Frank (Contractor) C Tousley

Attributed North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) 5km x 5km Master Sample and Grid-Based Sampling Frame

This data release contains the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Master Sampling Grid at the 5 km x 5 km scale with biologically relevant covariates for NABat analyses attributed to each cell of the 5 km x 5 km grid frame for the continental United States. It was created using ArcPro and the 'sf', 'tidyverse', 'dplyr' and 'exactextractr' packages in R to extract covariates from multiple data sources following the 10 km x 10 km attributed grid process as well as adding additional covariates. These covariates include the habitat characteristics such as percent of wetlands, forest, deciduous and coniferous forest, dominant and subdominant oak types, the number of tree and oak species, topographic features...

Tags: Bats, Continental United States, Ecology, Master Sample, North American Bat Monitoring Program, All tags... USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, bats, biota, Fewer tags

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

North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) Predicted Northern Long-Eared Bat Occupancy Probabilities

These data contain the results from the North American Bat Monitoring Program's (NABat) species distribution model (SDM) for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). The provided tabular data includes predictions (with upper and lower confidence intervals) for northern long-eared bat occupancy probabilities (which represent the probability of presence) based on data from the entire summer season (May 1-August 31), averaged from 2017-2022, in each NABat grid cell (5km x 5km scale) across the range of the species. Specifically, predictions represent occupancy probabilities in the pre-volancy season in the summer (May 1–July 15), i.e., the period of time before juveniles can fly and become detectable by...

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Occupancy probability, Species Distribution Model, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, All tags... bats, biota, Fewer tags

This data release contains the spatial raster outputs from analyses of summer roost site habitat for each of 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). The included raster data represent the mean suitability for summer roosting habitat for each of the four species (expressed as a numerical value from 0 to 1), the prediction interval (difference between the 5th and 95th confidence intervals), as well as the environmental covariates used to model habitat. All raster data are produced at a spatial resolution of 250 m per pixel. Summer roost site suitability...

Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, All tags... Ecology, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Main, Massachusetts, Maxent, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Myotis lucifugus, Myotis septentrionalis, Myotis sodalis, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North America, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Perimyotis subflavus, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wildlife Biology, Wisconsin, Wyoming, bats, biota, ecological niche modeling, environment, habitat suitability indices, summer, summer roosts, Fewer tags

This sampling frame is a set of grid-based, finite-area frames spanning the offshore areas surrounding Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and is intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). A Generalized Random-Tessellation Stratified (GRTS) Survey Design draw was added to the sample units from the raw sampling grids (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9XBOCVV). The GRTS survey design algorithm assigns a spatially balanced and randomized ordering (GRTS order) to each cell within its respective framework. Grid cells are prioritized numerically; the lower the number, the higher the sampling priority. Cells can then be selected for monitoring following the GRTS order, ensuring both randomization...

Tags: AKCAN, Alaska, CONUS, Canada, Caribbean, All tags... Ecology, GRTS, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Mexico, NABat, North America, North American Bat Monitoring Program, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, biota, generalized random tessellation stratified, grid, offshore, sample frame, Fewer tags