valley contains a mosaic of managed wetlands where conditions may promote high levels of methylmercury bioaccumulation. In order to document potential environmental health risk in these wetlands due to mercury, we analyzed dragonfly larvae, western mosquitofish, and tree swallow eggs collected from wetlands and rice fields of the Preserve from 2011 to 2013. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Consumnes River Preserve, Ecology, Environmental Health, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags All Big Sagebrush Species Land Cover in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Location of all big sagebrush land cover obtained from the LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type dataset. Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Artemisia spp., Botany, Colorado, Ecology, Idaho, All tags... Land Use Change, Montana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, big sagebrush, biota, conservation, environment, land use and land cover, vegetation, Fewer tags Ecological Minimums for Greater Sage-grouse across their Historic Range in Western North America We partitioned a Mahalanobis D2 model of sage-grouse habitat use into separate additive components each representing independent combinations of species-habitat relationships to identify and map range-wide ecological minimums for sage-grouse. We assumed the states delineations of priority areas capture higher quality habitat and larger numbers of sage-grouse populations across our study area. We randomly selected 1669 points from the priority areas and corresponding variables GIS datasets to calibrate models. We estimated distributions of our variables from 1000 iterative samples created by bootstrapping the calibration data. To better incorporate conditions in both large and small priority areas, we restricted... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, CRS, California, Colorado, Ecological Minimums, All tags... Greater sage-grouse, Habitat, Habitat Similarity Index, Habitat connectivity, Historic Range for greater sage-grouse, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SageDAT-data, ScienceFramework, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Avian abundance and oak mistletoe survey data from the Willamette Valley, Oregon, 2013-2015 This dataset includes two spreadsheets: The "Avian_abundance_oak_mistletoe_surveys_data" spreadsheet contains data regarding Oregon White Oak tree (Quercus garryana) measurements such as height, diameter and crown volume along with microhabitat data including number of mistletoe infections, number of cavities, amount of dead wood, amount of loose/missing bark, amount of poison oak, amount of bole cracks, and presence of woodpecker sign, bark-beetle sign, and fungal fruiting bodies. The "Avian_abundance_oak_mistletoe_bird_data" spreadsheet contains bird survey observations including data, time, temperature, precipitation, bird species observations, age/sex, and behavioral observations. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Oregon, Phoradendron villosum, Quercus garryana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, Willamette Valley, Oregon, habitats, microhabitat, oak mistletoe, oak woodland, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags Mercury Exposure in Piscivorous Birds at the Carson River (NV) Superfund Site, 1997-2006: egg data The persistence and degree of mercury contamination of the lower Carson River system (LCRS) have led to placement of a portion of the Carson River Basin (including Lahontan Reservoir) on the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Priorities List ("Superfund") for research and cleanup. The potential toxicity of mercury concentrations within the LCRS to piscivorous birds (snowy egrets, black-crowned night-herons, and double-crested cormorants) was examined from 1997-2006. This data set supports the following publications: Henny, C.J., Hill, E.F., Grove, R.A., Kaiser, J.L., 2007, Mercury and drought along the lower Carson River, Nevada- I. Snowy egret and black-crowned night-heron annual exposure to mercury,... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Carson Lake, Carson River, Egretta thula, Lahontan Reservoir, Nevada, All tags... Nycticorax nycticorax, Phalacrocorax auritus, USA, black-crowned night-heron, contaminants, double-crested cormorant, drought, histopathology, mercury, methyl mercury, mining, piscivory, reproduction, snowy egret, total mercury, water discharge, Fewer tags Potential movement pathways between priority areas of conservation for sage-grouse, Results from Circuitscape modeling process Circuitscape software (v4.0, www.circuitscape.org) was applied to a range-wide habitat similarity index map for sage-grouse to model pathways between all priority areas of conservation network. We assumed that individual sage-grouse would move more easily through areas meeting their habitat requirements and used a scaled inverse of our mapped habitat scores as resistance to sage-grouse movements among the priority areas. Resistance values ranged from 1 representing the lowest resistance/highest habitat value to 100 (high resistance/lowest habitat value). Circuitscape (McRae et al. 2008) was run using the pairwise mode to calculate connectivity between all pairs of priority areas. Priority areas were treated as focal... Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, CRS, California, Circuitscape, Colorado, All tags... Electric Current Theory, Habitat connectivity, Habitat linkages, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Priority Areas of Conservation, Sage-grouse, SageDAT-data, ScienceFramework, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, Fewer tags Forest management and cervid herbivory data from Western Oregon, USA, 2012 (Seedling Data) Land management practices often directly alter vegetation structure and composition, but the degree to which ecological processes such as herbivory interact with management to influence biodiversity is less well understood. We hypothesized that intensive forest management and large herbivores have compounding effects on early-seral plant communities and plantation establishment (i.e., tree survival and growth), and the degree of such effects is dependent on the intensity of management practices. We established 225 m2 wild ungulate (deer and elk) exclosures nested within a manipulated gradient of management intensity (no-spray Control, Light herbicide, Moderate herbicide and Intensive herbicide treatments), replicated... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Oregon, Pacific Northwest, biodiversity, cervidae, community, All tags... deer, early-seral, elk, forage, forestry, herbicides, herbivory, management, plantation, silviculture, trophic, ungulate, Fewer tags Nest success and predation data for Mariana swiftlets (Aerodramus bartschi), Hawai'i, USA, 2006-2010 This study examined the reproductive biology of the Mariana Swiftlet over five annual cycles on the island of O‘ahu in the Hawaiian Islands. This introduced population used a human-made tunnel for roosting and nesting, and was studied as a surrogate to negate interference with the endangered populations in the Mariana Islands. Active nests (N = 478) were observed in every month of the year. Data recorded included: nest visit dates, date nests were identified, number of visits to each nest; nest stage, nest fate, nest failure status, number of rat traps present, number of rats captures, daily rainfall, and nest ages. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Apodidae, Hawaii, Mariana Islands, O'ahu, Rattus, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, nest survival, reintroduction, reintroduction (organisms), reproductive biology, Fewer tags 1 2 »