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The Great Basin of the Western United States hosts dozens of terminal lake systems that provide critical, abundant, and diverse ecosystems that support migratory bird species, local wildlife, and nearby communities. Water quality varies across terminal lakes in the region depending on basin geology, anthropogenic water use, climate, hydrology, and water quantity. Seasonal and long-term...

This data release contains model input files, workflows, and results supporting a proof-of-concept that combines hydro-economic modeling, scenario-based modeling, and multi-objective optimization to evaluate pumping curtailment in an over-allocated basin in the Western United States. The previously published hydro-economic model combines bespoke python economic calculations with a...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coral Reef Ecosystems Studies project provides science that helps resource managers tasked with the stewardship of coral reef resources. This data release provides underwater temperature data recorded every fifteen minutes since 2019 at three coral reef locations in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The sites are on the fringing reef of the National Park...

This U.S. Geological Survey data release presents watershed model input point data aggregated for the Great Basin Hydrologic Province and a portion of the Northern Mojave Desert. The original source data was aggregated onto a 200-meter grid, and then converted to a point dataset with each point representing the centroid of a grid cell. The dataset includes information on elevation...

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 study provides data on the reproductive biology and age of Black Carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) from various rivers in the Mississippi River Basin. A total of 549 fish samples, collected opportunistically between 2015 and 2023, underwent macroscopic and histological staging to assess reproductive development. Specimens were captured by commercial fishermen and biologists and sent to...

This data set includes survival data for five fish species [Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch); Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis); Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss); Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus dolomieu); Largemouth Bass (Micropterus nigricans)] exposed to various concentrations of 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ) for up to 96 hours and then held in clean water for one week post exposure...

This data release includes citation details, abstracts, and results of a semi-automated content analysis for 88 publications we identified on the topic of the potential effects of traffic from oil and gas development on invasive annual grasses. Our goal was to develop a structured literature search and semi-automated content analysis process to compile and provide an initial...

Data include counts and locations of fish captured in the mainstem of the Cuyahoga River from 1984 through 2024. Data were collected by USGS (2022-2024) and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (1984-2021) using standardized electrofishing techniques. Data also include site variables such as physical and chemical properties as well as dam removals that occurred within the river basin...

Data were collected in association with the application of visible light in laboratory and field settings to elicit behavioral responses from the invasive virile crayfish (Faxonius virilis). Data for laboratory light trials include water temperature, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity, crayfish sex, weight and size, light lux, proportion of time spent in each zone (lit versus unlit)...

Data include locations where shorthead redhorse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum) and silver redhorse (Moxostoma anisurum) were detected following tagging events in the Sandusky and Cuyahoga Rivers, Ohio, USA. Location data were obtained primarily through stationary acoustic receivers, with additional locations from radio towers and mobile acoustic and radio surveys in the Cuyahoga River. The...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area (WMA) - Ecosystems Mission Area (EMA) EcoDrought project is comprised of interdisciplinary teams across the United States focused on the nexus between drought and ecosystem processes. To characterize streamflow conditions in EcoDrought study areas, gage height (stage) and water temperature data were collected using submersible pressure