An approach for aggregating upstream catchment information to support research and management of fluvial systems across large landscapes

Abstract (from http://www.springerplus.com/content/3/1/589): The growing quality and availability of spatial map layers (e.g., climate, geology, and land use) allow stream studies, which historically have occurred over small areas like a single watershed or stream reach, to increasingly explore questions from a landscape perspective. This large-scale perspective for fluvial studies depends on the ability to characterize influences on streams resulting from throughout entire upstream networks or catchments. While acquiring upstream information for a single reach is relatively straight-forward, this process becomes demanding when attempting to obtain summaries for all streams throughout a stream network and across...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Aggregation, Digitized stream network, GIS, Habitat Characterization, Landscape information, All tags... Large scale assessment, Lotic, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, NHDPlusV2, National Assessment, National CASC, NoVisual, Report, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Dam Metrics Representing Stream Fragmentation and Flow Alteration for the Conterminous United States Linked to the NHDPLUSV1

This CSV file contains 21 dam metrics representing stream fragmentation and flow alteration for nearly 2.3 million stream reaches in the conterminous USA. Dam metrics fall into four main categories: segment-based, count and density, distance-based, and cumulative reservoir storage (described below). These data were developed using spatially verified large dam locations (n=49,468) primarily from the National Anthropogenic Barrier Dataset (NABD) that were spatially linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus version 1 (NHDPlusV1). These dam metrics have been summarized using the unique identifier field native to the NHDPlusV1 (COMID) which can be used to join this table to spatial layers and data tables of the...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Alabama, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Connectivity, DataProduct, Delaware, Direct habitat alteration, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hydrologic alteration, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NCCWSC, NHDPlusV1, National Assessment, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, barriers, dams, drainage basins, environmental assessment, river basin, river reaches, streams, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Anthropogenic Disturbance Data for the Conterminous United States linked to the NHDPLUSV1

This CSV file contains landscape factors representing anthropogenic disturbances to stream habitats summarized within local and network stream catchments as well as 90 m local and network buffer of stream reaches throughout the conterminous U.S. The source datasets compiled and attributed to spatial units were identified as being: (1) meaningful for assessing fluvial fish habitat; (2) consistent across the entire study area in the way that they were assembled; (3) broadly representative of conditions in the past 10 years, and (4) of sufficient spatial resolution that they could be used to make valid comparisons among local catchment units. Variables summarized at the catchment scale include measures of anthropogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Anthropogenic factors, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, DataProduct, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental condition, Florida, Georgia, Habitat Characterization, Habitat suitability, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, NHDPlusV1, National Assessment, National Assessment, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, drainage basins, environmental assessment, river basin, river reaches, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

Indirect Assessment of West Coast USA Tidal Wetland Loss

This spatial data layer provides an indirect estimate of emergent, scrub-shrub and forested tidal wetland losses for 55 non-lagoonal estuaries spanning the contiguous United States West Coast. Losses are defined as those areas that were tidal wetlands prior to European settlement, but are no longer tidal wetlands today. Losses were estimated by comparing the National Wetland Inventory‘s mapping of current tidal wetlands to the Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership (PMEP)’s West Coast Estuary Extent mapping. The estuary extent layer represents the likely historical extent of tidal wetlands, so areas not identified as current tidal wetlands in the National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) are considered...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Map Service; Tags: FHP Product, Habitat Characterization, Marine, National Assessment, PMEP, All tags... Regional Assessment, Spatial Data, Visual, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) 2015 Cumulative Habitat Condition Scores and Disturbance Indices for Hawaii Linked to Catchments of the Hawai'i Fish Habitat Partnership Stream Layer

This shapefile contains cumulative fish habitat condition index (HCI) scores and specific disturbance indices for local and network stream catchments as well as the downstream main channel catchment of perennial and intermittent streams reaches of the five main island of Hawai'i. In this dataset indices are linked to the Hawaii Fish Habitat Partnership (HFHP) stream layer (Tingley et al. in prep) which is a modified version of the 1:24,000 National Hydrography Dataset. It includes 11,436 intermittent and perennial stream reaches across the five main Hawaiian Islands (Hawai’i, Maui, Moloka’i, O’ahu, Kaua’i). Catchment attributes are available for both local catchments (defined as the land area draining directly to...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, Citation, Map Service; Tags: 2015 National Assessment, 2015 National Assessment, Anthropogenic factors, DataProduct, Direct habitat alteration, All tags... Environmental condition, Habitat Characterization, Habitat suitability, Lotic, NFHP Cooperator, NHDHR, National Assessment, Spatial Data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Visual, drainage basins, environmental assessment, river basin, river reaches, streams, water quality, Fewer tags

National Fish Habitat Partnership Data System

The National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) Data System provides a means for the partnership to manage, access and visualize data products from across the partnership. Although components of the data system may change with evolving technologies, we plan to continue cataloging NFHP data products in USGS ScienceBase.

Tags: HCI, Habitat Condition Index, NFHP, NHD+, National Fish Habitat Action Plan, All tags... National Fish Habitat Partnership, National Hydrography Dataset Plus, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aquatic conservation, coastal aquatic systems, data management, data management practices, fish, fish habitat, human disturbance, inland and coastal aquatic systems, inland aquatic systems, landscape scale, national assessment, spatial framework, Fewer tags