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Efforts to improve water quality by changing the amount of nutrients in the water can affect fish habitats and fisheries. This makes it important to coordinate fishery management and water quality efforts, taking into account how fish behave in response to changes in their habitat. This data set combines information from acoustic telemetry, which tracks the movements of native lake...

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)...

We examined the effects of local and landscape level metrics on Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus melodus) daily nest survival rates using a long-term dataset from coastal New Jersey. Local-level metrics thought to be important determinants of nest success were collected from 1993 to 2016. Landscape metrics were examined over a from 2006 to 2016.

Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 Earth imaging acquisitions are guided by their respective Long Term Acquisition Plan (LTAP), that has been established for each satellite observatory. The LTAP is structured around the Worldwide Reference System-2 (WRS-2) grid, which partitions Landsat swath imaging of the Earth into ~185 × 180 km scenes using a path/row notation. These WRS-2 scenes represent the

This data product consists of raster digital data of population change and abundance estimates for 520 species of North American birds estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Estimates of trend (yearly % change) from 1966-2022 and mean abundances for the interval 2018-2022 are spatially smoothed from data for each species collected on BBS routes. Metadata for the...

This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 546 species of birds in 4 spreadsheets containing trend estimates and annual indices for 2 time periods. Estimates are derived for each species using the 1 of 4 alternative models, and a cross

This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 544 species of birds in five spreadsheets containing trend estimates for three time periods and annual indices for two time periods. Estimates are derived for each species using the 1 of 4...

The U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center’s (USGS SPCMSC) Core Archive in St. Petersburg, FL contains a collection of coral-reef cores collected from throughout the Florida Keys reef tract (FKRT; Fig. 1). In a previous study (Toth and Stathakopoulos, 2019), USGS researchers analyzed the upper, Holocene (~11,700 years ago to present) sections of those...

This data release contains two sets (reflective and dissipative) of synthesized barred beach profiles based on conditions in the University of New South Wales Water Research Laboratory's 0.9-meter wave flume. The profiles were collected using the methods outlined in Conti and others (2024) and then synthesized using the functions and relationships described by Stephens and others (2010)...

Decision support tools play a critical role in assisting coastal decision-makers in managing coastal systems; yet there are challenges to developing tools that align with the functional needs of end-users. By combining usability testing and contextual inquiry methods, we put forth a hybrid approach for collecting user feedback within the context of federal government research. This...

These datasets include photographic images of thin sections created from hand samples and drill core collected from mafic to ultramafic rocks from different locations across the U.S., shapefiles representing the locations of the hand samples and/or drill core collars, and images showing examples of the approximate scale on the thin section images. The samples were collected in order to...

This project aimed to develop methods to estimate spatially explicit survival of wildlife from telemetry data.