Primary production and precipitation data along an elevation gradient in and adjacent to the San Francisco Mountains near Flagstaff, Arizona - 2015-2020

These data were compiled to allow further understanding of how aboveground net primary production of different plant functional types in ecosystems along an elevation gradient in the southwestern U.S. respond to extreme changes in warm-season precipitation (drought and water addition) associated with the North American Monsoon. The objectives of the study were to 1) determine how primary production responds to warm-season precipitation extremes over time; 2) compare production sensitivities to warm-season precipitation (slopes of production – precipitation relationships) across an elevation gradient; 3) evaluate whether the sensitivity of production differed under extreme dry and wet years compared to ambient precipitation....

Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, Climatology, Coconino County, Colorado Plateau, All tags... Ecology, Flagstaff, Geography, Information Sciences, North American Monsoon, San Francisco Mountain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), aboveground net primary production, biota, climate change, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, datasets, desert grassland, desert scrubland, ecology, ecosystems, effects of climate change, elevation gradient, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field measurements, grassland ecosystems, juniper savanna, mixed conifer meadow, northern Arizona, plant composition, plant functional type, ponderosa pine meadow, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation manipulation experiment, tabular data, topography, vascular plants, warm-season precipitation, Fewer tags

Ecological Reach Identification Table For NHDPlusV1: Version 2.0

Using a combination of tabular and spatial data queries, we identified 129,773 flowlines in the hydrological framework of the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 1 (NHDPlusV1) that were created due to breaks in flowlines resulting from flowline intersection with quadrangle map boundaries. We found instances of this occurring in all 18 processing units of the NHDPlusV1 dataset. To aid in managing for this characteristic of the NHDPlus, we developed this EcoReach table (nhdplusv1_ecoreachv2.0.csv) that assigns all flowlines into units that are representative of ecological stream reaches. These "ecological stream reaches" may be defined by: stream origins, stream confluences, lake or reservoir inflows or outflows,...

Tags: Alabama, Aquatic habitats, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Catchment areas, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inland water environments, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Louisiana, Lower 48 states, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, National Assessment Data, National Assessment Data, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Stream Characterization, Streams, Tabular Data, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Biocrust cover, vegetation, and climate data from a protected grassland within Canyonlands National Park, Utah (ver. 2.0, Sept. 2023)

These tabular data were compiled for/to monitor vegetation and biocrust cover in a never grazed grassland located in Canyonlands National Park. An objective, or objectives, of our study was to document potential changes in biocrust and vegetation cover and species composition as related to changes in land use and climate change. These data represent a timeseries of long-term vegetation and biocrust monitoring plots, dating from 1996 to 2021. These data were collected at/in Virginia Park, Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. These data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Research Center in coordination with the US National Park Service. Data were collected via field...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Canyonlands National Park, Colorado Plateau, Needles District, San Juan County, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Utah, Virginia Park, air temperature, atmospheric and climatic processes, biocrust cover, biogeography, biological soil crusts, biota, climate change, dryland ecosystems, ecosystem monitoring, ecosystems, effects of climate change, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field observations, grassland, land use change, long-term ecological monitoring, long-term monitoring plots, never grazed grassland, plot sampling, point-intercept measurements, precipitation (atmospheric), precipitation measurement, rainfall measurement, snowfall measurement, species composition, tabular data, timeseries, vegetation, vegetation cover, weather monitoring, weather observations, weather station, Fewer tags

Ecological Reach Identification Table For NHDPlusV2: Version 2.0

Using a combination of tabular and spatial data queries, we identified 133,111 flowlines in the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2 (NHDPlusV2) that were created due to breaks in flowlines resulting from flowline intersection with quadrangle map boundaries. We found instances of this occurring in all 18 processing units of the NHDplusV2 dataset. To aid in managing for this characteristic of the NHDPlus, this EcoReach table (nhdplusv2_ecoreachv2.0.csv) assigns all flowlines into units that are representative of ecological stream reaches. These "ecological stream reaches" may be defined by: stream origins, stream confluences, lake or reservoir inflows or outflows, and/or stream outflows (described in more...

Tags: Alabama, Aquatic habitats, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Catchment areas, Colorado, Connecticut, Conterminous United States, Delaware, District of Columbia, Environmental conditions, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inland water environments, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Landscape ecology, Linked to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (1:100,000), Louisiana, Lower 48 states, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, National Assessment Data, National Assessment Data, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, River basins, Rivers, South Carolina, South Dakota, Spatial Data, Stream Characterization, Stream Characterization, Streams, Tabular Data, Tennessee, Texas, USA, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Fewer tags

Automated Reference Toolset (ART)—Data

These environmental raster covariate, geospatial vector data, and tabular data were compiled as input data for the Automated Reference Toolset (ART) algorithm. These data are a subset of all the environmetal raster covariate data used in the ART algorithm. Users are advised to read the mansuscript, associated with these data and identified as the larger work citation. It is recommended that data users contact the data set author if they have any questions about the development, processing, contribution, and use of these data in the Automated Reference Toolset.

Types: Citation; Tags: Arizona, Colorado, Colorado Plateau, Environmental covariate, Nevada, All tags... New Mexico, Plots, Raster data, Roads, Soil particle size, Soils, Tabular data, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Vector data, Vegetation, Fewer tags

Rainbow trout reproduction data from 3 sampling trips (2018-2019) within Glen Canyon, AZ

These data were compiled to describe population reproductive structure of rainbow trout in the Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona. Objective(s) of our study were to describe the population on reproductive structure of the rainbow trout population in Glen Canyon on the Colorado River and evaluate the accuracy of nonlethal methods (manual expression and ultrasonography) for assigning sex and reproductive phase. These data represent samples collected in 3 sampling trips fall in October to November 2018, February 2019, and April 2019. These data were collected in Glen Canyon, from Glen Canyon Dam to Lees Ferry on the Colorado River. Specifically, we sampled three reaches within Glen Canyon to represent...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Arizona, Colorado River, Ecology, Geography, All tags... Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Information Sciences, Lees Ferry, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, datasets, field experiments, field inventory and monitoring, field methods, field sampling, fish, gonad tissue, histological assignment, inlandWaters, laboratory methods, manual expression, nonlethal methods, population and community ecology, rainbow trout, recruitment, reproductive phase, river reaches, samples, sex phase, sexing (plants & animals), size classes, tabular data, tailwater, ultrasonography, Fewer tags