Data

After flooding events, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) identifies and surveys high-water marks (HWMs) to inform flood assessments, research, and water resource management. These HWMs are empirical evidence of a flood's maximum water surface elevation in a given location. The documented and surveyed HWMs are subsequently published to the USGS Flood Event Viewer for long-term...

Monitoring plant life stages (i.e., phenology) is pertinent to land management as phenological dynamics reflect the vegetation response to changes in weather and disturbance and to changes in vegetation composition. Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) invasion has threatened habitats and economies across the western U.S. The phenology of EAG species, such as cheatgrass, differs from native...

This data release includes 1) results from intact sediment core experiments to measure nutrient release and uptake from sediments in the Maumee River mouth and adjacent nearshore areas. 2) physical and chemical properties of sediments sampled at the same sites where sediments were collected for intact core experiments, plus additional sites in the area. 3) Results of water column...

We conducted an infection experiment to evaluate how little brown bats from two distinct hibernacula in Michigan responded to a standardized exposure to the causative agent of white-nose syndrome. The dataset includes individual bat survival, body weight measurements, infection load assessments, and histological analyses. Additionally, we collected in situ infection load data from bats...

These data represent two years of trapping effort for invasive black and white tegu lizards (Salvator merianae) in South Florida. Over the course of the two years, traps were deployed in the same locations, but the type of bait in the trap varied. Bait treatment types consisted of a single real chicken egg (traditionally used in the past), 3 real eggs, 3 fake wooden eggs, 2 fake wooden...

This data set was collected as part of structured decision-making workshops designed to build Bayesian Decision Networks of habitat management actions in wetlands of the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture region. The models were created as part of an adaptive management framework to reduce uncertainty about management actions. We used formal elicitation process for expert judgment where...

These data were compiled to estimate vulnerability to multiple drivers of ecological change at the landscape scale in southeastern Utah based on sensitivity to state change and spatial exposure of Ecological Site Groups (ESGs) developed by Nauman et al. (2022). The objectives of our study were to: (1) estimate sensitivity of ESGs to aridification, livestock grazing, invasive species...

This report compiles structural orientations of rock fabrics measured at outcrops of metamorphic and plutonic rocks in part of the Ruby Mountains metamorphic core complex. Measurements are reported for foliations, lineations, elongation mylonitic lineations, fold axes, fold asymmetry, and fold axial planes, many of which are plotted directly on the Geologic map of the Ruby Dome...

These data include information from 74 sampled stream reaches in the Osage Ecological Drainage Unit (EDU) within the Osage River Basin, Missouri. Streams with a Strahler order from three to six were systematically sampled to assess Niangua darter resource selection across three spatial scales macrohabitat, reach, and watershed scale. Variables used to explain Niangua darter presence at...

This dataset consists of a single table of data collected from video of polar bears feeding at remains of subsistence harvested bowhead whales on Barter Island. The table includes focal observations of individual bears to record the type of whale tissue consumed (blubber, muscle, etc.) and the number of bites taken by bears from food items over periods of 30 seconds to 12 minutes.

This dataset consists of a single table of feeding trial data collected from 18 polar bears at zoos in the United States and Europe. Bears were fed meat on or off bone, fat, and ground meat. The duration of feeding, amount of food consumed, and number of bites taken were recorded.

This data release includes field observations and laboratory data for two trenches excavated across the Lost River fault zone, Idaho, in September 2019. The field sites include the Sheep Creek site (44.282541 degrees N, 113.941193 degrees W) on the southernmost Warm Springs section and the Arentson Gulch site (44.247816 degrees N, 113.918554 degrees W) on the northernmost Thousand...