Rich D Inman

Environmental Covariates for Estimating Summer Roost Suitability of North American Bat Species in the Eastern United States

This data release contains the environmental geospatial raster data sets used to estimate summer roosting habitat for 4 species considered under the United States Forest Service proposed Bat Conservation Strategy (Myotis lucifugus, MYLU; Myotis septentrionalis, MYSE; Myotis sodalis, MYSO; and Perimyotis subflavus, PESU). This suite of environmental data was hypothesized to influence summer roost habitat suitability and were produced at a spatial resolution of 250 m per pixel.

Tags: CONUS USA, North America, United States, bats, biota, All tags... environment, habitat suitability indices, roost, summer, Fewer tags

Spatial Predictions of Mojave Desert Tortoise, Sonoran Desert Tortoise and Pooled Species Habitat Suitability for present-day (1950 – 2000 yr)

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

Habitat Genotype Association

This dataset provides spatial predictions of clustering and the genotype association index for the Mojave genotype in local species-environment relationships of Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizi and Gopherus morafkaii) for individuals in the subregion encompassing the genetic sampling locations used by Edwards et al. (2015). This region offered an opportunity to explore habitat selection across the ecotone between the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and the secondary contact zone between G. agassizii and G. morafkai, and is referred to as the focal study area. The raster layers contained here accompany the manuscript Inman et al. 2019 and were used to identify multivariate clusters and map them back to geographic space....

Tags: North America, North America, Western USA, animals, biota, All tags... conservation genetics, desert tortoise, deserts, ecological niche, genetics, geospatial analysis, habitats, multiscale geographically weighted regression, species distribution modelling, Fewer tags

Spatial predictions of habitat suitability for present-day (1950 – 2000 yr) and mid-Holocene (8.3 ka – 4.2 ka) time intervals

This dataset provides spatial predictions of habitat suitability for current (1950 – 2000 yr) and mid-Holocene (8.3 ka – 4.2 ka) intervals using hindcasting, and three separate paleo-distributions calibrated on the packrat midden archive: those without bias correction (naïve), those created with a standard method (standard), and those created with a novel alternative (modeled) incorporating a three-stage model of bias. The raster layers contained here accompany the manuscript Inman et al. 2018 and were used to evaluate utility of a novel bias correction method (modeled) over classic methods. Spatial predictions of habitat suitability were created using MaxEnt version 3.4.0 (Phillips et al., 2006), a widely-used...

Tags: Data analysis, Data treatment, Ecology, Holocene, Macrofossils, All tags... Niche Breadth, North America, Paleogeography, Spatial Sampling Bias, Species Distribution Modeling, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western USA, Wildlife Biology, biota, forests, geospatial analysis, shrublands, statistical anaysis, Fewer tags

Wyoming road age and traffic volume estimated with machine learning and graph theory

We provide a roads dataset that includes the spatial location of roads, the estimated age of each road, and the predicted traffic volume of each road between 1986 and 2020 in Wyoming, USA. Our annual estimates of traffic volume are available for each road and include estimates for all vehicles and truck only traffic. Moreover, we provide the estimated age of each road, where a minimum value of 1986 indicates that the road existed in 1986, and any later year indicates the most likely year that road was developed. This dataset will be beneficial for any research focused on the mechanistic effects of road traffic on wildlife populations. Our roads dataset is based on a comprehensive inventory of paved and unpaved roads...

Tags: AADT, Ecology, Highway, Machine learning, Remote Sensing, All tags... Traffic, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States of America, Wyoming, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags