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Data on interannual seed set variation, weather, and reproductive traits for global plants Data were collected on seed production dynamics of long-lived plants, reproductive plant traits of those plant species, and weather variability for sites where those species live. Data include the coefficient of variation in seed production over time, the variation (coefficient of variation or standard deviation) in weather over years, and reproductive traits such as pollination mode and seed dispersal mechanism. Data series were distributed globally and encompass 920 data series containing 311 plant species. Data series are all 6 or more years in length. Categories: Data; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, forest dynamics, global, interannual variability, All tags... masting, seed production, Fewer tags Flea abundance and body condition data for black-tailed prairie dogs on sites treated and not treated with “FipBit” fipronil pellets, South Dakota, 2018-2020 Flea abundance and body condition data for black-tailed prairie dogs on sites treated and not treated with “FipBit” fipronil pellets. We sampled prairie dogs at Conata Basin, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, and Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA. We sampled fleas from live-trapped prairie dogs during June–October 2018, May–October 2019, and July-August 2020. Prairie dogs were sampled before and after FipBit treatments. We anesthetized each prairie dog with isoflurane and combed it thoroughly for 30 seconds to dislodge fleas, which fell into a plastic bin. Fleas were counted and allowed to recover from anesthesia and placed back on prairie dogs, to minimize any removal effect. We weighed prairie dogs with... Categories: Data; Tags: Cynomys, Ecology, Environmental Health, Flea, Plague, All tags... Prairie dog, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, Yersinia pestis, biota, disease vectors, Fewer tags Mortality factors for dead trees from a subset of plots from the Sierra Nevada Forest Dynamics Plot Network from 1998 to 2010 This dataset was used to summarize and analyze the mortality factors recorderd on dead trees in the Sierra Nevada Forest Dynamics Plot Network, which is managed by the Sequoia and Kings Canyon Field station of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center. Each row of the dataset represents an individual dead tree. These are dead trees that were recorded in the network from 1998 to 2010 for the subset of plots as described in the associated manuscript; These data support the following: Das, A.J., Stephenson, N.L., Davis, K.P. 2016. Why do trees die? Characterizing the drivers of background tree mortality. Ecology. 97(10): 2616-2627, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1497 Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Sierra Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Yosemite National Park, bark beetles, All tags... tree mortality, tree mortality factors, tree pathogens, Fewer tags Survey of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus in Pacific herring throughout the North Pacific Ocean Throughout a 20-year biosurveillance period, viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus was isolated in low titers from only 6 / 7,355 opportunistically sampled adult Pacific herring, reflecting the typical endemic phase of the disease when the virus persists covertly. However, more focused surveillance efforts identified the presence of disease hot spots occurring among juvenile life history stages from certain nearshore habitats. These outbreaks sometimes recurred annually in the same temporal and spatial patterns and were characterized by infection prevalence as high as 96%. Longitudinal sampling indicated that some epizootics were relatively transient, represented by positive samples on a single sampling date, and others... Categories: Data; Tags: Cook Inlet, Ecology, Ketchican, Prince William Sound, Puget Sound, All tags... Sitka Sound, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, viruses, Fewer tags Integrating Spatially Explicit Indices of Abundance and Habitat Quality: An Applied Example for Greater Sage-grouse Management This USGS data release represents geospatial data for the sage-grouse habitat mapping project. This study provides timely and highly useful information about greater sage-grouse over a large area of the Great Basin. USGS researchers and their colleagues created a template for combining landscape-scale occurrence or abundance data with habitat selection data in order to identify areas most critical to sustaining populations of species of conservation concern. The template also identifies those areas where land use changes have minimal impact. To inform greater sage-grouse conservation planning, the researchers developed greater sage-grouse habitat management categories based on habitat selection indices (HSI) and... Tags: Biota, Boundaries, Environment, USA, Great Basin, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, boundaries, All tags... environment, greater sage-grouse, Fewer tags Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags MIROCESM Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags BNU Historical Prescribed Burn Windows for the Southeast United States 1950-1999 Prescribed burning is a critical tool for managing wildfire risks and meeting ecological objectives, but its safe and effective application requires that specific meteorological criteria are met. This dataset contains results from a study examining the potential impacts of projected climatic change on prescribed burning in the southeastern United States. A set of burn window criteria (suitable weather conditions within which burning may occur based on maximum daily temperature, daily average relative humidity, and daily average wind speed), were applied to projections from an ensemble of Global Climate Models (GCM) under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios, as well as past observations for comparison. Data are... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, All tags... Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Southeast United states, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, farming, fires, geoscientificInformation, managed fire regimes, statistical downscaling, wildfires, Fewer tags Black-tailed prairie dog capture data from plots treated and not treated with oral plague vaccine from 2013-2017 in Montana Oral sylvatic plague vaccine baits (SPV) and placebo baits were distributed once annually from 2013-2016 on treated and non-treated paired plots from 2013-2016. Black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) were live-trapped and permanently marked with passive integrated transponders and ear tags on 4 pairs of plots each year from 2013-2017 to provide capture/recapture data for use in estimating BTPD survival. The first data set (CMR_SPV_RAW_CAPTURE_DATA.csv) lists all captures and associated covariates with each line representing data from a single prairie dog. The second data set (CMR_BTPD_WEIGHTS.csv) lists the weight and associated information for each prairie dog at each handling. The third data set (CMR_FLEAS_BY_HOST.csv)... Categories: Data; Tags: Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, Phillips County, Plague, Prairie dogs, All tags... Raccoonpox, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vaccine, biota, black-footed ferrets, Fewer tags 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 Data describing the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry facilities on Delmarva by wild waterfowl These data support a paired USGS publication and document the use of retention ponds on commercial poultry farms by wild waterfowl. Categories: Data; Tags: Chesapeake Bay, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, avian influenza, biota, All tags... domestic poultry, wild waterfowl, Fewer tags Hydrodynamic model of the Colorado River, Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona: tables of model results and accuracy assessment These data were compiled to provide a resource for other researchers interested in water-surface elevations and flow velocity across a wide range of discharge in the study reach for the project. Objective(s) of our study were to construct a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model for the 15.8 mile tailwater reach of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, Arizona. These data represent the results of the two-dimensional modeling effort with each data table (50) including the results of each run of the model. Additionally, other data represent a comparison of modeled water surface elevations to measured water surface elevations for historic Bureau of Reclamation cross sections in the study... Tags: Arizona, Coconino County, Colorado River, Geography, Glen Canyon, All tags... Glen Canyon Dam, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:6595800dd34e3265ab152e47, Water Resources, accuracy assessment, bathymetry, bathymetry measurement, bed shear stress, data release, digital elevation models, elevation, flow velocity, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, hydraulic characteristics, hydrodynamics, hydrographic datasets, inlandWaters, mathematical modeling, shoreline extents, stream discharge, streamflow, tailwater reach, topography, two-dimensional hydrodynamic model, velocities, water depths, water surface elevation, Fewer tags Vegetation and water classifications for a segment of the Paria River upstream of the Colorado River Confluence, Arizona, USA These data represent total vegetation and surface water along approximately 12 kilometers of the Paria River upstream from the confluence of the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona. They are derived from airborne, multispectral imagery obtained in late May 2009, 2013, and 2021, collected with a push-broom sensor with 4 spectral bands depicting Blue, Green, Red and Near-Infrared wavelengths at a spatial resolution of 20 centimeters. The vegetation classification data were created using a supervised classification algorithm provided by Harris Geospatial in ENVI version 5.6.3 (Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Boulder, Colorado). The water data were created using a Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index... Tags: Arizona, Botany, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF data, Colorado River, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, Lonely Dell, Marble Canyon, Northern Arizona, Paria River, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Water Resources, airborne imagery, biota, change detection, classification maps, data release, ecosystem monitoring, flooding, gNDVI, image classification, image collections, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, maps and atlases, multispectral high resolution data, multispectral imaging, remote sensing, riparian vegetation, river ecosystems, river reaches, river systems, river tributaries, supervised classification, surface water (non-marine), total vegetation, vegetation, vegetation classification maps, water maps, wetland ecosystems, 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 Data and software code from two long-term experiments (1996-2011 and 2005-2018) at three sites on the Colorado Plateau of North America These data were compiled to examine how climate change affects biocrust recovery from both physical and climate-induced disturbance. Objective(s) of our study were to uncover the trajectory of biological soil crust communities and soil stability following disturbance and under warming. These data represent biological soil crust surveys under 5 treatments at three sites. These data were collected at three sites: Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park and Castle Valley. Data collection for a physical disturbance experiment where annual human-trampling occurred at the sites in Arches and Canyonlands began in 1996 and was concluded in 2018. Data collection for a 13-year full-factorial in situ climate manipulation... Tags: 20 point-intercept frames, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Castle Valley, Climatology, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Information Sciences, PRISM Climate Data, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, air temperature, altered precipitation, biocrust recovery, biological soil crusts, biota, climate change, climate manipulation experiment, climate-induced disturbance, effects of climate change, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field sampling, field soil aggregate stability kitshuman-trampling, geoscientificInformation, habitat alteration and disturbance, in situ, long-term experiment data, mechanical disturbance, physical disturbance experiment, precipitation (atmospheric), soil sciences, soil stability, surveys, treatmtents, undisturbed control, warming, warming and altered precipitation, Fewer tags In vitro expression, immunogenicity, and efficacy data from recombinant raccoon poxvirus-vectored rabies vaccine candidates tested in mice This work is part of an experimental trial to develop and assess novel recombinant raccoonpox virus (RCN) rabies vaccines in the mouse model, for potential use in bats. Briefly, our research group previously developed a recombinant RCN vaccine candidate expressing a mosaic glycoprotein (MoG) gene that protected mice and big brown bats when challenged with rabies virus (RABV). We developed two new recombinant RCN candidates expressing MoG (RCN-tPA-MoG and RCN-SS-TD-MoG) with the aim of improving RCN-MoG. We assessed and compared in vitro expression, in vivo immunogenicity, and protective efficacy in vaccinated mice challenged intracerebrally with RABV. In this data set, we share results of immunofluorescence assay... Categories: Data; Tags: A/J mice, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI, RABV, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI - Hanson Biomedical Sciences, All tags... Wildlife Disease, biota, rabies, rabies virus, raccoon poxvirus, recombinant, vaccine, Fewer tags Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks Mortality and Fire Data (1990-2019) for Competition-Fire-Drought Interaction Analysis This dataset records mortality-- including involvement of bark beetles-- and burn severity information for trees in long term forest dynamics plots in Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park that experienced fire. These data support the following publication: Furniss, T.J., Das, A.J., van Mantgem, P.J., Stephenson, N.L. and Lutz, J.A., 2021. Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees. Ecological Applications, p.e2507, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2507 Categories: Data; Tags: California, Forestry, Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Yosemite National Park, bark beetle, biota, fires, forest ecosystems, insects, plot sampling, temperate forest, tree mortality, Fewer tags Data on Utah prairie dog body condition and reproductive success, Awapa Plateau, Utah, USA, 2013-2016 Data on body condition and reproduction of Utah prairie dogs at 5 colonies on the Awapa Plateau, Utah, USA, June-August 2013-2016. Utah prairie dogs were live-trapped and sampled on 5 colonies. We recorded the age (juvenile/adult) and mass (nearest 5 grams) of each prairie dog and marked its ears and body with metal tags and passive integrated transponders, respectively, for permanent identification. We measured each prairie dog's right hind foot length (nearest millimeter). We indexed each adult prairie dog's body condition as the ratio between its mass and hind-foot length. Prairie dogs were allowed to recover from anesthesia and released at their trapping locations. We indexed prairie dog reproduction, by colony... Categories: Data; Tags: Cynomys, Ecology, Prairie dog, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, All tags... Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biota, capturing (animals), population dynamics, Fewer tags Stream Temperature in the Lahontan Basin of Nevada and California, 2017-2019 This dataset includes hourly stream temperature data for 139 temperature logger sites throughout the Lahontan Basin Region of Northern Nevada and Eastern California. Data loggers were part a study beginning in 2017, with data available through 2019 for most locations. The spatial data layer contains site locations, geographic information, data summaries, mean August stream temperatures, and modeled NorWeST stream temperatures. The Wet-Dry delineation file contains daily flow status estimates derived from stream temperature data for each site. The Site Visit file contains the date and time of the site visit along with associated information on site flow conditions, water depths, logger conditions, and stream logger... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Aquatic Biology, California, Ecology, Hydrology, Intermittent, All tags... Nevada, Perennial, Stream / River, Stream Temperature, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Watershed, environment, inlandWaters, streamflow, surface water (non-marine), water temperature, Fewer tags Historical methyl mercury in San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, California is considered a mercury-impaired watershed. Elevated concentrations of mercury are found in water and sediment as well as fish and estuarine birds. Sources of mercury to the watershed since 1845 include sediment-associated mercury from mercury mining, mercury losses from gold amalgamation activities in mines of the Sierra Nevada, aerial deposition of mercury from global and regional emissions to air, and the direct discharge of mercury to Bay waters associated with the urbanization and industrialization of the estuary. We assessed historical trends in mercury bioaccumulation by measuring mercury concentrations in feathers of the endangered California Ridgway’s rail (formerly California... Categories: Data; Tags: California Ridgway's Rail, Feathers, Ice Cores, Lake Tahoe, Mercury, All tags... San Francisco Bay, Sediment, Structural Equation Model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wyoming, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 ... »