Ecologist
Email:
smendia@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
619-225-6456
ORCID:
0000-0003-4520-7024
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Data presented are results of vegetation sampling conducted in 2019-20 and 2023 in 24 survey plots to document the status of infestation by shot hole borers (Euwallacea sp.) on the riparian vegetation at the San Diego River. This dataset presents location, percent cover of different vegetation types, and number of seedlings for each survey plot. In addition, for each tree and sapling in each plot we present species, size, tree status (live, resprouting, recently dead from shot hole borer, or dead from another cause or unknown cause), infestation status (infested by shot hole borer, not infested by shot hole borer, or infestation not confirmed as shot hole borer), and crown condition. For every tree we also present...
Tags: Kuroshio shot hole borer,
San Diego County,
San Diego River,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
beetle, All tags...
biota,
field inventory and monitoring,
infestation,
shot hole borer,
southern California,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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Data presented are results of vegetation sampling conducted between December 2019 and February 2020 in 24 survey plots to document the status of infestation by shot hole borers (Euwallacea sp.) on the riparian vegetation at the San Diego River. This dataset presents location, percent cover of different vegetation types, and number of seedlings for each survey plot. In addition, for each tree and sapling in each plot we present species, size, tree status (live, resprouting, recently dead from shot hole borer, or dead from another cause or unknown cause), infestation status (infested by shot hole borer, not infested by shot hole borer, or infestation not confirmed as shot hole borer), and crown condition. For every...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Kuroshio shot hole borer,
San Diego County,
San Diego River,
beetle,
biota, All tags...
field inventory and monitoring,
infestation,
shot hole borer,
southern California,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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The Coastal Cactus Wren is a species of high conservation concern in southern California. The goal of this project was to obtain taxonomic resolution of subspecies boundaries between coastal and desert populations of Cactus Wrens. We collected genetic samples from Cactus Wrens at California desert sites and combined this dataset with previously collected samples from coastal populations to resolve the distribution of subspecies and to determine distinct genetic lineages, gene flow, genetic diversity and effective population size of desert populations. Understanding these relationships will assist managers with development and implementation of a conservation and management strategy that could aim to avoid state...
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Genetic samples in the form of a small blood sample were collected from 263 Bell’s vireos (Vireo bellii) in drainages throughout southern and central California, Arizona, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah. We used population genomic techniques to delineate the range limit between the Least Bell’s Vireo (V. b. pusillus) and its conspecific geographical neighbor, the Arizona Bell’s Vireo (V. b. arizonae). This study provides a taxonomic classification of individuals sampled where the two subspecies meet. Moreover, it allows an estimate of genetic diversity and trends in both taxa, estimates sources and levels of dispersal and gene flow among drainages, and allows us to assess progress of recovery and effectiveness...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Arizona,
California,
DNA sequencing,
Ecology,
Environmental Health, All tags...
Genetics,
Nevada,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Utah,
Wildlife Biology,
biota,
capturing (animals),
endangered species,
genetics,
genomic, Fewer tags
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Data presented are results of vegetation sampling conducted between August and September 2023 in 24 survey plots to document the status of infestation by shot hole borers (Euwallacea sp.) on the riparian vegetation at the San Diego River. This dataset presents location, percent cover of different vegetation types, and number of seedlings for each survey plot. In addition, for each tree and sapling in each plot we present species, size, tree status (live, resprouting, recently dead from shot hole borer, or dead from another cause or unknown cause), infestation status (infested by shot hole borer, not infested by shot hole borer, or infestation not confirmed as shot hole borer), and crown condition. For every tree...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Kuroshio shot hole borer,
San Diego County,
San Diego River,
beetle,
biota, All tags...
field inventory and monitoring,
infestation,
shot hole borer,
southern California,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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