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Advancing understanding of ecosystem responses to climate change with warming experiments: what we have learned and what is unknown? Advancing our mechanistic understanding of ecosystem responses to climate change is critical to improve ecological theories, develop predictive models to simulate ecosystem processes, and inform sound policies to manage ecosystems and human activities. Manipulation of temperature in the field, or the “ecosystem warming experiment,” has proved to be a powerful tool to understand ecosystem responses to changes in temperature. No comprehensive synthesis has been conducted since the last one more than 10 years ago. A new synthetic analysis is critically needed to advance our understanding of ecosystem responses to warming, to highlight experimental artifacts and appropriate interpretations, and to guide development... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Land Resources Integrating modeling and empirical approaches to improve predictions of tropical forest responses to global warming Tropical forests contain > 50% of the world’s known species (Heywood 1995), 55% of global forest biomass (Pan et al. 2011), and exchange more carbon (C), water and energy with the atmosphere than any other ecosystem type (e.g., Saugier et al. 2001). Despite their importance, there is more uncertainty associated with predictions of how tropical forests will respond to warming than for any other biome (Randerson et al. 2009). This uncertainty is of global concern due to the large quantity of C cycled by these forests and the high potential for biodiversity loss. Given the importance of tropical forests, decision makers and land managers around the globe need increased predictive capacity regarding how tropical forests... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Climate, Ecosystems, Forests, All tags... Land Resources, Fewer tags Support to Western States Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools The SRLCC provided funds to the states of Arizona and New Mexico to support development of the states Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools (CHATs) which provide a decision support system to better incorporate wildlife values, sensitive animals and plants, and important ecosystem features into land use decision-making to reduce conflicts and surprises.Several states have released wildlife mapping tools that are the foundation for displaying crucial wildlife and corridor information. The state and regional CHATs are non-regulatory, and give project planners and the general public access to credible scientific data on a broad scale for use in project analysis, siting and planning. This includes large-scale development... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, AZ-05, All tags... AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Mule Deer and Elk, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Western United States, completed, crucial habitat, crucial habitat, crucial habitat assessment, decision support system, decision support system, decision support systems, development, development, development, ecosystems, ecosystems, ecosystems, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive animals, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, sensitive plants, wildlife, wildlife, wildlife, Fewer tags Elucidating mechanisms underlying amphibian declines in North America using hierarchical spatial models Amphibian populations are declining globally at unprecedented rates but statistically rigorous identification of mechanisms is lacking. Identification of reasons underlying large-scale declines is imperative to plan and implement effective conservation efforts. Most research on amphibian population decline has focused on local populations and local factors. However, the ubiquity of declines across species and landscapes suggests that causal factors at a broader scale are also important. Elucidation of the mechanisms driving population change has lagged, mainly because data have been unavailable at continental scales. We propose to address this need by assembling data to answer questions about broad-scale drivers... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Amphibians, Ecosystems, Land Resources, All tags... animals, Fewer tags Alaska Yukon Delta Nest Plot Survey Annual assessment of nesting populations of geese on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) provides information for biologists, participants in cooperative goose management plans, and Pacific Flyway technical committees. A ground-based sampling procedure has been used since 1986 to estimate the number of total nests, active nests, and eggs for cackling geese, emperor geese, greater white-fronted geese, and spectacled eiders. Annual information on the size of the nesting population and potential number of young produced contributes long term data needed to understand goose and eider population ecology and better manage these species. The survey has been the primary method of measuring recovery status for the western population... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, All tags... BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOSPHERE, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, CRANES AND ALLIES, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > LOONS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Project, RIVER DELTA, RIVERS/STREAM, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, biota, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Alaska Yukon Delta Double Observer Nest Plot Detection From 1995 to 1999, a subset of nest plots were searched twice by field crews to estimate nest detection probability by mark-recapture methods. Over the five years, 30 plots were searched twice and over 2700 unique nests were found. From these data, nest detection probability is estimated using a Huggins-type mark recapture model where individual-level covariate effects of nest and observer attributes were estimated. These estimates are then used to predict nest detection rates in other years based on covariates of nests and observers. Nest detection rates are then applied to annual plot search to estimate nest populations for each species in the sampled area. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, All tags... ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > LOONS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Project, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags North American Analysis and Synthesis on the Connectivity of "Geographically Isolated Wetlands" to Downstream Waters Geographically Isolated Wetlands (GIWs) occur along gradients of hydrologic and ecological connectivity and isolation, even within wetland types (e.g., forested, emergent marshes) and functional classes (e.g., ephemeral systems, permanent systems, etc.). Within a given watershed, the relative positions of wetlands and open-waters along these gradients influence the type and magnitude of their chemical, physical, and biological effects on downgradient waters. In addition, the ways in which GIWs connect to the broader hydrological landscape, and the effects of such connectivity on downgradient waters, depends largely upon climate, geology, and relief, the heterogeneity of which expands with increasing scale. Developing... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Geographically isolated wetlands, depressional wetlands, perimeter, Water, All tags... Water Connectivity, Water Resources, Wetlands, Fewer tags Alaska Yukon Delta Nest Distance Sampling Pilot Project In 2019 a pilot study was conducted to determine the feasibility of using distance sampling to estimate density and population size of goose and eider nests on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD). Distance sampling (Buckland et al. 2001) is a common and well-understood method to estimate wildlife population size or density, especially for sparse and hard-to-detect populations. A main advantage of distance sampling is that it accounts for imperfect detection and gives precise estimates for a given level of effort relative to other methods. The objectives for the pilot project in 2019 was to (1) determine if distance sampling is feasible on the YKD, (2) determine what aspects of the field protocol need to be changed or... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, All tags... BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOSPHERE, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, CRANES AND ALLIES, DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > LOONS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES, ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Project, RIVER DELTA, RIVERS/STREAM, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Distribution of Fibrous Erionite in the United States and Implications For Human Health Fibrous erionite, a zeolite mineral, has been designated as a human carcinogen by the World Health Organization and is believed to be the cause of extraordinarily high rates of malignant mesothelioma and other asbestos - related diseases in several villages in Central Turkey. A recent study by the University of Hawaii in collaboration with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in Dunn County, North Dakota has demonstrated similar human exposures to fibrous erionite as those in found in Turkey. The source of these exposures is an erionite - bearing volcanic tuff that has been mined, crushed, and used to gravel hundreds of miles of roads. While elevated rates of mesothelioma are not yet apparent in North Dakota,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Ecosystems, Energy and Minerals, Human Health, All tags... erionite, Fewer tags Evaluation and Refinement of a Decision Support Tool for Mottled Duck Habitat Conservation in the Western Gulf Coast Habitat loss and degradation due to urban expansion and other human activities have raised concerns for the Western Gulf Coast Mottled Duck population. This species relies on tidal, palustrine, and agricultural wetlands as well as grasslands for all of its life cycle needs. The disappearance of suitable nesting and brood-rearing habitat is believed to be the primary factor associated with long-term population decline of the mottled duck. One of the first science projects initiated by the GCP LCC was development of a spatially-explicit Decision Support Tool (DST) to help guide conservation and management of habitat for breeding Mottled Ducks in coastal Louisiana and Texas. An important next step is evaluating the... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2015, 2016, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOSPHERE, All tags... BIRDS, Coastal Louisiana, Coastal Texas, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LA-01, LA-02, LA-03, LA-04, LA-05, LA-06, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Louisiana, MS-04, Monitoring, Mottled Duck, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, TX-02, TX-07, TX-08, TX-09, TX-10, TX-14, TX-15, TX-18, TX-22, TX-25, TX-27, TX-29, Texas, WETLANDS, biota, completed, decision support, validation, Fewer tags Teshekpuk Lake Molting Goose Survey In 1957, Henry (Hank) Hansen and Jim King identified important habitat for molting geese in an area now referred to as the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area (TLSA) in northern Alaska. Located within the larger National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-AK), the importance of this habitat was reaffirmed by the Secretary of Interior in 1977 with the designation of the TLSA. In 1976, the Waterfowl Department of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Migratory Bird Management-Alaska (MBM-AK) began conducting aerial goose surveys within an area of the TLSA that they designated as the Traditional Survey Area. These surveys continued through 1978, after which there was a three-year hiatus. Surveys began again in 1982 and continued... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ALPINE/TUNDRA, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ARCTIC TUNDRA, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL RECORDS, All tags... BIOSPHERE, BIRDS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > LOONS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > LAKE/POND, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION > POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS, EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > EARTH GASES/LIQUIDS > PETROLEUM, ECOSYSTEMS, GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, LAND SURFACE, PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS, POPULATION ABUNDANCE, Project, SHORELINES, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags Mercury cycling, bioaccumulation, and risk across western North America: a landscape scale synthesis linking long-term datasets Mercury (Hg) is a serious environmental problem that is impacting ecological and human health on a global scale. However, local and regional processes are largely responsible for producing methylmercury, which drives ecological risk. This is particularly true in western North America where the combination of diverse landscapes, habitat types, climates, and Hg sources may disproportionally impact the region relative to other areas in North America. Even with decades of regional Hg research and monitoring, there is still no holistic synthesis of the spatiotemporal patterns of Hg in abiotic and biotic resources across the region, nor has there been a formal, simultaneous analysis of the landscape, ecological and climatological... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Ecosystems, Environmental Health, Mercury, All tags... Natural Hazards, Synthesis, Fewer tags Alaska Yukon Delta Nest Plot Survey Annual assessment of nesting populations of geese on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD) provides information for biologists, participants in cooperative goose management plans, and Pacific Flyway technical committees. A ground-based sampling procedure has been used since 1986 to estimate the number of total nests, active nests, and eggs for cackling geese, emperor geese, greater white-fronted geese, and spectacled eiders. Annual information on the size of the nesting population and potential number of young produced contributes long term data needed to understand goose and eider population ecology and better manage these species. The survey has been the primary method of measuring recovery status for the western population... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, All tags... ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, BIRDS, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, CRANES AND ALLIES, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > LOONS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, Project, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVER DELTA, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, RIVERS/STREAM, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES, biota, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Characterizing landscape genomics and reconstructing pathways to plant ecological specialization and speciation This proposal brings together biologists and geoscientists to evaluate the evolution of stress tolerance and adaptation to extreme environments in plants. Stress tolerance has been studied mainly from a physiological perspective using laboratory and field experiments. In contrast, this project will take a combined environmental and evolutionary perspective using national public databases and a “big data” approach. Thus the proposal will illustrate an application of spatially integrated big datasets for basic research, a synthesis goal of the Powell Center. We will use the geochemical and mineralogical data from the USGS Soil Geochemical Landscapes of the Conterminous United States Project, digital elevation and... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Ecosystems, Energy and Minerals, Land Resources, All tags... plants, Fewer tags Movement Patterns, Dispersal Behavior, and Survival of Lynx in Relation to Snowshoe Hare Abundance in the Boreal Forest The role of lynx dispersal in maintaining their populations at the landscape scale is unclear. A large proportion of local lynx populations are known to disperse following a snowshoe hare population crash, but whether these dispersal events contribute to the cyclic dynamics of neighboring populations is not well understood. If lynx dispersal does play an important role in lynx population dynamics then the conservation of dispersal corridors is critical to maintaining those dynamics. However, we currently have no information on the habitat requirements of dispersing lynx in relation to human land use, such as housing developments, road building, timber harvest, and mining, all of which could have a substantial impact... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BOREAL FOREST/TIAGA, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOSYSTEMS, Earth Remote Sensing Instruments, Earth Remote Sensing Instruments, FORESTS, Lepus americanus, Lynx canadensis, Passive Remote Sensing, Passive Remote Sensing, Positioning/Navigation, Positioning/Navigation, Project, Radio, SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS, TELEMETER, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, alaska, biota, boreal forest, canada lynx, dispersal, environment, movement, onGoing, snowshoe hare, survival, telemetry, trapping, Fewer tags Continental-scale overview of stream primary productivity, its links to water quality, and consequences for aquatic carbon biogeochemistry Streams and rivers have a limited spatial extent, but are increasingly recognized as key components of regional biogeochemical cycles. The collective metabolic processing of organisms, known as ecosystem metabolism, is centrally important to nutrient cycling and carbon fluxes in these environments, but is poorly integrated into emerging biogeochemical concepts. This line of inquiry lags behind other aspects of regional biogeochemistry because of the lack of long-term, regionally-diverse studies of stream metabolism. With a few exceptions, metabolism studies have focused on small headwater catchments using short-term (days to weeks) observation. As a consequence, basic patterns and controls of this fundamental process,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: Active, All Working Groups, Aquatic carbon, Ecosystems, Water Quality, All tags... Water Resources, water, Fewer tags System analysis of land use and climate effects on ecosystem services affecting C and N exchanges with the atmosphere and water cycles Current land use practices have affected ecosystem structure and processes in ways that have degraded delivery of key ecosystem services controlling exchanges of carbon and nitrogen with the atmosphere and surface and groundwater systems. These impacts are observed in the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and N pollution in our nation’s water systems and coastal areas. Improvements in databases of climate, soils, and land use practices in the north central Great Plains (i.e., NCGP: Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota) provide a unique opportunity for integration and synthesis of this information on the exchanges of C and N affecting our environmental resources. In addition,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: All Working Groups, Atmosphere, Carbon, Completed, Ecosystems, All tags... Ecosystems, Land Resources, Nitrogen, water cycle, Fewer tags Circumpolar assessment of ecological mismatch between avian herbivores and plant phenology The timing of breeding is constrained in Arctic ecosystems and small temporal differences in when individuals breed can have large effects on fitness. Arctic ecosystems are generally warming more rapidly than other ecosystems which, for migratory species, can cause an imbalance, or mismatch, between when they have evolved to breed versus when it is optimal to breed environmentally. Geese are abundant herbivores summering in tundra ecosystems, and whose presence has important feedbacks on ecosystem processes. Some goose populations have already exhibited signs that spring vegetation phenology is occurring earlier than individuals are able to breed, with a consequent effect on their reproductive fitness. The magnitude... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Ecosystems, Land Resources, plants Global Croplands and Their Water Use for Food Security in the Twenty-first Century Global climate change is putting unprecedented pressure on global croplands and their water use, vital for ensuring future food security for the world's rapidly expanding human population. The end of the green green revolution (productivity per unit of land) era has meant declining global per capita agricultural production requiring immediate policy responses to safeguard food security amidst global climate change and economic turbulence. Above all, global croplands are water guzzlers, consuming between 60-90% of all human water use. With increasing urbanization, industrialization, and other demands (e.g., bio-fuels) on water there is increasing pressure to reduce agricultural water use by producing more food from... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Croplands, Ecosystems, Food, All tags... Land Resources, Water Resources, Fewer tags