cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.15468/7scek4
title: Fungi of parks, forests and reserves of New Jersey (2007-2019)

description: This occurence list is a result of 210 forays conducted by the New Jersey Mycological Association, USA (www.njmyco.org).
NJMA is a non-profit citizen science organization whose aims are to provide a means for sharing ideas, experiences, knowledge and common interests regarding fungi, and to furnish mycological information and educational materials to those who wish to increase their knowledge about mushrooms.
Forays took place during May-November and were open to anyone wishing to participate, including non-members. Each foray was led by a seasoned member of NJMA. At each foray, fungal fruit bodies were observed and collected by ca. 20-30 attendees. Collecting took place during the course of two hours on land within a ca. 1-mile radius from the starting point (see latitude and longitude for each foray location). Species were identified immediately using field guides, other printed works, and various online resources. We acknowledge the participation of all citizens who joined the forays.
This data set is featured in a publication:
Shumskaya M., Filippova N., Lorenzen L., Blue S., Andrew C., Lorusso N.S. (2023) Citizen science helps in the study of fungal diversity in New Jersey. Scientific Data, 10:10. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01916-z
DOI: 10.15468/2f3ypm
title: Lionfish Watch - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: About this project
Help conserve South Carolina's native fishes by joining fellow divers in reporting lionfish sightings or culling. Collectively, our efforts will guide future strategic actions to benefit the health of our reef communities, as well as the fishermen who depend upon them.

Project goal
To track and remove lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats.

What participants do
Document all lionfish sightings and culling activity in South Carolina's marine habitats.

Lionfish (Pterois volitans): Although stunningly beautiful, these aggressive non-native predators are of great concern due to their recent rapid colonization of South Carolina's reefs. As indiscriminate consumers of native fish and direct competitors with snapper-grouper species for food, lionfish have the potential to significantly disrupt the overall health and stability of local reefs.

So what can we do?

The South Carolina Aquarium is leading the way to empower citizens like you to engage with us in meaningful conservation actions. As partners, we can make a bigger positive impact while concurrently generating scientifically valuable data that everyone can access. Our goal with Lionfish Watch is to promote collaborative solutions by tracking and removing lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats. The benefits are numerous; will you take action with us?

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

SAFETY CONCERNS: Lionfish are armed with venemous red and white striped spines and a fearless disposition. Citizen scientists engaging in this project must use appropriate caution and be knowledgable and prepared to treat lionfish stings. If you are stung, immerse the wound in hot water for 30-90 minutes and immediately seek medical attention.

Choose any reef that you can safely and legally access. Avoid Marine Protected Areas.
Record requested data on sightings and/or culling activity during your dive.
Contribute your data using either the SC Aquarium app or the project website.
DOI: 10.15468/sk2lxk
title: BugGuide - Identification, Images, & Information For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin For the United States & Canada

description: BugGuide (http://bugguide.net) is an online community of naturalists who enjoy learning about and sharing observations of insects, spiders, and other related creatures. BugGuide collects photographs of insects and other arthropods from the United States and Canada for identification and research and summarizes findings in guide pages for each order, family, genus, and species. By capturing the place and time that submitted images were taken, BugGuide creates a virtual insect collection.
DOI: 10.15468/jkpt3c
title: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Florida Imperiled Fish Species Investigation - 2001-2004

description: The Florida Imperiled Fish Species Investigation dataset resulted from a project conducted during the period of 2001 to 2004 by staff of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to survey Florida for presence, distribution, and relative abundance of imperiled fishes in order to establish sites suitable for a long-term monitoring program for those fishes. Imperiled species are those that are known or thought to be negatively affected by human activity. Such vulnerable species are typically, but not always non-game fishes. The program was designed to update knowledge of Florida’s rare fishes and to establish a framework for continued monitoring of them. Results of the surveys were used to determine whether some species needed to be upgraded to officially protected status, deleted, or downgraded from such protection.
DOI: 10.15468/nzhfk6
title: Maine Harbor Seal Studies - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: Observing Harbor Seals in Maine
DOI: 10.15468/kjpwz1
title: Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

description: This data was used in the paper "Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees" published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of United States of America.
DOI: 10.15468/yjsv8g
title: Murray State University - Lonicera japonica - 2008

description: Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) occurrence data in watersheds in western Kentucky (Ledbetter Creek) and western Tennessee (Panther Creek).
DOI: 10.15468/qpcbzj
title: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Aquatic Invasive Plant Surveys - 2024 Survey Data

description: To maintain biological integrity, biological diversity, and native fish resources in Kenai Peninsula freshwater systems, we surveyed for invasive elodea in Kenai Peninsula lakes using rakethrow surveys.
DOI: 10.15468/zxjkdk
title: Birds and Marine Mammals in Frenchman Bay - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: The Schoodic Ferry integrates affordable passenger transit and baseline data collection for transect-based oceanographic assessments of Frenchman Bay. We partner with local and international scientists to develop and conduct long-term marine mammal, pelagic bird, bait fish, plankton, and oceanographic surveys, helping the community develop an understanding of the Bay.

Marine mammal and bird sightings. 
Passengers can collect data on marine mammal and bird sightings to help develop a long-term understanding of how each species utilizes the Frenchman Bay habitat, and how those patterns may change over time.
DOI: 10.15468/9jkev2
title: MDI Loon Survey - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: Project goal:
To gather high quality observations to better understand population dynamics of common loons on Mt. Desert Island.

About this project:
A comprehensive monitoring project of common loons on Mount Desert Island, Maine, looking at population trends, reproductive success, behavior, and habitat use. A collaborative effort involving - Somes Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary (SMWS), Loon Conservation Associates (LCA), and the National Park Service, Acadia (NPS).
http://www.somesmeynell.org/
DOI: 10.15468/jbqjuj
title: JNCC Marine Mammal Survey - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: Project goal: For our professional marine mammal observers, fully JNCC compatible marine mammal survey forms for onboard observations. 

About this project: For our professional marine mammal observers, JNCC compatible observation forms for Schoodic Ferry marine mammal surveys.
DOI: 10.15468/qdatdf
title: MVSC; The James C. Parks Herbarium at Millersville University

description: The James C. Parks Herbarium at Millersville University (MVSC) holds about 20000 specimens primarily from Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Here is presented, in digitized form, the full herbarium holdings as of 2020, entirely geo-referenced and photographed. The herbarium collection spans from the mid 1800s to the present day and primarily contains vascular plants. The collection includes many rare fern hybrids and forms collected by James C. Parks and Mary Emma Groff. The herbarium also holds the Mary Emma Groff and Mary E. Grebinger collection, notable for their contributions to Lancaster County Botany and the excellent quality of the specimens.
DOI: 10.15468/u24dwc
title: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge invasive fish surveys - 2024

description: To maintain biological integrity, biological diversity, and native fish resources in Kenai Peninsula freshwater systems, we surveyed for invasive northern pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758) in Kenai Peninsula lakes by filtering 156 water samples from 18 waterbodies and processing them using a mix of qPCR and fish metabarcoding methods. Background and methods were provided by Bowser and Davis (2024).
DOI: 10.15468/99988f
title: Maine Harbor Seals: Young's Bay 1988-2014 - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: This project records observations of harbor seals using a high tide ledge in Young's bay, Hancock, Maine. The focus of the study is on the individual seals, their life histories and site loyalty.
DOI: 10.15468/wt3n69
title: Occurrences from Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's invasive plant management project

description: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge staff and partners annually survey for and treat invasive plants on Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
DOI: 10.15468/qry4ue
title: UT-CO Freshwater Mollusks Survey

description: A study commissioned by the Utah Division of Water Quality and the Colorado Water Quality Control Division. Study was carried out by Utah State University. The overarching goal of the study was to conduct a comprehensive search and synthesis of existing records on the historical and current presence of ammonia-sensitive freshwater mussels (Superfamily Unionoidea) and non-pulmonate snails (Valvatidae, Hydrobiidae) in Utah and Colorado. In addition to these targeted species, other species belonging to Class Bivalvia and freshwater Gastropoda were also included. Though they were not actively sought during record searches, occurrence of non-native species such as the New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum), Asian clam (Corbicula fluminea), quagga mussel (Dreissena burgensis) and the Chinese mystery snail (Cipangopaluding chinensis) were also noted. Records in this dataset are the result of such efforts as found in previously-compiled databases found online (such as BISON), museums, peer and non-peer reviewed literature and reports, and direct personal contacts.
DOI: 10.15468/eyb0mq
title: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Freshwater Fishes of Florida - 1956-2000

description: This dataset consists of fisheries collection information from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Division of Fisheries regional and field offices. The dataset was developed to identify and map freshwater species occurrences throughout Florida. These data are the results of data collection/processing by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for many federally funded fisheries projects. These data were compiled into a comprehensive and standardized fisheries database for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from various data programs and paper files. Collection location coordinates were based upon limited global positioning system (GPS) information, written information, the use of digital orthophoto quadrangles, digital raster graphic maps, and ArcView programs to obtain an estimated latitude and longitude for each fish collection site.
DOI: 10.15468/hcuwad
title: Beaver Survey - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: Organization: The Wetlands Conservancy and Friends
Where to participate: Oregon, USA
Anyone can join!

Project started 2018

About this project
This project consists of volunteer community science surveys of streams and wetlands everywhere, to determine where beavers are building dams!

Beavers are actively helping us restore ecosystems and battle climate change, but we need to know more about their whereabouts to help maximize beneficial impacts.

Project goal
This project seeks to record the presence of beaver dams to help us better manage water, vegetation, and wildlife.

This project consists of volunteer community science surveys of streams and wetlands in the Portland Metro area (and now, BEYOND!) to determine if beavers are active!

Surveys will usually be completed in late summer and through fall, when water levels are low.

Contact The Wetlands Conservancy to participate.
DOI: 10.15468/49v6yh
title: Metabarcoding Data from an Inventory of Freshwater Invertebrates from the Miller Creek Watershed, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA

description: Because benthic macroinvertebrates and zooplankton are susceptible to the pesticide rotenone, we surveyed freshwater macroinvertebrates in the Miller Creek Watershed, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska ahead of a rotenone treatment in fall 2021 to eradicate a population of invasive northern pike (Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758). We collected 32 samples in 2021 and another 32 post-treatment invertebrate samples in 2022 at the same places and during the same time of year to enable comparison of pre- and post-treatment freshwater invertebrate communities.
DOI: 10.15468/73n3w7
title: Occurrences from Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program, 1999–2006

description: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (KENWR) has a legislative mandate “to conserve fish and wildlife populations and habitats in their natural diversity”. To improve our understanding of spatial and temporal variation at the landscape level, we are developed the Long Term Ecological Monitoring Program (LTEMP) to assess change in biota on the sample frame used by the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program (FIA). Through a formal agreement with the FIA, we completed our baseline inventory of 259 permanent terrestrial plots systematically distributed at 5-km intervals across the 805,000-ha KENWR in 2004 and 2006. In addition to the forested vegetation sampled by the FIA, we sampled vascular and nonvascular plants on non-forested plots, and breeding landbirds, arthropods, and noise on all plots. All sampling methods are passive, nondestructive (to habitat), relatively inexpensive, and require ≤ 2 visits to a plot in a given sampling year.
This occurrence dataset includes observations of plants by FIA crews from 1999 to 2003 and observations of plants and birds by KNWR crews in 2004 and 2006.
DOI: 10.15468/xvl9qg
title: USGS FORT - Ouray National Wildlife Refuge - Bats - 2010

description: Nine species of bats were captured using mist nets during the summer of 2010. These findings document the occurrence at Ouray National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) of 13 of the 18 species of bats known to occur from Utah. The other 5 of the 18 species of Utah bats not documented during this study are the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans), the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), the western red bat (Lasiurus blossevilii), the spotted bat (Euderma maculatum), and Allen's big-eared bat (Idionycteris phyllotis). Three of the species documented as occurring at Ouray NWR are identified by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources as Utah Species of Concern in the Utah Sensitive Species List: the fringed myotis, the Townsend's big-eared bat, and the big free-tailed bat. USGS Fort Collins Science Center (FORT).
DOI: 10.15468/r7rxf6
title: Fungal communities in decaying poplar pins in Northeastern USA discovered by MycoPins method

description: The MycoPins method is a protocol to monitor early colonization events in communities of wood-inhabiting fungi in fine woody debris. The sampling dataset presented here is based on fieldwork from a time series experiment on standard sterilized poplar pins (furniture wooden dowels 1 cm diameter, 3 cm length) that were placed in soil to decay, then collected and subjected to DNA metabarcoding analysis and automated molecular identification of species. The list of species for each sampling point during the duration of the experiment was produced by a taxonomic classifier PROTAX (Abarenkov, 2018). PROTAX analyses the DNA sequences and provides with a table of reliably identified (probability &gt;0.9) species, which is about 10% of the overall sequences from our experiment. The list of published species is limited to only 10% because while identifying the species, PROTAX takes into the account the uncertainty and mislabelings in the UNITE database that was used as a reference.
DOI: 10.15468/wzlxpu
title: USGS SESC - Everglades - Herpetofauna - 2005

description: The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) requires the use of ecological indicators to measure the success of restoration efforts. The Everglades amphibian community is ideal because amphibians are present in all habitats and under all hydrologic regimes. During Everglades restoration, hydrologic patterns will change and the response of ecological indicators will determine success. Fourteen amphibian species were detected through VES, vocalization surveys and trapping methods throughout the study and the occurrence information collected in this project database. USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center (SESC).
DOI: 10.15468/km9q2b
title: Monarch Watch

description: Monarch Watch is a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migration. Monarch Watch strives to provide the public with information about the biology of monarch butterflies, their spectacular migration, and how to use monarchs to further science education in primary and secondary schools. We engage in research on monarch migration biology and monarch population dynamics to better understand how to conserve the monarch migration. We also promote protection of monarch habitats throughout North America.
DOI: 10.15468/m44w58
title: Mohonk Preserve 3D Specimens: Mammals

description: Mohonk Preserve Natural History Collections housed at Mohonk Preserve is comprised of specimens collected from the Northeastern United States, primarily on Mohonk Preserve land. The data and natural history collections support the Preserve’s land management and stewardship activities and our educational programming. The collections are also frequently used in research on climate change, biodiversity, bird migration, and human impact on the environment. Conservation Science staff and volunteers are working to digitize the collections by producing high-resolution images of the specimens, transcribing label and card data, and uploading the information to online, open-access data repositories. Digitizing the collections and making them available via multiple online portals helps us to support new research on a variety of scientific topics, including phenology and species responses to climate change.
DOI: 10.15468/ppjnys
title: Bee Fauna of National Wildlife Refuges in the Pacific Northwest, 2010-2016

description: In 2010, the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) initiated a native bee sampling program to document the bee fauna at 15 National Wildlife Refuges (NWR), 1 National Monument, and 1 Bureau of Land Management site in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (hereafter referred to as Refuges or Sites). This program was comprised of six sampling components, utilizing two methodologies depending on the available staff, site objectives, and accessibility. For purposes of data publication, these components are summarized as follows.
Component 1 (Array Sampling) was designed to collect baseline data within shrub-steppe habitats along a north-south gradient in Washington and Oregon. A secondary objective of this sampling was to determine if there were genera and/or species differences along this latitudinal gradient. As there were no wildlife refuges in northeastern Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management’s Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (OTIC) was selected to fill this gap. Refuges included in this project include Turnbull NWR in NE Washington, McNary NWR in central Washington, and Malheur NWR in SE Oregon; the OTIC site is located in northeastern Oregon. All sites were sampled during 2011 and 2012, using a 9-cup glycol array (see Methodology). This was the only component in this program to use glycol arrays. Sampling sites were situated in easily accessible shrub-steppe habitats typical of the specific NWR and OTIC.
Component 2 (Baseline Sampling) was designed to collect baseline data at a suite of NWRs and was the primary objective and sampling scheme used from 2011-2016. Refuges within this component used a variation of the standard 30-bowl (pan trap) transect, instead deploying 2-15 bowl transects set adjacent to different habitats to increase the prospects of increasing catch diversity and attaining a better representation of bee fauna on the refuge (see Methodology). Depending on the site, sampling occurred: for two consecutive seasons using the same transect location; 1 season of sampling only; incidental sampling for 1 or 2 seasons but without fixed locations between sampling events; and habitat-based plots to assess variability in succession.
DOI: 10.15468/b6zrtg
title: Mohonk Preserve Phenology Observations

description: Phenology records around Mohonk Lake date back to the early 1900s, when Daniel and Keith Smiley started noting the date of spring bird arrivals. The Preserve’s Daniel Smiley Research Center continues this tradition of natural history observation and has expanded the scope of the Smileys’ phenology records to monitor seasonal changes in plants and other fauna at Mohonk Preserve on local, regional, and national levels. Alongside our long-term weather data, these data provide insight into the changing communities in the Mohonk Preserve in response to changing climate. These data include first occurrence dates for each of the taxa and associated life stages in the vicinity of Mohonk Preserve and were collected by staff at the Daniel Smiley Research Center.
DOI: 10.15468/1c9xmg
title: USGS ASC - Changing Arctic Ecosystems - Birdlist - 2011-2013

description: Through the Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) strives to inform key resource management decisions for Arctic Alaska by providing scientific information on current and future ecosystem response to a warming climate. Our research is (1) examining critical physical and landscape-scale changes in the environment; (2) assessing key ecological drivers of population change; and (3) projecting future abundance and distribution of focal species, including mammals, birds, fish, and aquatic invertebrates that use the landscapes of the Arctic in different ways and likely will express differently the consequences of changes to the associated ecosystems. This dataset is a list of all bird species observed, and their location, during the 2011-13 field seasons for this project. USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC).
DOI: 10.15468/v6difu
title: Indiana University - Indiana - Hemlocks - 2005-2013

description: As part of a research thesis, aerial imagery for the state of Indiana was examined for evidence of eastern hemlock occurrences. The distribution of Tsuga canadensis in Indiana was reviewed using aerial imagery and followed up by selected ground truthing. This dataset shows locations of less than 1000m2 (non-solid stands). Based on images from 2005, locations randomly selected were visited on foot to verify the presence of the species, through 2013.
DOI: 10.15468/452k72
title: Curtis Rd Biodiversity Survey - Powered by Anecdata.org

description: What animals share this site - how can we design to live alongside them
https://www.hurleyarchitects.com.au/