Data

This data release contains a set of 21st-century burned-area projections to explicitly account for fire-fuel feedbacks in boreal North America for the years 2010 - 2100. Wildfire regimes in the boreal forest biome of North America are vulnerable to shifts in climate, and significant intensifications in area burned are anticipated under many 21st-century global climate model (GCM)...

This data set contains information on the occurrence and abundance of intertidal marine invertebrates and macro algae collected across five islands with 10 sites in the Boston Harbor in 2023. This data was collected using an intertidal biodiversity monitoring protocol developed specifically for the mixed coarse substrate habitat found on the inner islands of Boston Harbor, including...

These data provide monthly NDVI and pixel reliability values from MODIS imagery for 12-months prior to and 12-months following wildland fire occurrences on each island. Burned areas were derived from higher resolution imagery (eg. MAXAR) and burned pixels (250m resolution) were defined as those for which burned areas intersected with 25% or more of each MODIS pixel (indicated by...

This dataset contains an input of calculated average monthly rainfall values for Guam and drought time series data that covers two islands. The Guam drought time series is based on the standardized precipitation index (SPI) three-month intervals (SPI-3) and twelve-month intervals (SPI-12). Calculated from monthly rainfall values from 1954 through 2020 were produced for the whole land...

USGS’s Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are undertaking research to support southeastern states and partners engaged in the process of preparing revisions of State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs). This effort focuses specifically on integration of climate change into SWAPs. This data product provides a collation of estimates of species

USGS’s Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have launched a research effort to support southeastern states and other partners engaged in the process of preparing revisions of State Wildlife Action Plans for 2025. Specifically, this effort focuses on supporting attempts to integrate climate change considerations into SWAPs. Different...

The objective of this project was to create a shoreline inventory for Hawai‘i Island, the largest and most diverse island in the Hawaiian archipelago. This was done via the collection and processing of high-resolution (

This dataset details individual species and natural habitat vulnerability rankings, including contextual study-specific information. This data was collected from original publications found through a literature search. Information is cumulative to include climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) results summarized in Staudinger et al. (2015) and published as of December 2023.

This dataset contains rasters of vegetation refugia and habitat exposure variables for the state of California. Two potential future climate scenarios were used: warmer and wetter (CNRM-CM5), and hotter and drier (MIROC-ESM) & 2 emission scenarios: a higher level one that represents our current trajectory (RCP 8.5) and a lower level one that represents a more optimistic scenario (RCP 4.5...

We simulated a 3-hour, 1-km spatially seamless surface soil moisture (SSM) dataset (called STF_SSM) in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) using a virtual image pair-based spatio-temporal fusion method. This proposed approach effectively fuses the distinct advantages of two long-term SSM datasets, namely, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L4 SSM product and the Crop Condition and...

Tree loss is increasing rapidly due to drought- and heat-related mortality and intensifying fire activity. Consequently, the fate of many forests depends on the ability of juvenile trees to withstand heightened climate and disturbance anomalies. Extreme climatic events, such as droughts and heatwaves, are increasing in frequency and severity, and trees in mountainous regions must contend...

Defining a realized niche using key habitat components like temperature, water clarity, and dissolved oxygen (DO) is important to understanding how distributions and demographics of freshwater fish populations may respond to environmental changes. However, habitat preferences are often defined in a laboratory setting and may not accurately reflect preferred habitat in nature. To define a...