AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Bird Abundance And Diversity In Coastal Lagoons of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument, 2012

This dataset consists of a list of birds with subjective abundance and nesting behaviors observed in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument in 2012. 

Source: Coastal Lagoon Community and Ecological Monitoring in the Southern Chukchi Sea National Park Units  ~ 2015 Field Sampling Report ~ Trevor Haynes (UAF), Martin Robards (WCS), Marguerite Tibbles (WCS), Tahzay Jones (NPS), Alex Whiting (Native Village of Kotzebue), Mark Wipfli (UAF)

Column,ColumnDescription
Abundance,Birds per sighting (including young). Low (1-9 birds) Medium (10-99 birds) High (100-999) Very high (>999).
AbundanceLevel,Abundance values converted to numeric values.
Common Name,Common name.
Lagoon,Lagoon.
NestingOrWithYoung,Nesting or with young. Boolean.
Scientific Name,Scientific name.
Year,Year.

Tags: aukulak, bird, ikpek, kotlik, krusenstern, kupik, lagoon, sisualik, tasaychek, water
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Invasive Plant Corridors - BICY, BISC, and EVER (2011-2024)

The data release indicates the locations surveyed and the exotic species detected while conducting exotic plant "corridors of invasiveness" surveys in five regions in South Florida National Park (Biscayne National Park, Everglades National Park East Region, Big Cypress National Preserve South, Everglades National Park West Region, and Big Cypress National Preserve North). This survey data was the result of following the Corridors of Invasiveness protocol (Shamblin, R.B., K.R.T. Whelan, and Rachel M. Vargas. 2013. South Florida/Caribbean Network early detection protocol for invasive exotic plants: Corridors of invasiveness. Natural Resource Report NPS/SFCN/NRR - 2013/675. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado) for the first years of the project, and then was updated in 2023 as Shamblin, R.B., K.R.T. Whelan, M. Londono, and J. Patterson. 2022. South Florida/Caribbean Network early detection protocol for exotic plants: Corridors of Invasiveness. Natural Resource Report NPS/SFCN/NRR-2022/2420. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.
The primary objective of the Corridors of Invasiveness protocol is to detect newly emerging exotic plant species in the National Parks of South Florida along the most likely routes, or “corridors of invasiveness”, i.e., trails, roadways, campgrounds, and boat launches. Surveys are conducted by an experienced botanist along with a team member who can treat small infestations. Exotics are treated immediately, when possible (less than 5 mins of work) or are reported to park staff and through Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System (EDDMapS), a multi-agency web-based mapping system for invasive species.
There were 3 survey time periods: Initial surveys 2011 to 2015, First resample period 2016 to 2019 (covid prevented sampling in 2020), second resample period 2021 to 2024). There are approximately 100 corridors of invasiveness sample sites in the 5 regions. The majority of which have been sampled 3 times. Some sites were dropped from the surveys as they are no longer active camp sites or no longer accessible, and some sites were added. Surveys typically occur in the months of May and June. Sites are survey by hiking, driving, and boating. Typically, walking surveys take between 5 to 20 minutes to complete at the sites

NOTE - Data for this data release was pulled from the corridors database and preliminarily cleaned and organized in May 2025. The data should undergo further QAQC before being used in analysis.

Tags: corridors-of-invasiveness, exotic, exotic-plants, invasive, invasive-plants, non-native-plants
Organization: Department of the Interior
Project dataset for assessing trends and vulnerabilities in the mutualism between whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Clark’s nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) in the Sierra region

This dataset represents inputs into a spatial model associated with a publication that assesses trends and vulnerabilities in the mutalism between whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Clark’s nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana, CLNU) in national parks of the Sierra-Cascade region. The study uses avian point-count data, whitebark pine distribution, and foxtail pine distribution data provided in collaboration through The Institute for Bird Populations and the U.S. National Park Service. 

These data are associated with national parks within the Sierra region, including Yosemite National Park (YOSE) and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI). For data associated with national parks within the Cascade region, including Mount Rainier National Park and North Cascades National Park Service Complex, please refer to: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2277917

The avian survey data represent the count of Clark's nutcracker individuals at observed at point-count monitoring stations, 2011-2016. Avian survey covariates include: ambient noise level, observer, date, hour, presence of forest cover, presence of dense vegetation cover, elevation, aspect, and slope. 

Whitebark pine coverage (YOSE and SEKI) and foxtail pine coverage (SEKI) are calculated using park vegetation mapping inventories. Vegetation data are provided here as links. 
YOSE: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2252295
SEKI: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2252079

For more information, please refer to: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227161

Tags: bird-data, birds, california, clarks-nutcracker, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, five-needle-pine, foxtail, foxtail-pine, kica, kings-canyon-national-park, national-park, nucifraga-columbiana, nutcracker, pinus-albicaulis, pinus-balfouriana, pinus-balfouriana-ssp-balfouriana, point-count, scrub-pine, seki, sequ, sequoia-and-kings-canyon-national-parks, sequoia-national-park, sierra-nevada, tree-surveys, white-pine, whitebark, whitebark-pine, yose, yosemite-national-park
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping, yuch, yukon-charley-rivers-national-preserve
Organization: Department of the Interior
Taxonomic tables for Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades National Parks

These tables provide taxonomic information pertaining to the collection and analysis of vegetation data for the North Coast and Cascades Network vegetation mapping projects for Mount Rainier, North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks. Table 1 lists the plant taxa that were documented at plots during the projects. For each entry, we give the current accepted scientific name according to Hitchcock and Cronquist (2018), the name used during fieldwork and analysis, the corresponding common name, the botanic family, physiognomic lifeform category, and the number of records from each NCCN park. Table 2 documents the sub-generic level taxa we created to make floristic analysis possible for taxa with small numbers of species-level records or composed of both species-level field calls with large numbers of genus-level calls. See the main park reports for more information about the floristic analysis and lumping process.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, floristics, genus, lifeform, mora, mount-rainier-national-park, nccn, noca, north-cascades-national-park, north-coast-and-cascades-network, olym, olympic-national-park, physiognomy, species, taxa, taxonomy, vegetation-classification, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-mapping, vip
Organization: Department of the Interior
Land Cover Summary Statistics Data Package for Greater Yellowstone Network Park Units

This report documents the acquisition of source data, and calculation of land cover summary statistics datasets for four National Park Service Greater Yellowstone Network park units and six custom areas of analysis: Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, Yellowstone National Park, and the six custom areas of analysis. The source data and land cover calculations are available for use within the National Park Service (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program. Land cover summary statistics datasets can be calculated for all geographic regions within the extent of the NPS; this report includes statistics calculated for the conterminous United States. The land cover summary statistics datasets are calculated from multiple sources, including Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium products in the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center products in the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) raster dataset. These summary statistics calculate land cover at up to three classification scales: Level 1, modified Anderson Level 2, and Natural versus Converted land cover. The output land cover summary statistics datasets produced here for the four Greater Yellowstone Network park units and six custom areas of analysis utilize the most recent versions of the source datasets (NLCD and LCMAP). These land cover summary statistics datasets are used in the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program, including the NPS Environmental Settings Monitoring Protocol and may be used by networks and parks for additional efforts.

Tags: land-cover, land-cover-change, land-use, landscape, landscape-change
Organization: Department of the Interior
2014 Surface Elevation and Vegetation Canopy Cover Surveys of Jamaica Bay, NY, Excel

This dataset contains the Excel files representing marsh surface elevation for points surveyed within a 20 m by 20 m grid pattern and their corresponding vegetation data of marshes in Jamaica Bay, NY.

Tags: canopy-cover, elevation, estuary, excel, gate, gateway-national-recreation-area, jamaica-bay, marsh-elevation, new-york, new-york-city, nps, rtk-gps, salt-marsh, spartina-alterniflora, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
SFCN Periphyton Monitoring Protocol Data Package (2008 - 2024): Site Condition, Total Phosphorus, and Diatom Data

A data package consisting of diatom, total phosphorus, and related data collected in Big Cypress National Preserve as part of the SFCN Periphyton Vital Signs protocol.

Periphyton is a microbial mat community that forms the base of the aquatic food web in South Florida wetlands such as the marshes in Everglades National Park (EVER) and the Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY). It is a vital component of these wetlands, contributing to critical functions such as primary production, nutrient cycling, and soil production and stabilization. Periphyton is sensitive to changes in hydropattern (water quantity and duration) and water quality. Changes to these ecosystem processes can quickly alter periphyton community structure (species composition and relative abundance), which in turn can create cascading effects through higher trophic levels. Thus, periphyton is an early and integrative indicator of local and regional changes to hydrology. 

The South Florida/Caribbean Network has implemented the monitoring of periphyton communities in Big Cypress National Preserve to assess the impact of hydrologic and water quality changes on the diatom community structure and total phosphorous (TP) concentrations of the periphyton mats.

The specific monitoring objectives are:
1) Identify any basins in the northwest section of Big Cypress National Preserve where periphyton community structure and periphyton TP content are different from an oligotrophic (low-nutrient) and unimpacted community signal. 

2) Document any temporal and/or spatial changes in the periphyton community structure and periphyton TP content showing progression towards an oligotrophic, unimpacted condition or a eutrophic (high-nutrient), impacted condition.

This dataset includes all data collected (both pilot and standard) between 2008 and 2025. 2025 sites are listed in this release alongside their field data, but lab results have yet to be received for these sites at this time.

Tags: basin, data-package, diatom, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-freshwater-invertebrates, periphyton, periphyton-dataset, periphyton-datasets, sfcn, tabular-dataset, total-phosphorus, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
Cigar Orchid Inventory at Big Cypress National Preserve 2021-2022 - Open Format Dataset

The cigar orchid is a Florida state-listed endangered species, made rare in southern Florida by historical over-collection for its unique beauty, in addition to habitat loss. It is largely restricted to a small number of cypress domes and freshwater sloughs in southwestern Florida, including the Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY). We established a baseline dataset on the population of cigar orchid at BICY, based on extensive field surveys within the following six regions: Fire Prairie Trail-East, Gator Hook Trails, and Florida Trail, Nobles Grade, North of Tamiami Trail (mainly the Skillet Strand), the Oasis strands, and North of I-75. These regions were chosen based on past or current known occurrences of cigar orchids. We conducted a total of 25 field searches of cigar orchids in BICY. We found a total of 85 cigar orchids and recorded their GPS locations along with their microhabitat information, i.e., host tree species, host tree DBH and height, and cardinal direction (i.e., face) on  host tree. The total search area across regions adds up to 284.9 ha (i.e., 705 acres).

Tags: bicy, big-cypress-national-preserve, cigar-orchid, cowhorn-orchid, cypress-dome, cyrtopodium-punctatum, endangered-species, florida, freshwater-slough, imd, inventory, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation data from Valles Caldera National Preserve's Cerro Seco Unit 5 forest restoration project, 2016-2022

Vegetation data files from the Cerro Seco Unit 5 forest restoration project (thinning, prescribed slash burning) during 2016-2022.

Tags: bryophyta, forest-restoration, hornworts, mosses, non-vascular-land-plants, plant-succession, plantae, plants, prescribed-fire, thinning
Organization: Department of the Interior
Grasshopper and cricket (Orthoptera) data from the Valles Caldera National Preserve's Cerro Seco Unit 5 forest restoration project, 2017-2022

Database of grasshopper and cricket species and abundances from a 6-year monitoring study to assess impacts of forest restoration (thinning and prescribed burning of slash) on the Orthoptera community (grasshoppers and crickets) on the Cerro Seco Unit 5, 2017-2022.

Tags: acrididae, forest-thinning, grasshoppers, katydids, long-horned-grasshoppers, orthoptera, prescribed-fire, rhaphidophoridae, short-horned-grasshoppers, slash-burn, succession, tettigoniidae, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
Big Thicket National Preserve-Turkey Creek Unit Breeding Bird Monitoring Data FY2014

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Landbird monitoring project for BITH Turkey Creek Unit. Data were collected by Jim Armacost through a contract with the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory in 2014. Data were entered into the Pointblue.org AKN database and exported to Excel 2010 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger. A separate reference is available for the Field Sheets that accompanies this data set.

Tags: breeding-birds, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, land-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont Monarch Tagging (Monarch Watch)

Citizen scientists at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont (GSMIT) tag monarch butterflies in Cades Cove, and around the Tremont campus. This effort is part of a broader project called Monarch Watch. You can learn more about Monarch Watch here: http://www.monarchwatch.org/tagmig/tag.htm

Tags: aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, beachy, butterfly, citizen-science, danaus-plexippus, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-invertebrate, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, monarch, monarch-butterfly, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-00554, tremont
Organization: Department of the Interior
Klamath Invasive Plant Monitoring Data Package 2009-2021

Invasive plant species are most likely to be exotic, as they can take advantage of more favorable growing conditions than they would normally receive in their natural habitats to spread quickly. Invasive species will outcompete and replace native vegetation, change water availability, and can affect how well a habitat functions ecologically, as well as affecting other natural resources. These effects can be vast and our understanding of the consequences is incomplete. Thus, the dynamic relationships among plants, animals, soil, and water established over long periods are at risk of being degraded in a brief period.

Prevention of plant invasions is the most effective approach to managing invasive species. When this fails, early detection of new species and populations is the best approach for monitoring this vital sign. This information can be quickly relayed to park managers for assessment and rapid treatment.

Since 2009, we have monitored exotic plants in all six parks in the Klamath Network.

Objectives are to:
Detect populations of selected invasive plants by sampling along roads, trails, and power line corridors, where introduction is most likely.
Provide the information to park management on a timely basis to allow effective management responses.
Develop and maintain a list of priority invasive plant species with greatest potential for spread and impact to park resources for monitoring in each park
Adapt spatial sampling as knowledge improves through monitoring.
Use monitoring data collected from this protocol and the vegetation protocol to estimate possible trends and develop and refine models of invasive species habitat requirements and of the most susceptible habitats (both along roads and trails as well as elsewhere).

We measure:
Presence/absence
Abundance
Habitat

Tags: ecological-data, ecological-monitoring, invasive-plants, long-term-monitoring, national-parks
Organization: Department of the Interior
Pacific Island Network Molokai Landbird Surveys Dataset 2021

In 2021, on the island of Molokai, reserves managed by The Nature Conservancy and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources; as well as Kalaupapa National Park were surveyed for landbirds and landbird habitat in order to provide information for monitoring long-term trends in forest bird distribution, density, and abundance. Based on the point-transect distance sampling history on Molakai, a 3,527-ha core area was defined to assess long-term population trends since 1979, when the first surveys were conducted. Areas of Kalaupapa National Park were excluded from the core area because of an intermittent survey schedule. However, this dataset provides all of the 2021 survey data including areas inside and outside the core area, which is denoted by “Core_Area”. A summary of the 2021 survey results for the core area and for Kalauapapa National Park will be provided in separate products, such as an NPS National Resource Report and a relevant scientific journal. The 2021 survey effort is expected to be repeated in collaboration with PACN, The Nature Conservancy, the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, and the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources every 5-6 years.

Tags: austin-trusts, biota, birds, division-of-fish-and-wildlife, kala, kalaupapa-national-historical-park, kamehameha-schools, landbirds, miala-inc, molokai, monitoring, p-l-castanera, point-counts, the-nature-conservancy, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Field data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of City Of Rocks National Reserve - Open Format Data Package

These data were converted from the originally delivered Microsoft Access PLOTs database from the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of City Of Rocks National Reserve.  These comma-delimited data tables contain(s) vegetation mapping plot classification and accuracy assessment data, as well as summary information about the data itself. If a table is empty, then it was empty in the original database.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, ciro, city-of-rocks-national-reserve, classification, database, habitat-types, imagery, national-vegetation-classification, nvc, nvcs, plots, releve, remote-sensing, usnvcs, vegetation, vegetation-inventory, vegetation-map, vegetation-mapping
Organization: Department of the Interior
GSB Plankton Data

Tabular data on plankton communities in Great South Bay (GSB), NY. Time series sampling was performed at multiple locales within GSB and Moriches Bay from 2013 through 2015 and horizontal mapping of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and chlorophyll a was performed.

Tags: breach, great-south-bay, hurricane-sandy, hxsandy, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, plankton, plankton-communities
Organization: Department of the Interior
Early 1960s Sandy Beach Fish Fire Island, Long Island, New York

Data from tables in Schaefer, R.H. 1967. Species composition, size and seasonal abundance of fish in the surf waters of Long Island. New York Fish and Game Journal 14(1):1-46. with data plots and fish community Ecological Diversity calculations and modeling added.

Tags: diversity, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-marine-communities, model, sandy-beach-fish
Organization: Department of the Interior
Big Thicket National Preserve-Turkey Creek Unit Breeding Bird Monitoring Data FY2015

Data are part of the GULN Inventory and Monitoring Program Landbird monitoring project for BITH Turkey Creek Unit. Data were collected by Dr. Lijin Zeng through a contract with the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory in 2015. Data were entered into the Pointblue.org AKN database and exported to Excel 2010 format by GULN data manager, Whitney Granger. A separate reference is available for the Field Sheets that accompanies this data set.

Tags: breeding-birds, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-birds, land-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior