Data

This dataset includes geospatial results of the following Urban Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (Urban InVEST) ecosystem service models for the years 2001, 2011, and 2021 for metropolitan areas in the contiguous United States: Urban Cooling, Urban Nature Access, Urban Stormwater Retention, and Carbon Storage & Sequestration. The Urban Cooling results include heat...

The dataset includes processing scripts and 42 raster files of predicted change (delta) in annual vegetation phenology under future climate scenarios in the U.S. Southwest, using different combinations of phenology metrics, time periods, and emissions scenarios. Delta values are median projected changes across 10 global climate models and are relative to a reference period of 1981-2010

To meet the climate change planning and adaptation needs of Alaska managers and decision makers, I developed a set of statewide summaries of available climate change projections that can be further subset using GIS techniques for requests by management unit, watershed, or other location. This facilitates the development of tailored climate futures for decision makers’ regional or...

Coqui frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus in Puerto Rico are threatened by projected warming and drying trends. This study isolates relative humidity as a performance variable affecting desiccation tolerance in Eleutherodactylus antillensis, a species that spans both high elevation (cool, moist) and low elevation (hot, dry) environments across the island. Specimens from Maricao (high...

Lakes in the Midwestern United States support valuable recreational, subsistence, and tribal fisheries. Fisheries assessments that support management decisions are typically conducted within political boundaries and at intervals that limit their spatial and temporal scope. Data aggregation across lakes and regions facilitates research extending across ecological gradients and...

These data cover Devils Lake Basin of Northern Great Plains (NGP) region, North Dakota. We aimed to understand the mechanism of the Devils Lake responses and basin-wide hydrologic change under a wet-climatic regime using a process-based and cold region hydrologic model. The data include areal measurements (km2) of each of the Hydrological Response Units (HRUs) that were modeled.

This data release contains data used within the PRMS CONUS Futures Portal including descriptions of data layers in the Uncertainty Analysis section, reference model performance at stream gage locations, and model performance metrics for climate model based simulations. 1) The description of variables available in the Uncertainty Analysis tab include variable short name, variable long...

This dataset contains CSV files for raw and processed stream biological data used in an analysis of temporal synchrony of proglacial rivers. Data include water quality metrics, fish survey data, and biomass calculations.

Aspen stands (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are declining in western U.S. forests due to drought, changing climate, and altered disturbance regimes. Management of aspen has focused on promoting vegetative suckering, which requires viable rootstock. With increasing wildfire frequency and severity in the West, there are opportunities for aspen reforestation post-fire. We tested how deadwood...

The area burned in high severity fire as well as the proportion of fires burning at high severity have been increasing in southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests since the 1980s, with over 100,000 hectares burning in many recent years and many fires burning at over 40% moderate to high severity. These fires often contain large patches (>100 ha) of 100% tree mortality. This...

We estimated thermal preference, acclimated chronic exposure, metabolic thermal optima, and critical thermal maximum for four species in the Notropis genus during 2022-2024. Thermal preference was estimated for Blacknose Shiner (Notropis heterolepis) and Ozark Shiner (N. ozarcanus) for individuals acclimated at both 22°C and 26°C for a minimum of two weeks using a behavioral shuttlebox...

Low-level stratiform clouds modulate California's coastal climate during the warm season. Previous work describing the seasonal and daily variability of coastal low cloudiness (CLC) suggests that in July, August, and September southern California's CLC is under the influence of an additional driver, which has less impact in northern California. In this work, we introduce the link in...