AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Plant Inventory at Blue Ridge Parkway in 2002-2003 - Data Package (PUBLIC)

The Blue Ridge Parkway is remarkable in many aspects and has served a large number of public interests from recreational activities including sightseeing and hiking, to natural history studies such as bird watching and wildflower identification, and has been a particularly valuable asset for scientific research. The linearity of the park boundary and the fact that it extends over 469 miles along the heart of the Southern Blue Ridge makes it unique among Park Service land holdings. The extreme range in elevation from 600 feet to 6,410 feet in elevation and its traversal of two major ecological biomes occurring over a wide array of geologic substrates makes the Blue Ridge Parkway one of the most diverse and biologically significant properties managed by the Park Service. The primary goals of this plant inventory conducted in 2002-2003 were to: 1) Establish at least 288 permanent plots throughout the park for present and future monitoring purposes, 2) Document all ecological communities on the site as defined by the United States National Vegetation Classification (Grossman et al. 1998, Anderson et al. 1998) and 3) Collect and voucher new species of vascular plants found in plots (or anywhere on Parkway property) that have not already been documented by previous researchers.

Tags: aphn, appalachia, blri, blue-ridge-parkway, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, inventories, north-carolina, plants, surveys, vegetation, virginia
Organization: Department of the Interior
Ozone and Associated Foliar Injury Monitoring at Cumberland Piedmont Network Parks: 2008-2023 – Data Package

Ozone is a naturally occurring gas that can also be generated in reactions with anthropogenically created nitrogen oxides. While stratospheric ozone prevents ultraviolet radiation from making its way to the Earth’s surface, tropospheric ozone that is in higher than naturally occurring concentrations can have harmful effects on the health of people and plants. As several plant species that are susceptible to ozone injury exist in Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) Parks, ozone and foliar injury are monitored by the network as a key vital sign and indicator of possible anthropogenic effects to overall ecosystem health. Monitoring takes place within natural vegetation areas of 14 national park units within CUPN, with one to three foliar injury sites monitored per park depending on availability of sites with adequate ozone-sensitive species richness and abundance living under abiotic conditions that can manifest injury. Parks are sampled on a panel design, with three to four parks sampled each year over the course of a six-year sampling rotation. Sampling is completed annually between late July and late August and the data collected in each site include individual plant assessments of symptomology, site mapping, and site conditions. This data package contains foliar injury data, while ozone exposure indices are retrieved from the Air Resources Division of the National Park Service (NPS-ARD). The goals of ozone reporting and foliar injury monitoring are to assess exposure to ozone and its impacts to susceptible plant life at those parks. The results of ozone and foliar injury monitoring can be used by park managers to inform park planning documents and to work with state regulatory agencies.

Tags: abraham-lincoln-birthplace-national-historical-park, air-pollution, air-quality, carl-sandburg-home-national-historic-park, chickamauga-and-chattanooga-national-military-park, cowpens-national-battlefield, cumberland-gap-national-historical-park, ecological-framework-air-and-climate-air-quality-ozone, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, ecological-framework-human-use-non-point-source-human-effects-non-point-source-human-effects, fort-donelson-national-battlefield, guilford-courthouse-national-military-park, kings-mountain-national-military-park, little-river-canyon-national-preserve, mammoth-cave-national-park, ninety-six-national-historic-site, ozone, ozone-effects, plant-injury, russell-cave-national-monument, shiloh-national-military-park, stones-river-national-battlefield
Organization: Department of the Interior
White-tailed Deer Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2005-2023 - Data Package

This dataset consists of occurrence observations for white-tailed deer in the National Park Service Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. Because of their impacts on vegetation, disease transmission, visitor health, and vehicle-deer collisions, park managers at Arkansas Post National Memorial, Pea Ridge National Military Park, and Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield identified white-tailed deer as a vital sign for monitoring. Monitoring white-tailed deer populations better positions park management to take action to mitigate concerns involving deer. The overall goals of HTLN white-tailed deer monitoring are to 1) document annual changes in the number of white-tailed deer, as changes could signal presence of illegal deer harvest, disease, or other acute factors of concern for park management; 2) document long-term trends in the number of white-tailed deer to help park management determine if measures need to be taken to maintain herd health, minimize vegetation damage within a park, or alleviate visitor health concerns; and 3) annually map locations of white-tailed deer observed to assist park management in assessing the influences of management actions on deer usage of an area, habitat type, etc.

Tags: arkansas-post-national-memorial, arpo, deer, heartland-network, htln, long-term-monitoring, mammal, monitoring, national-park-service, nps, odocoileus-virginianus, pea-ridge-national-military-park, peri, white-tailed-deer, wicr, wildlife, wilsons-creek-national-battlefield
Organization: Department of the Interior
ERMN Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Data (2014-2023)

All of the data from this protocol has been submitted to the Water Quality Portal. Here is the link to download the data:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=ERMN_BMI&mimeType=xlsx&zip=yes&dataProfile=biological&providers=STORET

For more information about these locations and/or the protocol, see the ERMN Benthic Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Project at the NPS Data Store: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2229360

Tags: benthic-macroinvertebrates, water
Organization: Department of the Interior
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Barataria Preserve Water Quality Data from JELA_BARA_WQ Project as of 2025-01-07

This data package was created 2025-01-07 10:45:55 by NPSTORET and includes selected project, location, and result data.

Data contained in the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve NPSTORET back-end file (JELA_NPSTORET_BE_20250107.ACCDB) were filtered to include:

Station:
- Include Trip QC And All Station Visit Results
Value Status:
- Accepted or Certified (exported as Final) or Final

The data package is organized into five data tables:
- Projects.csv - describes the purpose and background of the monitoring efforts
- Locations.csv - documents the attributes of the monitoring locations/stations
- Results.csv - contains the field measurements, observations, and/or lab analyses for each sample/event/data grouping
- HUC.csv - enumerates the domain of allowed values for 8-digit and 12-digit hydrologic unit codes utilized by the Locations datatable
- Characteristics.csv - enumerates the domain of characteristics available in NPSTORET to identify what was sampled, measured or observed in Results

Period of record for filtered data is 2013-09-11 to 2024-12-30.  This data package is a snapshot in time of one National Park Service project. The most current data for this project, which may be more or less extensive than that in this data package, can be found on the Water Quality Portal at:
https://www.waterqualitydata.us/data/Result/search?project=JELA_BARA_WQ

Tags: dissolved-oxygen, npstoret, ph, salinity, specific-conductivity, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southeast Coast Network Anuran Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, January 2025 cumulative data package

The National Park Service (NPS) operates 32 Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) networks across the United States encompassing over 280 parks.  Each Inventory and monitoring network has established "vital signs" monitoring in its parks. These vital signs represent elements and processes in park ecosystems that help indicate the overall health or condition of park resources. Network personnel monitor physical resources and processes (such as air, water, climate, fire, erosion), biological attributes (such as species and biological communities), and ecological processes (such as disturbance and productivity). The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) contains 15 parks containing natural resources, located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Each spring, SECN collects audio recording data during implementation of the SECN's Vocal Anuran Community Monitoring Protocol. Automated recording devices (ARDs) are used to capture 1-minute recordings of anuran vocalizations every twenty minutes overnight, on every fourth night between March and June. Sampling takes place at up to 30 spatially-balanced random sampling locations per park.  Five of the SECN's 15 parks are sampled each year on a three-year rotation.  All discernable anuran vocalizations are reviewed from selected recordings and classified to species. These data address the following protocol objectives: (1) Evaluate status of vocal anuran community species richness during the spring breeding season and (2) assess vocal anuran occupancy and spatial distribution at sampling locations during the breeding season.

Tags: acoustic-monitoring, acris, acris-crepitans, acris-gryllus, american-bullfrog, american-toad, anaxyrus-americanus, anaxyrus-fowleri, anaxyrus-quercicus, anaxyrus-terrestris, anuran, ard, audio-recording, automated-recording-device, barking-treefrog, bird-voiced-treefrog, brimleys-chorus-frog, copes-gray-treefrog, cricket-frogs, cuban-treefrog, dryophytes-avivoca, dryophytes-chrysoscelis, dryophytes-cinereus, dryophytes-femoralis, dryophytes-gratiosus, dryophytes-squirellus, eastern-narrow-mouthed-toad, eastern-spadefoot, eleutherodactylus-planirostris, fowlers-toad, frog, gastrophryne-carolinensis, gopher-frog, green-frog, green-treefrog, greenhouse-frog, lithobates-capito, lithobates-catesbeianus, lithobates-clamitans, lithobates-grylio, lithobates-heckscheri, lithobates-palustris, lithobates-sphenocephalus, little-grass-frog, mountain-chorus-frog, northern-cricket-frog, oak-toad, occupancy, osteopilus-septentrionalis, pickerel-frog, pig-frog, pine-woods-treefrog, pseudacris-brachyphona, pseudacris-brimleyi, pseudacris-crucifer, pseudacris-feriarum, pseudacris-nigrita, pseudacris-ocularis, river-frog, scaphiopus-holbrookii, southeastern-chorus-frog, southern-chorus-frog, southern-cricket-frog, southern-leopard-frog, southern-toad, spatial-distribution, species-richness, spring-peeper, squirrel-treefrog, toad, treefrog, upland-chorus-frog
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Vital Signs Forest and Soils Monitoring Data Package 2015 - 2024

Great Smoky Mountains Forest Communities and Soil Quality Vital Signs Dataset
This data package is the authoritative dataset for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM) Forest Communities and Soil Quality Vital Signs Protocol.   Forest Communities and Soil Quality are two of the six Vital Signs selected for monitoring at GRSM, and are co-collected through a distributed plot network of 160 plots throughout the six primary watersheds of the Vital Signs program. Objectives of the monitoring program are to capture status and trends of forest health and soil quality as they relate to environmental stressors, and how these metrics influence each other.  This dataset includes one year (2015) of 16 prototype plots that have not been resampled, one full cycle of vegetation data on the 160 plot network (2016-2020) and one full cycle of soils data (2017-2021).  The second cycle of data is in progress with 3/5 years of vegetation data complete (2021, 2023, 2024) and 2/5 years of soils data (2023, 2024).  No data were collected in 2022.
Data collected as part of this protocol include Live and Standing Dead Tree species, size, and health; Woody Stem species, size and abundance (tree saplings and true shrubs); Seedling species and abundance (tree seedlings and true shrubs); overall Species Diveristy, and herbaceous species cover classes, Downed Deadwood abundance, size, and decay class; Vegetation Community type and vertical forest structure; Soil chemical and physical properties.

Tags: forest-health, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, soil-quality, vegetation, vegetation-monitoring, vital-signs
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southeast Alaska periodic lichen tissue elemental analyses (EC_B)

A single ASCII CSV file of all contaminant results for a sampled year as they come from the contracted lab.

Tags: contaminants, deposition, ecological-framework-air-and-climate-air-quality-air-contaminants, ecological-framework-air-and-climate-air-quality-wet-and-dry-deposition, lichen
Organization: Department of the Interior
Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Breeding Bird Data Package

This monitoring dataset consists of variable circular plot - continuous distance - point count bird observations and site conditions along with extensive habitat data for breeding birds in the National Park Service Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. The dataset includes approximately 65,000 individual bird observations covering over 200 bird species observed at 12 NPS park units taken between 2001 and 2022. The overall goals of Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network breeding bird monitoring are the following: to identify significant temporal changes in the species composition and abundance of bird communities that occur on parks during the breeding season; to improve our understanding of relationships between breeding birds and their habitat and the effects of management actions, such as prairie restoration or prescribed fire, on bird populations. These goals are accomplished by examining potential correlations between changes in specific habitat variables, for example, vegetation structure and ground cover, and changes in bird community composition and abundance. The 12 park units included in this study are in Arkansas - Arkansas Post National Memorial and Pea Ridge National Military Park; Indiana - Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial; Iowa - Effigy Mounds National Monument and Herber Hoover National Historic Site; Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve; Minnesota - Pipestone National Monument; Missouri - George Washington Carver National Monument and Wilson's Creek National Battlefield; Nebraska - Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and Homestead National Historical Park; and Ohio - Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.

Tags: avian-ecology, bird-habitat, breeding-birds, ecological-communities, land-birds
Organization: Department of the Interior
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Insecticide Treatment Assessment in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The hemlock woolly adelgid was first documented in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2002. Since then park personnel have embarked on multi-faceted management programs to reduce adelgid populations on hemlocks.  To date, the factors responsible for effective treatment of hemlock woolly adelgid are not fully understood. The ultimate goal of this project is to determine the effectiveness of imidacloprid treatment regimes and possible non-target impacts to aquatic systems. The objectives of field sampling for this study are as follows: 

1) to conduct a chemical analyses of imidacloprid and imidacloprid metabolites in hemlock trees from selected treatment areas; 2) to collect adelgid population data from hemlock trees from selected treatment areas; and 3) to assess the impact of imidacloprid on aquatic habitats in the park. 

The endpoint of this project will be to supply the park with a hemlock woolly adelgid management plan.

Three field sites were selected for the hemlock foliage work: two in the park--Anthony Creek and Hesse Creek--and one near the park (Mountain Homes Incorporated). Concentrations of imidacloprid, olefin, and other metabolites were determined in foliage samples from the three sites. Both imidacloprid and olefin were present in the samples 4-7 years after initial application, with concentrations of imidacloprid below LD50 in most samples and olefin above LD50 for HWA in most samples.

Ten streams adjacent to treatment sites have been sampled for aquatic work above and below the treatment site: Alum Creek, Camel Hump Creek, Cane Creek, Chasteen Creek, Dunn Creek, Indian Creek, Indian Camp Creek, Kingfisher Creek, Panther Creek, and Shop Creek. Ten streams that are not adjacent to treatment areas have also been sampled for comparisons: Big Branch, Cattail Branch, Coalen Ground Branch, Hammer Branch, Hesse Creek, Kephart Prong, Noisy Creek, Robinson Creek, Tabcat Creek, and Webb Creek. Water samples were also tested for imidacloprid and its metabolites.

Tags: adelges-tsugae, aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-invertebrate, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, grsm-permitted-study-id-grsm-01082, hemlock-woolly-adelgid, ser, southeast-region
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental materials for the report landscape phenology, vegetation condition, and relations with climate at Cedar Breaks National Monument, 2000-2019

Supplemental tables for the report Landscape phenology, vegetation condition, and relations with climate at Cedar Breaks National Monument, 2000-2019.

Tags: aridification, drought-tolerance, moderate-resolution-imaging-spectrometer, modis, monitoring, ncpn-land-surface-monitoring, ndvi, normalized-difference-vegetation-index, remote-sensing, snow-cover-extent, vegetation-condition, vegetation-phenology, vegetation-production, water-balance
Organization: Department of the Interior
2021 Three-Pass Depletion Fish Census Surveys

These data represent fish census surveys in Great Smoky Mountains National Park conducted using the Delury Method of Three-Pass Depletion electrofishing. In 2021, fish were collected, sorted by species, and weighed at unique sites from streams ranging in size from first to third-order waterways. These streams are surveyed on an annual basis to monitor population trends over time.

Tags: 2021-fisheries, 3-pass-depletion, annual-fish-populations, brook-trout, fish-census-surveys, fishes, three-pass-depletions, trout
Organization: Department of the Interior
ROMN Uplands Vegetation Composition, Structure, and Soils in FLFO, GRKO, and LIBI: 2009-2024 - Raw Data

This data package contains the data collected for the Rocky Mountain Network’s (ROMN) Vegetation Composition Structure and Soils (VCSS) protocol. These data were collected in the field at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO), Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (GRKO), and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (LIBI) in Colorado and Montana beginning in 2009 and continuing to the present. Vegetation composition, structure, and soils are important habitat elements in all Rocky Mountain Network parks. Vegetation structure and composition are fundamental determinants of wildlife habitat characteristics and quality, visitor experiences, cultural/historic landscape quality (in the cases of LIBI and GRKO), and basic ecosystem functioning (e.g., via primary production; cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients; and micro-climate controls). The files in this package include information regarding the trees, seedlings, other plant species, soil stability, and disturbance at the upland sampling locations in each park.

These tables were generated from Species_ROMN_MASTER_20250814.accd and VCSS and VCSS_ROMN_AllYears_MASTER_20250828.accdb.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-grassland-herbaceous-com, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-shrubland-communities, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-vegetation-complex, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-invasive-species-invasive-exotic-plants, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-soil-quality-soil-function-and-dynamics, flfo, grko, libi, litter, phenology, plants, rocky-mountain-inventory-and-monitoring-network, romn, soil, transects, trees, vegetation
Organization: Department of the Interior
NCRN Hemlock Inventory Data

​Data associated with the 2015 hemlock inventory project in NCR.

Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is a coniferous tree native to the NE and Appalachian regions of the US, with some disjunct populations in the SE US.  Eastern hemlock is shade tolerant, long-lived, and slow-growing. It is usually restricted to steep terrain on north facing slopes adjacent to streams, but is also frequently planted in urban and suburban areas, where it grows well outside its natural habitat. 
Eastern Hemlock has become increasingly uncommon due to impacts from exotic insects: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae) and Elongate Hemlock Scale (Fiorinia externa). As a result of impacts from these insects, as well as impacts from a changing climate, Eastern hemlock is one of the most threatened species of conifers in the Mid-Atlantic.

Tags: adelges-tsugae, canada-hemlock, eastern-hemlock, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-infestations-and-disease-insect-pests, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-infestations-and-disease-plant-diseases, fiorinia-externa, hemlock, hemlock-scale, hemlock-spruce, insect-pests, inventory, mapping, plant-disease, tsuga-canadensis, woolly-adelgid
Organization: Department of the Interior
Macroinvertebrate Inventory of High Elevation Springs in Shenandoah National Park - Dataset as Delivered - Non-Biological Dataset

Non-biological data (habitat assessment, logger information, water quality data) for spring macroinvertebrate inventory sites at Shenandoah National Park. Dataset as delivered.

Tags: imd, national-park-service, nps, nps-inventory-and-monitoring-division, nps-species-inventory-program
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data for: Effects of seasonal fine-scale hydrologic conditions on American alligator nest fate in the Everglades

American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) are responsive to hydrologic conditions at all stages of their life history, making them well established indicators of ecosystem restoration within the Everglades. The distribution and success of alligator nesting is monitored annually within Everglades National Park by systematic reconnaissance flight (SRF) helicopter surveys. This dataset represents a subset of the long-term monitoring program data, consisting of data for nests observed between 2008 - 2023, which was used to investigate the relationships between nest-level hydrology and multiple causes of nest failure.

Tags: american-alligator, ecological-indicators, multinomial-model, nest-fate, predation, restoration
Organization: Department of the Interior