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Pre-fire satellite derived and field calculated functional cover across Great Basin megafires Data includes satellite derived pre-fire functional group cover of annual and perennial herbaceous, shrubs, bareground and litter across four rangeland megafires in the Western US, as well as field estimated invasive annual grass measurements from the 2nd to 3rd years post-fire. Additional landscape and restoration treatment covariates hypothesized to influence post-fire invasive annual grass cover are included. Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia tridentata, Botany, Bromus tectorum, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Land Use Change, Nevada, Oregon, Poa secunda, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, lichens, mosses, vegetation, Fewer tags Attribution of benthic macroinvertebrate sampling data to NHDPlus V2 and NHDPlus HR catchments within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed This data release links benthic macroinvertebrate sites to both the NHDPlus Version 2 and NHDPlus High Resolution Region 02 networks, hereafter referred to as V2 and HR, using the hydrolink methodology. Linked benthic macroinvertebrate sites are those included in the Chesapeake Bay Basin-wide Index of Biotic Integrity (Chessie BIBI) developed by the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) and available from the Chesapeake Bay Program (https://datahub.chesapeakebay.net/LivingResources). The data set contains a unique sample identifier created by ICPRB, survey program, coordinates of sample, linked V2 COMID and HR Permanent Identifier, and information regarding uncertainty in the attribution. We strongly... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, District of Columbia (national district), Ecology, Hydrology, Maryland (state), All tags... New York (state), Pennsylvania (state), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia (state), West Virginia (state), aquatic biology, aquatic ecosystems, ecology, freshwater ecosystems, hydrology, macroinvertebrates, Fewer tags Various Lake Powell data used for predicting smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth based on thermal suitability below and downstream of Glen Canyon Dam These data were compiled to create models that estimate entrainment rates and population growth rates of smallmouth bass below Glen Canyon Dam. Objective(s) of our study were to predict smallmouth bass entrainment rates and population growth under different future scenarios of Lake Powell elevations and management. These data represent parameters needed for associated models and data needed to produce figures. These data were collected from publicly available online sources including published papers and federal government datasets. These data were assembled by researchers from U.S. Geological Survey, Utah State University, Colorado State University, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These data can be used to run... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Diamond Creek, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Global Horizon Irradiance, Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Little Colorado River, Page, Page Airport, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Williams, adaptive management, age class, air temperature, area, bathymetry, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, depth suitability, ecological processes, elevation, entrainment rates, environment, evaporation, field inventory and monitoring, inflow projections, inlandWaters, mean observed lengths, modeling, observed daily depths, outflow projections, population growth, precipitation (atmospheric), reproduction, reservoir water quality model CEQUAL-W2, smallmouth bass, solar, study areas, surface water (non-marine), surface water quality, temperature profiles, thermal suitability, water depths, water temperature, Fewer tags Impact of suspended sediments/soils to juvenile mussels This data release includes physical and chemical characteristics of field collected sediment and soil samples in Missouri representing potential sediment/soil that may enter the water column during construction related activities. Three samples were collected, including Spring River sediment, Osage River bank soil and Columbia crushed limestone. The impacts of increased suspended solid level due to the three samples on early-stage freshwater mussels were examined using three freshwater mussel species, including Fatmucket (Lampsilis siliquoidea), Arkansas Brokenray (Lampsilis reeveiana), and Washboard (Megalonaias nervosa). Specifically, toxicity endpoints including survival, biomass, and growth of juveniles were... Categories: Data; Tags: Acute toxicity, Aquatic Biology, Boone County, Chronic toxicity, Osage River, All tags... Sediment pollution, Spring River, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water pollution, biota, sediment transport, Fewer tags Fire Response Effects, Biocrust, and Vascular Plant Abundance Following Wildfire near Boise, Idaho (October 2021) Twenty quadrats within the burn perimeter of a September 2021 wildfire outside of Boise, Idaho were surveyed for the abundance of fire effects, biocrusts and vascular plants immediately post-fire. The fire was too small to be named. Char was measured as a proxy for fire intensity. Biocrusts were surveyed by morphogroup (crustose lichens, cup lichens, fruticose lichens, gelatinous lichens, short moss, tall moss) and vascular plants were surveyed by functional group (annual forbs, perennial grasses). Char was measured ocularly and biocrust/plant abundance was measured via point-vertex intercept at 40 points per quadrat. These data support the following publication: Condon, L.A., Shinneman, D.J., Rosentreter, R. and... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Great Basin, Idaho, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, All tags... botany, community ecology, environment, fires, lichens, mosses, vascular plants, Fewer tags USGS Land Treatment Digital Library Data Release: A centralized archive for land treatment tabular and spatial data (ver. 6.0, August 2023), Treatment Frequency Rasters Across the country, public land managers make hundreds of decisions each year that influence landscapes and ecosystems within the lands they manage. Many of these decisions involve vegetation manipulations known as land treatments. Land treatments include activities such as removal or alteration of plant biomass, seeding burned areas, and herbicide applications. Data on these land treatments historically have been stored at local offices and gathering information across large spatial areas was difficult. These valuable data needed to be centralized and stored for Federal agencies involved in land treatments because these data are useful to land managers for policy and management and to scientists for developing... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Colorado, Ecology, All tags... Idaho, Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, data management, data preservation, database administration, digitization, environment, information technology methods, interagency programs, Fewer tags Surveys and Monitoring of Coastal Cactus Wren in Southern San Diego County, 2021 Data presented are results of surveys in 2021 for San Diego Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in southern San Diego County. Surveys were conducted at 378 plots. Plots were surveyed twice in 2021 and the number, age (adult or juvenile), banding status (color banded or not), and breeding status (paired, unpaired, or unknown) of all wrens recorded. Habitat covariate data were collected including amount of dead and stressed cactus in the plot, percent cover of bare ground, and the dominant and percent cover of invasive species. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, San Diego, animal and plant census, biota, birds, All tags... drought, habitats, monitoring, productivity, survey, survival, vocalization methods, Fewer tags Predator Movements and Duck Nests in Relation to Habitat Features in Suisun Marsh, CA (2016-2019) This dataset describes mesopredator locations (raccoons and striped skunks), dabbling duck nest locations (mallard, gadwall, and cinnamon teal), northern harrier nest locations, and random locations in relation to a set of habitat features in Suisun Marsh, California during 2016 through 2019. We designed a series of questions to link fine-scale predator movements and vulnerability of dabbling duck nests to predator encounters and egg predation. We conducted our study over a 4-year period using 41 GPS-collared raccoons and striped skunks, two of the most widespread mammalian predators of waterfowl eggs in North America, and more than 2000 monitored duck nests. Each night of movement for mesopredators contains the... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Suisun Marsh, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, animal behavior, All tags... biota, environment, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Captures and Trapping Effort for Deer Mice (Peromyscus sonoriensis) at Point Reyes National Seashore, California, USA from 2021 to 2022 These data represent trapping effort and captures of deer mice at Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. Deer mice were captured and marked with ear tags to allow identification of individuals. The location of captures can be used in a spatially explicit capture recapture model to estimate density of mice and how mouse density varies by site and habitat type. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: California, Ecology, Marin County, Point Reyes National Seashore, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, ecology, mammals, modeling, population and community ecology, restoration, Fewer tags Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Plant Trait, Percent Cover, and Environmental Data 2014 This data release includes data and metadata on 1) the coverage and composition of plants 2) species specific plant traits 3) sampling locations and 4) environmental data. All sites were within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island. Plant cover data were obtained from National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program. Plant trait data was collected for these plots in 2014. This study aims to evaluate how traits of native and exotic plant species change along environmental gradients and what this suggests for plant competition and invasion. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Hawaii, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), botany, All tags... bryophyte, ecology, forest resources, forest restoration, invasive species, plant ecology, seedling recruitment, tropical forest dynamics, Fewer tags RestoreNet subplot data for 21 sites within major dryland ecoregions throughout the southwestern United States, 2018 - 2021 These data were compiled for a networked field-trial restoration experiment (RestoreNet) that spans the southwestern US, including 21 distributed field sites. The objective of our study was to understand the environmental factors and restoration practices (including seed mixes and soil manipulation) that increase plant establishment and survival to ultimate improve restoration outcomes in dryland environments. These data represent point-in-time plant density and height measurements at our field sites at the time of monitoring. These data were collected at 21 arid and semi-arid sites, located throughout Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and California. These data were collected by USGS Restoration Assessment and Monitoring... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Climatology, All tags... Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Geography, Information Sciences, Mojave Desert, New Mexico, Soil Sciences, Sonoran Desert, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, arid, atmospheric and climatic processes, biogeography, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, data release, drylands, ecological modeling, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem monitoring, environment, environmental conditions, environmental variables, field inventory and monitoring, field sites, geoscientificInformation, grassland ecosystems, growth responses, monitoring, plant density, plant establishment, plant growth, plant height, plant responses, plant survival, plants (organisms), post-restoration, precipitation (atmospheric), remediation, restoration experiment, restoration seeding, restoration treatments, restoration variables, seed mixes, seedling emergence, seedling survival, semi-arid, site characteristics, soil resources, soil texture, southwestern US, spatial environmental variation, temporal change, temporal environmental variation, weedy species, zero-inflated data, Fewer tags Data Release: Buttonland Swamp, SET data This study examined long-term changes in ground height using Surface Elevation Tables (SETs). Measurements were taken in the floodplains of the Cache River at Buttonland Swamp in southern Illinois. The sites where data was collected included Crawford Tract and Eagle Pond from 2020-2022 and Deer Pond and Snake Hole from 2005-2022. Categories: Data; Tags: Buttonland Swamp, Cache River, Ecology, Forested Wetland, Illinois, All tags... Land Use Change, Southern Illinois, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, channel downcutting, climate change, elevation, freshwater ecosystems, freshwater swamp, global warming, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation measurements, sediment deposition, sedimentation, swamp, wetlands, Fewer tags Vegetation survey of southwest Florida for use in assessment of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project effects This release consists of vegetation data collected across an environmental gradient at Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (TTI NWR) near Naples, Florida, USA. The refuge is within the impact area of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP), a large-scale hydrologic restoration project in southwest Florida that was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2007. Vegetation transects were located in the following wetland types on the refuge: brackish marsh, salt marsh, and transition marsh. Data from vegetation transects established in nearby areas outside of the PSRP impact area, in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park (FSPSP) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY), are also included. The study spanned... Categories: Data; Tags: Big Cypress National Preserve, Botany, Brackish Marsh, Copeland, Ecology, All tags... Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida, Low and Intermediate Salt Marsh, Naples, Ochopee, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, estuarine ecosystems, vegetation, wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags Burmese python acceleration and location data, Everglades National Park, 2010 – 2012 The dataset contains 3 components: (1) acceleration data logger (ADL) data, (2) GPS location data, and (3) body temperature data. We have ADL data from pythons in captivity (N = 2) and in free-ranging snakes (N=4). We have GPS data for 3 out of 4 free-ranging snakes. We have body temperature data for all 4 free-ranging snakes. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Everglades, Florida, Southern Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, animal behavior, animal tracking, biota, ecology, invasive species, telemetry, Fewer tags Data Release: Seed banks of rare Physostegia correllii in Lady Bird Johnson Lake, Austin, Texas Soil samples were collected from Lady Bird Johnson Lake, Austin, Texas in 2019 to generate seed bank data for the rare plant Physostegia correllii. Seed germination data was produced from the soil samples kept in a greenhouse at the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center in Lafayette, LA. Categories: Data; Tags: Austin, Blunn Creek, Botany, Colorado River, Lady Bird Johnson Lake, All tags... Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, bottomland hardwood forest, climate change, climate change, disturbance fugitive, floodplain, floodplains, land use change, rare species, seed bank, shading, wet grassland, Fewer tags Water temperature in the Lower Missouri River and selected tributaries This dataset documents locations of and water temperature recorded by Hobo Water Temp Pro series loggers (Onset Computer Corp., Bourne, MA) deployed by the USGS Comprehensive Sturgeon Research Project at up to 24 locations in the Lower Missouri River (from the Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, South Dakota to its confluence with the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri) and 13 selected tributaries (James River, Big Sioux River, Little Sioux River, Platte River (in Nebraska), Nishnabotna River, Nodaway River, Platte River (in Missouri), Kansas River, Grand River, Chariton River, Lamine River, Osage River, and Gasconade River) since 2005. Data document the site name, spatial location, temporal extent of water temperature... Categories: Data; Tags: Chariton-Grand, Gasconade-Osage, Grand River, James, Lamine, All tags... Lower Missouri, Lower Osage, Missouri-Big Sioux, Missouri-Little Sioux, Missouri-Nishnabotna, Platte River, Q, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, West Nodaway, environment, habitats, water temperature, Fewer tags Phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, pH, and dissolved oxygen data from incubations of Colorado River water and sediment and associated ambient river water measurements Lake Powell retains most of the phosphorus that it receives, leading to downstream phosphorus limitation. These data were compiled to examine controls on phosphorus cycling below Lake Powell in the Colorado River and from storm inputs from the Paria River. Objectives of our study were to determine how several forms of phosphorus, both organic and inorganic, were cycled under varying dissolved oxygen concentrations and pH, reflecting the range of values observed in the river over the years. These data represent nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and carbon concentrations, water quality parameters (pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature), sediment composition, total protein, and extracellular enzyme activity (alkaline phosphatase).... Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Colorado River, Ecology, Geochemistry, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, Limnology, Little Colorado River, Paria River, Pearce Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), alkaline earth elements, alkaline phosphatase, atomic emission spectroscopy, biochemistry, biota, bulk density, calcite, calcium carbonate, carbon, chemical analysis, chemical attributes, dam, data release, dissolved oxygen concentrations, dissolved oxygen optodes, dissolved phosphorus concentrations, environment, extracellular enzyme activity, field experiments, freshwater ecosystems, incubations, inductively coupled plasma, inlandWaters, laboratory bottle incubations, laboratory experiments, nitrogen, nutrient content (water), nutrient cycling, organic matter, oxygen content (water), phosphorus, phosphorus content, phosphorus cycling, river systems, river water quality, riverine phosphorus cycling, sediment composition, suspended material (water), tailwater, total dissolved nitrogen, total phosphorus concentrations, total protein analysis, unconsolidated deposits, water chemistry, water chemistry data, water pH, water quality, water quality sonde, water samples, water temperature, Fewer tags Dissolved silicon concentration and yield estimates from streams and rivers in North America and Antarctica,1964-2021 These data include dissolved silicon concentration and yield from 60 rivers across North America, the Caribbean, and Antarctica from 1964-2021 and are associated with the publication “Long-term change in concentration and yield of riverine dissolved silicon from the poles to the tropics”. Data were compiled from multiple public sources including the Long-term Ecological Research Network, Great Arctic Rivers Observatory, Upper Mississippi River Restoration program, and the U.S. Geological Survey. Concentration and yield estimates were generated by the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge and Season model (WRTDS; Hirsch et al. 2010). The dataset includes six files: discrete dissolved silicon data and daily discharge... Categories: Data; Tags: Antarctica, North America, Puerto Rico, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, All tags... river discharge, rivers, silicon, Fewer tags Modelled Lake Powell releases and reservoir elevations under different alternative management scenarios These data were compiled for/to modeling efforts for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses for the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to create revised monthly Lake Powell elevations and outflows from Bureau of Reclamation Colorado River Mid-term Modeling System (CRMMS) traces that incorporate the alternatives in the sEIS documents and indicate when potential actions may occur and how that changes water movement and storage. These data represent monthly hydrologies for Lake Powell: inflow, outflow, and elevation forecasts for 2024-2027, as well as volumes of water in outflows for different water mangement strategies in NEPA supplemental... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Biota, Colorado River, Geography, Glen Canyon, All tags... Grand Canyon, Hydrology, Information Sciences, InlandWaters, Lake Powell, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, aquatic biology, data release, freshwater ecosystems, hydrographic datasets, invasive species, limnology, water budget, water quality, water temperature, Fewer tags Pre-restoration vegetation data, Little Saint Francis River chat pile site, Missouri, USA, 2017 and 2018 This data set includes geospatial data and tables providing location, environmental, and vegetation data collected in 2017 and 2018 at the Little Saint Francis River (LSFR) chat pile restoration site, Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. Restoration actions are being implemeneted as part of the settlement for the Madison County Mines Superfund site to compensate the public for losses of natural resources and the services they provide as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District case. Data were collected prior to and during the early stages of restoration actions to restore bottomland forest habitat, reduce invasive plant species abundance, and improve... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Fredericktown, Little Saint Francis River, Madison County, Madison County Mines Superfund Site, Missouri, All tags... Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, contamination, environment, hydrology, restoration, soils, vegetation, Fewer tags 1 2 3 4 5 ... 21 »