Riparian - Invasive and Problematic (Native and non-native) Plants - Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon)

These heatmaps show a top 3 stressor or service, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor or service across the landscape. This map shows the percentage of participants from each county and municipality who ranked Bermuda Grass (Cynodon dactylon) as a top 3 ecosystem stressor in the Riparian Invasive Plant category in their region. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors

Using colony monitoring devices to evaluate the impacts of land use and forage quality on honey bee health datasets

Honey bee colonies located in 2 apiaries in North Dakota were fitted with two types of monitoring device: pollen traps and scales. Data were collected from devices periodically throughout the 2014 season (May-October). Data derived from pollen traps included: the total fresh weight of pollen collected, the percent crude protein content, the percent content of each amino acid, and DNA identification of floral plant sources. Scales collected colony weight through time.

Tags: Great Plains, Great Plains region, Midwest, North Dakota, agriculture, All tags... bee pollen, beekeeping, bees, biofuel crops, biota, ecosystem services, environment, grasslands, habitats, honey, honey bees, land use, pollinators, Fewer tags

Changes to Watershed Vulnerability under Future Climates, Fire Regimes, and Population Pressures

The project aimed to use existing models and data to understand how wildfires (number, size, and location) and land-use change will affect watersheds, and therefore water supply, under current conditions and future climates (through 2050) in the western U.S. The projected changes in temperature and precipitation are expected to affect water supply in two major ways: 1) decreased water availability, and 2) increased risk to watersheds via loses from fire. As the western population is projected to grow by 310 million people by 2100, this will potentially increase demand for diminishing supplies if housing growth occurs in rangelands or forested lands. Understanding watershed vulnerabilities due to changing climate,...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2014, CASC, Completed, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags... Fire, Fire, Northwest, Northwest, Northwest, Northwest CASC, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, ecosystem services, water, wildland fire, Fewer tags

Sky Island Grasslands

In the border region between Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico, a little known landscape supports a unique mix of temperate and subtropical ecosystems, the likes of which are found nowhere else in the United States. The Sky Islands are an area of more than 40 separate mountain ranges isolated by what was once a sea of more than 13 million acres of grassland. It is one of America’s hotspots for wildlife diversity, hosting more than twice as many mammal species as Yellowstone National Park and supporting the nation’s highest diversity of reptiles, bees, and ants. Additionally, these grasslands are a key connecting landscape between the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains to the North and...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Madrean Archipelago, amphibian, bird, economic, ecosystem services, All tags... fire, grassland, mammal, management, outreach, restoration, threat, Fewer tags

Montane - Habitat Fragmentation and Loss Stressors - Unsustainable Grazing

These heatmaps show a top 3 stressor or service, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor or service across the landscape. This map shows the percentage of participants from each county and municipality who ranked Unsustainble Grazing as a top 3 ecosystem stressor in the Montane Habitat Fragmentation and Loss category in their region. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors

EnviroAtlas - Biodiversity Conservation Metrics for Conterminous United States

This EnviroAtlas web service supports research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas). The Biodiversity Conservation category in this web service includes layers illustrating the ecosystems and natural resources that support biodiversity, the need or demand for conservation, the impacts associated with biodiversity and conservation, and factors that place stress on the natural environment's capability to maintain biodiversity. EnviroAtlas allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the conterminous United States. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this web...

Types: Citation; Tags: 12-digit HUCs, Agriculture, Air, Alabama, Alaska, All tags... Arizona, Arkansas, Austin, TX, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical, Biota, Boundaries, California, Census Block Groups, Cleanup, Climate, Colorado, Communities, Compliance, Connecticut, Conservation, Contaminant, Delaware, Demand for Ecosystem Services, Demographics, Detroit, MI, Disaster, Drinking Water, Drivers of Change - Ecosystem Services, Durham, NC, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem Services, Elevation, Emergency, Endangered, Energy, EnviroAtlas, Environment, Environment, Environmental Atlas, Environmental Justice, Estuary, Exposure, Facilities, Florida, Food, Fresno, CA, Georgia, Green Infrastructure, Green Space, Ground Water, Habitat, Hawaii, Hazards, Health, Human, Human Well-being, Idaho, Illinois, Impact, Imperiled, Indiana, Indicator, Indoor Air, Inspections, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Land, Land Cover, Louisiana, Maine, Management, Marine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Milwaukee, WI, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Modeling, Monitoring, Montana, Natural Resources, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Permits, Pesticides, Phoenix, AZ, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Potential for Change - Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, Quality, Radiation, Recreation, Regulatory, Remediation, Response, Rhode Island, Riparian, Risk, Sites, Society, Soils, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spills, Structure, Supply of Ecosystem Services, Surface Water, Sustainability, Tampa Bay, FL, Tennessee, Texas, Threatened, Toxics, Transportation, United States, Utah, Utilities, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Waste, Water, West Virginia, Wetlands, Wisconsin, Wyoming, environment, Fewer tags

Prairie STRIPS reports 2013-2016

Reports describe research by Iowa State University in collaboration with Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and other partners has discovered that strategically adding a little bit of prairie back onto the agricultural landscape can result in many benefits – for water and soil quality, habitat for wildlife and pollinators, as well as opportunities for biomass production. With assistance from ETPBR member USDA Farm Service Agency, research has shown how small amounts of native prairie vegetation integrated within corn and soybean row crops produce environmental benefits at levels disproportionately greater than their extent and in a cost effective manner. The project has now transitioned to demonstration and evaluation...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, IA-01, IA-02, IA-03, IA-04, Informing Conservation Delivery, Iowa, LCC Network Science Catalog, Methodology/Protocol, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Training/Outreach/Workshop, agriculture, completed, ecosystem services, environment, environment, pollination, product, water quality, Fewer tags

Habitat Fragmentation and Loss Stressors for Montane Areas in the Chihuahuan Desert

These heatmaps show a top 3 montane habitat fragmentation and loss stressor, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor across the landscape. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the top 3 stressors that participants chose. Counties with a small number of participants were not adjusted for small sample size. These results were shared via a webinar hosted by the...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, Complete, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data, Data.gov Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HABITAT CONVERSION/FRAGMENTATION, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, MONTANE HABITATS, MONTANE HABITATS, Policy makers & regulators, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors, environment, Fewer tags

Responses of Native Freshwater Mussels to Remedial Dredging in the upper Hudson River

The Hudson River, New York, was contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from two General Electric plants over a period of ~30 years and PCBs are still present in sediment and biota today. The river provides habitat for a variety of plants and animals, including native freshwater mussels. Although little is known about mussels in this river, managers were concerned that a 7-year remediation program to remove PCB-contaminated sediments could affect mussels. From 2013-2019, we conducted stratified (non-remediated, before remediation, after remediation) quantitative surveys across 17-pool-stratum combinations across nine pools. Sampling was done during August through October of each year. At each site, divers...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Assemblage structure, Ecosystem services, Hudson River, Native freshwater mussels, All tags... Natural resource damage assessment and restoration, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags

Guidelines for harvesting forest biomass for energy: A synthesis of environmental considerations

Interest in the utilization of forest biomass for energy is growing. A search into existing forest biomass harvesting and regeneration guidelines was carried out to identify how biomass energy can be environmentally sustainable. Findings have shown that there are only a few guidelines that specifically address harvesting and regenerating biomass for bioenergy or other bio-based products. Of these few, there are guidelines developed for dedicated energy plantations such as the Scottish Agricultural College guidelines, as well as some Finnish and Swedish guidelines recommending management practices for both timber and biomass extraction. Most of the existing small woody material guidelines emphasize the retention,...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Biomass, Ecosystem Services, Habitat, Hydrology, Soil

BLM REA COP 2014 UT COP HUC6 EPA EnviroAtlas Water Demand

Total water demand (gallons per day per acre) summarized to 12-digit HUC watersheds was derived from EnviroAtlas agricultural, domestic, industrial, and thermoelectric water demand datasets.Information about the original EPA data is as follows:Agricultural water demand:The EnviroAtlas national water demand metric provides insight into the amount of water currently used for agricultural irrigation in the contiguous United States. The values are based on 2005 irrigation water use; combined 2010 crop, 2006 land use, and 2001 remotely sensed irrigation location estimates; and have been summarized by watershed or 12-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC). Agricultural irrigation water use, as defined in this case, meets a...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: 12-digit hucs, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBI, COP 2014, All tags... Colorado Plateau, DOI, DQR, Disturbance, Geospatial, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, agriculture, climate stress logic, demand for ecosystem services, domestic, ecoregion, ecosystem, ecosystem services, enviroatlas, environment, environment, environmental atlas, farming, habitat, human, industrial, inlandWaters, thermoelectric, water, Fewer tags

Aligning Ecological Restoration and Community Interests through Active Experimentation

Overgrazing and fire suppression have led to a loss of deep soils and vegetative cover in the 420,000 acre Alamosa Creek watershed in southwestern New Mexico. Rain and snow melt are no longer held by the soils and released slowly, but run off in floods, resulting in catastrophic flows and severe erosion that contribute sediment to Elephant Butte Dam. The diverse community of farmers that irrigate 800 acres of valley land on 49 farms in Cañada Alamosa are looking to revive traditional and develop innovate new practices to maintain their way of life. Partnerships are required to design new land management practices between scientists and local land managers. This project is a component of a larger Alamosa Land Institute...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2012, Alamosa Creek, Cañada Alamosa Watershed, Conservation Design, Datasets/Database, All tags... Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Elephant Butte Dam, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, Interested public, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND MANAGEMENT, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-02, New Mexico, New Mexico, Pilot/Case Study, Private land owners, Project, Publication, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, United States, adaptation, agriculture, biodiversity, climate change, community involvement, completed, cultural, ecosystem services, environment, erosion, management, monitoring, native, remote sensing, resilience, restoration, riparian, traditional knowledge, vegetation, water availability, water quality, watershed, Fewer tags

Invasive and Problematic Plant Stressors for Grasslands in the Chihuahuan Desert

These heatmaps show a top 3 invasive and problematic plant stressor for grasslands in the Chihuahuan Desert, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor across the landscape. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the top 3 stressors that participants chose. Counties with a small number of participants were not adjusted for small sample size. These results were shared...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, All tags... Complete, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > GRASSLANDS, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, Federal resource managers, INVASIVE SPECIES, INVASIVE SPECIES, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, State agencies, desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors, environment, Fewer tags

Invasive Animal Stressors for Montane Areas in the Chihuahuan Desert

These heatmaps show a top 3 invasive animal stressor for montane areas in the Chihuahuan Desert, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor across the landscape. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the top 3 stressors that participants chose. Counties with a small number of participants were not adjusted for small sample size. These results were shared via a...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, All tags... COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, Complete, Conservation NGOs, Data, Data.gov Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, INVASIVE SPECIES, INVASIVE SPECIES, LCC Network Science Catalog, MONTANE HABITATS, MONTANE HABITATS, Policy makers & regulators, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors, environment, Fewer tags

Montane - Invasive and Problematic (Native and non-native) Plants - Parasitic Plants

These heatmaps show a top 3 stressor or service, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor or service across the landscape. This map shows the percentage of participants from each county and municipality who ranked Parasitic Plants r as a top 3 ecosystem stressor in the Montane Invasive Plant category in their region. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors

Data Release for Toward ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in ecosystem service potential and flows

Ecosystem accounts link national-scale environmental and economic trends, offering an internationally standardized approach to tracking sustainability. We compile ecosystem accounts for Rwanda over a 25-year period, and demonstrate that despite strong economic growth, social development, and high-level commitment to environmental goals, ecosystem services fundamental to Rwanda's well-being have declined substantially during this period. Conversion of forests and other natural ecosystems to cropland are the primary drivers of these trends. Ecosystem accounts are particularly important for tracking sustainability in African nations with high levels of economic and population growth and rapid environmental change....

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Burundi, Rwanda, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biophysical, carbon storage, All tags... ecosystem services, local recharge, quickflow, sediment export, sediment retention, water yield, Fewer tags

BLM REA COP 2014 UT COP HUC6 EPA EnviroAtlas Synth N

This EnviroAtlas dataset contains data on the mean synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer application to cultivated crop and hay/pasture lands per 12-digit Hydrologic Unit (HUC) in 2006 (EA_SNFA_Mean attribute). Synthetic N fertilizer inputs in 2006 were estimated using county-level estimates of farm N fertilizer inputs. We acquired county-level data describing total farm-level inputs (kg N/yr) of synthetic N fertilizer to individual counties in 2006 from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) (http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2012/5207/). These data were converted to per area rates (kg N/ha/yr) of synthetic N fertilizer application by dividing the total N input by the land area (ha) of combined cultivated crop and hay/pasture...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBI, COP 2014, Colorado Plateau, All tags... DOI, DQR, Disturbance, Geospatial, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, agriculture, climate stress logic, ecoregion, ecosystem, ecosystem services, enviroatlas, environment, environment, environmental atlas, farming, farming, habitat, land, Fewer tags

Farmers’ Rankings of the Determinants of Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Grasslands and Plains, Landscapes, North Central CASC, Science Tools For Managers, All tags... cropping systems, ecosystem services, food-fuel-environment debate, grassland conversion, human dimensions to ecosystems, Fewer tags

Soil carbon lost from Mollisols of the North Central U.S.A. with 20 years of agricultural best management practices

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Bulk density, Carbon sequestration, Data Visualization & Tools, Ecosystem services, Landscapes, All tags... Northeast CASC, Other Landscapes, Science Tools For Managers, Fewer tags

Ecosystem Functionality Stressors for Montane Areas in the Chihuahuan Desert

These heatmaps show a top 3 montane ecosystem functionality stressor, as ranked by participants, and the concentration of participants who reported as working in each municipality or county who also voted for that stressor across the landscape. Symbology represents the percentage of participants with 0% = dark green, 0.0001 % - 24.99% = light green, 25% - 49.99% = yellow, 50% - 74.99% = orange, 75% - 100% = red. All counties and municipalities identified by participants as areas where they work were given a tally for each of the top 3 stressors that participants chose. Counties with a small number of participants were not adjusted for small sample size. These results were shared via a webinar hosted by the Desert...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Shapefile; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIOSPHERE, BIOSPHERE, Complete, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Data, Data.gov Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, ECOSYSTEMS, ECOSYSTEMS, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, MONTANE HABITATS, MONTANE HABITATS, Policy makers & regulators, State agencies, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, desert lcc, dos rios, ecosystem services, ecosystem stressors, environment, Fewer tags