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We mapped potential climate change refugia for riparian areas in the central and western USA for 2040-2069 and 2070-2099. Riparian refugia are existing riparian areas that are projected to maintain riparian vegetation and associated ecological function under plausible future climates. Four input variables were included in the riparian refugia index: two landscape variables that represent where existing riparian areas may be more resilient to climatic changes (riparian connectedness and landscape diversity) and two climate variables that reflect projected exposure to climate change (runoff and warm days). For the climate variables, we considered two global circulation models: moderately hot and wet (CNRM-CM5) and...
Tags: Climatology,
Colorado,
Idaho,
Kansas,
Montana, All tags...
Nebraska,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Biology,
Wyoming,
air temperature,
biota,
climate change,
climate refugia,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
ecosystem resilience,
geospatial datasets,
riparian areas,
runoff, Fewer tags
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State fish and wildlife agencies are required to submit a State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) every 10 years to be eligible for grants through the State Wildlife Grant Program. With the next round of revisions due in 2025, the U.S. Geological Survey North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center is evaluating how to best support states with further integrating climate-informed planning in their SWAPs. Here, we summarize how states in the North Central region, which includes Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, addressed adaptation planning in their 2015 SWAPs. We review climate adaptation considerations in required SWAP elements one through five, including species, habitats,...
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A total of 200 soil samples were collected in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge in July 2019 for chronic wasting disease (CWD) monitoring purposes. To collect samples from locations where ungulates are most likely to be shedding or encountering CWD, we targeted elk collar data locations, known migration routes of mule deer and elk, and areas where yearly elk supplemental feeding generally occurs on the National Elk Refuge. We sampled 10 transects in Grand Teton National Park and 10 transects in the National Elk Refuge, each 1,000 meters in length. We collected soil samples every 100 meters along the transect for a total of 10 samples per transect. Terra Core...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Grand Teton National Park,
National Elk Refuge,
Teton,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wyoming, All tags...
biota,
chronic wasting disease,
ecology,
elk,
mule deer,
soil samples,
wildlife biology,
wildlife disease, Fewer tags
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State Wildlife Action Plans are intended to provide proactive planning and guidance for the management of rare or imperiled species, including Species of Greatest Conservation Need. States must update their State Wildlife Action Plans every 10 years, but planners often lack the capacity or resources to integrate climate change into their planning. Revised State Wildlife Action Plans for most states in the North Central region are due by 2025. Providing support and building capacity for climate-informed State Wildlife Action Plans will be most useful now, before revisions are underway in most states. To increase the capacity for state wildlife agencies, this project identified areas expected to be resilient against...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2021,
CASC,
Landscapes,
Landscapes,
North Central, All tags...
North Central,
North Central CASC,
Other Landscapes,
Other Landscapes,
Projects by Region,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
State of the Science,
State of the Science, Fewer tags
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Using data from 288 adult and yearling female elk that were captured on 22 winter supplemental elk feedgrounds in Wyoming and monitored with GPS collars from 2007 - 2015, we fit Step Selection Functions (SSFs) during the spring abortion season and then implemented a master equation approach to translate SSFs into predictions of daily elk distribution for five plausible winter weather scenarios (from a heavy snow, to an extreme winter drought year). We predicted elk abortion events by combining elk distributions with empirical estimates of daily abortion rates, spatially varying elk seroprevalence, and elk population counts. Here we provide 1) the adult and yearling female elk GPS collar data used to fit SSFs, 2)...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Brucella abortus,
Cervus canadensis,
Ecology,
GPS data,
Grand Teton National Park, All tags...
Lincoln County, Wyoming,
National Elk Refuge,
Sublette County, Wyoming,
Teton County, Wyoming,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Disease,
Wyoming,
brucellosis,
cattle risk,
daily abortion risk,
disease transmission,
elk,
movement,
predictions,
space use,
step selection function,
ungulate, Fewer tags
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