Spatial datasets to support analysis of the influence of tributary junctions on patterns of fluvial features and riparian vegetation along the Colorado and Dolores Rivers (Utah and Colorado)

To examine potential influence of tributaries on riparian habitat complexity along ~216 km of the Colorado River in Utah and ~300km of the Dolores River in Colorado and Utah, we first classified fluvial features and land cover of the bottomland on remotely sensed imagery. We then examined riparian and geomorphic patterns within the near channel zone with variably-sized spatial units. We used supervised image classification to create a 2-m resolution map of the primary land cover types within bottomlands of the Colorado and Dolores rivers, including two anthropogenic classes, four vegetation classes, bare ground, water and shadow. We selected these cover classes as major vegetation and land cover types that could...

Tags: Colorado, Colorado River, Dolores River, Thiessen polygon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Utah, channel class, cover class, environment, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, river systems, tributary, Fewer tags

Geochemical reanalysis of rock and sediment samples from the Middle Fork and South Fork of the Salmon River collected in the mid-1960s through the early 1970s as part of the Idaho Primitive Area studies

This data release is a geochemical data set from the reanalysis of 23 rock and 85 sediment samples collected between 1966 and 1970 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for a series of studies investigating the mineral resources of the Idaho Primitive Area (Cater et al., 1973). The samples are from the upper Middle Fork Salmon River and the South Fork Salmon River, including the tributaries of East Fork of the South Fork and Porphyry Creek. The overall objective of this study is to characterize the regional impact of legacy mining for the Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area. In 1980 the U. S. Congress passed the Central Idaho Wilderness Act which combined the Idaho Primitive Area, the Salmon Rivers...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Automatic Creek, Beansnapper Creek, Bear Creek, Big Chief Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, All tags... Cabin Creek, Cache Creek, Cane Creek, Canyon Creek, Challis Volcanic Group, Colorado, Colt Creek, Cornish Creek, Cultus Creek, Dewey Mine, East Fork Indian Creek, East Fork South Fork Salmon River, East Fork Springfield Creek, East Fork Trail Creek, Forty-five Creek, Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness Area, GGGSC, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Glass Mountain, Gunsight Formation, Idaho, Idaho Primitive Area, Indian Creek, Little Indian Creek, Little Loon Creek, Little Pistol Creek, Loon Creek, Luger Creek, MRP, Marble Creek, Mearney Creek, Middle Fork Indian Creek, Middle Fork Salmon River, Middle Fork terraces, Mineral Resources Program, North Fork Porphyry Creek, North Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Pistol Creek, Poee Creek, Porphyry Creek, Profile Creek, Pungo Creek, Rapid River, Ryan Creek, Salmon Rivers Breaks Primitive Area, Shrapnel Creek, Silver Plume, South Fork Salmon River, South Fork Wolf Fang Creek, Spring Creek, Springfield Creek, Sugar Creek, Sunnyside tuff, Tamarack Creek, Thirty-two Creek, Thunder Mountain Caldera, Trail Creek, Trigger Creek, Twenty-five Creek, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Middle Fork Salmon River, West Fork Little Loon Creek, West Fork Trail Creek, Wolf Fang Creek, alluvium, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, biotite, carbonate rock, chemical analysis, clastic rock, conglomerate, copper, critical minerals, foliation, geochemistry, geology, gneiss, granite, granodiorite, hornblende, hornblende-biotite, hydride generation, lapilli tuff, mass spectroscopy, metallic mineral resources, migmatite, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mineralization, muscovite sulfides, muscovite-biotite, nonmetallic mineral resources, pebble conglomerate, phyllite, porphyry, quartz, rhyolite, rock drainage, sandstone, tributary, tuff, volcanic rock, Fewer tags

Transverse and longitudinal variation in woody riparian vegetation along a montane river

This study explores how the relationship between flow and riparian vegetation varies along a montane river. We mapped occurrence of woody riparian plant communities along 58 km of the San Miguel River in southwest- ern Colorado. We determined the recurrence interval of inundation for each plant community by combining step-back- water hydraulic modeling at 4 representative reaches with Log-Pearson analysis of 4 stream gaging stations. Finally, we mapped bottomland surficial geology and used a Geographic Information System to overlay the coverages of geology and vegetation. Plant communities were distinctly arrayed along the hydrologic gradient. The Salix exigua Nuttall (sand- bar willow) community occurred mostly...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Populus angustifolia, Western North American Naturalist, channel change, flood, gradient analysis, All tags... inundation, recurrence interval, tributary, Fewer tags

Characterizing Rivermouth Ecosystems

Description of Work The GLRI Rivermouths Project (template 82) is designed to enhance our understanding of how rivermouths function at both regional and local scales by 1) developing a rivermouth classification system, based on a broad scale database covering all Great Lakes rivermouths (>2000); 2) creating a science-based understanding of how the ecological structure and function of rivermouths are linked both to the landscapes they drain and to the Lakes with which they mix; and 3) increasing the public and scientific profile of these ecosystems by connecting researchers and natural resource managers through a collaborative dialog. The long-term goal is to provide enhanced guidance for restoration and rehabilitation...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Accountability, Areas of concern, Ecosystem health, GLRI, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, All tags... Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Lake, Lake:Lake Erie, Lake:Lake Huron, Lake:Lake Michigan, Lake:Lake Ontario, Lake:Lake St. Clair, Lake:Lake Superior, Nearshore, Regulatory benchmark, Research, Rivermouth, Template 82, Tributary, Watershed, Watershed:Lake Erie Basin, Watershed:Lake Huron Basin, Watershed:Lake Michigan Basin, Watershed:Lake Ontario Basin, Watershed:Lake St. Clair Basin, Watershed:Lake Superior Basin, Fewer tags

Lake Michigan basin, USA: Valley Segment Ecological Classification (VSEC)

Valley Segment Ecological Classification (VSEC). An ecological river classification involves the identification of structurally homogeneous spatial units which emerge along the channel network as a result of catchement processes interacting with local physiographic features. Observations of Michigan rivers suggest that the natural ecological unit, as defined by the spatial scales of riverine physical and biological porcesses, is most closely approximated by the physical channel unti termed the valley segment. Valley segments are generally quite large, characterized by relative homogeneity in hydrologic, limnologic, channel morphology, and riparian dynamics. Valley segment characteristics often change sharply at...

Tags: basin, channel, coast, geomorphology, great lakes, All tags... limnology, river, stream, tributary, valley, watershed, wetlands, Fewer tags

Transverse and longitudinal variation in woody riparian vegetation along a montane river

This study explores how the relationship between flow and riparian vegetation varies along a montane river. We mapped occurrence of woody riparian plant communities along 58 km of the San Miguel River in southwest- ern Colorado. We determined the recurrence interval of inundation for each plant community by combining step-back- water hydraulic modeling at 4 representative reaches with Log-Pearson analysis of 4 stream gaging stations. Finally, we mapped bottomland surficial geology and used a Geographic Information System to overlay the coverages of geology and vegetation. Plant communities were distinctly arrayed along the hydrologic gradient. The Salix exigua Nuttall (sand- bar willow) community occurred mostly...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Populus angustifolia, channel change, flood, gradient analysis, inundation, All tags... recurrence interval, tributary, Fewer tags

Native and Non-Native Fish Species in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon

The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, supports native fish species and non-native fish species introduced for sport fisheries or accidentally from aquarium releases and other sources. Based on fish surveys completed from 1998 to 2018 by Oregon State University and records from the Oregon State University Ichthyology Collection, the Willamette River Basin has 34 native fish species found upstream of the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and 28 non-native fish species. Each native and non-native fish species has its own thermal tolerances and diet, spawning, and vertical preference traits. This means that distributions of native and non-native fishes along the river network are shaped by physical factors...

Categories: Data; Tags: Albany, Aquatic Biology, Columbia River, Ecology, Newberg, All tags... Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, Willamette Basin, Willamette Falls, Willamette River, aquatic biology, benthic, biota, fish, floodplain, inlandWaters, large river, lower Willamette River, mainstem, middle Willamette River, native fish, native species, non-benthic, non-native fish, nonindigenous species, off-channel, river, spawning traits, species traits, tributary, upper Willamette River, Fewer tags