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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
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Droughts are disproportionately impacting global dryland regions where ecosystem health and function are tightly coupled to moisture availability. Drought severity is commonly estimated using algorithms such as the standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI), which can estimate climatic water balance impacts at various hydrologic scales by varying computational length. However, the performance of these metrics as indicators of soil moisture dynamics at ecologically relevant scales, across soil depths, and in consideration of broader scale ecohydrological processes, requires more attention. In this study, we tested components of climatic water balance, including SPEI and SPEI computation lengths, to...
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This dataset contains information on the survival of individual sagebrush seedlings, stands of seedlings and the vegetative and topographic conditions in which they were planted.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Botany,
Ecology,
Idaho,
Land Use Change,
Oregon, All tags...
Owyhee Mountains,
Soil Sciences,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biogeography,
biota,
elevation,
environment,
fires,
invasive species,
plants (organisms),
population dynamics,
remediation,
soil resources, Fewer tags
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The data presented in this data release represent the records from a rain gage near Black Hollow, CO, a watershed that is tributary to the Cache La Poudre River. On 20 July 2021 a large rainstorm moved over the watershed and generated a large debris flow that destroyed several homes, resulting in four fatalities. The watershed had been burned prior to the rainstorm during the Cameron Peak wildfire (13 August – 2 December 2020). Here we present time-series data the Dry Creek rain gage, which captures the storm that triggered the Black Hollow debris flow. Latitude and Longitude data are included in the header. The timezone of the timestamp is in Mountain Standard Time, note that the storm occurred when the local...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Black Hollow,
Colorado,
GHSC,
Golden,
Hydrology, All tags...
USGS,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
debris-flow,
ground-failure,
landslide hazards,
landslide susceptibility assessment,
landslides,
maps and atlases,
rockfall, Fewer tags
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Sagebrush steppe is one of the most widely distributed ecosystems in North America. Found in eleven western states, this important yet fragile ecosystem is dominated by sagebrush, but also contains a diversity of native shrubs, grasses, and flowering plants. It provides critical habitat for wildlife like pronghorn and threatened species such as the greater sage-grouse, and is grazed by livestock on public and private lands. However, this landscape is increasingly threatened by shifts in wildfire patterns, the spread of invasive grasses, and changing climate conditions. While sagebrush is slow to recover after fires, non-native grasses such as cheatgrass thrive in post-fire conditions and the spread of these species...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2018,
CASC,
Completed,
Data Visualization & Tools,
Data Visualization & Tools, All tags...
Drought,
Drought,
Drought,
Drought,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Fire,
Fire,
Fire,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
North Central,
North Central,
North Central CASC,
Northwest,
Northwest,
Northwest CASC,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Plants,
Plants,
Plants,
Projects by Region,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Southwest,
Southwest,
Southwest CASC,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
fire,
restoration,
sagebrush, Fewer tags
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