Data

This dataset is a "catalog of literature" produced in support of a review paper titled: "What Goes with the Flow: A Review of Linkages among Climate Change, Low-Flows, Water Quality, and Instream Flow Management Response across the United States". The dataset consists of six tabular sheets, each of them containing information critical to the review paper: a summary of search terms used...

This dataset provides the plot-level data of the relative cover of ten different plant associations derived from a structural topic model and resistance and resilience metrics for predicting their abundances. Data comes from four different fires across the Great Basin: the 2007 Murphy Fire, 2012 Rush Fire, 2012 Holloway Fire, and the 2015 Soda Fire. Additional data utilized in the cross...

These data were compiled for a study that investigated the effects of experimentally imposed seasonal droughts (cool season drought, warm season drought, ambient) and drought recovery on plant community dynamics in a mixed dryland ecosystem. In 2015, U.S. Geological Survey ecologists began recording vegetation and soil moisture data in 36 experimental plots which manipulated...

The exotic grass-fire cycle is degrading semiarid rangelands, such as the vast areas of shrub-steppe in North America now invaded by fire-promoting cheatgrass. Chemical- or bio-herbicides are sprayed onto soils to inhibit the invaders, but information on chemical- or bio-herbicide effects on plant communities is limited. We asked how the plant community responded to the bioherbicide...

Protection of intact habitat from the spread of invasive plants is a global priority, especially where the invaders alter wildfire occurrence. Invasion of perennial sagebrush-steppe ecosystems by cheatgrass and other fire-promoting exotic annual grasses (EAGs) is one of the most notorious examples of this problem. Protection and expansion of the remaining intact "core" habitat sagebrush...

These data were compiled to document changes to plant community composition following large-scale energy development. The objective of our study was to evaluate plant diversity responses to energy development at multiple scales, and to compare plant diversity within solar panel microsites. These data were collected between 2023 and 2024 in the Mojave Desert, approximately 50 km northeast...

These data are derived from laser scanning surveys of the San Andreas Fault and surrounding groves of trees in Fort Ross State Historic Park, California. Surveys were performed on May 13, 2013 and June 19–20, 2024. The second survey was performed specifically to document the morphology of trees that show signs of past earthquake damage, four of which were sampled for dendroseismology...

This data release is composed of point cloud data from a terrestrial lidar survey, GNSS survey data, and derivative raster data. The data were collected on November 09, 2023. This survey was used to characterize a debris flow basin near El Portal, California for the National Park Service.

This release contains data from two parts of a project investigating the impacts of Wild Hogs on native wildlife. The first is a summary of Point Count Survey Data conducted during the summers of 2023 and 2024 to evaluate the impacts of hog presence and damage on the distribution of the avian community. The second part of the data release is DNA metabarcoding diet data from wild hogs...

Rare earth elements are critical mineral commodities typically extracted together as a group of 15 elements (lanthanides plus yttrium) from either 1) hard rock ores or 2) ion-adsorption clay deposits. The locations of hard rock mines targeting carbonatite and peralkaline magmatic rare earth deposits are well constrained and typically mined using conventional open-pit or underground...

This data set provides polar bear (Ursus maritimus) microsatellite genotypes derived from 21 loci (CPH9, CXX20, CXX110, CXX173, G1A, G10B, G10C, G1D, G10H, G10J, G10L, G10M, G10P, G10U, G10X, Mu26, Mu50, Mu51, Mu59, MSUT-2, REN145P07). Blood serum and hair samples for microsatellite genetic analysis were collected from polar bears from the Chukchi Sea between 1986 and 2019. Serum samples...

This data set provides polar bear microsatellite genotypes derived from twenty loci (CPH9, CXX20, CXX110, CXX173, G1A, G10B, G10C, G1D, G10H, G10J, G10L, G10M, G10P, G10U, G10X, MU50, MU51, MU59, MSUT2, 145P07). Blood, buccal swab, skin, and hair samples for microsatellite genetic analysis were collected from polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea between 1981 and 2023. Blood, buccal...