Supervisory Research Ecologist
Email:
tesque@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
702-294-6590
ORCID:
0000-0002-4166-6234
Location
P.O. Box 60640
Boulder City
, NV
89005
US
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Five principal components are used to represent the climate variation in an original set of 12 composite climate variables reflecting complex precipitation and temperature gradients. The dataset provides coverage for future climate (defined as the 2040-2070 normal period) under the RCP4.5 emission scenarios. Climate variables were chosen based on their known influence on local adaptation in plants, and include: mean annual temperature, summer maximum temperature, winter minimum temperature, annual temperature range, temperature seasonality (coefficient of variation in monthly average temperatures), mean annual precipitation, winter precipitation, summer precipitation, proportion of summer precipitation, precipitation...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
GeoTIFF,
Map Service,
Raster;
Tags: Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Colorado Plateau,
Great Basin, All tags...
Mojave Desert,
Nevada,
New Mexico,
Sonoran Desert,
United States,
Utah,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
geospatial analysis,
precipitation, Fewer tags
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Climate Distance Mapper is an interactive web mapping application designed to facilitate informed seed sourcing decisions and to aid in directing regional seed collections. Implemented as a shiny web application (Chang et al. 2017), Climate Distance Mapper is hosted on the web at: https://usgs-werc-shinytools.shinyapps.io/Climate_Distance_Mapper/. The application is designed to guide restoration seed sourcing in the desert southwest by allowing users to interactively match seed sources with restoration sites climatic differences – in the form of multivariate climate distance values – between restoration sites and the surrounding landscape. Climatic distances are based on a combination of variables likely to influence...
Tags: Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Colorado Plateau,
Great Basin, All tags...
Mojave Desert,
Nevada,
New Mexico,
Sonoran Desert,
United States,
Utah,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
geospatial analysis,
precipitation, Fewer tags
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This dataset provides spatial predictions of habitat suitability for Gopherus agassizii (Agassiz’s desert tortoise), Gopherus morafkai (Morafka’s desert tortoise) and a pooled-species model under current conditions (1950 – 2000 yr). The raster layers contained here accompany the manuscript Inman et al. 2019 and were used to evaluate subtle ecological niche differences between G. agassizii and G. morafkai, and identify local species-environment relationships. Spatial predictions of habitat suitability were created using MaxEnt version 3.4.0 (Phillips et al., 2006), a widely-used software for SDM in presence-background frameworks. Detailed methods are provided in Inman et al. 2019. Inman et al. 2019. Local niche...
Tags: Gopherus agassizii,
Gopherus morafkai,
North America,
North America,
Western USA, All tags...
animals,
biota,
conservation genetics,
desert tortoise,
deserts,
ecological niche,
genetics,
geospatial analysis,
habitats,
multiscale geographically weighted regression,
species distribution modelling, Fewer tags
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These datasets were developed to represent the geographic distribution of Plantago ovata in the Mojave Desert. This data release consists of two raster spatial layers (GeoTIFF) reflecting predicted habitat for the species within the Mojave Desert and the standard error in predictions. The habitat layer (raster dataset) is a continuous probability distribution of suitable habitat where values range from 0 (very low probability of species occurrence) to 1 (very high probability of species occurrence). An additional raster dataset provides the standard error in habitat predictions calculated among alternative habitat models: users should evaluate both the habitat and standard error datasets and exercise prudence when...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Arizona,
California,
Mojave,
Nevada,
Plantago ovata, All tags...
Utah,
biogeography,
biota,
habitats,
maps and atlases,
native plant materials development,
native species,
species distribution model, Fewer tags
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Five principal components are used to represent the climate variation in an original set of 12 composite climate variables reflecting complex precipitation and temperature gradients. The dataset provides coverage for future climate (defined as the 2040-2070 normal period) under the RCP8.5 emission scenarios. Climate variables were chosen based on their known influence on local adaptation in plants, and include: mean annual temperature, summer maximum temperature, winter minimum temperature, annual temperature range, temperature seasonality (coefficient of variation in monthly average temperatures), mean annual precipitation, winter precipitation, summer precipitation, proportion of summer precipitation, precipitation...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
GeoTIFF,
Map Service,
Raster;
Tags: Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Colorado Plateau,
Great Basin, All tags...
Mojave Desert,
Nevada,
New Mexico,
Sonoran Desert,
United States,
Utah,
atmospheric and climatic processes,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
geospatial analysis,
precipitation, Fewer tags
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