Implications for Connectivity and Movement of Lotic Great Plains Fishes in the Face of Climate Change.

The potential implications of climate change to fishes in Great Plains rivers and streams could range from drastic shifts in distribution to extirpation. Many lotic systems in the Great Plains are not well suited for direct escape routes for fish to move to more suitable habitats at other latitudes due to the west-east direction of flows rather than north-south. Therefore, we might expect additional climate related stress on fish communities in the Great Plains compared to other regions of North America. Therefore, we will 1) simulate potential water temperature and flow changes within the Great Plains based on extant regional climate models, 2) assess stream connectivity to potential refugia, 3) develop a database...

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Digital elevation model (DEM) data for Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR), Arizona, February 2022

These data were compiled for Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge (CPNWR) in southern Arizona, to support managment efforts of water resources and wildlife conservation. Objective(s) of our study were to 1) measure water storage capacity at select stage heights in three tanks (also termed tinajas), 2) build a stage storage model to help CPNWR staff accurately estimate water volumes throughout the year, and 3) collect topographic data adjacent to the tanks as a means to help connect these survey data to past or future work. These data represent high-resolution (sub-meter) ground based lidar measurements used to meet these objectives and are provided as: processed lidar files (point clouds), rasters (digital elevation...

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Species Distribution Models for 13 Fish Species of the Missouri River Basin in Response to Climate Change

Conceptually, we overlaid down-scaled Global Climate Model data to assess climatic conditions with fish species thermal tolerance data and potential barrier to movement data to predict future fish species distributions and/or identify species that may be vulnerable to climate projections. These species distribution data, of 13 fish species at 3 different time frames, were constructed from species distribution models containing only current, projected 2050, and projected 2099 air temperature (obtained from The Nature Conservancy Climate Wizard tool) and average United States Geological Survey hydrologic unit-8 daily discharge. Average daily discharge was calculated as the average discharge of all streamgages within...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, Climate Change, Climate Change, Colorado, Colorado, All tags... Data, FISH, Federal resource managers, Fragmentation Habitat Management, Fragmentation Habitat Management, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GPLCC, GPLCC, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Nebraska, Nebraska, New Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Plains Fish, Plains Fish, Prairie Rivers and Streams, Prairie Rivers and Streams, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAM, Regional & county planners, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, Texas, Texas, Wildlife Management, Wildlife Management, Wyoming, Wyoming, completed, data.gov Great Plains LCC, Fewer tags

Understanding the ecology, habitat use, phenology and thermal tolerance of nesting Lesser Prairie-Chickens to predict population level influences of climate change

We found few reports in the literature containing useful data on the nesting phenology of lesser prairie-chickens; therefore, managers must rely on short-term observations and measurements of parameters that provide some predictive insight into climate impacts on nesting ecology. Our field studies showed that prairie-chickens on nests were able to maintain relatively consistent average nest temperature of 31 °C and nest humidities of 56.8 percent whereas average external temperatures (20.3–35.0 °C) and humidities (35.2– 74.9 percent) varied widely throughout the 24 hour (hr) cycle. Grazing and herbicide treatments within our experimental areas were designed to be less intensive than in common practice. We determined...

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Final Report: Understanding the ecology, habitat use, phenology and thermal tolerance of nesting Lesser Prairie-Chickens to predict population level influences of climate change

We found few reports in the literature containing useful data on the nesting phenology of lesser prairie-chickens; therefore, managers must rely on short-term observations and measurements of parameters that provide some predictive insight into climate impacts on nesting ecology. Our field studies showed that prairie-chickens on nests were able to maintain relatively consistent average nest temperature of 31 °C and nest humidities of 56.8 percent whereas average external temperatures (20.3–35.0 °C) and humidities (35.2– 74.9 percent) varied widely throughout the 24 hour (hr) cycle. Grazing and herbicide treatments within our experimental areas were designed to be less intensive than in common practice. We determined...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY, CLIMATE INDICATORS, Climate Change, Final Report, All tags... GPLCC, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, LCC Network Science Catalog, Lesser Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), New Mexico, Report, Texas, Wildlife Management, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags

Greater sage-grouse genetic data and R code for evaluating conservation translocations in the northwestern United States, 1992–2021

Conservation translocations are a common wildlife management tool that can be difficult to implement and evaluate for effectiveness. Genetic information can provide unique insight regarding local impact of translocations (e.g., presence and retention of introduced genetic variation) and identifying suitable source and recipient populations (e.g., adaptive similarity). We developed two genetic data sets and wrote statistical code to evaluate conservation translocation effectiveness into the isolated northwestern region of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) distribution and to retrospectively evaluate adaptive divergence among source and recipient populations. Our first data set was microsatellite-based...

Tags: Centrocercus urophasianus, Ecology, Genetics, Idaho, Nevada, All tags... Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Washington, Wildlife Biology, biological population management, biota, conservation genetics, conservation translocation, genetic diversity, genetic monitoring, greater sage-grouse, western United States, wildlife management, wildlife population management, Fewer tags