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Riparian vegetation, topography, and ground cover constituents along the Upper Colorado River near Moab, UT (2010-2017) (ver. 1.1, Jan 2023)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-09-01
End Date
2017-11-01
Revision
2023-01-17

Citation

Shafroth, P.B., Belnap, J., Geiger, E.L., González, E.S., Lee, S.R., Reed, S.C., Smith, H.J., and Wahlig, E.G., 2020, Riparian vegetation, topography, and ground cover constituents along the Upper Colorado River near Moab, UT (2010-2017) (ver. 1.1, Jan 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EFZVG8.

Summary

The data release presents observations of riparian vegetation, topography, and ground cover in two river reaches of the Upper Colorado River within a river segment extending 208 river kilometers (rkm), from near the Colorado/Utah border to the confluence of the Green River. Methods included field observations and analysis of the plant community five times over eight years in the fall of 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017, encompassing a second cycle of biocontrol-induced dieback of invasive Tamarix spp. shrubs. The data release includes four .csv files related to field observations: UTM coordinates of field transects; vegetation, topography and ground surface information at the pinpoint level and at the transect level; and species codes.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Patrick B Shafroth, Fort Collins Science Center
Originator :
Patrick B Shafroth, Jayne Belnap, Erika L Geiger, Eduardo González, Steven R Lee, Sasha C Reed, Hilda J Smith, Eric Wahlig
Metadata Contact :
Patrick B Shafroth, Fort Collins Science Center
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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Shafroth_Colorado River Tamarix biocontrol_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		277.76 KB application/fgdc+xml
Shafroth_Colorado River Tamarix biocontrol_species coded.csv 8.54 KB text/csv
Shafroth_Colorado River Tamarix biocontrol_study site locations.csv 9.65 KB text/csv
Shafroth_Colorado River Tamarix biocontrol_Vegetation and ground cover constituents at transect level revised.csv 187.1 KB text/csv
Shafroth_Vegetation, topography and ground cover constituents at pinpoint level.csv 12.58 MB text/csv
Version History Notes.txt 2.24 KB text/plain

Purpose

The purpose of the data was to study the plant community response to biocontrol of invasive Tamarix spp. along the Upper Colorado River in eastern Utah, USA.

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Revisions were made to column “I” in one of the datasets associated with the data release (Shafroth_Colorado River Tamarix biocontrol_Vegetation, topography and ground cover constituents at pinpoint level revised.csv). The column title is “CompleteSeries” and has only two possible values: “YES” or “NO”. “YES” indicates that the temporal series of data is complete – i.e., there are data for all years sampled: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017. Of the 25,180 cells (rows) of data in column I, 4002 cells (15.9%) changed. Note that this variable is simply a summary intended to help the user of the data. None of the actual data values changed. Refer to the Version History Notes document for more details.

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