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Distribution and status of five non-native fish species in the Tampa Bay drainage (USA), a hot spot for fish introductions-Data This dataset provides supporting information for the species distribution data used in the associated manuscript. Collections of five non-native fish species were made by a number of institutions, and several capture techniques were used. This dataset also includes number of individuals of each species captured at each locality. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alafia River, Aquatic Biology, Florida, Hillsborough River, Little Manatee River, All tags... Manatee River, Tampa Bay basin, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, non-native species, species dispersal, species distribution, Fewer tags Radio telemetry data on nighttime movements of two species of migratory nectar-feeding bats (Leptonycteris) in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, late-summer 2004 and 2005 These bat location estimates have been reported by Bogan and others (In press) and come in the form of a GIS shape file. Three species of nectar-feeding phyllostomid bats migrate north from Mexico into deserts of the United States (U.S.) each spring and summer to feed on blooms of columnar cacti and century plants (Agave spp). However, the habitat needs of these important desert pollinators are poorly understood. We followed the nighttime movements of two species of long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae and L. nivalis) in an area of late-summer sympatry at the northern edges of their migratory ranges. We radiotracked bats in extreme southwestern New Mexico during 22 nights over two summers and acquired location... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Animas Mountains, Big Hatchet Mountains, Chihuahuan Desert, Chiroptera, Desert Southwest, All tags... Hidalgo County, New Mexico, Playas Valley, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, bats, biota, dispersal, foraging, habitat, migration, movement ecology, radio telemetry, southwestern New Mexico, Fewer tags Expert opinions of demographic rates of Argentine black and white tegus in South Florida We illustrate the utility of expert elicitation, explicit recognition of uncertainty, and the value of information for directing management and research efforts for invasive species, using tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) in southern Florida as a case study. We posited a post-birth pulse, matrix model, which was parameterized using a 3-point process to elicit estimates of tegu demographic rates from herpetology experts. We fit statistical distributions for each parameter and for each expert, then drew and pooled a large number of replicate samples from these to form a distribution for each demographic parameter. Using these distributions, we generated a large sample of matrix models to infer how the tegu population... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Miami-Dade County, FL, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, expert elicitation, invasive species, All tags... matrix model, Fewer tags Hawaiian Islands Coastal Vegetation Survey 2013-2015 This dataset provides information on the current status and various other habitat and descriptive attributes of the native coastal vegetation for seven of the main Hawaiian Islands (i.e., does not include Ni`ihau). Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Ecology, Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, Lanai, All tags... Main Hawaiian Islands, Maui, Molokai, Oahu, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, aerial imagery, coastal ecosystems, habitats, plant communities, species richness, status, vegetation, Fewer tags Stream Segments Captures and Crossings Associated With 2012 Aquatic Organism Passage Study Siuslaw National Forest Stream segments, aquatic organism captures, stream surveys, and road-stream crossings described by these metadata accompany a 2012 electrofishing study of the distribution and abundance of aquatic organisms (fish, lampreys, amphibians and crayfish), conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Pacific Northwest Region Aquatic and Riparian Ecosystem Monitoring Project (AREMP) of the U.S. Forest Service, in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon, USA. The purpose of the study was to quantify the effectiveness of stream-road crossing restoration (culvert replacement to the stream simulation standard) in terms of numbers of fish and length of stream gained through restoration, and to quantify the continuing... Types: Citation; Tags: Alsea River, Aquatic Biology, Big Creek, Big Elk Creek, Cape Creek, All tags... Coast Range, Douglas County, Ecology, Five Rivers, Forestry, Horse Creek, Lane County, Lincoln County, Little Nestucca River, Maple Creek, Neskowin Creek, Nestucca River, North Fork Beaver Creek, North Fork Smith River, Oregon, Salmon River, Siuslaw National Forest, Siuslaw River, Tillamook County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Umpqua River, Wildlife Biology, Yamhill County, aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity, fishery resources, freshwater ecosystems, migratory species, seasonal migration, Fewer tags Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Publications and Reports -- 1960-2015 The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center was formally established in 1965 in Jamestown, North Dakota. Over its 50-year history, its scientists have produced more than 1750 publications and reports, covering a wide range of science. This data release is a list of all publications and reports, including journal articles, book and book chapters, government reports, papers from conference proceedings, and reports associated with non-governmental organizations. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Botany, Climatology, Ecology, Hydrogeology, All tags... Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, biota, environment, inlandWaters, reports, Fewer tags Impact of Drought on Southwestern Pronghorn Population Trends and Predicted Trajectories in the Southwest in the Face of Climate Change Climate often drives ungulate population dynamics, and as climates change, some areas may become unsuitable for species persistence. Unraveling the relationships between climate and population dynamics, and projecting them across time, advances ecological understanding that informs and steers sustainable conservation for species. Using pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) as an ecological model, we used a Bayesian approach to analyze long-term population, precipitation, and temperature data from 18 populations in the southwestern United States. We determined which long-term (12 and 24 months) or short-term (gestation trimester and lactation period) climatic conditions best predicted annual rate of population growth... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Antilocapra americana, Arizona, Climatology, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Land Use Change, Mammals, National CASC, New Mexico, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife and Plants, climate change, density dependence, integrated Bayesian population models, large herbivores, population dynamics, rainfall effects, southwestern US, southwestern United States, southwestern United States, standardized precipitation index, ungulates, western Texas, Fewer tags Stream temperature data from Willow-Whitehorse and Little Blitzen watersheds, southeast Oregon, 2011-2015 Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Ecology, GNIS ID 1129010, All tags... GNIS ID 1129139, Harney County, Malheur County, National CASC, Oregon, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Stream / River, Stream temperature, Trout Creek Mountains, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, Water, Coasts and Ice, Watershed, Whitehorse Creek, Wildlife Biology, Willow Creek, inlandWaters, water temperature, Fewer tags Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) THIS IS A HISTORICAL RECORD. As of December 17, 2021, the BISON application will no longer be available online and has been replaced by https://www.gbif.us. The BISON APIs are still available at https://bison.usgs.gov/#api and the Integrated Publishing Toolkit is still available at https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt. The USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) project is an online all-species mapping information system consisting of a large collection of species occurrence datasets (e.g., plants and animals) found in the United States, U.S. Territories, U.S. marine Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ), and Canada, with relevant geospatial layers. Species occurrences are records of organisms at a particular... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, American Samoa, Arizona, All tags... Arkansas, Biodiversity, BiologicalData, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lentic, Lotic, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NFHP Cooperator, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, NoVisual, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Puerto Rico, Quebec, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wildlife Biology, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, biological collections, biomonitoring, endangered species, endemic species, indigenous species, introduced species, invasive species, museum collections, native species, observation methods, pollinators, species, specimens, threatened species, Fewer tags Broadly Shared Information Needs Among Grassland Managers in the North Central Region The broadly shared information needs for grassland managers in the North Central region to meet conservation goals in a changing climate are presented and ranked as highly relevant, somewhat relevant, or not relevant for federal, state, tribal, and non-governmental grassland-managing entities. Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado, Grasslands, Information Needs, Kansas, Landscapes, All tags... Montana, Nebraska, North Central Region, North Dakota, Resource Managers, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wyoming, biota, Fewer tags Factors affecting prey availability and habitat use of nonbreeding piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) in coastal Louisiana Dataset includes observations of Piping Plovers made during winter shorebird surveys on Whiskey and Trinity Islands in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana during the winter of 2013-2014. Attributes include location, behavioral, and microhabitat data as well as references to these data points in our local Access database. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology Establishing a baseline: the amphibians of Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Dixie and Levy Counties, Florida From 2002-2006, we used a variety of sampling techniques to survey the amphibians and water chemistry of Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge in Florida’s Big Bend region. We recorded 23 amphibian species, 19 frogs and 4 salamanders. Species richness was lower than in areas of the coastal Big Bend region to the north. Amphibians occupied a wide variety of habitats and appeared tolerant of the generally acidic conditions of many of the wetlands. Although additional species may yet be found in LSNWR, this survey provides a historic baseline for assessing future status and trends of amphibian populations. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Amphibians, Aquatic Biology, Ecology, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, NCCWSC, All tags... USGS ARMI, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biodiversity, inventory, sampling, Fewer tags Summary of Total Mercury Concentrations in Dragonfly Larvae, Western Mosquitofish, and Tree Swallow Eggs Collected from Cosumnes River Preserve 2011 – 2013 The Cosumnes River Preserve in the California’s Central Valley contains a mosaic of managed wetlands where conditions may promote high levels of methylmercury bioaccumulation. In order to document potential environmental health risk in these wetlands due to mercury, we analyzed dragonfly larvae, western mosquitofish, and tree swallow eggs collected from wetlands and rice fields of the Preserve from 2011 to 2013. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Consumnes River Preserve, Ecology, Environmental Health, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags Potential contaminant sources and other landscape variables summarized for NHDPlus Version 2.1 catchments within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (ver. 2.0, June 2021) This dataset consists of 262 variables which describe various known and suspected point and non-point sources of contaminants and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Contaminant data was summarized to the NHDPlus Version 2.1 catchment level (1:100K). Contaminant data summarized span a time range of 2001 to 2016 and include regulated facilities, pesticides, manure and biosolids application data, mercury deposition, animal feeding applications, septic systems, landfills, and land use and land cover. These data are presented in a comma separated file, which includes all variables summarized and the NHDPlus Version 2.1 FEATUREID field (also known as COMID). The FEATUREID field... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Citation; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Chesapeake Bay, Chesapeake Bay Basin, Delaware, Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR), All tags... District of Columbia, Environmental Health, Facility Registry Service (FRS), Geography, Land Use Change, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Remote Sensing, Toxic Release Inventory (TRI), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, Water Quality, Water Resources, West Virginia, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, biosolids application, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), contamination and pollution, geographic information systems, geography, health and disease, human impacts, industrial pollution, land use and land cover, landfills, manure nitrogen and phosphorus, mercury deposition, natural resources, nonpoint-source pollution, pesticide and herbicide contamination, pharmaceutical contamination, phytoestrogens, septic facilities, water quality, water resources, Fewer tags Sandhill crane locations, autumn 2013 migration Sandhill cranes are a long-lived bird species found in wetland-rich landscapes across North America. This dataset includes locations of 5 cranes during a single autumn migration from their breeding areas in northeastern Asia and south through Alaska, central Canada, and the Great Plains. The migration ends in northern Texas and northern Mexico. These data were used as a case study to highlight the utility of a continuous-time movement model to characterize animal migration and networks. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, North America, Russia, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, All tags... animal tracking, biota, birds, environment, migratory birds, Fewer tags Avian abundance and oak mistletoe survey data from the Willamette Valley, Oregon, 2013-2015 This dataset includes two spreadsheets: The "Avian_abundance_oak_mistletoe_surveys_data" spreadsheet contains data regarding Oregon White Oak tree (Quercus garryana) measurements such as height, diameter and crown volume along with microhabitat data including number of mistletoe infections, number of cavities, amount of dead wood, amount of loose/missing bark, amount of poison oak, amount of bole cracks, and presence of woodpecker sign, bark-beetle sign, and fungal fruiting bodies. The "Avian_abundance_oak_mistletoe_bird_data" spreadsheet contains bird survey observations including data, time, temperature, precipitation, bird species observations, age/sex, and behavioral observations. Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Oregon, Phoradendron villosum, Quercus garryana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, Willamette Valley, Oregon, habitats, microhabitat, oak mistletoe, oak woodland, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags Coastal California San Francisco Gartersnake Capture-Mark-Recapture Data (2008-2013) These data are multi-state capture histories of 273 individual San Francisco gartersnakes collected at a site before and after a portion of the site was burned. Data collection began in 2008 and continued until 2013, and the prescribed fire was applied in the fall of 2010. These data support the following paper: Halstead, B. J., Thompson, M. E., Amarello, M. , Smith, J. J., Wylie, G. D., Routman, E. J. and Casazza, M. L. (2018), Effects of prescribed fire on San Francisco gartersnake survival and movement. Jour. Wild. Mgmt.. . doi:10.1002/jwmg.21585 Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: San Mateo County, CA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, capture-mark-recapture, capturing (animals), All tags... controlled fires, endangered species, population dynamics, survival, Fewer tags U.S. Geological Survey - Gap Analysis Project Species Range Maps CONUS_2001 GAP species range data are coarse representations of the total areal extent a species occupies, in other words the geographic limits within which a species can be found (Morrison and Hall 2002). These data provide the geographic extent within which the USGS Gap Analysis Project delineates areas of suitable habitat for terrestrial vertebrate species in their species' habitat maps. The range maps are created by attributing a vector file derived from the 12-digit Hydrologic Unit Dataset (USDA NRCS 2009). Modifications to that dataset are described here. Attribution of the season range for each species was based on the literature and online sources (See Cross Reference section of the metadata). Attribution for each... Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Biodiversity and Ecosystems Theme, NDGA, National Geospatial Data Asset, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, All tags... biodiversity, biota, conservation, gap analysis, species distribution, wildlife biology, Fewer tags Data for comparison of climate envelope models developed using expert-selected variables versus statistical selection The data we used for this study include species occurrence data (n=15 species), climate data and predictions, an expert opinion questionnaire, and species masks that represented the model domain for each species. For this data release, we include the results of the expert opinion questionnaire and the species model domains (or masks). We developed an expert opinion questionnaire to gather information on expert opinion regarding the importance of climate variables in determining a species geographic range. The species masks, or model domains, were defined separately for each species using a variation of the “target-group” approach (Phillips et al. 2009), where the domain was determined using convex polygons including... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, climate adaptation, All tags... climate change, conservation, conservation planning, endangered species, expert opinion, threatened species, Fewer tags Genetic Structure of California Gnatcatcher Populations in Southern California from 2012 through 2013 These data were collected to determine how genetic variation is arrayed across remaining populations of gnatcatchers, allowing inference about individual movement and gene flow patterns among those populations. The work focused on determining the extent to which gnatcatcher aggregations function as an interconnected metapopulation, with aggregations exchanging migrants across a fragmented landscape and freely capable of re-establishing in patches from which they have been previously extirpated. These data will be used in combination with habitat and corridor indices to determine whether genetic connectivity is facilitated by stepping stone arrays of suitable habitat, or whether birds are unable to move across unsuitable... Types: Citation; Tags: California South, Genetics, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, All tags... San Bernardino County, San Diego County, Southern California, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ventura County, Wildlife Biology, coastal ecosystems, genetics, Fewer tags 1 2 »