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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...
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Note: This dataset has been revised and superseded by version 2.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P90PG34S. Remote sensing based maps of tidal marshes, both of their extents and carbon stocks, have the potential to play a key role in conducting greenhouse gas inventories and implementing climate mitigation policies. Our objective was to generate a single remote sensing model of tidal marsh aboveground biomass and carbon that represents nationally diverse tidal marshes within the conterminous United States (CONUS). To meet this objective we developed the first national-scale dataset of aboveground tidal marsh biomass, species composition, and aboveground plant carbon content (%C) from six CONUS regions:...
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Snags provide critical habitat for nearly one-third of wildlife species in forests of the Pacific Northwest, so historic declines in snags are thought to have had a strong impact on biodiversity. Resource managers often create snags to mitigate the scarcity of snags within managed forests, but information regarding the function and structure of created snags across long time periods (>20 years) is absent from the literature. Using snags that were created by topping mature Douglas-fir trees (Pseudotsuga menziesii) as part of the OSU College of Forestry Integrated Research Project, we measured characteristics of 731 snags and quantified foraging and breeding use of snags by birds 25-27 years after their creation....
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These data describe the catch and biological data from 363 bottom-set gill-net lifts distributed throughout Lake Michigan (including main basin and Green Bay) between April and November in 1930–1932. Data collected from the R/V Fulmar were recorded in notebooks and are now archived at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Great Lakes Science Center. Each lift included 1–7 gangs of linen gill nets. Each gang comprised 3–5 panels each having a length of 155 m, a height of 1.5 m, and a (stretch-)mesh size of either 60, 64, 67, 70, or 76 mm. The digitization of the Fulmar data notebooks was started in the late 1990s and finished in this study.
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The data document the results of several microbe bioassays performed by the USGS on Phragmites australis plants, including those performed on mature leaves, seedlings, and dead leaf tissues exploration of the literature to find accounts of microbes associated with Phragmites worldwide. For the bioassays, we prepared 162 pure cultures isolated from Phragmites plants in North America along the east coast, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes area, 125 of which were from a previous study, and 38 represent new collections. The DNA sequences used to identify the 37 new collections are included. Microbes were isolated from plants collected from 2015-2018. We performed assays using both North American plant...
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Zebra and quagga mussel veligers were exposed to eleven distinct cultures (isolates) of cyanobacteria representing Anabaena, Aphanizomenon, Dolichospermum, Microcystis, and Planktothrix species and the cyanotoxin microcystin to determine the lethality of cyanobacteria on dreissenid veligers. Six-day laboratory bioassays were performed in microplates using dreissenid veligers collected from the Detroit River, Michigan, USA. Veligers were exposed to increasing concentrations of cyanobacteria and microcystin using the green algae Chlorella minutissima as a control. Raw data were fit to dose response curves formulated from a Probit model to calculate LC50 values. This data release presents the raw data summarized and...
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These data consist of a multi-trophic, day vs. night, nearshore to offshore transect approach for data collection for this Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative effort at two northwestern Lake Huron sites near Hammond Bay and Thunder Bay, Michigan. Zooplankton and Mysis samples were collected monthly from April-October while benthos and prey fish samples were collected seasonally during Spring, Summer, and Fall. Invertebrate taxa (zooplankton, Mysis, benthic macroinvertebrates) were identified, enumerated, and measured using a dissecting microscope. Diet items of the prey fish were processed similarly to the other samples in terms of taxonomy. These data were used to calculate densities of fish prey items...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program, through its Long Term Resource Monitoring (LTRM) element, collected aerial imagery of the systemic Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) during the summer of 2020. A Land Cover/Land Use (LCU) spatial database was developed based on the 2020 aerial imagery, which adds a fourth systemic-wide database to the existing 1989, 2000, and 2010/11 LCU databases. While a crosswalk was used to update the 1989 LCU database (originally developed using a different classification system), the 2000, 2010/11, and 2020 LCU databases share the same classification, making them directly comparable from a classification standpoint. Furthermore, protocols...
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We developed and tested neural network-based models to recognize and count emigrating juvenile river herring in continuous video. Continuous video was collected from an underwater camera installed at Great Herring Pond in Bourne, Massachusetts (USA) between June and November 2017. Our algorithm extracts video frames to assess presence/absence of fish and count numbers of fish emigrating. We used extracted video frames to assess model performance. Provided datasets include information about extracted frames that were used for model assessment. This data release includes four datasets that were used to test model performance and select the best fitting model. (1) The “Model Evaluation Dataset” includes count and presence/absence...


map background search result map search result map USGS Land Cover - Woodland for Mississippi 20160519 State or Territory Shapefile Created snag characteristics and cavity-nesting bird associations in the CFIRP stands, McDonald-Dunn Research Forest, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2016 Tidal marsh biomass field plot and remote sensing datasets for six regions in the conterminous United States Exotic and perennial grass cover for pastures in the Soda Fire (2016) USGS Land Cover - Woodland for Missouri 20180127 State or Territory Shapefile USGS Land Cover - Woodland for District of Columbia 20180810 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Illinois 20191007 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Minnesota 20190813 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS National Landcover - Woodland in New York 20190924 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS National Landcover - Woodland in North Dakota 20200716 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Ohio 20191108 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Oklahoma 20190610 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS Land Cover - Woodland for California 20181111 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 Lethality of bloom forming cyanobacteria on zebra and quagga mussel veligers collected from the Detroit River USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Texas 20190613 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 The effects of North American fungi and bacteria on Phragmites australis leaves 2017-2019, with comparisons to the global Phragmites microbiome 1930-1932 Gill net data from Lake Michigan Zooplankton, Benthos, Mysis, and fish diet data from northern Lake Huron in 2012 Data used to test a video monitoring and computational system for estimating juvenile fish abundance UMRR LTRM 2020 LCU Mapping - Mississippi River Pool 11 Lethality of bloom forming cyanobacteria on zebra and quagga mussel veligers collected from the Detroit River Data used to test a video monitoring and computational system for estimating juvenile fish abundance Created snag characteristics and cavity-nesting bird associations in the CFIRP stands, McDonald-Dunn Research Forest, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2016 USGS Land Cover - Woodland for District of Columbia 20180810 State or Territory Shapefile UMRR LTRM 2020 LCU Mapping - Mississippi River Pool 11 Exotic and perennial grass cover for pastures in the Soda Fire (2016) Zooplankton, Benthos, Mysis, and fish diet data from northern Lake Huron in 2012 1930-1932 Gill net data from Lake Michigan USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Ohio 20191108 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS Land Cover - Woodland for Mississippi 20160519 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in North Dakota 20200716 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Illinois 20191007 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Oklahoma 20190610 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS Land Cover - Woodland for Missouri 20180127 State or Territory Shapefile USGS National Landcover - Woodland in New York 20190924 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Minnesota 20190813 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS Land Cover - Woodland for California 20181111 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 USGS National Landcover - Woodland in Texas 20190613 State or Territory FileGDB 10.1 Tidal marsh biomass field plot and remote sensing datasets for six regions in the conterminous United States The effects of North American fungi and bacteria on Phragmites australis leaves 2017-2019, with comparisons to the global Phragmites microbiome