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This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5 This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, the historical dynamics of that lake, the sampled community type, and the dry mass of annual new growth. Shrub community measurements are a combination of understory mass from quadrat harvests and shrub stem mass derived from published allometric equations.
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This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5 This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water content (VWC), and bulk density (BD) of soil core samples within organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities.
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This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5 Total and organic carbon values from soil samples taken from the Yukon River Basin, Alaska. These samples were used to create a relationship between total carbon and organic carbon for samples which were only run for total carbon.
The microbiotic crust study is among new focuses in investigating on the desertification control. Based on determination of algal crusts with different successive ages (4-, 8-, 17-, 34-, 42-year-old) and unconsolidated sand in the desert area, species composition and clustering analyses were carried out in this study. Results on successional orientation revealed that (1) the abundance of Cyanophyta, specially of Scytonema javanicum gradually decreased; (2) the abundance of Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta and a species of Cyanophyta, Phormidium tenue increased; (3) the biodiversity increased gradually with the community succession; and (4) biomass of microalgae increased at the early stage, but decreased at the later...
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This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5 This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil core dimensions, bulk density, and carbon/nitrogen content of soil core samples within the organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities.
Content Changing aspen distribution in response to climate change and fire is a major focus of biodiversity conservation, yet little is known about the potential response of aspen to these two driving forces along topoclimatic gradients. Objective This study is set to evaluate how aspen distribution might shift in response to different climate-fire scenarios in a semi-arid montane landscape, and quantify the influence of fire regime along topoclimatic gradients. Methods We used a novel integration of a forest landscape succession and disturbance model (LANDIS-II) with a fine-scale climatic water deficit approach to simulate dynamics of aspen and associated conifer and shrub species over the next 150 years under...
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This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KW50B3 This data package contains geospatial layers used for selecting bird survey locations in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve. 1)"ANIA_original_sample_sitesAlb83" represents the nine 10-km X 10-km sample plots selected for the Aniakchak bird surveys. 2)"ANIA_sample_location_waypointsAlb83" is a summary of the 136 locations at which Aniakchak bird surveys were conducted. 3)"ANIA_sampled_plotsAlb83" represents the nine 10-km X 10-km sample plots inventoried during the Aniakchak bird surveys. 4)"ANIA_savage_site_checksAlb83" represents unique sites within Aniakchak that were identified for site visits based on expert opinion.
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This data package contains two tables with habitat measurements from each sampling point used in avian point-transect surveys on the Seward Peninsula in 2012 and the locations of those sites. Measurements include percent cover and canopy height of alder (Alnus spp.), dwarf birch (Betula spp.), ericaceous shrubs (e.g., Empetrum, Vaccinium spp.), herbaceous, lichen (e.g., Cladonia spp.), and willow (Salix spp.). Version History: First release: January 2015 Revised: February 2023 (ver. 2.0)
Mycorrhizae play a key role in ecosystem dynamics, and it is important to understand how environmental stress and climate change affect these symbionts. Several climate models predict that the intercontinental western United States will experience an increase in extreme precipitation events and warming temperatures. In 1996, northern Arizona, USA, experienced a 100-year drought that caused high local mortality of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis), a dominant tree of the southwest. We compared trunk growth, water potentials, and ectomycorrhizal dynamics for surviving trees at three high-mortality sites and adjacent low-mortality sites. Four major patterns emerged. First, surviving trees at sites that suffered high mortality...
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Recent investigations of demersal fish communities in deep (less than 50 m) rugged habitats have considerably increased our knowledge of the factors that influence the assemblage structure of fishes across mesophotic to deep-sea depths. Although habitat types influence deepwater fish distribution, whether different rugged seafloor features provide functionally equivalent habitat for fishes is poorly understood. In the northeastern Caribbean, numerous rugged seafloor features (e.g., seamounts, banks, canyons) punctuate insular margins, and thus create a remarkable setting in which to examine demersal fish communities across various seafloor features. Also in this region, several water masses are vertically layered...
This data package contains tables summarizing data collected during standardized gill net sampling conducted since 1957 and is part of the collection "Cornell Oneida Lake Data". The Cornell Biological Field Station (CBFS) serves as a primary field site for aquatic research at Cornell University (more information can be found at http://cbfs.dnr.cornell.edu/index.html) and is part of the Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The centerpiece of the station's research program is a 60-year database on the food web of Oneida Lake, New York, that has been collected with support from the Cornell University Brown Endowment and from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation....
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This data package contains three tables: 1) avian point-transect survey data collected on the Seward Peninsula in 2012, 2) locations of all survey sites, and 3) an avian taxonomy table for reference. Version History: First release: January 2015 Revised: February 2023 (ver. 2.0)
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From 1988-1991, I studied desert rodent communities of the Canyon Country Province, Colorado Plateau. Study areas were located in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah and represented grassland, shrubland, and woodland habitats. I examined species richness, guild structure, body size, and microhabitat use, testing predictions based on patterns documented in other North American desert rodent faunas. Rodent assemblages were relatively simple with respect to species richness and number of taxonomic/foraging guilds. Among coexisting species, only the numerically dominant omnivores exhibited non-random body size. Co-occurences of species representing three taxonomic-foraging guilds were significantly different from expected...
On October 27, Paul Rogers of the Western Aspen Alliance discussed the impact of climate change on aspen ecosystems, with an emphasis on aspen fire types.The presentation covered the variability of aspen responses to fire and emphasized unique fire-related systems to wean practitioners from one-size-fits-all prescriptions for aspen forests. The Western Aspen Alliance is a partnership established to improve the management of aspen by linking ecological, social and economic sciences through collaboration and information sharing.
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This data package includes two child items with data from montane-nesting bird surveys in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska. Child Item One: "Data and Photographs from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska". The data include (1) characteristics of bird survey sites, (2) vegetation classification at survey sites, (3) detections of all birds at survey sites, (4) behaviors of all birds at survey sites, (5) bird taxonomy and indication of conservation status, and (6) habitat information pertaining to survey site photographs. Child Item Two: "Geospatial Sampling Information for the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Aniakchak National...
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This data package includes three child items with data from montane-nesting bird surveys in the Arctic Network of National Parks in Alaska. Child Item One: "Data and Photographs from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Arctic Network of National Parks, Alaska - Cape Krusenstern, Gates of the Arctic, Kobuk Valley, and Noatak". The data include (1) characteristics of bird survey sites, (2) vegetation classification at survey sites, (3) shorebird and predator detection surveys, (4) all bird species detection surveys, (5) bird breeding observations, (6) taxonomic details of detected birds, and 7) point count habitat photo index. Additionally, habitat photographs are included. Child Item Two: "Data and Photographs...
Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alaska, Alpine/Tundra, Animals/Vertebrates, Avian abundance, Baird Mountains, All tags...
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is the most widespread tree species in North America, and it is found throughout much of the Mountain West (MW) across a broad range of bioclimatic regions. Aspen typically regenerates asexually and prolifically after fire, and due to its seral status in many western conifer forests, aspen is often considered dependent upon disturbance for persistence. In many landscapes, historical evidence for post-fire aspen establishment is clear, and following extended fire-free periods senescing or declining aspen overstories sometimes lack adequate regeneration and are succeeding to conifers. However, aspen also forms relatively stable stands that contain little or no evidence of...
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This data release includes six child items of soil and vegetation data from lake margin soils of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Data includes multiple lakes that are defined as either stable or drying. Lake margin vegetation communities include graminoid, shrub, and forest. Sols are separated into organic and mineral layers. Microbial data includes different phospholipid fatty acids and soil enzyme activity data for multiple enzymes involved in C,N, and P cycling. Data also includes information on respiration rate constants (k) and labile substrate pool (Ao) from soil incubations. Other soil chemical attributes such as soil pH, electrical conductivity, percent C and percent N are also included....
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Conclusions: Although there was not a detectable decrease in bird communitiy species richness resulting from experimental forest fragmentation, community structure was altered, and maintaining connections between fragments significantly mitigated these effects. Thresholds/Learnings: Synopsis: This study examined the effects of forest fragmentation on the richness, diversity, turnover, and abundance of breeding bird communities in old boreal mixed-wood forest by creating experimental forest fragments of 1, 10, 40, and 100 ha. Connected fragments were linked by 100 m wide buffer strips. The study detected no significant change in species richness as a result of forest harvesting, except in the 1 ha connected fragments...


map background search result map search result map Desert Rodent Communities of the Canyon Country Province, Colorado Plateau Are boreal birds resilient to forest fragmentation? An experimental study of short-term community responses. Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean Soil and Vegetation Data from Lake-Margin Wetlands in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 2: Aboveground Net Primary Production Estimates from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 5: Carbon and Nitrogen Content of Organic Soils in Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 3: Soil Properties of Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 6: Total Carbon, Organic Carbon, and Nitrogen Data from a Subset of Soils Within the Yukon River Basin Avian Point Transect Survey, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2012 Avian Habitat Data, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2012 Data from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska Data from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Arctic Network of National Parks, Alaska Alaska JBER Avian Survey Data 2007-Present Child Item 2: Geospatial Sampling Information from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska Desert Rodent Communities of the Canyon Country Province, Colorado Plateau Alaska JBER Avian Survey Data 2007-Present Data from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska Child Item 2: Geospatial Sampling Information from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve, Alaska Soil and Vegetation Data from Lake-Margin Wetlands in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 2: Aboveground Net Primary Production Estimates from the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Avian Point Transect Survey, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2012 Avian Habitat Data, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2012 Child Item 6: Total Carbon, Organic Carbon, and Nitrogen Data from a Subset of Soils Within the Yukon River Basin Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean Child Item 3: Soil Properties of Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Child Item 5: Carbon and Nitrogen Content of Organic Soils in Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge Data from the Inventory of Montane-nesting Birds in the Arctic Network of National Parks, Alaska