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Plant composition, shrub biomass, and soil biogeochemistry from an experimental drought treatment on the Colorado Plateau These data were compiled for a study that investigated the effects of drought seasonality and plant community composition in a dryland ecosystem. In 2015 U.S. Geological Survey ecologists recorded vegetation and soil moisture data in 36 experimental plots which manipulated precipitation in two plant community types. The experiment consisted of three precipitation treatments: control (ambient precipitation), cool-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation November-April), and warm-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation May-October), applied in two plant communities (perennial grasses with or without a large shrub, Ephedra viridis) over a three-year period. These data were collected from 2015 to 2022 near Canyonlands... Categories: Data; Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Botany, C3 photosynthesis, C4 photosynthesis, Canyonlands National Park, All tags... Climatology, Colorado Plateau, Ecology, Ephedra viridis, Geography, Indian ricegrass, Information Sciences, Islands of Fertility, James' galleta, Needles District, Pleuraphis jamesii, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:6553a618d34ee4b6e05c3e2b, Utah, ambient precipitation, biogeochemical cycling, biogeochemical data, biogeochemistry, biomass, biota, carbon, carbon concentrations, control treatments, cool-season drought treatments, data release, drought seasonality, droughts, dryland ecosystems, ecosystems, experimental plots, experimental seasonal drought, field inventory and monitoring, field measurements, field sampling, geoscientificInformation, interspace cover estimates, mormon tea, nitrogen, nitrogen concentrations, percent cover estimates, perennial grasses, phosphorus, phosphorus concentrations, photosynthesis, plant community composition, plants (organisms), precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation treatments, shrubland ecosystems, soil cores, soil moisture, soil sciences, soil volumetric water content, southeastern Utah, vegetation, warm-season drought treatments, Fewer tags Plant cover and density and sagebrush growth in Idaho roadsides treated with herbicides and bioherbicides Proliferation of cheatgrass and other exotic annual grasses such as medusahead and ventenata are a major environmental concern and operational problem for roadsides in Idaho. These annual grasses are highly flammable and they shorten fire-return intervals. Flammable vegetation is particularly hazardous in roadsides because of proximity to a ready source of ignition, and fires that start on roadsides can spread into adjacent public lands and urban communities with sprawling home development, causing extensive and expensive damage and degradation to wildlife habitat, rangelands, private or public property, utilities, etc. Thus, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has a strong interest in preventing roadside... Categories: Data; Tags: ACK55, Bioherbicide, Botany, Ecology, Idaho, All tags... Imazapic, Indaziflam, Land Use Change, Litter removal, Pseuomonas fluorescens, Restoration, Sagebrush steppe, Southwest Idaho, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Weed-suppressive bacteria, biota, environment, field experiments, invasive species, remediation, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags Nitrogen cycling rates from sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils in the Northern Great Basin (2008) This dataset contains data supporting the paper: DeCrappeo, N.M., DeLorenze, E.J., Giguere, A.T., Pyke, D.A., and Bottomley, P.J. Fungal and bacterial contributions to nitrogen cycling in cheatgrass-invaded and uninvaded native sagebrush soils of the western USA (accepted at the journal Plant and Soil). The purpose of the study was to evaluate the relative contributions of soil bacteria and fungi to inorganic nitrogen (N) cycling in sagebrush and cheatgrass-invaded soils using a 15N isotope dilution experiment. Soils were collected from sagebrush and cheatgrass rhizospheres at six paired sites in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon. In order to partition the contribution of each microbial group to N cycling, soils... Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Ecology, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biogeochemical cycling, biota, ecological processes, geoscientificInformation, invasive species, isotopic analysis, shrubland ecosystems, soil sciences, Fewer tags Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (540-m scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of mixed shrubland land cover within a 540-m radius developed using a circular focal moving window analysis. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, United States, Utah, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biota, conservation, environment, land use and land cover, mixed shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags Proportion of Mountain Shrubland Land Cover (270-m scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of mountain shrubland land cover within a 270-m radius developed using a circular focal moving window analysis. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, United States, Utah, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biota, conservation, environment, land use and land cover, mountain shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags Summer RSF of Translocated Greater Sage-grouse in North Dakota, 2017 - 2018 These data represent an resource selection function (RSF) for translocated sage-grouse in North Dakota during the summer. Human enterprise has led to large‐scale changes in landscapes and altered wildlife population distribution and abundance, necessitating efficient and effective conservation strategies for impacted species. Greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage‐grouse) are a widespread sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) obligate species that has experienced population declines since the mid‐1900s resulting from habitat loss and expansion of anthropogenic features into sagebrush ecosystems. Habitat loss is especially evident in North Dakota, USA, on the northeastern fringe of sage‐grouse’ distribution,... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: North Dakota, biota, habitats, resource Selection Function, sage-grouse, All tags... shrubland ecosystems, summer, Fewer tags Presence and cover of exotic annual and perennial grass species during five years post-fire on the Soda Wildfire Data includes cover and presence (within microsites and 13 m radius plots) of three exotic annual grass, Bromus tectorum, Taeniatherum caput-medusae, and Ventenata dubia and presence (within microsites) of four perennial bunchgrass species (Agropyron cristatum, Pseudoroegneria spicata, Poa secunda, Elymus elymoides) within the first five years after the 2015 Soda wildfire. Additional landscape and weather covariates hypothesized to influence landscape resistance to invasion are included. Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Earth, Ecology, Idaho, Land, All tags... Land Use Change, North America, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biological invasion, biota, environment, exotic annual grass, invasive species, landscape ecology, landscape resistance, perennial bunchgrass, sagebrush steppe, shrubland ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, Fewer tags Greater Sage-Grouse Nest Observations Before and After Wildfire Disturbance in Northeastern California (2007-2018) We monitored Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, Sage-Grouse) nests and various habitat characteristics at the nest locations near Susanville in northeastern California, crossing over into northwestern Nevada. We employed a before-after-control-impact (BACI) experimental design to account for spatiotemporal heterogeneity in the system and to derive estimates of relative change in survival parameters. Sage-Grouse nest survival decreased after the Rush Fire but decreased more in the burned area relative to the unburned area. Although female Sage-Grouse continued to occupy burned areas, nest survival was reduced from 52 percent to 19 percent. Using a BACI ratio approach we found that nest survival... Categories: Data; Tags: California, Ecology, Environmental Health, Susanville, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Western U.S., Wildlife Biology, biota, ecology, environment, fires, habitat alteration and disturbance, herbivores, human impacts, native species, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Biological soil crust and vascular plant data from Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, measured in 1999 and remeasured in 2020 This dataset contains biocrust lichen and moss cover at 186 plots at Horse Heaven Hills in Washington, USA. These data were measured by Jeanne Ponzetti in 1999 and remeasured by Heather Root in 2020. In addition to the biocrust data, we include site data such as elevation, location, wildfire history, and cover classes of dominant plants, rock and soil. Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Bromus tectorum, Columbia Basin, Ecology, Horse Heaven Hills, Washington, All tags... Land Use Change, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, biological soil crusts, biota, cheatgrass, environment, fires, invasive species, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Analysis of drought sensitivity in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho) from 2000 through 2016 This data release includes data-processing scripts, data products, and associated metadata for a remote-sensing based approach to characterize vegetation sensitivity to droughts from 2000 through 2016 in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Drought sensitivity analysis was conducted in minimally-disturbed (‘intact’) forest and shrub-steppe ecosystems, defined as 1-km pixels (i.e., grid cells) that had not experienced major recent insect mortality or fire. Drought conditions were assessed using the multi-scalar standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), for which positive values indicate wetter that average conditions and negative values indicate drier than average conditions for a given... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Idaho, Oregon, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Washington, droughts, All tags... forest ecosystems, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Coastal Cactus Wren Habitat Suitability Model for Southern California (2015) This habitat model was developed to delineate suitable habitat for coastal cactus wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) in southern California. A primary purpose of the model is to identify potential restoration sites that may not currently support cactus patches required by wrens, but which are otherwise highly suitable. These are areas that could be planted with cactus to increase wren populations, an important management objective for many land managers. We used the Partitioned Mahalanobis D2 modeling technique to construct alternative models with different combinations of environmental variables. Variables were calculated at each point in the center of a 150 m x 150 m cell in a grid of points across the landscape.... Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Partitioned Mahalanobis D2, All tags... Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ventura County, biota, coastal cactus wren, environment, geospatial analysis, habitats, landscape modeling, life sciences, multivariate statistical analysis, native species, niche modeling, shrubland ecosystems, species distribution models, statistical analysis, wildlife, Fewer tags Coastal California Gnatcatcher Habitat Suitability Model for Southern California (2015) This habitat model was developed to delineate a sampling frame for regional monitoring of coastal California gnatcatchers (Polioptila californica californica) to determine: 1) percent area occupied (PAO) in high and very high suitability habitat across conserved lands and participating military lands in the U.S. range in southern California; 2) changes in PAO over time; and 3) extinction and colonization rates. One purpose of the model is to identify areas recovering from disturbance, such as wildfire, that may not currently support coastal sage scrub vegetation used by coastal California gnatcatchers, but are otherwise highly suitable. In this way, we can monitor gnatcatcher occupancy associated with habitat changes... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Life sciences, Los Angeles County, Orange County, Partitioned Mahalanobis D2, All tags... Polipotila californica californica, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Ventura County, Wildlife Biology, biota, coastal California gnatcatcher, endangered species, geospatial analysis, habitat, landscape modeling, multivariate statistical analysis, native species, niche modeling, shrubland ecosystems, species distribution models, statistical analysis, wildlife, Fewer tags Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (18-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of mixed shrubland land cover within a 18-km radius developed using a circular focal moving window analysis. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, United States, Utah, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biota, conservation, environment, land use and land cover, mixed shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) Fractional Component Time-Series Across the Western U.S. 1985-2020 The RCMAP (Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection) dataset quantifies the percent cover of rangeland components across the western U.S. using Landsat imagery from 1985-2020. The RCMAP product suite consists of eight fractional components: annual herbaceous, bare ground, herbaceous, litter, non-sagebrush shrub, perennial herbaceous, sagebrush, shrub and rule-based error maps including the temporal trends of each component. Several enhancements were made to the RCMAP process relative to prior generations. We used an updated version of the 2016 base training data, with a more aggressive forest mask and reduced shrub and sagebrush cover bias in pinyon-juniper woodlands. We pooled training data in areas... Categories: Data; Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Desert, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Mediterranean California, Middle Rockies, Mojave, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, North Plains, Northern Great Plains, Northern Great Salt Lake Desert, Northern Mountainous, Northern Rocky Mountains, OR, Oregon, Plains, Plateau, Rocky Mountains, SD, Sierra Nevada, Sonoran, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southern Great Salt Lake Desert, Southern Rocky Mountains, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, The Rockies, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Wyoming Basin, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, back-in-time, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, climate change, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, grassland change, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, mts, rangeland, rangeland management, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland change, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, time series, trends, vegetation, vegetation change, Fewer tags Brooding RSF of Translocated Greater Sage-grouse in North Dakota, 2017 - 2018 These data represent an resource selection function (RSF) for translocated sage-grouse in North Dakota during the brooding season. Human enterprise has led to large‐scale changes in landscapes and altered wildlife population distribution and abundance, necessitating efficient and effective conservation strategies for impacted species. Greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter sage‐grouse) are a widespread sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) obligate species that has experienced population declines since the mid‐1900s resulting from habitat loss and expansion of anthropogenic features into sagebrush ecosystems. Habitat loss is especially evident in North Dakota, USA, on the northeastern fringe of sage‐grouse’... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: North Dakota, Resource Selection Function, biota, brood, habitats, All tags... sage-grouse, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Microsatellite Genotypes for Coastal Cactus Wrens (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) from Southern California, 2009-2019 These data show multilocus genotypes, banding age, and territory for coastal cactus wrens (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) sampled in coastal southern California between 2009 and 2019. These data support the following publication: Vandergast, A.G., Kus, B.E., Smith, J.G. and Mitelberg, A., 2022. Recent declines in genetic diversity with limited dispersal among coastal cactus wren populations in San Diego County, California. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(9), p.e12780. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12780. Categories: Data; Tags: Genetics, Southern California Coastal, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, biological population management, All tags... biota, birds, endemic species, genetic diversity, genotype, human impacts, native species, shrubland ecosystems, Fewer tags Trends and a Targeted Annual Warning System for Greater Sage-Grouse in the Western United States (ver. 3.0, February 2024) Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are at the center of state and national land use policies largely because of their unique life-history traits as an ecological indicator for health of sagebrush ecosystems. These data represent an updated population trend analysis and Targeted Annual Warning System (TAWS) for state and federal land and wildlife managers to use best available science to help guide current management and conservation plans aimed at benefitting sage-grouse populations range-wide. This analysis relied on previously published population trend modeling methodology from Coates and others (2021, 2022) and includes population lek count data from 1960-2023. Bayesian state-space models estimated... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, All tags... North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Wyoming, adaptive management, biota, ecology, human impacts, long-term ecological monitoring, shrubland ecosystems, targeted monitoring, triggers, warning system, western United States, Fewer tags Sage-grouse habitat management categories within phase 1 Pinyon-Juniper expansion in Nevada and northeastern California, derived from 2016 and 2017 Raster Products This raster dataset depicts phase 1 pinyon-juniper expansion , where shrubs and herbs are the dominant vegetation and conifers occupy greater than zero percent to ten percent, intersecting documented sage-grouse habitat management categories (Coates et al., 2016a, Coates et al., 2016b). These data support the following publication: K. Benjamin Gustafson, Peter S. Coates, Cali L. Roth, Michael P. Chenaille, Mark A. Ricca, Erika Sanchez-Chopitea, Michael L. Casazza, Using object-based image analysis to conduct high- resolution conifer extraction at regional spatial scales, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Volume 73, December 2018, Pages 148-155, ISSN 0303-2434, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2018.06.002.... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Great Basin, Nevada, Northeastern California, United States of America, biota, All tags... birds, ecosystem management, environment, image analysis, shrubland ecosystems, spatial analysis, vegetation, Fewer tags Proportion of Mixed Shrubland Land Cover (3-km scale) in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment area Proportion of mixed shrubland land cover within a 3-km radius developed using a circular focal moving window analysis. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, United States, Utah, All tags... Wyoming, Wyoming Basins Ecoregional Assessment, biota, conservation, environment, land use and land cover, mixed shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2016 Shrubland Fractional Components for the Western U.S. (ver. 3.0, July 2020) Quantifying Western U.S. shrublands as a series of fractional components with remote sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. The USGS NLCD team in collaboration with the BLM has produced the most comprehensive remote sensing-based quantification of Western U.S. shrublands to date. Nine shrubland ecosystem components, including percent shrub, sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), big sagebrush, herbaceous, annual herbaceous, litter, and bare ground cover, along with sagebrush and shrub heights, were quantified at 30-m resolution by mapping region. Each region required extensive ground measurement for model training and validation, two scales of remote sensing data from commercial high-resolution... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: AZ, Arizona, Arizona Plateau, Black Hills, Blue Mountains, All tags... CA, CO, California, Chihuahuan Desert, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Grand Canyon, Great Basin, Gunnison, ID, Idaho, MT, Middle Rockies, Montana, ND, NE, NM, NV, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Northern Mountainous, OR, Oregon, Rocky Mountains, SD, SageDAT-data, Sonoran Desert, South Dakota, Southwest Tablelands, TX, Texas, Three Forks, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), UT, United States, Utah, WA, WY, Wasatch, Washington, Western US, Wyoming, Yellowstone, annual herbaceous, bare ground, big sagebrush, biota, environment, geoscientificInformation, grass, herbaceous, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, litter, rangeland, sagebrush, shrub, shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation, Fewer tags 1 2 »