Survey and habitat data for postbreeding lesser scaup, Lower Red Rock Lake, MT, 2007-2013

The data are part of a larger, long-term project of lesser scaup on Lower Red Rock Lake, Montana, 2004-2015, conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This segment of the data has summarized results of late summer resighting surveys of nasal-marked adult females and GIS-derived habitat attributes. Scaup resighting surveys were conducted mid-August to early September, 2007-2013. The study site was divided into 16 survey plots (as shown as grid in figure); each plot comprised one to four 750 × 750 m survey blocks such that plots contained roughly equivalent area of open water Survey data included GPS location, number, and social status of marked females, wind conditions, and group size of other scaup associated...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Beaverhead County, Lower Red Rock Lake, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, aquatic birds, behavior, All tags... biota, ecology, habitat selection, molt, waterfowl, wetlands, zoology, Fewer tags

Daily Survival Rates of Grassland Passerines and Associated Weather Variables (1978-2013)

This data set contains daily survival rates from 81 studies of passerine obligate grassland bird species that primarily breed in the United States; patch size information was extracted when available. Temperature and precipitation variables were calculated for the study sites and years the data were collected. The studies we used collected data across the period 1978 to 2013.

Categories: Data; Tags: Birds, Daily survival rates, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, Northeast CASC, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, biological and physical processes, biota, birds, computational methods, datasets, grassland passerines, life sciences, methods, organisms, ornithology, precipitation, product types, regression analysis, sciences, statistical analysis, termperature, topics, vertebrates, zoology, Fewer tags

Integrative responses to hydric constraints in a desert lizard: The gila monster, Heloderma suspectum

Water is essential to life because its unique properties facilitate a vast number of biochemical processes that enable all organisms to exist. Maintenance of proper water concentration in the body is thus a vital activity. Colonization of terrestrial habitats placed organisms in desiccating environments that emphasized problems of water balance. The procurement and economical use of water has since been a central organizing theme in biology and has shaped the morphology, physiology, behavior, and spatial distribution of organisms. In hot, and environments like North American deserts, organisms are faced with especially challenging abiotic conditions characterized by variable and often extreme temperatures, intense...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Thesis Citation; Tags: Anatomy & physiology, Animals, Zoology

Microsatellite genotypes for Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) Eggs and Larvae from Constructed Reefs in the St. Clair-Detroit River System (2015-2016)

This dataset contains the physical collection information (e.g., sample location, date, gear type) and microsatellite DNA genotype of egg and larval Lake Sturgeon collected in the St. Clair and Detroit rivers in 2015 and 2016. Individuals were genotyped for 18 microsatellite loci (13 disomic and 5 polysomic). Alleles (base pair sizes) were recorded as presence absence scores (1:present, 2:absent, 0:missing data) for all previously observed alleles. Thus individual genotypes were recorded as pseudo diploid dominant phenotypes resulting in individual vectors of length n=205 for each genotyped egg or larval individual.

Categories: Data; Tags: Acipenser, Acipenser fulvescens, Acipenseridae, Anthropogenic, Anthropogenic Rock, All tags... Anthropogenic Rock Reef Substrate, Anthropogenic Rock Rubble, Anthropogenic Substrate, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Setting, Artificial reef, Assessments, Biological Occurrence, Data Content Subjects, Data Content Types, Detroit, Detroit River, Dredge Deposit, Dredge Disturbance, Dredged/Excavated Channel, Fishes, Fishing from Shore, Fishing with Benthic Mobile Gear, Genetics, Grassy Island, Great Lakes, Habitat, Harvesting Living Resources, Huron, Lacustrine, Lake Saint Clair, Lake St. Clair, Living Resources, Macomb, Michigan, Middle Channel Saint Clair River, Motorized Boating, North Channel Saint Clair River, Pelagic Fishing, Port Huron, Recreational Nonextractive /Cultural Use, Sailing, Saint Clair, Saint Clair River, Shipping, Shore Use, St. Clair, St. Clair-Detroit, Substrate, Transportation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Wayne, Western Lake Erie, animals, anthropogenic agents of coastal change, aquatic ecosystems, biological features, biological laboratory methods, biological observations, biological resources, biology, biota, biota, canal, capturing (animals), channels, chordates, conservation, construction, cultural resources, data processing, datasets, discipline, dredge spoils disposal, dredging operations, ecological change, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystem restoration, ecosystems, endemic species, environment, environmental assessment, eukaryotes, feature type, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, field observation, field sampling, fish, fish eggs, fish larvae, fisheries, fishery resources, food resources, freshwater ecosystems, genetic diversity, genetics, genotype, habitats, hot topics, hydrographic features, ichthyology, ichthyoplankton, inland fishery resources, inlandWaters, laboratory methods, landform, life sciences, management methods, methods, native species, natural resources, nekton and plankton, organism groupings (non-taxonomic), organisms, physiographic features, population and community ecology, population dynamics, product types, ray-finned fish ["bony fish"], recreational fishery resources, reef, reefs, regions, research method, resource management, resources, river, river basin development, river systems, rivers, sciences, shipping channels, species conservation, streams, sturgeon, topics, transportation resources, trapping, vertebrates, water resources, wetland destruction, zoology, Fewer tags

Fledging times of grassland birds in North Dakota and Minnesota

The data set provides information on the fledging times of passerine grassland birds. Data were collected from video surveillance of 70 nests of 9 bird species that nested in grasslands of Minnesota and North Dakota, USA. The data include year, unique nest number, species, date and time of fledging by nestling.

Categories: Data; Tags: Baird's Sparrow, Bobolink, Brown-headed Cowbird, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Clay-colored Sparrow, All tags... Ecology, Grasshopper Sparrow, Le Conte's Sparrow, Minnesota, North Dakota, Savannah Sparrow, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Vesper Sparrow, Wildlife Biology, animals, biological and physical processes, biota, birds, datasets, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, fledging time, grassland birds, life sciences, methods, nesting ecology, organism growth and development, organisms, ornithology, passerines, physiological processes, product types, sciences, topics, vertebrate zoology, vertebrates, video monitoring, video surveillance, zoology, Fewer tags

Mapping large-area landscape suitability for honey bees to assess the influence of land-use change on sustainability of national pollination services.

Pollination is a critical ecosystem service affected by various drivers of land-use change, such as policies and programs aimed at land resources, market values for crop commodities, local land-management decisions, and shifts in climate. The United States is the world's most active market for pollination services by honey bees, and the Northern Great Plains provide the majority of bee colonies used to meet the Nation's annual pollination needs. Legislation requiring increased production of biofuel crops, increasing commodity prices for crops of little nutritional value for bees in the Northern Great Plains, and reductions in government programs aimed at promoting land conservation are converging to alter the regional...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Agricultural production, Agriculture, Biofuels, Biology and life sciences, Conservation science, All tags... Crops, Earth sciences, Ecology, Ecology and environmental sciences, Energy and power, Engineering and technology, Entomology, Environmental geography, Environmental impacts, Fuels, Research Article, Spatial and landscape ecology, Terrestrial environments, Zoology, Fewer tags

USGS Natural History Collection: Zoological Collection from the Southwestern United States

This collection contains numerous zoological specimens from the southwestern United States. Specimens were collected beginning in the 1920s through 2013 and include mammals, fish, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. This is a legacy collection that was transferred to the USGS from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in 1996 when the unit that would become the Biological Resources Division became part of the USGS. Specimens were accessioned as museum property in 2002, 2003, and 2006. The collection contains voucher specimens of vertebrates collected on Federal land in the western United States. It is administered by the USGS Fort Collins Science Center and housed at the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Biological Collection, Southwestern United States, amphibians, birds, fish, All tags... mammals, ndc_collection, reptiles, zoology, Fewer tags