Ecosystem water balance and ecological drought patterns under historical and future climate conditions for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Landscape

These data were compiled for research pertaining to the effects of stand density treatments on growth rates in semi-arid, ponderosa pine forests. Also, these data examined how the planned restoration treatments in the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest forest restoration project being implemented in the United States, would alter landscape-scale patterns of forest growth and drought vulnerability throughout the 21st century. Using drought-growth relationships developed within the landscape, we considered a suite of climate and thinning scenarios and estimated both average forest growth and the proportion of years with extremely low growth as a measure of vulnerability to long-term decline. The...

Tags: 21st century, 4FRI, Arizona, Climatology, Coconino National Forest, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Flagstaff, Forestry, Four Forests Restoration Initiative, Geography, Information Sciences, Kaibab National Forest, RCP, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, basal area, basal area increment, basal area reduction, biomass, biomass increment, climate, climate change, climate impacts, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, density treatment, drought severity, drought vulnerability, drought-growth relationships, droughts, ecological distribution, ecological drought, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem restoration, environmental driver, environmental restoration, forest density, forest ecosystems, forest growth, forest stand, forest treatment, future time period (late), future time period (near), geography, geoscientificInformation, growth, growth rate, growth rates, growth vulnerability, historical time period, landscape, landscape, landscape structure, landscape-scale patterns, northern Arizona, pine forests, ponderosa pine forests, precipitation, precipitation (atmospheric), predicted growth, relative growth, representative concentration pathway, restoration treatments, semi-arid forests, shifting climate, soil moisture, stand density treatments, stand driver, temperature, thinning, thinning treatments, Fewer tags

Ecosystem water balance and ecological drought patterns under historical and future climate conditions for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) Landscape (COPY)

These data were compiled for research pertaining to the effects of stand density treatments on growth rates in semi-arid, ponderosa pine forests. Also, these data examined how the planned restoration treatments in the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), the largest forest restoration project being implemented in the United States, would alter landscape-scale patterns of forest growth and drought vulnerability throughout the 21st century. Using drought-growth relationships developed within the landscape, we considered a suite of climate and thinning scenarios and estimated both average forest growth and the proportion of years with extremely low growth as a measure of vulnerability to long-term decline. The...

Tags: 21st century, 4FRI, Arizona, Climatology, Coconino National Forest, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Flagstaff, Forestry, Four Forests Restoration Initiative, Geography, Information Sciences, Kaibab National Forest, RCP, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, basal area, basal area increment, basal area reduction, biomass, biomass increment, climate, climate change, climate impacts, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, density treatment, drought severity, drought vulnerability, drought-growth relationships, droughts, ecological distribution, ecological drought, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecosystem restoration, environmental driver, environmental restoration, forest density, forest ecosystems, forest growth, forest stand, forest treatment, future time period (late), future time period (near), geography, geoscientificInformation, growth, growth rate, growth rates, growth vulnerability, historical time period, landscape, landscape, landscape structure, landscape-scale patterns, northern Arizona, pine forests, ponderosa pine forests, precipitation, precipitation (atmospheric), predicted growth, relative growth, representative concentration pathway, restoration treatments, semi-arid forests, shifting climate, soil moisture, stand density treatments, stand driver, temperature, thinning, thinning treatments, Fewer tags

Static chamber fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from coastal wetlands on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts and supporting environmental data, 2021

Saline tidal wetlands are important sites of carbon sequestration and produce negligible methane (CH4) emissions due to regular inundation with sulfate-rich seawater. Yet, widespread management of coastal hydrology has restricted vast areas of coastal wetlands to tidal exchange. These ecosystems often undergo impoundment and freshening, which in turn cause vegetation shifts like invasion by Phragmites, that affect ecosystem carbon balance. Understanding controls of carbon exchange in these understudied ecosystems is critical for informing climate consequences of blue carbon restoration and/or management interventions. Here we present measurements of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane, along...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Under Revision; Tags: Barnstable County (606927), Cape Cod (606914), Commonwealth of Massachusetts (606926), Flat Pond (615605), Sage Lot Pond (616548), All tags... United States of America, Waquoit Village (617261), West Falmouth (616149), Woods Hole (617060), biota, carbon, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, ecological processes, ecological restoration, ecology, environment, geoscientificInformation, invasive species, salt marshes, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetlands, Fewer tags

Data and analytical code assessing eleven songbird species' responses to environmental change during summertime (2008 - 2020) in the InterMountain West, USA

This data release provides avian data for 11 songbird species (Bewick’s wren [Thryomanes bewickii], black-throated gray warbler [Setophaga nigrescens], Brewer’s sparrow [Spizella breweri], gray flycatcher [Empidonax wrightii], gray vireo [Vireo vicinior], green-tailed towhee [Pipilo chlorurus], juniper titmouse [Baeolophus ridgwayi], loggerhead shrike [Lanius ludovicianus], sagebrush sparrow [Artemisiospiza nevadensis], sage thrasher [Oreoscoptes montanus], and Townsend’s solitaire [Myadestes townsendi]) associated with summertime point count surveys conducted throughout the InterMountain West under the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program, 2008 - 2020. Additionally, remotely sensed...

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Sagebrush Biome Conservation Anchors (Fig. 6) - Biome-wide sagebrush core habitat and growth areas estimated from a threat-based conservation design

File-based data for download: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6328f759d34e71c6d67b7a40Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Identifying anchor points (that is, areas of spatial congruence) between core sagebrush areas (CSAs) and growth opportunity areas (GOAs) and existing (as of 2020) agency prioritizations within the sagebrush biome. Locations where core sagebrush areas and growth opportunity areas co-occur were mapped with at least one of the following designations: (a) Centrocercus urophasianus L. (greater sage-grouse) Priority Areas for Conservation (PACs), as used by State agencies and the National Resources Conservation Service; (b) Priority Habitat Management Areas (PHMAs),...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anchors, Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, All tags... Data, Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush biome, temporal scale, time series datasets, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Conifer 2020 (Fig. 10) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/632a06dcd34e71c6d67b902fRelated report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the conifer threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this map is available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming in, one...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, Data, All tags... Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush, sagebrush biome, sagebrush threats, temporal scale, threats, time series datasets, tree threats, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Humpback chub (Gila cypha) capture histories and growth data for two areas in the Colorado River network from 2009-2022 and 2017-2022

These data were compiled for a manuscript entitled 'Vital rates of a burgeoning population of Humpback Chub in western Grand Canyon. Objective(s) of our study were to compare survival and growth of humpback chub in western Grand Canyon to that from the more established metapopulation in eastern Grand Canyon that spawns in the Little Colorado River (LCR). These data represent capture histories of fish based on mark-recapture data. These data were collected in eastern Grand Canyon (CR-east study site) and in the western Grand Canyon (CR-west study site). The CR-east reach sites are located at the lower 13.56 rkm of the LCR and in the mainstem of the Colorado River at river kilometers (rkm) 126.2-128.7 (2009-2016)...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Climatology, Colorado River, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Little Colorado River, PIT antennas, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, abundance, asymptotic sizes, biota, capture histories, data release, eastern Grand Canyon, ecological processes, field inventory and monitoring, field monitoring stations, field sampling, fish, fish capture, fit mark-recapture models, growth analysis, growth data, growth rates, humpback chub, individual fish models, long-term ecological monitoring, mark-recapture data, metapopulation, migration (organisms), modeling, movement, multistate model, organism growth and development, passive integrated transponder tags, population and community ecology, relative abundance analysis, size measurements, survival, vital rates, water temperature, western Grand Canyon, Fewer tags

Abundance, harvests, and harvest rates of selected duck species in the Atlantic Flyway, 1998-2017

These data provide estimates of abundance and measures of harvest pressure for five species (mallard, American green-winged teal, wood duck, ring-necked duck, and Common and Barrows' goldeneyes combined) of ducks breeding in the Atlantic Flyway of North America, 1998-2017. Abundance data are based on federal and state surveys encompassing southern Ontario, Quebec, and Maine south to Florida. Harvest rates are provided for those species with adequate band recovery data (mallard wood duck, green-winged teal), and absolute harvest is provided for those that do not (ring-necked duck, goldeneyes). Indices of harvest pressure are based on federal surveys. Also included are the number of wings of each species received...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biota, birds, All tags... ecological processes, migration (organisms), recreation, wildlife population management, Fewer tags

Disturbance, energy, climate partitions, cultivars and species habitat data for the Colorado Plateau and environs

These data were compiled to support and inform the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program and to guide future management action when selecting regions to collect and increase seed for native plant materials development. The objective of our study was to develop geospatial datasets to aid land managers and restoration practitioners in identifying areas that will need to be restored in the future (currently disturbed) as well as areas to source new native plant materials for propagation with increased climate similarity to these areas across the Colorado Plateau, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, and Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus. These data represent species distribution models for 12 high priority...

Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Arizona, Arizona/New Mexico Mountains, Arizona/New Mexico Plateaus, Astragalus lonchocarpus, All tags... Botany, Bouteloua gracilis, Cleome lutea, Cleome serrulata, Climatology, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Elymus elymoides, Four Corners Region, Geography, Heliomeris multiflora, Heterotheca villosa, Information Sciences, Intermountain Region, Intermountain West, Machaeranthera canescens, New Mexico, Pleuraphis jamesii, Southwest, Sphaeralcea parvifolia, Sporobolous cryptandrus, US Southwest, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, bioclimatic variables, biodiversity, biogeography, bioremediation, biota, climate change, climate partitioning models, climate similarity, climatic suitability, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, coal mine, data release, disturbance data, disturbed areas, ecological processes, energy production, energy resources, fires, gas well, germplasms, grazing, habitat alteration and disturbance, landscape level disturbances, modeling, native plant material, native plant material suitability, native plant restoration, native species, natural gas pipeline, natural gas resources, natural resource management, oil well, plant species, plants (organisms), priority restoration species, restoration, seed collection, seed sourcing, source locations, species distribution models, species habitat, species occurrence data, specimen collecting, suitable habitat, wildfires, Fewer tags

Climate Suitability Models

These data were compiled to assess potential changes in the climatic suitability for 66 species (dominant and associate plant species) within major plant communities in the southwestern United States. An objective of our study was that species within plant communities have unique climate suitability signatures and forecast changes in climatic suitability will not be uniform within the species respective communities or among species within the community. We developed these spatial models of climate suitability under a modern baseline (1960-90) and future climate scenario (2041-2060) using Maxent and WorldClim temperature and precipitation variables. Plant species were chosen that are characteristic species of plant...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, CCSM4, California, Colorado, Community Climate System Model v4, All tags... Maxent, Nevada, New Mexico, Southwest United States, Utah, air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, biogeography, biota, climate suitability models, ecological processes, environment, plant communities, plant species, precipitation (atmospheric), relative climatic suitability, spatial forecasts, Fewer tags

Aeolian and drainage classification data for various archaeological sites in Grand Canyon National Park along the Colorado River from 1973 to 2022

These data were compiled to assess the risk of erosion to archaeological site preservation. The objective of the study is to evaluate changes in archaeological site condition over time as a function of two geomorphology based conceptual models that evaluate the extent to which sites are potentially affected by 1) erosion from gullies, and 2) wind-driven (aeolian) supply of river-sourced sand, respectively. These data represent the results of two classification metrics, based on the two conceptual models, applied to a population of 362 archaeological sites over multiple decades. Both conceptual models numerically rank geomorphic conditions with class values of 1 representing the best potential for archaeological...

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Colorado River, Geography, Geomorphology, Glen Canyon Dam, All tags... Grand Canyon National Park, Hydrology, Information Sciences, Remote Sensing, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aeolian, aerial photography, archaeological landscapes, archaeological site preservation, archaeological sites, archaeology, baseline data, classification metrics, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, conceptual models, data release, ecological processes, environment, erosion, field inventory and monitoring, geomorphic conditions, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, gully, inlandWaters, modeling, multidecadal, natural processes, policies and regulations, precipitation (atmospheric), rainfall runoff, regulated flows, risk, river regulation, river-sourced sand, runoff, temporal resolution, terminologies and classifications, Fewer tags

Invasive Annual Grass 2020 (Fig. 9) - A Sagebrush Conservation Design to Proactively Restore America’s Sagebrush Biome

File-based data for download:https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6329f0f4d34e71c6d67b8f82Related report with figures: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081Location and extent of the invasive annual grass threat across the sagebrush biome in the United States for 2020. Blue areas (dark and light, representing core sagebrush areas [CSAs] and growth opportunity areas [GOAs], respectively) are locations of high sagebrush ecological integrity and could serve as anchor points in an overall biome-wide strategy. A separate, high-resolution portable document format (PDF) version of this map is available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221081 so stakeholders can zoom in and see the results at much smaller scales. By zooming...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anchors, Arizona, California, Colorado, Complete, All tags... Data, Data.gov USFWS Science Applications, Idaho, Invasive annual grasses, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, SA Science Catalog, South Dakota, USFWS AGOL, USGS:62d57e89d34e87fffb2dda62, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biogeography, biota, climate change, conservation, conservation design, core sagebrush areas, data release, ecological integrity, ecological processes, ecosystem resilience, environment, geographic patterns, growth areas, growth opportunity areas, habitats, human impacts, human modification, natural resource management, other rangeland areas, overlay, quantitative data, remediation, remote sensing, restoration, sagebrush biome, temporal scale, time series datasets, western United States, wildlife habitat, Fewer tags

Landscape Intactness Index for the Western United States

Landscape intactness has been defined as a quantifiable estimate of naturalness measured on a gradient of anthropogenic influence and based on available spatial data. We developed a multiscale index of landscape intactness for use as a broad-scale indicator of resource condition for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Landscape Approach, which requires multiple scales of information to quantify the cumulative effects of land use. The multiscale index of landscape intactness represents a gradient of anthropogenic influence as represented by development levels at two analysis scales. To calculate landscape intactness we combined the terrestrial development index (TDI) summarized at two scales (using a 2.5- and a...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Development, Idaho, All tags... Kansas, Landscape intactness, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Surface disturbance footprint, Terrestrial Development Index (TDI), Texas, Urban development, Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, agriculture, ecological processes, energy resources, environment, environmental assessment, land use and land cover, mineral resources, natural resource management, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags

Historical and future ecological drought conditions for rangelands of the western U.S.

These NetCDF data were compiled to investigate how rangelands in the western U.S. are limited by access to water. As a result, these ecosystems may be especially vulnerable to changes in water availability and drought as a result of climate change. This project utilized an ecosystem water balance model to quantify spatial and temporal patterns of rangeland ecological drought conditions under historical and future climate conditions. Water balance results were used to estimate several metrics that describe the seasonal timing and amount of moisture available for plant utilization in western rangelands. These data represent different aspects of water availability and drought. They are based on 1/16-degree gridded...

Tags: 10-km resolution, Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, All tags... Colorado, Ecology, Geography, Idaho, Information Sciences, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Wyoming, atmospheric and climatic processes, biota, climate change, ecological processes, ecosystems, effects of climate change, future projected climate, geoscientificInformation, process-based model, recent climate, regeneration, regression-based model, restoration, soil moisture, terrestrial ecosystems, western United States, Fewer tags

Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2011 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington

Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 03 September 2011* 0.3 meter resolution Microsoft/Digital Globe aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack/jetski topobathy surveys (25 August 2011) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (13-15 April 2012) for elevations > MHHW. *Image date of 3-Sep-11 corrected in metadata. During product generation the imagery date was believed to be 8-25-2011, as reported by DigitalGlobe reseller.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Clallam County, Elwha River, Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, United States of America, All tags... Washington, coastal ecosystems, coastal processes, dam, dam removal, ecological change, ecological processes, environment, geomorphology, geoscientificInformation, habitats, human impacts, human impacts on habitats, vegetation, Fewer tags