AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Fisheries Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) Surveys

These data represent an assessment of Ichthyofaunal community structure in selected streams located in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). Sites are sampled on a rotational basis occurring once every two years. Currently (2020), there are ten watersheds being sampled using IBI protocols. Depending on the yearly rotation, these watersheds include Noland Creek, Deep Creek, Big Creek, Oconaluftee River, Eagle Creek, the East Prong of Little River (two sites), Straight Fork, Tabcat Creek, and Hazel Creek. In 2020, six sites were surveyed: East Prong Little River at Elkmont, Cataloochee Creek, Eagle Creek, West Prong Little River, Abrams Creek, and Oconaluftee River. Fish community assemblage assessments are made after collecting specimens using backpack electrofishing and seining techniques. Unlike the 3-Pass depletion method used to observe census data from GRSM streams, an IBI is used to determine how many species of fish are represented in a stream segment by surveying the various types of habitat: riffles, runs, pools, and shoreline. Techniques for IBI sampling also use seining in conjunction with electrofishing for fish capture. The point of IBI sampling isn’t to remove all the fish present, but rather to determine the community assemblage, i.e., species diversity within the stream segment. The GRSM Fishery Division works in conjunction with aquatics biologists at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who then provide “scores” regarding the species’ representation or robustness given the site criteria.  IBI scores and metrics are determined using the TVA IBI Stream Survey Recording System v2.02. Once data have been entered by GRSM staff in the TVA Stream Survey database, results are sent to TVA biologists, who then provide GRSM with the scores associated with the species observed. These scores for 2020 survey data were provided to GRSM by TVA during Fall 2020.

Tags: aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, branch-fisheries, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, fish-community, fisheries, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, ibi, index-of-biotic-integrity, origin-internal, ser, southeast-region, status-active
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Rock Creek Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

One complete set of aerial photography was provided for the project, including both a set of prints and diapositives. The specifications for the aerial photography are listed below:

Color infrared photography (CIR)
Flown October 29, 1996 - (height of the leaf change)
Nominal scale - 1:6,000 (Nominal refers to the photo scale variability within each aerial photo and across flight lines. In this case the photo scale ranged from approximately 1:5,800 to 1:6,200)
Approximate photo size - 9" x 9"
Overlap between photos and across flight paths met the standards for photo interpretation using a mirror stereo scope. (Approximately 60% between photos and 10% - 20% between the flight lines)

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, 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
Fish Inventory at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield in 2004 – Open Format Dataset

The current dataset provides the cleaned and machine-readable results of fish inventory surveys conducted in Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield from 2004 as well as its EML metadata. Various trapping/survey methods were performed to gather this data.

Tags: cso-inventory-cleanup, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, fish, ga, georgia, kemo, secn
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Tier-3 Seagrass Monitoring Data for Fire Island National Seashore through 2021 (Certified)

As part of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network's Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Monitoring program, Network staff and cooperators continued to monitor seagrass cover and health at several park units. This file contains seagrass monitoring data collected through the most current field season at  Fire Island National Seashore.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-estuarine-communities, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-nutrient-dynamics, eelgrass, environment, estuary, fiis, fire-island-national-seashore, inland-waters, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, new-york, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, northeast-region, nutrient-enrichment, ny, resource-management, ruppia-maritima, seawrack, virginia, vital-signs, water, water-quality, widgeon-grass, widgeongrass, zostera-marina
Organization: Department of the Interior
Fish Inventory at Fort Pulaski National Monument in 2003 – Data Package

Fort Pulaski National Monument (FOPU) was surveyed in 2003 as park of a larger initiative to inventory fish at Southeast Coast Network parks. The purpose of the study was to sample fishes in 12 parks to supplement existing data or to provide preliminary records of fishes where no records existed. Fort Pulaski is positioned at the mouth of the Savannah River. In addition to this habitat, the park has a vast expanse of marsh and tidal creek within its boundaries, as well as a moat and several ditches. During this fish inventory, nine sites encompassing all habitat types within the park were surveyed, documenting 34 species.

Tags: ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-fishes, fish, fopu, fort-pulaski, ga, georgia, inventory
Organization: Department of the Interior
Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Tier-3 Seagrass Monitoring Data for Assateague Island National Seashore through 2021 (Certified)

As part of the Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network's Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Monitoring program, Network staff and cooperators continued to monitor seagrass cover and health at several park units. This file contains seagrass monitoring data collected through the 2021 field season at Assateague Island National Seashore.

Tags: asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-estuarine-communities, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-nutrient-dynamics, eelgrass, environment, estuary, inland-waters, maryland, md, monitoring, national-park-service, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, northeast-region, nutrient-enrichment, resource-management, ruppia-maritima, seawrack, va, virginia, vital-signs, water, water-quality, widgeon-grass, widgeongrass, zostera-marina
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southern Colorado Plateau Network Landbird Monitoring Dataset 2022-2024

This dataset covers three years of parkwide landbird monitoring data collected from 2022-2024 at six national parks and monuments within the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory Monitoring Network. These data were collected with the objective of monitoring trends in breeding-season density of bird species frequently detected during point count surveys and tracking changes in breeding-season bird community composition at both the parkwide and network-wide scales. Data was collected yearly at Bandelier National Monument, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Grand Canyon National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Petrified Forest National Park, and Wupatki National Monument. These parks span an elevational gradient ranging from 1300 to 3000 masl, and encompassing varied habitats including arid grassland-shrubland, riparian woodland, pinyon-juniper woodland, ponderosa pine forest, and mixed-conifer forest. Survey data consists of unlimited-radius, seven-minute passive point-count surveys and includes time removal (interval of detection) and distance sampling (horizontal distance from observer) data. All individuals of all bird species detected by sight or sound were recorded during surveys, which were conducted during a 3.5 hour window immediately following local sunrise. Surveyors additionally classified the habitat at each point count station, and recorded survey-specific environmental covariates including wind speed, environmental noise, cloud cover, and precipitation. Surveys took place from late April through the end of June, with each park or monument surveyed once per year in order of increasing mean elevation. Surveys were conducted off-trail along transects following semicardinal bearings, with transect origin points situated on roads or trails within each protected area. Monitoring transects were randomly placed in a spatially representative manner using the GRTS algorithm.

Tags: distance-sampling, grassland-shrubland, interval-sampling, landbird, mixed-conifer-forest, off-trail-transect, passive-survey, pinyon-juniper-woodland, point-count-survey, ponderosa-pine-forest, riparian-woodlands, scpn, spatially-balanced-sampling
Organization: Department of the Interior
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Genes-to-Ecosystems Forest Nutrient Cycling: Red Spruce (Picea rubens) Forest Fragmentation Patch Size Effects on Nutrient Dynamics

This project focuses on red spruce (Picea rubens). How does forest fragmentation influence nutrient cycling? How do red spruce trees respond to phosphorous (P) limitation in these systems? If there is evidence for genetic variability in response to P limitation in these systems, it could provide clues to where refuges have evolutionary been found for this declining species. Red Spruce has historically been pushed up in elevation with its range becoming fragmented and limited to mountain tops at the southern range edge. This is of interest to scientists interested in effects of climate warming, i.e. expected pole-ward range shifts. Genetic diversity of populations at the southern end of this species’ range is consequently of importance to the persistence of this species. It was hypothesized in this study that habitat fragment size would influence growth traits. It was found that Red Spruce growth traits were not influenced by habitat fragment patch size (P > 0.05).

Tags: andrews-bald, aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, balsam-high-top, branch-im, climate-change, clingmans-dome, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-forest-woodland-communit, forest-fragmentation, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, mt-collins, mt-guyot, mt-kephart, mt-leconte, mt-sequoyah, mt-sterling, oconoluftee-knob, origin-external, picea-rubens, red-spruce, ser, southeast-region, status-inactive, studyid-grsm-01149
Organization: Department of the Interior
Southeast Alaska I&M Network Water Quality Data Package (FQ_Q) for monitoring years 2010-2022 at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

This data set is a comma-separated values (CSV) file containing continuous hourly water quality observations of the Salmon River in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve for monitoring years 2010-2022. The core parameters collected are water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and conductivity, obtained from multiparameter sondes during the ice-free season. Using the Aquarius Time-Series application, data have been quality controlled, graded against formal criteria specified in the protocol (SOP 7, Data Evaluation and Grading in Aquarius), drift corrected where appropriate, and certified for publication. The data set (CSV) and associated metadata are zipped into a site-specific archive (ZIP file), identified as the FQ_Q deliverable in the water quality protocol.

Tags: alkalinity, conductivity, dissolved-oxygen, freshwater, hydrology, long-term-monitoring, monitoring, ph, rivers, specific-conductivity, stream-discharge, streamflow, streams, turbidity, water, water-chemistry, water-quality, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Supplemental materials for the report landscape phenology, vegetation condition, and relations with climate at Dinosaur National Monument, 2000-2019

Supplemental tables for the report Landscape Phenology, Vegetation Condition, and Relations with Climate at Dinosaur 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
Entomological Investigations of Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Diversity in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Field Methods:
Immature (larval) collection techniques will be limited to aquatic sampling with a standard dipper in vernal pools or a large pipette (turkey baster) in tree holes or rock pools. Adult mosquitoes will be taken by aspiration or CO2-baited CDC light traps. A standard mouth aspirator or handheld battery powered aspirator will be used to collect resting or host-seeking adult mosquitoes.

Tags: aedes-albopictus, aedes-japonicus, aedes-triseriatus, aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-invertebrate, forest-day-mosquito, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, mosquito, mosquitos, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-02323
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Metrics for Rocky Mountain National Park Wetlands Ecological Integrity monitoring (2007-2017)

This table provides baseline parkwide summary statistics for 206 metrics for fens, wet meadows, riparian wetland and all wetland at long-term wetland ecological integrity sites monitored by the NPS Rocky Mountain Network in Rocky Mountain National Park. It is an expanded version of the data available in Appendix E: Vegetation Metrics, in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wetland Ecological Integrity: 2007–2017 Data Summary Report. Estimates are derived from a baseline of ‘best’ events at each site from 2007 to 2011 (with most in 2008). Parkwide scale values are derived from randomly selected sites using design-based inference (Stevens 1997) and are statistically unbiased estimates for wetland condition in the park.

Tags: wetlands-ecological-integrity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Vegetation Taxa List for Rocky Mountain National Park Wetlands Ecological Integrity monitoring (2007-2017).

This table lists all taxa detected at long-term wetland ecological integrity monitoring sites by the NPS Rocky Mountain Network in Rocky Mountain National Park. The detections are from 337 sample events across 154 sites from 2007 to 2017. Nomenclature follows the USDA Plants Database (https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov; accessed in 2018). This table includes species, general and family level of identifications. Where there is a one to one relationship, we include the Weber and Wittmann (2001) species name. For more complex crosswalks the complete Rocky Mountain Network Wetlands Ecological Integrity (WEI) Database - Rocky Mountain National Park 2007-2017 database must be used. Conservatism (C scores) are from Rocchio (2007a, b) as modified by the Rocky Mountain Network and range from 10 (highly conservative) to 1 (very low conservatism with a 0 applied by definition to non-native species). Invasiveness (I ranks) is from Morse et al. (2004) as modified by the Rocky Mountain Network and ranges from 0 for a species with no invasive impacts to 8 for a species with detrimental impacts to wetland communities. Nativity is from Weber and Wittmann (2001) as modified by the Rocky Mountain Network. Wetland affinity is from Tiner (2012) as modified by the Rocky Mountain Network (we reversed the scoring scale) and ranges from 5 for a taxa obligate to wetlands to 1 for a taxa adapted to upland conditions. Absolute and relative covers are first averaged across all cover values from sampled subplots in a site then across all sample events with a given taxa. NA is not assigned.

Tags: wetlands-ecological-integrity
Organization: Department of the Interior
Imagery data for the Vegetation Mapping Inventory Project of Wind Cave National Park

This reference contains the imagery data used in the completion of the baseline vegetation inventory project for the NPS park unit.  Orthophotos, raw imagery, and scanned aerial photos are common files held here.

Horizons, Incorporated of Rapid City, South Dakota acquired the aerial photography for WICA; thirteen flight lines were used to cover the entire project area. Flight lines 1-4 were flown on June 22, 5-8 flown on June 27, and 9-13 flown on June 26, 1997. A total of 220 color-infrared (CIR) photographs were taken at 1:12,000 (1"=1,000') scale and printed on 9"x9" stock. Overlap for these photos were approximately 50-60% and sidelap between flight lines was approximately 20-30%.

Tags: accuracy-assessment, botanical-survey, classification, geodatabase, 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
The Evolutionary Genetics of Mushroom-feeding Drosophila in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Field Methods:
Fly collections. Drosophila will be collected from forests during summer months (May to October) by sweep-netting or aspirating over naturally-occurring mushrooms. In some instances, boiled and thus killed commercial mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) will be set out as baits. In addition, flies may be bred from field-collected mushrooms.

Laboratory maintenance of fly cultures. In the laboratory, the culture medium consists of Instant Drosophila medium (Carolina Biological), a small piece of commercial mushroom, and a dental cotton roll, which serves as a pupation site. Cultures are maintained at 20C, 60%RH, and 14:10 light:dark schedule.

Tags: and-twin-creeks-trail, aphn, appalachian-highlands-network, bullhead-trail, cherokee-orchard-rd, clingmans-dome-rd, drosophila, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-invertebrate, flies, fly, great-smoky-mountains-national-park, grsm, invertebrates, newfound-gap-rd, rainbow-falls-trail, ser, southeast-region, studyid-grsm-00092
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 CACO Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Cape Cod National Seashore

Tags: application-inventory-registry, caco, cape-cod-national-seashore, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 FIIS Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Cape Cod National Seashore

Tags: application-inventory-registry, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, fiis, fire-island-national-seashore, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 COLO Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Colonial National Historical Site

Tags: application-inventory-registry, colo, colonial-national-historical-park, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
2019 ASIS Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data, exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at Assateague Island National Seashore

Tags: application-inventory-registry, asis, assateague-island-national-seashore, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior
Data set for Delisle et al., "Linking behavioral ecology and population monitoring: The importance of group size for spatial population models"

Two data sets including the group size analysis (All_Sheep_Groups_GroupSizeAnalysis.csv) and the case study in Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST_CaseStudy.csv), both of which also have associated metadata files. Both data sets were used in Delisle et al., "Linking behavioral ecology and population monitoring: The importance of group size for spatial population models".

Tags: animal-abundance, dall-sheep, dalls-sheep, fannins-sheep, food-availability, group-size, hierarchical-models, occurrence, ovis-dalli, predation-risk, sheep, spatially-explicit, stones-sheep
Organization: Department of the Interior
Assessment of Organic Chemical Contamination at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

Results from water, fish, and sediment sampling conducted during August 2002

Tags: contaminants, ecological-framework-water-water-quality-toxics, fish-tissue, groundwater, mercury, napthalene, organochlorine, pentachloroanisole, pesticides, phthalate, sediment, semi-permeable-lipid-membrane, semipermeable-membrane-device, toxicology, water-quality
Organization: Department of the Interior
1998-2018, NCBN Sediment Elevation Table Monitoring Data exported from IMD SQL Server database

These files contain SET monitoring data collected at NCBN parks.

Tags: application-inventory-registry, ecological-framework-biological-integrity-focal-species-or-communities-terrestrial-complex, ecological-framework-geology-and-soils-geomorphology-coastal-oceanographic-features-and-process, elevation, im, inventory-monitoring, ncbn, northeast-coastal-and-barrier-network, salt-marsh, sediment, vital-sign
Organization: Department of the Interior