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RestoreNet: seedling treatment and site environmental characteristics data at restoration treatment plots in northern Arizona, USA This dataset is from a restoration field study conducted at seven sites distributed across the southern Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona as part of the RestoreNet dryland restoration field trial network. The data consist of post-experimental restoration treatment (2018-2019) plant density and height measurements along with site precipitation, temperature, and soils data. Plant data were collected through plot monitoring visits distributed throughout the first year following restoration treatments and seeding. Tags: Arizona, Botany, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Flagstaff, All tags... Forestry, Geography, Information Sciences, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, biogeography, biota, drylands, ecosystem restoration, environmental variation, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, geoscientificInformation, measurement, northern Arizona, plant density, plant growth, plant recruitment, post-experimental, post-restoration, precipitation (atmospheric), restoration treatments, seed mixes, seed treatments, seeding, seedling emergence, seedling establishment, seedling recruitment, seedling survival, site environmental characteristics, site environmental data, soil resources, southwestern United States, Fewer tags High forb diversity prairie reconstruction at Neal Smith NWR 2005-2015 This data set consists of data collected during 2005-2007, 2010, and 2015 at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, USA that were used in the analysis in support of the article titled "Toward improving pollinator habitat: Reconstructing prairies with high forb diversity," which has been submitted to Natural Areas Journal. We compared pollinator habitat, in terms of planted forb richness, cover, and phenology, cover of planted grasses, and persistence of exotic species 10-years post-planting of reconstructions with 58 species (extra-high), 34 species (high), 20 species (medium) and 10 species (low) planted at the same time using the same fields, methods, and overall seeding rate. Twelve replicates of three... Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Ecosystem restoration, Ecosystem sustainability, Grasses, All tags... Invasive grasses, Iowa, Jasper County, Land Use Change, NEAL SMITH NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Species richness, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, ecosystem services valuation, environment, flowering plants, grassland ecosystem, habitats, invasive cool-season grasses, invasive species, pollinators, remediation, restoration, species diversity, vegetation, Fewer tags Compilation of cost estimates for dam removal projects in the United States This dataset provides cost estimates for 668 dam removal projects occurring in the United States. Cost estimates were obtained by searching the internet for sources of information that mention the cost of dam removal projects listed in the USGS Dam Removal Information Portal. When cost data were not available for a dam removal but contact information was, then personal communications were used to acquire additional cost information. The accuracy of estimates is not known but we assume that most estimates represent close to the total cost or the minimum financial cost, with overestimates being rare. Total cost information could include component costs related to project planning, dam deconstruction cost, and several... Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Tags: United States, dam sites, ecosystem restoration, environment, inlandWaters, All tags... remediation, Fewer tags Penstemon grahamii genetic data from a dryland region of the western United States These data were compiled to investigate the evolutionary history of Graham's beardtongue (Penstemon grahamii). Objective(s) of our study were to determine the evolutionary history of P. grahamii, including ancestral population sizes, the history of population divergences, and historical connectivity. In addition, we characterized population structure, genetic diversity summary statistics, and landscape factors influencing differentiation. These data represent anonymous loci sequenced from throughout the P. grahamii genome (specifically, .vcf and .structure files). Data in these files were manipulated to represent site frequency spectra between population pairs (.data files). These data were collected in 2019 from... Tags: Botany, Colorado, Ecology, Genetics, Geography, All tags... Information Sciences, Penstemon grahamii, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, adaptation, biogeography, biota, demographics, demography, ecosystem management, ecosystem restoration, environmental gradients, evolution, genetic diversity, native plant materials development, native species, phylogeny, phylogeography, population structure, restoration, seed transfer guidelines, Fewer tags 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 'Viva' native plant material data in support of restoration and conservation These data were compiled to investigate the evolutionary history of Hilaria jamesii, Hilaria mutica, and Hilaria rigida. The data release consists of two tab delimited text files that may be used to infer population structure (viva_structure.stru) or relationships among sampling localities (viva.phylip). Files record genetic variation on an individual (.stru) or sampling locality (.phylip) level. These files may be opened and edited in a text editor program, such as Notepad ++ (PC) or BBEdit (Mac). The .phylip file can be uploaded to phyML or SVDQuartets to generate a tree-based visualization of relationships ( http://www.atgc-montpellier.fr/phyml/ or https://paup.phylosolutions.com, repectively). The .stru file... Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, All tags... Ecology, Genetics, Geography, Great Basin, Hilaria jamesii, Hilaria mutica, Hilaria rigida, Information Sciences, Intermountain West, Kansas, Mojave Desert, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, Poaceae, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wyoming, adaptation, biogeography, biota, demographics, demography, ecosystem management, ecosystem management, ecosystem restoration, evolution, genetic diversity, genetics, hybridization, indigenous plants, native plant materials development, native species, phylogeny, phylogeography, population genetics, population structure, remediation, restoration, seed transfer guidelines, seeds, western United States, Fewer tags Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Puhimau Geothermal Area vegetation and abiotic data, 2011-2021 This data release includes metadata and tabular data that documents survival of endangered Portulaca sclerocarpa, percent cover of vegetation surrounding Portulaca sclerocarpa, as well as soil depth and soil temperature. All data were taken between 2011-2021 in the Puhimau Geothermal Area in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecosystem restoration, Endangered species management, Geothermal activity, Hawaii Island, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, All tags... Invasive grasses, Plant competition, Soil temperature, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags Physical and Biological Monitoring Data Collected from Restored Wetland Units at Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, Saginaw, MI, USA (2019) Data represent physical (water quality, water nutrient analysis) and biological (fish, macroinvertebrate, and vegetation community) collections from the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge in Saginaw, MI, USA (specifically, historical management unit "Pool 1A" and the North and South management units of the Maankiki Marsh Complex.) The North and South management units of the Maankiki Marsh Complex were reconnected to the Shiawassee River in 2018, whereas Pool 1A represents a historically reconnected wetland. Additional sites within the Shiawassee River and Spaulding Drain (east of Pool 1A) were also sampled to represent parameters collected from the parent water system. All data were collected in 2019. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Hydrology, Laurentian Great Lakes, Michigan, Saginaw, All tags... Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Quality, Water Resources, biota, coastal wetland, community assessment, ecosystem restoration, environment, fish, hydrology, inlandWaters, macroinvertebrates, natural resource management, remediation, vegetation, water quality, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Data on Tidally Filtered Groundwater and Estuary Water Levels, and Climatological Data Near Mill Creek and the Herring River, Cape Cod, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2017-2018 Groundwater and estuary water levels near Mill Creek, and the Herring River in Wellfleet Massachusetts were measured from June 2017 to June 14, 2018. Water-level data have been filtered to remove the effects of the daily tides. The mean daily value of the tidally filtered 15 minute water-level data is presented. The data also include a composite data set of daily precipitation values, as well as data on the growing degrees days (50 degrees Fahrenheit), from two weather stations on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Categories: Data; Tags: Cape Cod, Environmental Health, Hydrology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, All tags... biota, ecosystem restoration, groundwater and surface-water interaction, groundwater level, tides (oceanic), wetland restoration, Fewer tags Population genetic and climatic variability data across western North America, 1915-2015 Environmental Analysis Data: These data were compiled to investigate the complex interactions between environmental gradients and geographic distance across the Intermountain West of the western United States. Due to complex topography, physiographic heterogeneity, and complicated relationships with large bodies of water, spatial autocorrelation of environmental similarity may be expected. We provide an R script (VarioAnalysis.R) that uses four associated data files (annualprecip.csv, annualSWA.csv, annualtemp.csv, key.csv) to reproduce Figure 3 in Massatti et al. 2020 (see Larger Work Citation). The data files contain information on yearly soil water availability, temperature, and precipitation, which are summed... Tags: Arizona, Botany, California, Climatology, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Genetics, Geography, Great Basin, Idaho, Information Sciences, Intermountain West, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mojave Desert, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Soil Sciences, South Dakota, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, air temperature, biogeography, biota, botany, climate change, ecological processes, ecology, ecosystem restoration, environmental gradients, environmental similarity, geographic distance, native plant materials, native species, population dynamics, population genetics, precipitation, remediation, restoration, seed transfer zones, site-specific information, soil water availability, spatial analysis, spatial autocorrelation, spatial context, Fewer tags 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 Camera trap photo detections of mammals along three reaches of the Elwha River, Washington The dataset includes daily counts of the number of independent photo detections from camera traps for 15 mammal species. The camera traps were placed in three study reaches of the Elwha River, Washington between July 2021 and July 2023. The dataset also includes information about the camera station locations, and the calendar date and season when the photos were captured. Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Elwha, Lower Elwha Indian Reservation, Olympic National Park, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Wildlife Biology, biota, camera trapping, dam removal, ecosystem restoration, environment, field inventory and monitoring, inlandWaters, mammalogy, mammals, photography, river reaches, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags Multiple Species Comparisons from EverForecast May 2021 These data are summaries and comparisons of the EverForecast outputs from May 2021. EverForecast is a near-term hydrologic forecasting application that provides daily water depth forecasts across the freshwater Everglades (Pearlstine et al. 2020); water depth forecasts are then used to run species models. Here, we examine the EverForecast outputs of five species models: (1) American alligator production probability (i.e., habitat suitability index (HSI)), (2) Florida apple snail (native) population model (EverSnail), (3) Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow probability of presence model (EverSparrow), (4) small fish density model, and (5) wading bird probability of presence model (EverWaders). These species model outputs... Tags: Ecology, Everglades, Southern Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Water Resources, All tags... Water Resources, Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Biology, biota, ecosystem restoration, environment, hydrology, modeling, natural resource management, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Information supporting a cumulative effects assessment of restoration in barrier island and shoreline systems of the north central Gulf of Mexico Information was gathered to support a cumulative effects assessment of restoration in barrier island and shoreline systems of the north central Gulf of Mexico. Information includes: 1) results from two literature searches to help guide the development of a conceptual model of a barrier island and shoreline system and identify drivers and stressors important to that system, and 2) an accounting of restoration projects and descriptive information to document the distribution of Deepwater Horizon-funded restoration projects within the study area and guide the identification of potential effects on focal resources. Categories: Data; Tags: Barrier Island, Ecology, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), cumulative effects, dune restoration, All tags... ecosystem resilience, ecosystem restoration, environment, erosion control and restoration, natural resource management, oceans, shore, wetland restoration, Fewer tags Hilaria jamesii data for the Colorado Plateau of the southwestern United States These data were compiled to investigate the demographic, phylogeographic, and adaptation history of Hilaria jamesii. The data release consists of three tab delimited text files that may be used to infer population structure or putative adaptive loci (hija_adaptation_dataset.stru), relationships among sampling localities (hija_phylogeny_dataset.phylip), or genetic diversity statistics (hija_diversity_stats.vcf). All files record genetic variation on an individual (.stru and .vcf) or sampling locality (.phylip) level. The .vcf file contains all of the information contained in the other files, but the file structures vary based on the programs used for analysis. These files may be opened and edited in a text editor... Tags: Arizona, Botany, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, All tags... Genetics, Geography, Great Basin, Hilaria jamesii, Information Sciences, Intermountain West, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Western United States, Wyoming, adaptation, biogeography, biota, demographics, demography, ecosystem management, ecosystem restoration, environmental gradients, evolution, genetic diversity, native plant materials development, native species, phylogeny, phylogeography, population structure, restoration, seed transfer guidelines, Fewer tags Bio-engineered oyster reef monitoring, Eloi Bay, Louisiana, 2017-2019 This dataset includes annual encrusting organism (oyster, mussel, barnacle) counts and density (ind m-2), and oyster shell height (mm) data for five bio-engineered reef designs: OysterbreakTM (OB), Wave Attenuating Device® (WAD), Reef Ball™ (rows of two, RFB2; rows of three, RFB3), ReefBLK℠ (RBL), and ShoreJAX™ (JAX). Data were collected during winter months (i.e., December-January) in 2017, 2018, and 2019 in low water when reefs were partially exposed. Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Eastern Louisiana Coastal, Gulf of Mexico, Oyster Reef, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, ecosystem restoration, Fewer tags