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Comprehensive Historic Biodiversity Inventory List of Boston Harbor, 1861-2020 This data set is an amalgamation of records of marine and coastal species occurrence in the Boston Harbor. Taxon include marine mammals, shorebirds, fish, marine invertebrates, and marine macro algae. The earliest record acquired was from 1861. Records span through 2020. We curated records from federal and state agencies, peer reviewed and gray literature, and scientific grade research observations from public biodiversity database repositories. Categories: Data; Tags: Boston Harbor, Boston Harbor Islands National & State Park, Macro algae, Marine invertebrates, Marine mammals, All tags... Shore birds, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biodiversity, biota, farming, fish, Fewer tags Maps of habitat suitability improvement potential for the Poncha Pass Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) satellite population in Southwestern Colorado Habitat restoration efforts to conserve wildlife species are often conducted along a range of local site conditions, with limited information available to gauge relative outcomes for habitat suitability among sites and identify those that may lead to the greatest returns on restoration investment. We leveraged existing resource selection function models to generate heatmaps of spatially varying habitat suitability improvement potential for the Gunnison Sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) based on a suite of habitat restoration actions deployed across crucial habitats within six remaining satellite populations. We first simulated expected change in model covariates (habitat features) from a suite of restoration actions... Tags: Centrocercus minimus, Colorado, Gunnison Sage-grouse, Gunnison Sage-grouse range, Sagebrush biome, All tags... cheatgrass, mesic improvements, pinyon-juniper, sagebrush, Fewer tags Snow Water Equivalent We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer. The statistically downscaled dataset is: MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou & Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013) Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to... Tags: MACAv2-METDATA, United States, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, effects of climate change, environment, All tags... evaporation, hydrologic processes, runoff, snow and ice cover, soil moisture, Fewer tags Arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) morphological and physiological response data from a greenhouse inundation experiment These data were collected to evaluate if arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) individuals and genotypes collected from across a 5.3 degree Celsius temperature gradient and grown in a common greenhouse environment had different physiological and morphological responses to inundation. The objectives of the study were to assess if 1) individuals from climatically different provenances differ in their morphological and physiological phenotypes, 2) individuals from climatically different provenances differ in their response to inundation, and 3) phenotypes and inundation responses are partially controlled by genotype. These data represent measurements made on 248 plants that were grown in a greenhouse and, also in a greenhouse... Categories: Data; Tags: Arizona, Botany, Climatology, Colorado River, DNA sequencing, All tags... Ecology, Flagstaff, Geography, Grand Canyon, Greenhouse Complex – NAU, Information Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Pluchea sericea, USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), arrowweed, biota, data release, gene by environment interactions, genetic data, genotype, greenhouse environment, greenhouse measurements, inundation, laboratory data, laboratory experiments, laboratory methods, plant growth, plant measurements, plant morphology, plant physiology, plant traits, plants (organisms), vascular plants, Fewer tags Data from the Capture and Collection of Non-Die-Off Seabirds Across Alaska This data package contains one table with morphometric and diet information for "non-die-off" seabirds captured and collected in southcentral and southwest Alaska. Data pertains to birds captured (live) or collected (lethally) including, bird identification numbers, sampling dates, geographic locations, body measurements, diets (from either stomach contents or regurgitated prey), and sex and age of the bird when discernible. Common Murres (Uria aalge) and Black-legged Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) were captured from their breeding colonies in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, 2016-2023. Kittiwakes, murres, Glaucous-winged Gulls (Larus glaucescens) and Horned Puffins (Fratercula corniculata) were collected in Prince William... Categories: Data; Tags: Alaska, Animals/vertebrates, Aquatic birds, Aquatic ecology, Aquatic ecosystems, All tags... Aquatic sciences, Biota, Capturing (animals), Coastal ecosystems, Community ecology, Cook Inlet, Diets, Ecology, Environment, Field inventory and monitoring, Food web, Gulf of Alaska, Marine ecosystems, Morphology (biological), Prince William Sound, Specimen collecting, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Unalaska Island, Waders/gulls/auks and allies, Wildlife biology, Fewer tags Change in greater sage-grouse habitat suitability 15-years post simulated fire event and non-targeted sagebrush transplants (2015-2030) Here, we present changes in greater sage-grouse nesting habitat suitability that represents habitat before a simulated fire event and post-fire event after simulating the planting of sagebrush. The planting design used here reflects a single-year (maximum-effort; me) habitat restoration effort where we used several small (ss) patches with low density (ld) planting of sagebrush. The planting was not targeted for nesting habitat, and the data reflects the change in simulated habitat conditions between 2015 and 2030. To assess the degree to which transplanting sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) could quickly restore former sage-grouse habitat and the strategies by which Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter,... Tags: Fire, Greater sage-grouse, Habitat selection, NV, Nevada, All tags... Planting design, Sagebrush, State-and-transition model, Transplant, Tuscarora, United States, Vegetation restoration, Vegetation transition, biota, environment, Fewer tags Salvator merianae trapping in Georgia, USA Argentine Giant Tegu lizard (Salvator merianae) trap effort and count data collected in southern Georgia, USA in 2019. Non-target species associated with the traps were also documented, as were type of bait used and condition of the traps during trap checks. Categories: Data; Tags: Georgia, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, capturing (animals) Data for a lab study of the effects of diet variability on the interactions between a Lepidopteran herbivore and its parasitoid Data were collected from two laboratory rearing experiments conducted in 2018 of Trichoplusia ni caterpillars that had been parasitized by Copidosoma floridanum parasitoids. In the first experiment, parasitized caterpillars were fed artificial diets spiked with increasing concentrations of the phytochemical xanthotoxin in order to assess the effect of xanthotoxin on parasitoid success. In the second experiment, parasitized caterpillars were switched between diets with differing xanthotoxin concentration, such that all caterpillars experienced the same mean xanthotoxin concentration over their lives, but different treatments experienced different variability in xanthotoxin concentration. Data were recorded on caterpillar... Categories: Data; Tags: USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, chemical ecology, herbivory, parasitoid, All tags... top-down control, variability, Fewer tags Predictive Model of Burn Severity (dNBR) in the Mojave Desert This raster dataset represents spatially explicit predictions of burn severity (dNBRPredict.tif) in the Mojave Desert based on models developed from data on the difference normalized burn ratio (dNBR) within perimeters of fires greater than 405 hectares that burned between 1984 to 2010. Raster resolution equals 30 meters, projection equals UTM Zone 11N. Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Grass-fire cycle, Mojave Desert, Mojave Desert, Predictive models, Random forests, All tags... biota, burn severity, dNBR, desert ecosystems, disturbance, ecosystems, field methods, fire, fire frequency, fire regimes, fires, geographic information systems, heterogeneity, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, plants (organisms), remote sensing, spatial models, vegetation, Fewer tags Time series of circuit-based relative flow patterns for sagebrush structural connectivity from 1985 to 2020 This raster dataset quantifies the relative flow patterns of structural sagebrush connectivity in the sagebrush biome at 270-meter resolution. Connectivity was calculated using an omnidirectional circuit-based algorithm, with sources, targets, and conductance based on sagebrush fractional component from the RCMAP sagebrush products for 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. Normalized cumulative current density was used to represent relative flow of connectivity and binned into 3 relative flow classes (impeded, diffuse, and channelized flow). We calculated the relative flow temporal trends for channelization and impedance between 1985 and 2020 to identify areas that were becoming more channelized or... Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, connectivity, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat fragmentation, sagebrush, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, spatial analysis, structural connectivity, terrestrial ecosystems, time series analysis, time series datasets, Fewer tags Time series of circuit-based sagebrush structural connectivity from 1985 to 2020 This raster dataset quantifies the structural sagebrush connectivity in the sagebrush biome at 270-meter resolution. Connectivity was calculated using an omnidirectional circuit-based algorithm, with sources, targets, and conductance based on sagebrush fractional component from the RCMAP sagebrush products for 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. Cumulative current density was used to represent connectivity and binned into 20 quantile-based classes. Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, biota, connectivity, environment, geoscientificInformation, habitat fragmentation, sagebrush, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, shrubland, shrubland ecosystems, shrublands, spatial analysis, structural connectivity, terrestrial ecosystems, time series analysis, time series datasets, Fewer tags Nutrient and trace element results for the U.S. Geological Survey vernal ponds study, Pleasant Grove, New Jersey, 2022-23 This data release contains the concentration results for basic water-quality constituent class parameters (water temperature, pH, turbidity, and specific conductance), total nitrogen, total phosphorous, chloride, and trace elements in surface-water samples collected from two subsites within two vernal pools near Pleasant Grove, New Jersey in 2022-23. In the winter (December 2022 and February 2023) samples were collected at opposing ends of the ponds, or wherever ponding was sufficient for a sample to be taken. An additional sample was collected in July 2023 during the amphibian breeding season. The number of samples collected during each sampling event varied based on water availability and in July 2023 only one... Tags: InlandWaters, Ions, Jackson Township, New Jersey, Nutrients, All tags... Pine Barrens Treefrog, Pleasant Grove, Surface water quality, Trace metals, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:65b188e8d34e36a39044c48a, Vernal pond, Water quality, biota, environment, Fewer tags Provisional documented known and probable grizzly bear mortalities in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 2024 (Provisional Release, updated 2024-09-03) These data are preliminary or provisional and are subject to revision. They are being provided to meet the need for timely best science. The data have not received final approval by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and are provided on the condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from the authorized or unauthorized use of the data. The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) evaluates mortalities for population segments within the DMA by deriving estimates of total mortality for independent-age (2 years or older) females and independent-age males, including estimates of unknown/unreported mortalities based on Cherry et al. (2002). We then determine... Categories: Data, Data Release - In Progress; Tags: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Montana, United States, All tags... Ursus arctos, Wyoming, biota, ecology, grizzly bear, human-caused mortality, management removal, mortalities, natural mortality, Fewer tags Gonadosomatic index and histology data for Lake Trout in Yellowstone Lake, 2014 The data set includes fish weight, gonad weight; and for a subset of individuals, histological stage of gonad development for Lake Trout caught in Yellowstone Lake, WY. Data were collected throughout the ice-free season of 2014. Categories: Data; Tags: Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, biota, ecology, fish, All tags... fishery management, life sciences, Fewer tags Evapotranspiration Deficit We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer. The statistically downscaled dataset is: MACAv2-METDATA: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou & Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013) Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to... Tags: MACAv2-METDATA, United States, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, effects of climate change, environment, All tags... evaporation, hydrologic processes, runoff, snow and ice cover, soil moisture, Fewer tags Fish communities in Shenandoah Valley streams, 2021 From 16 June to 30 July, 2021, a Virginia Tech team of 4-6 sampled the fish community in 30 Shenandoah Valley streams (Virginia and West Virginia, USA) as part of a larger stream-health study including other teams who surveyed geomorphology, water quality, flow, temperature, macroinvertebrates, and fish health at the same 30 streams. The fish community team also sampled three additional bonus streams (SiteID's FOLL, NAKE, and TUMB) during 19-22 August, 2021. These 33 streams had upstream drainage areas of 7 to 46 sq. km and included 4 James River tributaries (SiteID's POAG, MLRB, CEDR, PISG), one Potomac River tributary (HARL), and 28 Shenandoah River tributaries. At each stream, we sampled fish from two reaches... Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Augusta, Berkeley, Clarke, Ecology, Jefferson, All tags... Maury, Potomac, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Virginia, Warren, West Virginia, biota, community ecology, farming, field sampling, fish, freshwater ecosystems, river systems, Fewer tags Northeast Sleeper Species Database (ver. 2.0, May 2024) Sleeper populations are established populations of introduced species whose population growth is limited by one or more abiotic or biotic conditions. Sleeper populations pose an invasion risk if a change in those limiting conditions, such as climate change, enables population growth and invasion. With thousands of established species, it is critical that we identify and prioritize potential sleepers. Here, we identified non-native plants established in the northeastern United States with high impacts and the potential to expand with climate change. We focused on 118 taxa regulated by one or more state outside the Northeast plus 61 taxa recorded as invasive globally and under consideration for regulation in the Northeast.... Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Northeast United States, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, climate change, invasive plants, All tags... population growth, sleeper species, Fewer tags Airsoft electric gun evaluation on Brown Treesnakes, Guam, 2016 The data set consists of 2 spreadsheets from Airsoft Electric Gun (AEG) trials on brown treesnakes. AEG snake wound data contains AEG results from guns equipped with 0.39 gram ammunition (plastic pellets ) that were fired at dead and live snakes from distances of 4, 8, and 12 m to measure tissue-penetration depth, and noted if (a) the pellet was lodged inside the peritoneal cavity, (b) the pellet had completely passed through and left the body, (c) the pellet appeared to have damaged the vertebral column, (d) ribs were broken, and (e) any internal organs appeared to be damaged. AEG live snake ballistic data contains information on limited AEG trials with live snakes shot at distances of 4, 8, and 12 m and their... Categories: Data; Tags: Guam, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, invasive species, pest control Permafrost characterization at the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX): Geophysical and related field data collected from 2018-2020 Geophysical measurements and related field data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Alaska Peatland Experiment (APEX) site in Interior Alaska from 2018 to 2020 to characterize subsurface thermal and hydrologic conditions along a permafrost thaw gradient. The APEX site is managed by the Bonanza Creek LTER (Long Term Ecological Research). In April 2018, seven boreholes were emplaced to depths of 2.3-2.5 meters (m) to allow for repeat logging with downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to quantify the spatial and temporal variations in unfrozen water content within active-layer and permafrost soils. NMR data were collected on ten separate occasions between April 2018 and October 2020. In June... Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Active layer thickness, Alaska, Bonanza Creek, Borehole nuclear magnetic resonance, Disturbance, All tags... Electrical resistivity tomography, Fairbanks North Star, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Hydrologic processes, Land Change Science Program, Permafrost, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), electrical resistivity imaging, environment, field monitoring stations, geoscientificInformation, hydrologic processes, permafrost, soil moisture, soil temperature, Fewer tags North American Grid-Based Offshore Sampling Frame: Caribbean This shapefile represents the offshore grid-based sampling frame intended for use with the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat). The grid consists of 10 km x 10 km cells spanning the oceanic waters in the Caribbean Sea. Tags: Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Jamaica, NABat, All tags... 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