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Question: Can a simple soil classification method, accessible to non-experts, be used to infer properties of the biological soil crust (BSC) communities such as species richness, evenness, and structure? Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, an arid region of the Colorado Plateau, USA. Methods: Biological soil crusts are highly functional soil surface communities of mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria that are vulnerable to soil surface disturbances such as grazing. We sampled BSC communities at 114 relatively undisturbed sites. We developed an eight-tier BSC habitat classification based upon soil properties including texture, carbonate and gypsum content, and presence of shrinking-swelling clays....
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Data were collected in 2017 by researchers at the USGS, USDA-ARS, and University of Wyoming on the food webs of plants, prairie dogs, arthropods, and birds in the Thunder Basin National Grassland. Data were collected from 87 sites in order to parameterize a structural equation model linking prairie dog impacts to changes in vegetation, arthropods, and birds. Abiotic information such as topographic wetness index, terrain roughness, and soil characteristics were estimated at the same set of plots in order to account for abiotic variation across the landscape.
    map background search result map search result map Data on prairie dogs, plants, arthropod biomass, and birds for Thunder Basin, Wyoming in 2017 Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) Occupancy and Density Across an Urban to Rural Gradient. Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) Occupancy and Density Across an Urban to Rural Gradient. Data on prairie dogs, plants, arthropod biomass, and birds for Thunder Basin, Wyoming in 2017