Data

The data set evaluates the relationship between water surface area and angler effort on Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Over the last 30+ years, water levels have expanded/contracted in Devil's laking owing to variation in climate (precipitation). Positive changes (i.e. expansion) in the lake surface area results in increased fish production and angling opportunities that positively...

American kestrels (Falco sparverius, hereafter kestrel) have been declining across most North America at a steady rate of approximately −1.4% per year since the 1960s. Though kestrel populations have been intensively studied throughout their North American range, no long-term trends in demographic parameters (vital rates) have been detected nor have potential causes of decline been...

Annual colony counts of American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at Gunnison Island, Utah, USA, and selected environmental covariates hypothesized to influence colony population dynamics at this location. Environmental covariates include mean springtime Great Salt Lake water levels, minimum springtime air temperature, mean annual Pacific Decadal Oscillation index values, and...

This dataset contains detection histories from temporally replicated crayfish surveys used to model the occupancy of seven native Faxonius species. F. nana and F. meeki brevis are considered threatened by the American Fisheries Society, whereas F. faxonious and F. virilis commonly invade outside their native range. Surveys were conducted at 88 sites across Northeast Oklahoma from 2020...

We collected high-resolution vertical temperature data from a Maine lake where several southern range-edge cold-water fishes occur. Temperature data were collected every 15 minutes on loggers spaced every 3 m, and temperature was estimated between loggers at 0.1 m intervals We used temperature data to inform threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) bioenergetics simulations within...

This dataset contains presence/absence records for buffalofishes sampled at 46 unique sites in the lower Red River catchment of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas during 2021-2023. Each site was surveyed 1-3 times during high-falling hydrographs (April - September). Survey and site associated environmental data are also included. Survey-associated data includes sampling effort, water...

This dataset contains a systematic compilation of catch-and-release mortality estimates for freshwater fishes in lotic (riverine) environments extracted from published studies spanning 1978-2022. We reviewed 74 lotic catch-and-release studies across six biogeographic realms, 30 freshwater ecoregions and eight major habitat types, and derived 76 quantitative mortality estimates from 50 of...

These data contain spatial location data from the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia (above 750 m) and their associated elevation, landform index and soil pH values used to create a generalized linear model predicting where red spruce (Picea rubens) could occur or be planted.

A total of 1796 tree seedlings comprised of 11 species (eight families) native to the region were selected to research the possible influence of plant traits and weeding maintenance on seedling survival. The data set includes five years of plant measurements and survival data (fate) for 1796 individual seedlings planted throughout 22 plots in 4 stands with 50% of the plots receiving...

These data describe counts of bird species, descriptions of their spatial and temporal locations from the observer, and their breeding behaviors. The data were collected between May and July of 2023, 2024 and 2025 by 5 individual observers. The observers also collected data on the date and time of observations, the weather conditions, and other variables influencing the detection of...

This dataset was collected during the summer of 2024 within the Raystown Lake Project area (United States Army Corps of Engineers), within south-central Pennsylvania. Acoustic recording units were deployed across the project area to gather data on bat acoustic activity of all species that could potentially be present. This dataset contains identification data, summary identification data...

This dataset contains known occurrence locations for Myotis lucifugus in interior Alaska derived from the North American Bat Monitoring program and randomly generated pseudo-absence locations. Each location has a suite of vegetation measurements (percent cover measured at 1-km resolution) derived from the Alaska Center for Conservation Science (Nawrocki et al. 2023).