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New elevation data collection: site-level elevation Winter climate change has the potential to have a large impact on coastal wetlands in the southeastern U.S. Warmer winter temperatures and reductions in the intensity of freeze events would likely lead to mangrove forest range expansion and salt marsh displacement in parts of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast. The objective of this research was to better understand some of the ecological implications of mangrove forest migration and salt marsh displacement. The potential ecological effects of mangrove migration are diverse ranging from important biotic impacts (e.g., coastal fisheries, land bird migration; colonial nesting wading birds) to ecosystem stability (e.g., response to sea level rise and drought;... Categories: Data; Tags: Cedar Key, Data, Easting, Easting, Forests, All tags... Grasslands and Plains, Gulf of Mexico, Landscapes, Northing, Northing, Port Aransas, Port Fourchon, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, State of Florida, State of Louisiana, State of Texas, UTM zone, UTM zone, United States of America, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, elevation, elevation, environment, latitude, latitude, longitude, longitude, Fewer tags Output: site-level synthesis of all ecosystem data Winter climate change has the potential to have a large impact on coastal wetlands in the southeastern U.S. Warmer winter temperatures and reductions in the intensity of freeze events would likely lead to mangrove forest range expansion and salt marsh displacement in parts of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast. The objective of this research was to better understand some of the ecological implications of mangrove forest migration and salt marsh displacement. The potential ecological effects of mangrove migration are diverse ranging from important biotic impacts (e.g., coastal fisheries, land bird migration; colonial nesting wading birds) to ecosystem stability (e.g., response to sea level rise and drought;... Categories: Data; Tags: Cedar Key, Data, Easting, Easting, Forests, All tags... Grasslands and Plains, Gulf of Mexico, Landscapes, Northing, Northing, Port Aransas, Port Fourchon, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, State of Florida, State of Louisiana, State of Texas, UTM zone, UTM zone, United States of America, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, bulk density, bulk density, elevation, elevation, environment, latitude, latitude, longitude, longitude, moisture content, Fewer tags Potential climate change impacts on shrub connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, Citation, Downloadable; Tags: Connectivity, Environment and Conservation, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Idaho, All tags... Landscapes, Mammals, Montana, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountains, United States, Wildlife and Plants, Wyoming, climate change, environment, environment, natural resource management, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Output from MC1 Model Modified to Simulate Future Woody Encroachment in the Northern Great Plains This data set contains output from the dynamic vegetation model MC1, as modified to simulate future woody encroachment in the northern Great Plains, for 23 monthly variables, 63 yearly variables, and 31 multi-year variables. Variables include simulated plant (by growth form) and soil carbon stocks, net primary production, vegetation type, potential and actual evapotranspiration, stream flow, and fuel mass and moisture. Model output is provided for the EQ, Spinup, Historical, and Future stages of MC1 runs; future stages were run for four climate projections crossed with 10 or 11 fire X grazing X CO2 concentration scenarios for the western and eastern portions of the study area, respectively. Categories: Data; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Juniperus, Landscapes, MC1, North Central CASC, All tags... climate change, dynamic vegetation model, eastern redcedar, fire, grazing, northern Great Plains, ponderosa pine, prairie, woody encroachment, Fewer tags A Continuous, Transboundary, 50-meter DEM for the Alaska Perhumid Coastal Temperate Rainforest (AKPCTR_DEM) AKPCTR_DEM is a 50-meter resolution, bare-earth digital elevation model (DEM) in raster (geotiff) format. The perhumid (wettest) region of the North American coastal temperate rainforest (PCTR) extends along the coast of British Columbia and southeast Alaska between approximately 50.57 and 59.6 degrees north latitude.The extent of this dataset includes all of the Alaska and Canada watersheds that discharge into southeast Alaska coastal waters, which covers essentially the northern half of the PCTR. **General Methods:** Using Desktop ArcGIS version 10.3.1, the following three elevation datasets were combined to create a continuous DEM for the Alaska perhumid coastal temperate rainforest (AKPCTR) watersheds: 1)... Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska CASC, Elevation, Forests, Landscapes, Other Water, All tags... Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Water, Coasts and Ice, elevation, Fewer tags Weather Suitability for the Occurrence of Mortality in Whitebark Pine from Mountain Pine Beetles, 1901-2009, Northern Rockies Study Area Estimates of weather suitability for the occurrence of mortality in whitebark pine from mountain pine beetles as determined from a logistic generalized additive model of the presence of mortality as functions of the number of trees killed last year, the percent whitebark pine in each cell, minimum winter temperature, average fall temperature, average April - Aug temperature, and cummulative current and previous year summer precipitation. Analysis was done at a 1 km grid cell resolution. Weather suitability index was calculated by summing the weather terms in the model. Calculated for 1991 through 2009 based on 800 meter PRISM weather data. Data are a list of points in comma separated text format. Point coordinates... Categories: Data; Tags: Dendroctonus ponderosae, Forests, Idaho, Landscapes, Montana, All tags... Mountain pine beetle, Northwest CASC, Other Wildlife, Pinus albicaulis, Plants, United States, Wildlife and Plants, whitebark pine, Fewer tags Landscape integrity HCA and corridors from four integrity-derived resistance surfaces This raster combines linkages developed from four landscape integrity-derived resistance surfaces: linear, low sensitivity, medium sensitivity, and high sensitivity. See Section 2.5.2 WHCWG (2012) for additional information pertaining to development of the four landscape integrity-derived resistance rasters. Adjacent core areas within 100 km Euclidean distance of one another were connected. This GIS dataset is part of a suite of wildlife habitat connectivity data produced by the Washington Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Working Group (WHCWG). The WHCWG is a voluntary public-private partnership between state and federal agencies, universities, tribes, and non-governmental organizations. The WHCWG is co-led by the... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, Raster; Tags: British Columbia, Columbia Plateau Ecoregion, Data Visualization & Tools, Idaho, Landscapes, All tags... Map Layer Package, Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Landscapes, Pacific Northwest, Science Tools For Managers, USA, Washington, core areas, landscape integrity, normalized least-cost corridor, wildlife habitat connectivity, Fewer tags Projected current and future distributions for Big Sagebrush and Whitebark Pine tree species the Pacific Northwest Projected current and future distributions of two tree species, Pinus albicaulis (Whitebark pine), Artemisia tridentata (Big Sagebrush), based on empirical bioclimatic models. Many recent changes in tree mortality, tree species distributions, and tree growth rates have been linked to changes in climate. Given that future climatic changes will likely surpass those experienced in the recent past, trees will likely face additional challenges as temperatures continue to rise and precipitation regimes shift. Managing forests in the face of climate change will require a basic understanding of which tree species will be most vulnerable to climate change and in what ways they will be vulnerable. We assessed the relative... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Artemisia tridentata, Big Sagebrush, British Columbia, Data Visualization & Tools, Idaho, All tags... Landscapes, Map Layer Package, Montana, Northwest CASC, Other Landscapes, Pinus albicaulis, Plants, Science Tools For Managers, Tree species distributions, Washington, Whitebark Pine, Fewer tags Macro and micro nutrient characteristics of four biochar-amended soils from Oregon, 2018 Research has suggested that biochar soil amendments have the ability to improve soil water retention, but results have not been consistent or predictable across soil types. The objective of this project was to evaluate the potential for biochar soil amendments to mitigate agricultural drought by characterizing their impacts on soil hydraulics and plant growth across a range of agricultural soil conditions. This data set contains soil moisture retention curves and unsaturated hydraulic conductivities for four Oregon agricultural soils amended with biochar. Gasified biochars made from wheat straw (AgEnergy, Spokane, WA) and conifer wood (BioLogical, Philomath, OR) were tilled into soils at experimental stations in... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Klamath Falls, Landscapes, All tags... Landscapes, Madras, Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Landscapes, Pacific Northwest, Pendleton, Willamette, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, farming, porosity, soil moisture, Fewer tags Unburned areas within fire perimeters across the Inland Northwestern USA from 1984 to 2014 We established a Landsat-derived geospatial database of unburned islands within 2,298 fires across the Inland Northwestern US (including eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Idaho) from 1984-2014. The detection of unburned areas within these fires is based upon a classification tree approach that uses two pre- and post-fire Landsat image pairs (see Meddens et al 2016 for details). The data set consist of unburned patches within each fire that are two pixels or larger. This database will be useful for identifying fire refugia, seed sources, and can be used as an overall metric of fire impacts across the northwestern US. (Meddens, A.J., Kolden, C.A., & Lutz, J.A. (2016). Detecting unburned areas within wildfire... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Idaho, Landscapes, All tags... Landscapes, Northwest CASC, Oregon, Other Landscapes, Washington, ecology, environment, geoscientificInformation, image collections, multispectral imaging, Fewer tags Dropped-edge analysis of terrestrial connectivity of grassland networks in the South Central United States based on the National Land Cover Database from 2006 This data set includes a dropped-edge analysis of grassland and forest networks in the South Central United States based on land cover data from 2006 and graph theory to evaluate Landscape Resistance to Dispersal (LRD). LRD represents the degree to which habitat availability limits species movement. LRD decreases as habitat availability increases and increases as habitat availability decreases. This data set includes a range of LRD thresholds to represent species with different dispersal abilities and responses to landscape structure. A threshold indicates the highest LRD that still allows dispersal by a particular group of species. LRD thresholds are included in the data set, with low values representing connectivity... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Forests, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Other Wildlife, South Central CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, dispersal (organisms), habitat fragmentation, Fewer tags Observed ecological inputs to the Community Land Model at two wet montane study sites, 2004-2016, Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i The following files contain source data for use of the Community Land Model 4.0 at two study sites in Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i. Included are: Biometric data: 1) Growth increment data for Thurston and Olaa, based on dbh surveys done in four 10 m by 10 m plots at over a 12 year time period at Thurston and at six plots overs a 12 year period at Olaa, 2) Field measured leaf area index data. Measurements were made using LAI-2000 and LAI-2200 instruments, 3) Litterfall from Thurston and Olaa over a 17-mo period from June 2014 to Sep 2015. Data were sorted by species/litter type. Data are weights., 4) Field measured soil respiration data scaled to annual values and compared with tower-based measurements of ecosystem... Categories: Data; Tags: Ball-Berry's m, Forests, Gross primary production, Landscapes, Pacific Islands CASC, All tags... aboveground biomass, aboveground carbon density, alometric relationship, biometric measurements, ecosystem carbon exchange, evapotranspiration, flux files, flux towers, growth increment, leaf area index, leaf-level measurement, litterfall, metrosideros polymorpha, photosynthesis, psidium cattleianum, soil respiration, stomatal conductance, transpiration, vcmax, Fewer tags Urban Growth Projection for DSL-SAMBI This dataset represents the extent of urbanization (for the year indicated) predicted by the model SLEUTH, developed by Dr. Keith C. Clarke, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography and modified by David I. Donato of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Eastern Geographic Science Center (EGSC). Further model modification and implementation was performed at the Biodiversity and Spatial Information Center at North Carolina State University. Categories: Data; Tags: 002, Alabama, Downloadable Data, Florida, Forests, All tags... Georgia, Landscapes, North Carolina, Other Wildlife, Plants, South Carolina, Southeast CASC, Southeast US, Virginia, Wildlife and Plants, dataset, society, structure, transportation, Fewer tags Potential climate change impacts on Canada lynx connectivity in the U.S. Northern Rockies Establishing connections among natural landscapes is the most frequently recommended strategy for adapting management of natural resources in response to climate change. The U.S. Northern Rockies still support a full suite of native wildlife, and survival of these populations depends on connected landscapes. Connected landscapes support current migration and dispersal as well as future shifts in species ranges that will be necessary for species to adapt to our changing climate. Working in partnership with state and federal resource managers and private land trusts, we sought to: 1) understand how future climate change may alter habitat composition of landscapes expected to serve as important connections for wildlife,... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS Map Package, Citation, Downloadable; Tags: Canada lynx, Connectivity, Environment and Conservation, Forests, Grasslands and Plains, All tags... Idaho, Landscapes, Mammals, Montana, North Central CASC, Rocky Mountains, United States, Wildlife and Plants, Wyoming, climate change, environment, environment, natural resource management, Fewer tags Land use change and fragmentation of Great Sand Dunes Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWE) using LANDFIRE data Fragmentation extent of six ecosystem types after European Settlement was analyzed using LANDFIRE data. The ecosystem types includes: Grassland, Shrubland, Conifer, Riparian, Hardwood and Sparse ecosystems. The land use change and fragmentation extents have been analyzed by delineating nine Greater Wildland Ecosystems (GWEs) across NCCSC. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Greater Wildland Ecosystem, Housing Density, LANDFIRE, Land Use Land Cover, All tags... Landscapes, NLCD, North Central CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags Water balance across regional climate gradients: A comparison of two potential evapotranspiration metrics (1980-2099). Historical and projected climate data and water balance data under three GCMs (CNRM-CM5, CCSM4, and IPSL-CM5A-MR) from 1980 to 2099 was used to assess projected climate change impacts in North Central U.S. We obtained required data from MACA data (https://climate.northwestknowledge.net/MACA/). Historical time period ranges from 1980 to 2005, and projected time period ranges from 2071 to 2099. The climate data includes temperature and precipitation whereas water balance data includes Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) and Moisture Index (MI) estimated using Penman-Monteith and Thornthwaite methods defining as Penman PET, Penman MI, Thornthwaite PET and Thornthwaite MI. Both types of MI was estimated as a ratio of... Categories: Data; Tags: Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, MACA, Moisture Index, North Central CASC, All tags... Other Landscapes, Potential Evapotranspiration, Precipiation, Temperature, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Biochar decision support tools created in RShiney: pnwbiochar This repository contains source code for a set of decision support tools to be used for selecting a biochar type and application rate. The tool set includes: Biochar Property Explorer This tool allows users to compare the biochars in our database by graphing their physiochemical properties. We compiled laboratory- and commercially-produced biochars from PNW-relevant feedstocks and measured physiochemical properties related to fertilizer value, liming value, carbon sequestration, and particle size, following IBI-recommended protocols. These data are in the file BiocharData_PNWComputed.csv. Users can also enter test data for their own biochar to view its classification following the protocol developed by Camps Arbestain... Categories: Data; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Landscapes, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Other Landscapes, Fewer tags leaf area index by site Categories: Data; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags mid-century simulations Categories: Data; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags soil moisture at three profiles at Reynolds Mountain east Categories: Data; Tags: Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Fire, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... Northwest CASC, Plants, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags « 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 8 »