Matthew Germino

Pre-fire satellite derived and field calculated functional cover across Great Basin megafires

Data includes satellite derived pre-fire functional group cover of annual and perennial herbaceous, shrubs, bareground and litter across four rangeland megafires in the Western US, as well as field estimated invasive annual grass measurements from the 2nd to 3rd years post-fire. Additional landscape and restoration treatment covariates hypothesized to influence post-fire invasive annual grass cover are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Artemisia tridentata, Botany, Bromus tectorum, Ecology, Great Basin, All tags... Idaho, Land Use Change, Nevada, Oregon, Poa secunda, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, community ecology, ecology, environment, land use and land cover, lichens, mosses, vegetation, Fewer tags

Ecological Drought for Sagebrush Seedings in the Great Basin

Monthly Standardize Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), Daily soil-water potential (MPa) and soil temperature (degree C) data for plots from SageSuccess. The SageSuccess Project is a joint effort between USGS, BLM, and FWS to understand how to establish big sagebrush and ultimately restore functioning sagebrush ecosystems. Improving the success of land management treatments to restore sagebrush-steppe is important for reducing the long-term impacts of rangeland fire on sage-grouse and over 350 other wildlife species that use these habitats.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Climatology, Ecology, Great Basin, Land Use Change, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, droughts, ecological drought, fire, sagebrush, water deficit, Fewer tags

The Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) is a partnership among public and private groups working to meet large-scale conservation challenges across five states. We promote management based upon science and traditional knowledge that enables human and natural communities to respond and adapt to ongoing change. Our partners include a variety of groups committed to conservation, such as Native American tribes, universities, non-governmental organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies. The Great Basin LCC ScienceBase Community exists to archive project information, data and products from our research projects and accessibly publicly. Since 2011, we have supported 50 such landscape-scale...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: LCC, Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Head smut infections on cheatgrass cover in the first four years after the 2015 Soda Wildfire

Data includes head smut infection level (caused by the fungal pathogen, Ustilago bullata) on cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and cheatgrass cover for plots measured annually during the first four years after the 2015 Soda wildfire. Additional landscape and weather covariates that are hypothesized to influence infection and host density are included.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Idaho, Land Use Change, Oregon, All tags... Owyhee, Soda Wildfire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, cheatgrass, environment, fungal pathogens, invasive species, pathology, sagebrush steppe, Fewer tags

Post-wildfire sagebrush seedling establishment dataset

This dataset contains observations used to better understand the initial establishment of sagebrush (Artemisia sp.), in the first 1-2 years post-wildfire. Field data come from 460 sagebrush populations sampled across the Great Basin and many GIS-derived co-variates are included as well.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Ecology, Fertile Island, Great Basin, Idaho, All tags... Monitoring, Nevada, North America, Oregon, Post-wildfire, Restoration, Sagebrush, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Western United States, biota, environment, field inventory and monitoring, field sampling, natural resource management, remediation, Fewer tags