cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5066/p97xvx22
title: In Support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 3-Bat Species Status Assessment: Predicted Wind Take Allocated To Hibernacula Each Year Under Current and Future Scenarios

description: Through the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat), United States Geological Survey (USGS) provided technical and science support to assist in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' (USFWS) Species Status Assessment ('SSA") for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus), and tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). USGS facilitated the SSA data call, provided data archival for repeatable and transparent analyses, provided statistical support to assess the historical, current, and future population status for each of the three species, and developed a demographic projection tool to evaluate future viability of each species under multiple threat scenarios. These data represent the predicted bat take from wind energy allocated to each known winter hibernacula (at the resolution of the NABat grid cell) for each species, under several scenarios. These annual wind take predictions for each hibernacula and scenario were produced as inputs for a separate demographic scenario modeling effort (Wiens et al. 2021) in support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' 3-Bat SSA. The predicted take allocated each year to each hibernacula was dependent on: 1) current or future distribution of wind energy on the landscape, 2) the curtailment status (none, summer only, summer and fall) of current wind energy facilities, 3) mortality rate (take/megawatt of rated capacity), under lower (25th percentile), mean, and upper (75th percentile) scenarios based on estimates provided by USFWS, 4) the predicted year of arrival of Pd (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) for each location based on 2 alternative models which used data from the county-level USGS pd surveillance map, 5) the species' proportion of all bat take in each USFWS region and Canadian province, based on estimates provided by USFWS (both before and after the arrival of Pd), 6) the mean and maximum migration distances of each species, 7) the last observed count of each hibernacula, 8) the distance between each hibernacula and wind energy location, and 9) an exponential migration kernel (distance decay function) based on the mean migration distance of each species. The total take at each wind energy grid cell was predicted based on items 1-5, and take was reallocated among hibernacula given items 6-9. Scenario levels included 4 time periods (current, 2030, 2040, 2050), 2 alternative pd spread models, 2 future wind energy development scenarios (high cost = low future build-out, low cost = high future build out) using models provided by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), and 3 scenarios for take/megawatt estimates (mean, 25th percentile,75th percentile), for a total of 42 scenarios for each species.
DOI: 10.5066/p97zdqhy
title: Photo-documented sequences from 01 Jun 2021 - 30 Aug 2021 showing novel interactions between intraguild predators in southern Florida, USA, bobcat and Burmese python

description: Entire photo-documented sequence from 01 June 2021-09 September 2021, including novel interactions between intraguild predators in southern Florida - the native bobcat (Lynx rufus) and the invasive Burmese python (Python bivittatus). A bobcat depredated an unguarded Burmese python nest and subsequently the python exhibited nest defense behavior following the return of both animals to the nest. First, a bobcat discovers an unguarded nest then proceeds to depredate, cache, and uncover the eggs over several days. The bobcat returns to find the female python back on the nest and later proceeds to swipe at the snake. After biologists attempted to the nest but leave the camera, the bobcat returns to scavenge discarded, inviable eggs over several weeks. This is the first documentation of any animal in Florida preying on python eggs, and the first evidence or description of such antagonistic interactions at a python nest. Photos were captured by U.S. Geological Survey equipment in Big Cypress National Preserve within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Florida USA.
DOI: 10.5066/p984a6m8
title: Brown Treesnake counts during visual encounter surveys at three walking paces, Guam 2016

description: We evaluated three walking paces to estimate (1) how snake detection rate per unit distance changes with increasing pace, and (2) how total number of snakes found by the end of a night of surveying varies with pace when the amount of surveying time per night is held constant. For a ?fast? pace we searched the 220 meter-long transect in 10 minutes, corresponding to a walking pace of 1.32 km/h, whereas for a ?medium? pace we searched 17.5 minutes, corresponding to a pace of approximately 0.75 km/h. The ?slow? pace was the 30 minutes (0.44 km/h) the standard previously adopted for work on Guam. Perch height and sizes of detected snakes were recorded for the three paces.
DOI: 10.5066/p98egzyi
title: Black-tailed prairie dog movement and bait uptake data from 2013-2017 in Montana

description: Oral sylvatic plague vaccine baits (SPV) and placebo baits, each containing Rhodamine B dye biomarker, were distributed once annually from 2013-2016 on treated and non-treated paired plots from 2013-2016. Black-tailed prairie dogs (BTPD) were live-trapped and permanently marked with passive integrated transponders and ear tags on 4 pairs of plots each year from 2013-2017 to provide capture/recapture data. Capture locations were recorded using global positioning systems. Hair and whisker samples were pulled from each prairie dog to assess bait uptake (i.e. consumption) using a florescent microscope to inspect the samples for Rhodamine B florescence. The first data set (CMR_MOVEMENT_DATA.csv) lists distances (meters) between capture locations from a single prairie dog within a given year, with the data limited to prairie dogs with 2 or more capture locations (one distance measurement per pair of 2 locations per year). The second data set (CMR_BAIT_UPTAKE.csv) lists bait uptake outcomes for individual prairie dogs each year. Funding was provided through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, multiple USGS sources, grants from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and World Wildlife Fund.
DOI: 10.5066/p98vxaui
title: Simulation models for buffelgrass and alternative management strategies for Saguaro National Park, AZ

description: This is a spatially-explicit state-and-transition simulation model of buffelgrass dynamics and alternative management actions in Saguaro National Park, AZ. Buffelgrass is an invasive grass spreading in the park. This work built on previous efforts that first developed a state and transition simulation model linked to FARSITE fire behavior model to describe buffelgrass dynamics in the park and a secondary effort to evaluate these dynamics in light of uncertainties in the model. This model represents uninvaded and invaded parts of the desert ecosystem and adds alternative management actions to the previously built models (cross reference). The model was built using the ST-Sim software platform linked to the FARSITE fire behavior model. This package includes six folders representing different sets of management actions. These include two related to simulation set 1 in the associated manuscript, evaluating unconstrained management simulations both with (CurrentManagementPart1 Fire) and without (CurrentManagementPart1 NoFire) fire. There are also four related to simulation set 2 in the associated manuscript, evaluating budget constrained simulations focused on management priorities (Current SNP Management Part2 MngmntP), fire prioriries (Current SNP Management Part2 FireP), and no priority (Current SNP Management Part2 NoP) considered with fire and without fire (Current SNP Management Part2 no fire). The St-SIM file structure within each of the six folders includes three components: 1) Buffelgrass.ssim.input folder that houses the input files used by St-SIM, 2) the Buffelgrass.ssim.output folder which houses the scenario outputs used by St-SIM for visualization and export of data, and 3) Buffelgrass.ssim file which is opened by St-SIM to provide an interface to the model and outputs. Each folder contains several scenarios and their associated outputs. ST-Sim is the latest in a 20-year lineage of STSM development tools that includes the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), the Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analysis (TELSA), and the Path Landscape Model (Path).
DOI: 10.5519/qd.dlf1gspz
title: Query on the Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk) (1003 records)
DOI: 10.5066/p99i6dp7
title: Visual Surveys and Morphometrics of Brown Treesnakes in Mariana Swiftlets caves on Guam

description: Visual survey data for brown treesnakes from caves with and without swiftlets. Each record (line) represents the snake sightings that occurred during a block of time, typically 1 hour at one site by searcher(s) during one search (i.e. one date). Snakes removed from caves and adjacent areas during visual surveys were then necropsied. Each record (line) represents necropsy results for a given individual.
DOI: 10.5066/p99ibb3n
title: Data on prairie dog densities, flea abundance, and plague epizootics in Montana and Utah, USA

description: Data on prairie dog densities, flea abundance on prairie dogs, and plague epizootics in Montana and Utah, USA, 2003-2005. Prairie dog species (PDspecies in the data file) included black-tailed prairie dogs (PDs) (BTPD, Cynomys ludovicianus) in north-central Montana, white-tailed PDs (WTPD, Cynomys leucurus) in eastern Utah, and Utah PDs (UPD, Cynomys parvidens) in southwestern Utah. Field research was completed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, and colleagues. We used summertime visual counts as an index to PD densities (Pddensity in the data file). For each plot, we counted PDs using binoculars and/or spotting scopes from a single location outside the plot that gave the best view of the entire plot and repeated these counts on three (usually consecutive) days. We began counts just after sunrise and continued to conduct repeated systematic scans of the plot until the counts declined to about half the peak number (usually by late morning as PDs went below ground for their typical mid-day break). We converted the counts to density estimates (counts per hectare [ha]).The estimate we used to calculate density was the highest count obtained from a plot for the 3 days within a given year. We analyzed data from colonies experiencing a plague epizootic during this particular study (with an epizootic defined as greater than or equal to 90% decline in PD density). We indexed annual population change (PDpopchgProportion in the data file) by subtracting the count density estimate of the year before a plague epizootic (t1) from the density estimate during an epizootic (t2) for each plot, and dividing that by the density estimate from t1 to summarize population change as a proportionate change. We evaluated the correlation between PD population change and PD density in year t1, because negative plague-effects and the intensity of population decline may be greatest when PD densities are high in year t1 (a potential &amp;amp;quot;density dependent&amp;amp;quot; phenomenon discussed in a wide range of literature on disease ecology). We also evaluated the correlation between PD population change and flea abundance in year t1, because rates of plague transmission and, therefore, PD mortality are expected to increase with increasing flea densities. To assess flea abundance (PDfleas in the data file), we combed live-trapped PDs and counted the number of fleas on each PD. The PDs were live-trapped, individually marked with ear tags, and combed as thoroughly as possible for 30 seconds (s) to collect fleas. Prairie dogs were allowed to recover from anesthesia and released at their trapping locations. For each plot and year, we used the average value of flea counts (defined as flea abundance).
DOI: 10.5066/p99lbgcp
title: Adult male horse data from Conger and Frisco Herd Management Areas, Utah, USA, between 2017 and 2020

description: We studied the effect of castrating a proportion of the adult males in a feral horse herd to examine any effect on behavior and social associations, particularly in terms of association with mares (i.e., maintenance of a harem group). We conducted this study between 2017 and 2020 at two Herd Management Areas (HMAs) in western Utah, USA: Conger and Frisco. We conducted demographic observations year round at both HMAs to record group composition and foaling rate. We additionally recorded behavioral observations at Conger HMA.
DOI: 10.5066/p99mqf8j
title: Measurements of milkweeds and associated arthropods at Hastings Preserve, California in 2013

description: Monthly measurements of milkweed stems were made in 2013 at Hastings Natural History Reservation. At the same time, arthropod communities were measured associated with each milkweed stem. Treatments were conducted in which a subset of milkweed stems were damaged each month.
DOI: 10.5066/p99mstoe
title: Data on how Lepidium draba responds to damage of clones

description: A greenhouse experiment was conducted to test the ability of the invasive clonal plant, Lepidium draba, to cope with damage to local and different ramets. The experiment was arranged in a fully factorial split-pot design that was blocked by bench position and provenance population of the plant. Plants were grown in 'split pots', where two adjoining pots were glued together with a small opening for a lateral root to pass through. A plant with a long lateral root was placed such that one ramet was in one pot, and a connected ramet was in the adjoining pot. One ramet was randomly assigned as the 'local' ramet and the other was assigned as the 'neighbor' ramet. Three treatments were applied in a fully factorial manner: (1) connection of lateral root (connected / not connected), (2) damage to local ramet by a generalist herbivore Trichoplusia ni (damaged / undamaged); (3) damage to the local ramet by a specialist herbivore Pieris rapae (damaged / undamaged). Measured responses were the amount of foliar damage to plants, the relative growth rate of a newly applied (bioassay) herbivore (T. ni), the belowground and aboveground biomass of each ramet, and the ability of the neighboring ramet to regrow following removal of aboveground biomass.
DOI: 10.5066/p99oob1v
title: Boreal toad metamorph capture, recapture and covariates data, Colorado 2017-2018

description: This dataset includes two files, 1) site -specific covariates including the presence of predators (fish), disease (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis [Bd] - amphibian chytrid fungus), and permanence (ephemeral or permanent) of sites in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The dataset was analyzed for planned publication of a manuscript in Population Ecology, Crockett, J., E. Muths and L.L. Bailey authors. and 2) site-specific covariates for additional sites in Colorado (including those in file 1) noting the presence of toad breeding, snowpack values, Bd, permanence and elevation that are analyzed for a second planned publication by Crockett et al.
DOI: 10.5066/p9ad7kko
title: Brown Treesnake morphological and behavioral differences following ingestion of large meals, 2015

description: Data set resulting from monitoring the behavior of snakes (n = 62) that had been feed a standardized large meal with transmitter, proportional to their body mass, to make direct comparisons to a control group of snakes that had not been fed a meal (only the transmitter). Transmitters were equipped with a two-position switch that changes pulse rate when the body position of the animal changes more than 10 degrees from the switch's preset orientation. Changes in pulse rate serve as a proxy measurement for snake activity, under the logic that a relatively stationary/sedentary snake would cause the transmitter to tip less frequently that an actively moving/foraging snake would. The experiment took place in the U.S. Geological Survey's Brown Treesnake study enclosure on Northwest Field of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.
DOI: 10.5066/p9afvpej
title: Mean flea counts from prairie dogs and their burrows in Utah (2000), New Mexico (2010-2012), and Montana (2016, 2019)

description: Mean flea counts from prairie dogs and their burrows in Utah (2000), New Mexico (2010-2012), and Montana (2016, 2019). Prairie dogs were live-trapped, anesthetized with isoflurane, and combed thoroughly for 30 or 45 seconds to remove and count fleas. Prairie dogs were allowed to recover from anesthesia and released at their trapping locations. Randomly selected prairie dog burrows were swabbed for fleas using a plumber's snake to insert a white flannel-cloth as deep as possible into each tunnel; the cable was shook ~30 seconds, and the cloth was removed from the burrow and quickly sealed in a re-sealable zipper storage bag. Fleas were later removed from swabs and counted. Mean flea counts were calculated for each sampling site, and sampling interval, as the total number of fleas collected (from prairie dogs or burrows) divided by the total number of sampling occasions (combings or swabbings). Funding and logistical support were provided by the U.S. Geological Survey; Turner Endangered Species Fund; Turner Enterprises Incorporated; Colorado State University; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge; Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research Project; National Science Foundation; and the U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Environment Research and Development Program.
DOI: 10.5066/p9b1c84r
title: Brown Treesnake trap captures, Guam National Wildlife Refuge, 2014

description: Over a 22-week period both with and without active Brown Treesnake (BTS) snake removal, we evaluated snake-trap contact rates at mouse- and bird-lure traps within the Guam National Wildlife Refuge in 2014. Bird-lure traps served as a proxy for reintroduced nesting birds. Data consists of 3 files generated from camera surveillance and trapping using mouse and bird lures in conventional snake traps on a 6 x 18 trapping grid. Trap survey effort contains summary results for a set of traps on a single occasion. Mark release data consist of individual capture records of trapped snakes. Camera transcription consist of animals detected via motion and time-lapsed photography at traps using bird lures.
DOI: 10.5066/p9bbrg2f
title: Arena trial breach attempts and morphometric data of brown treesnakes and rats, Guam, 2019-2020

description: There are two datasets included in this entry. The "morph" dataset contains 6 columns of data on brown treesnakes and rats collected prior to and during arena trials for trialing fencing material for multispecies barrier construction. The "trials" dataset includes 25 columns of brown treesnake and rat data collected prior to, during, and after arena trials. There are four data files associated with this data release. They include "BTS_Breach Attempts_29Jun2020.csv" which describes data associated with attempts by brown treesnakes to escape the fence arena' "BTS_Morph_29Jun2020.CSV", which describes morphometrics of captured and trialed snakes; "Rats_Breach Attempts_29Jun2020.csv", which describes attempts to breach the barrier by rats; "Rats_Morph_29Jun2020.csv", which describes morphometrics of captured rats included in the trials.
DOI: 10.5066/p9bvvhvb
title: Native Bee Genera in Colorado Conservation Reserve Program Fields, Collected from 2012-2014

description: Data included in this data set are for blue vane trap captured native bees from Logan County, Colorado starting in 2012 and ending in 2014. Data collected were the number of bees captured per date, per field, and identified to genus. Net level data contains 16,229 records.
DOI: 10.5066/p9bxeh62
title: Oil and gas development potential in the US Intermountain West

description: We created a probabilistic classification model using the nonparametric machine learning technique 'Random Forests' for oil and gas development potential from low (0) to high (1) across the western US. The six predictor variables used in the model were: geophysical data showing aeromagnetic, isostatic gravity, and Bouguer gravity anomalies, geology, topography and bedrock depth. Our binary response variable was geospatial point data on producing and non-producing oil and gas wells. Our estimates provide insights into the trajectory and eventual endpoint of oil and gas development, but the rate and exact location of development will be subject to additional factors not considered such as market demand, the capacity to transport oil or gas to consumers, and federal air and water quality laws (e.g. Clean Air Act, climate change legislation).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7330453
title: Insights into the interaction of a shale with CO2

description: These are image datasets analysed in the publication "Insights into the interaction of a shale with CO2" by Stavropoulou and Laloui in 2022 in Scientific Reports, DOI: TBC File 1 contains the 3D reconstructed, normalised and registered x-ray tomography volumes of sample A analysed in the paper in bin 2. (9 month CO2 exposure)<br> FIle 2 contains: the 3D reconstructed, normalised and registered x-ray tomography volumes of the shale sample directly exposed to supercritical CO2. the calculated vol. strain from digital volume correlation performed with the spam tookit. the results of the CO2 uptake
DOI: 10.5066/p9bzaplb
title: Demographic data from two chorus frog populations in Colorado

description: We used 29 years of data on boreal chorus frogs at two sites to view life-history, estimate demographic parameters, assess weather-related covariates, and determine the magnitude of process variation in target parameters. Average estimates of survival probabilities were 0.51 (Standard error [SE]=0.04) and 0.43 (SE=0.04), and average estimates of recruitment probabilities were 0.64 (SE=0.07) and 0.44 (SE=0.04). Process variation accounted for greater than 76% of the total temporal variation in both parameters at one pond and in survival probability alone at the other.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21572319
title: Temporal Pattern Figures Data

description: Excel file used to create the temporal figures in the crow lanague playback experiment
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21572319.v1
title: Temporal Pattern Figures Data

description: Excel file used to create the temporal figures in the crow lanague playback experiment
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7330452
title: Insights into the interaction of a shale with CO2

description: These are image datasets analysed in the publication "Insights into the interaction of a shale with CO2" by Stavropoulou and Laloui in 2022 in Scientific Reports, DOI: TBC File 1 contains the 3D reconstructed, normalised and registered x-ray tomography volumes of sample A analysed in the paper in bin 2. (9 month CO2 exposure)<br> FIle 2 contains: the 3D reconstructed, normalised and registered x-ray tomography volumes of the shale sample directly exposed to supercritical CO2. the calculated vol. strain from digital volume correlation performed with the spam tookit. the results of the CO2 uptake