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  4. Vegetation, topography and sediment quality in the Lower Virgin River 2010-2012

Vegetation, topography and sediment quality in the Lower Virgin River 2010-2012

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-03-01
End Date
2012-05-31

Citation

Shafroth, P.B., Gonzalez, E., Lee, S.R., Leverich, G.T., Orr, B.K., Ostoja, S.M., Real de Asua, R., Rodriguez, K., Sherry, R.A., and Wahlig, E., 2019, Riparian vegetation, topography, sediment quality, and river corridor geomorphology in the Lower Virgin River, Nevada and Arizona, before (2010) and after (2011-2012) a 40-year return period flood: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CSRABT.

Summary

Plant composition, geomorphic conditions and sediment properties before (2010) and after (2012) a 40 year return period flood (December 2010) at multiple transects within four reaches in the lower Virgin River, Nevada. The data contains four .csv files: localization (UTM coordinates of the transects), vegetation and geomorphology, species codes and sediment quality

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Eduardo Gonzalez
Originator :
Patrick B Shafroth, Steven R Lee, Eduardo Gonzalez, Eric G Wahlig, Glen T Leverich, Bruce K Orr, Steven M Ostoja, Rafael Real de Asua, Karley Rodriguez, Rebecca A Sherry
Metadata Contact :
Eduardo Gonzalez
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Virgin Flood_Field data metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		66.22 KB application/fgdc+xml
Virgin Flood_Sediment quality.csv 5.26 KB text/csv
Virgin Flood_Site Locations.csv 2.36 KB text/csv
Virgin Flood_Species codes.csv 5.39 KB text/csv
Virgin Flood_Vegetation and geomorphology.csv 196.14 KB text/csv

Purpose

The purpose of the data was to study short-term geomorphic and riparian vegetation responses to a large magnitude flood in the context of an invasion of a plant engineer species. We aimed to: i) quantify the changes in channel geometry, topography and sediment quality caused by the flood, and ii) identify plant species and groups that are more or less favored by erosion and deposition of sediments.

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