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TESS-validated Gaia DR3 Pulsating Variables of δ Scuti and γ Doradus: II. 360+ Eclipsing Binaries with δ Scuti and γ Doradus Components
<div> <div> <div> <p>I present serendipitous discoveries of 380 eclipsing binaries with δ Scuti and γ Doradus pulsators, 46 eclipsing binaries exhibiting rotational variability, and 8 new RR Lyrae stars, identified for the first time during a validation project of pulsating variables from Gaia Data Release 3. Gaia DR3 Part 4 Variability released 12.4 million variables, including 748,058 pulsating variable stars of `DSCT|GDOR|SXPHE' types among the variability classification results of all classifiers -- 9,976,881 objects (in the file vclassre.dat, https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/I/358}). Among 75,369 analyzed stars, I confirmed 12,145 δ Scuti stars (including 8,710 new) and 8,192 γ Doradus stars (including 7,531 new). This work has significantly expanded the bona fide DSCT and GDOR catalogs to include 98,968 and 19,466 stars, respectively, providing a valuable resource for future studies. The discovery of the remarkable number of pulsating binaries underscores the significance of this project in validating Gaia’s variable star catalog. </p> </div> </div> </div> <p>The attached CSV files report the current validation results. If you use any data from the catalogs in your research, I appreciate your citation to the paper: </p> <p><strong>Zhou, A.-Y., 2024, Research Notes of the AAS, Volume 8, Number 4, 110 (ADS bibcode: 2024RNAAS...8..110Z) </strong></p> <ul> <li>CSV file GaiaDR3_vari_DSCTgDorSXPhe_Validated_R2_NewEB_Pul.csv for the newly identified Eclipsing Binaries with Pulsating components;</li> <li>CSV file GaiaDR3_vari_DSCTgDorSXPhe_Validated_R2.csv for the entire validated and newly identified results from 75,369 analyzed samples.</li> </ul> <p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</p>
Dataset for "Holocene hydroclimatic variability in the tropical Pacific explained by changing ENSO diversity."
<p>This repository contains the tropical Pacific sea surface temperature and global precipitation data from the CESM1 time slice experiments, which were used for the analysis presented in Karamperidou & DiNezio (2022), Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34880-8)</p> <p> </p> <p>From Karamperidou & DiNezio (2022):</p> <p>“To assess the response of ENSO flavors to orbital forcing over the past 12,000 years (12ka), we use a suite of time-slice experiments in 3ka intervals with version 1 of the Community Earth System Model (CESM1). Each experiment is 400-600 years long and was run until the surface climate and oceanic processes controlling tropical climate, such as the depth of the thermocline in the equatorial Pacific or the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), have reached equilibrium. All simulations exhibit minimal drift in global mean surface temperature (less than 0.05<sup>o</sup>C per century), tropical mean surface temperature (less than 0.04<sup>o</sup>C per century), the depth of the equatorial thermocline in the Pacific (less than 0.3m per century), and the strength of the AMOC (less than 0.25 Sv per century) during the periods used in the analyses. With the exception of the 12 ka BP interval which includes ice sheet changes and lower greenhouse gases, the primary forcing in the 0, 3, 6, and 9 ka BP intervals is changes in Earth's precession, and each simulation branched off its preceding one, starting from 0ka sequentially through the Holocene. The maximum TOA energetic imbalance does not exceed 0.45 Wm<sup>-2</sup>, which is much smaller than the imposed radiative forcing.”</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Karamperidou, C., DiNezio, P.N. Holocene hydroclimatic variability in the tropical Pacific explained by changing ENSO diversity. <em>Nat Commun</em> <strong>13</strong>, 7244 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34880-8</p>
Data from: Coastal upwelling drives ecosystem temporal variability from the surface to the abyssal seafloor.
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Long-term biological time series that monitor ecosystems across the ocean’s full water column are extremely rare. As a result, classic paradigms have yet to be tested. One such paradigm is that variations in coastal upwelling drive changes in marine ecosystems throughout the water column. We examine this hypothesis by using data from three multi-decadal time series spanning surface (0 m), midwater (200-1000 m), and benthic (~ 4000 m) habitats in the central California Current Upwelling System. Data include microscopic counts of surface plankton, video quantification of midwater animals, and imaging of benthic seafloor invertebrates. Taxon-specific plankton biomass and midwater and benthic animal densities were separately analyzed with principal component analysis. Within each community, the first mode of variability corresponds to most taxa increasing and decreasing over time, capturing seasonal surface blooms and lower-frequency midwater and benthic variability. When compared to local wind-driven upwelling variability, each community correlates to changes in upwelling damped over distinct timescales. This suggests that periods of high upwelling favor increases in organism biomass or density from the surface ocean through the midwater down to the abyssal seafloor. These connections most likely occur directly via changes in primary production and vertical carbon flux, and to a lesser extent indirectly via other oceanic changes. The timescales over which species respond to upwelling are taxon-specific and are likely linked to the longevity of phytoplankton blooms (surface) and of animal life (midwater and benthos), that dictate how long upwelling-driven changes persist within each community.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Data set description</strong></p> <p>This data set includes 3 files, one for each community. The files contain plankton biomass (for the surface community) or animal density (for midwater and benthos communities) as a function of sampling time and taxonomic group. </p> <ul> <li>surface.csv: autotrophic and heterotrophic surface plankton sampled in Monterey Bay by CTD-rosette and analyzed by epifluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry</li> <li>midwater.csv: midwater animals observed by ROV in the Monterey Bay mesopelagic zone from 200-1000m</li> <li>benthos.csv: benthic animals observed by ROV in a ~ 4000 m abyssal seafloor habitat at the base of the Monterey deep-sea fan</li> </ul> <p><strong>Detailed description </strong>(see additional details and references in <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214567120">Messié et al., 2023</a>):</p> <p><strong>Surface time series:</strong> Plankton biomass was estimated from surface plankton counts collected using ship-based CTD-rosette at station M1 in Monterey Bay (122.022°W, 36.747°N). This station is part of a 3-station time series program operating in Monterey Bay since 1989 at 3-4 week intervals. Epifluorescence microscopy was used to enumerate and size auto- and heterotrophic plankton. Starting in 1998, flow cytometry samples provided more precise numbers for <em>Synechococcus</em> and eukaryotic picoplankton (<em>Prochlorococcus</em> was not included as no information is available prior to 1998). Standard geometric equations (e.g., ellipsoid, sphere, cylinder, pennate diatom shape) were used to calculate biovolumes of individual cells, and biomass of each plankton group was assessed using biovolume-based carbon conversions. For picoplankton an average value per cell was used: 82 fgC cell<sup>-1</sup> for <em>Synechococcus</em> and 530 fgC cell<sup>-1</sup> for eukaryotic picophytoplankton (red fluorescing picoplankton). Diatom biovolumes were converted to biomass using log<sub>10</sub>(Biomass) = 0.76 log<sub>10</sub>(Volume) - 0.29 where Biomass is in gC and Volume is in 𝜇m<sup>3</sup>. The ciliate conversion was Biomass = 0.08 * Volume. For all other plankton we used log<sub>10</sub>(Biomass) = 0.94 log<sub>10</sub>(Volume) - 0.6.</p> <p><strong>Midwater time series: </strong>Quantitative mesopelagic video transects were conducted at a single station in Monterey Bay (Midwater 1, 36°42′N, 122°02′W). The station is located over the axis of the Monterey Submarine Canyon, where the water column is approximately 1600 m deep. Data were collected using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Estimates of animal densities using ROV imaging underestimate some groups (notably fishes), but provide a more complete view of life in the ocean than traditional methods such as nets and acoustics, particularly for gelatinous animals. The ROVs conducted horizontal video transects while moving at about 0.5 m s<sup>-1</sup> for 10 min. Data for this paper come from approximately monthly transects made at 100 m intervals between 200 - 1000 m from 1997-2017. These years were chosen because the entire mesopelagic water column was more evenly surveyed than in the years prior. In each transect, the community of animals was annotated by professional annotators using the open-source Video Annotation and Referencing System (VARS) software. Annotators identified organisms in transect video to the lowest taxon possible; in many cases to species. We selected 63 taxonomic groups defined at the highest possible taxonomic resolution; annotations not included represent 31% of the total (84% of which are euphausiids, chaetognaths, and unidentified appendicularians). Calibrated cameras on MBARI ROVs and accurate measurement of ROV speed through water, allow for the calculation of volume for each transect. Animal density was calculated for each taxonomic group and each depth-specific transect as the number of individuals divided by the corresponding transect volume, further averaged over the water column from 200 - 1000 m. Midwater transecting methods and their efficacy are well-documented.</p> <p><strong>Benthic time series: </strong>Two comparable methods were used to assess benthic communities at Station M (34°50′N, 123°00′W). From 1989-2005, the identification to the lowest possible taxon, and quantity of benthic animals were recorded from images taken by a camera-sled towed along a horizontal transect above the sea floor at a speed of approximately 1 m s<sup>-1</sup>, taking a film image every 4-5 seconds (water depth ~ 4,100 m). The developed film was projected by a Beseler model 23C-II enlarger for annotation of identifiable animals in images. From 2006-2018, benthic communities were assessed using ROV video transects recorded from approximately 1.3 m above the sea floor, with a view of approximately 1 m wide, and length typically approximately 1 km. Water depth for these transects was approximately 4,000 m, the lower depth limit of the ROV. Animals visible in the video were identified and annotated using VARS. The 2006 change in sampling method and in time series location and depth was found to have little impact on the megafauna time series. </p>
Climate change velocity metrics calculated for three climate variables across Finland
<p>This dataset contains files that show the climate change velocity metrics calculated for three climate variables across Finland. The climate velocities were used to study the magnitude of projected climatic changes in a nation-wide Natura 2000 protected area (PA) network (Heikkinen et al., 2020). Using fine-resolution climate data that describes the present-day and future topoclimates and their spatio-temporal variation, the study explored the rate of climatic changes in protected areas on an ecologically relevant, but yet poorly explored scale. The velocities for the three climate variables were developed in the following work, where in-depth description of the different steps in velocity metrics calculation and a number of visualisations of their spatial variation across Finland are provided:</p><p>Risto K. Heikkinen 1, Niko Leikola 1, Juha Aalto 2,3, Kaisu Aapala 1, Saija Kuusela 1, Miska Luoto 2 & Raimo Virkkala 1 2020: Fine-grained climate velocities reveal vulnerability of protected areas to climate change. Scientific Reports 10:1678. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58638-8</p><p>1 Finnish Environment Institute, Biodiversity Centre, Latokartanonkaari 11, FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland</p><p>2 Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland</p><p>3 Finnish Meteorological Institute, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland </p><p>The dataset includes GIS compatible geotiff files describing the nine spatial climate velocity surfaces calculated across the whole of Finland at 50 m × 50 m spatial resolution. These nine different velocity surfaces consist of velocity metric values measured for each 50-m grid cell separately for the three different climate variables and in relation to the three different future climate scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5). The baseline climate data for the study were the monthly temperature and precipitation data averaged for the period from 1981 to 2010 modelled at a resolution of 50-m, based on which estimates for the annual temperature sum above 5 °C (growing degree days, GDD, °C), the mean January temperature (TJan, °C) and the annual climatic water balance (WAB, the difference between annual precipitation and potential evapotranspiration; mm) were calculated. Corresponding future climate surfaces were produced using an ensemble of 23 global climate models for the years 2070–2099 (Taylor et al. 2012) and the three RCPs. The data for the three climate variables for 1981–2010 and under the three RCPs will be made available in separately via METIS - FMI's Research Data repository service (Aalto et al., in prep.). </p><p>The climate velocity surfaces included in the present data repository were developed using climate-analog approach (Hamann et al. 2015; Batllori et al. 2017; Brito-Morales et al. 2018), whereby velocity metrics for the 50-m grid cells were measured based on the distance between climatically similar cells under the baseline and the future climates, calculated separately for the three climate variables. In Heikkinen et al. (2020), the spatial data for the Natura 2000 protected areas were used to assess their exposure to climate change. The full data on N2K areas can be downloaded from the following link: https://ckan.ymparisto.fi/dataset/%7BED80465E-135B-4391-AA8A-FE2038FB224D%7D. However, note that the N2K areas including multiple physically separate patches were treated as separate polygons in Heikkinen et al. (2020), and a minimum size requirement of 2 hectares were requested. Moreover, the digital elevation model (DEM) data for Finland (which were dissected to Natura 2000 polygons to examine their elevational variation and its relationships to topoclimatic variation) can be downloaded from the following link: https://ckan.ymparisto.fi/en/dataset/dem25_astergdem25. </p><p>The coordinate system for the climate velocity data files is: ETRS-TM35FIN (EPSG: 3067) (or YKJ Finland/Finnish Uniform Coordinate System (EPSG: 2393)). Summary of the key settings and elements of the study are provided below. A detailed treatment is provided in Heikkinen et al. (2020).</p><p>Code to the files (four files per each velocity layer: *.tif, *.tfw. *.ovr and *.tif.aux.xml) in the dataset: </p><p>(a) Velocity of GDD with respect to RCP2.6 future climate (Fig 2a in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: GDDRCP26.*</p><p>(b) Velocity of GDD with respect to RCP4.5 future climate (Fig. 2b in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: GDDRCP45.*</p><p>(c) Velocity of GDD with respect to RCP8.5 future climate (Fig. 2c in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: GDDRCP85.*</p><p>(d) Velocity of mean January temperature with respect to RCP2.6 future climate (Fig. 2d in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: TJanRCP26.*</p><p>(e) Velocity of mean January temperature with respect to RCP4.5 future climate (Fig. 2e in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: TJanRCP45.*</p><p>(f) Velocity of mean January temperature with respect to RCP8.5 future climate (Fig. 2f in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: TJanRCP85.*</p><p>(g) Velocity of climatic water balance with respect to RCP2.6 future climate (Fig. 2g in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: WABRCP26.*</p><p>(h) Velocity of climatic water balance with respect to RCP4.5 future climate (Fig. 2h in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: WABRCP45.*</p><p>(i) Velocity of climatic water balance with respect to RCP8.5 future climate (Fig. 2i in Heikkinen et al. 2020). Name of the file: WABRCP85.*</p><p>Note that velocity surfaces e and f include disappearing climate conditions.</p><p><strong>Summary of the study:</strong></p><p>Climate velocity is a generic metric which provides useful information for climate-wise conservation planning to identify regions and protected areas where climate conditions are changing most rapidly, exposing them to high rates of climate displacement (Batllori et al. 2017), causing potential carry-over impacts to community structure and ecosystem functions (Ackerly et al. 2010). Climate velocity has been typically used to assess the climatic risks for species and their populations, but velocity metrics can also be used to identify protected areas which face overall difficulties in retaining ecological conditions that promote present-day biodiversity. </p><p>Earlier climate velocity assessments have focussed on the domains of the mesoclimate (resolutions of 1–100 km) or macroclimate (>100 km scales), and fine-grained (<100 m) local climatic conditions created by variation in topography ('topoclimate'; Ackerly et al. 2010; 2020) have largely been overlooked (Heikkinen et al. 2020). This omission may lead to biased exposure assessments especially in rugged terrain (Dobrowski et al. 2013; Franklin et al. 2013), as well as a limited ability to detect sites decoupled from the regional climate (Aalto et al. 2017; Lenoir et al. 2017). This study provided the first assessment of the climatic exposure risks across a national PA (Natura 2000) network based on very fine-grained velocities of three established drivers of high latitude biodiversity. </p><p>The produce fine-grain climate velocity measures, 50-m resolution monthly temperature and precipitation data averaged for 1981–2010 were first developed, and based on it, the three bioclimatic variables (growing degree days, mean January temperature and annual climatic water balance) were calculated for the whole study domain. In the next phase, similar future climate surfaces were produced based on data from an ensemble of 23 global climate models, extracted from the CMIP5 archives for the years 2070–2099 and the three RCP scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5)26. In the final step, climate velocities for each the 50 x 50 m grid cells were measured using climate-analog velocity method (Hamann et al. 2015) and based on the distance between climatically similar cells under the baseline and future climates.</p><p>The results revealed notable spatial differences in the high velocity areas for the three bioclimatic variables, indicating contrasting exposure risks in protected areas situated in different areas. Moreover, comparisons of the 50-m baseline and future climate surfaces revealed a potential wholesale disappearance of current topoclimatic temperature conditions from almost all the studied PAs by the end of this century.</p><p><strong>Calculation of climate change velocity metrics for the three climate variables</strong></p><p>The overall process of calculation of climate velocities included three main steps. </p><p>(1) In the first step, we developed high-resolution monthly average temperature and precipitation data averaged over the years 1981–2010 and across the study domain at a spatial resolution of 50 × 50 m. This was done by building topoclimatic models based on climate data sourced from 313 meteorological stations (European Climate Assessment and Dataset [ECA&D]) (Klok et al. 2009). Our station network and modelling domain covered the whole of Finland with an additional 100 km buffer. However, it was also extended to cover large parts of northern Sweden and Norway for areas >66.5°N, as well as selected adjacent areas in Russia (for details see Heikkinen et al. 2020). This was done to capture the present-day climate spaces in Finland which are projected to move in the future beyond the country borders but have analogous climate areas in neighbouring areas; this was done to avoid developing a large number of velocity values deemed as infinite or unknown in the data for Finland. </p><p>The 50-m resolution average air temperature data were developed for the study domain using generalized additive modelling (GAM), as implemented in the R-package mgcv version 1.8–7 (R Development Core Team 2011; Wood 2011). In this modelling we utilised variables of geographical location (latitude and longitude, included as an anisotropic interaction), topography (elevation, potential incoming solar radiation, relative elevation) and water cover (sea and lake proximity), and subsequent leave-one-out cross-validation tests to assess model performance (for full process description, see Aalto et al. 2017; Heikkinen et al. 2020). The resulting topoclimate data effectively captured the physiographic effects of solar radiation and cold-air pooling.</p><p>To produce gridded precipitation data, we applied global kriging interpolation to the data from 343 rain gauges from the ECA&D dataset. The interpolation was carried out using information on geographical location, topography (elevation and eastness index) and proximity to the sea and R package gstat. The eastness index was obtained from a sine-transforming aspect raster surface calculated from a 50 m × 50 m digital elevation model to capture the effect of prevailing westerly winds on the accumulated precipitation on windward slopes. The gridding was first run at a resolution of 500 × 500 m, whereafter gridded precipitation values were bilinearly interpolated into the same 50 × 50 m resolution as the air temperature data. </p><p>Next, the three bioclimatic variables ((i) growing degree days (GDD, °C days) indicating the accumulated warmth during the growing season; (ii) mean January air temperature - TJan, °C; (iii) climatic water balance - WAB, mm) were calculated for each 50 x 50 grid cell from the high-resolution gridded 1981–2010 ('baseline') climate data. Earlier research has demonstrated the ecological relevance of these three complementary variables which provide estimations of winter cold, seasonal warmth and moisture availability (Sykes et al. 1996; Luoto et al. 2006; Huntley et al. 2007, 2008). </p><p>Following Carter et al. (1991), GDD was calculated as the effective temperature sum above the base temperature of 5 °C as follows:</p><p><i>GDD</i>5 = <i>∑ni (Ti - Tb), if Ti -Tb > 5</i></p><p>where Ti denotes the mean temperature at day i, Tb represents the base temperature, and n is the length of the summation period. However, because the daily air temperature data was not available, here the GDD was estimated using monthly data as in Araújo & Luoto (2007). The WAB is the difference between the total annual precipitation sum and the potential evapotranspiration (PET), which was estimated from the monthly air temperatures following Skov and Svenning (2004): </p><p><i>PET </i>= 58.93 × <i>Tabove </i>0°<i>C </i>/ 12</p><p>(2) In the second step we developed data on future climates by using the climate projections from the ensemble of 23 global climate models (GCMs), derived from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 archives (Taylor et al. 2012). From these archives, we processed to predicted averaged changes in mean temperature and precipitation with respect to the baseline 1981–2010 for the years 2070–2099, and the three RCP scenarios (cf. Moss et al. 2010). As the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 climate scenario data represent coarse-scale resolution data, we converted it to match our fine-resolution baseline climate data by interpolation. For this, the climate model data depicting the predicted change in mean temperatures and precipitation with respect to the baseline climate were bilinearly interpolated to the 50 × 50 m grid system, and the change predicted by the GCMs was added to the spatially detailed baseline climate data. After this, the bioclimatic variables were recalculated for each RCP scenario to allow the calculation of climate change velocities across the whole country and the Natura 2000 protected areas.</p><p>(3) In the third step we developed climate change velocities for the three bioclimatic variables using the climate-analog approach (Hamann et al. 2015) where velocity is calculated by measuring the distance between present-day locations with certain climatic conditions and their future climate analogues, divided by the number of years between the two points in time. Thus, we calculated climate-analog velocities for the 50-m resolution grid climate data by measuring the distance between climatically similar grid cells for the present and future climates under RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. </p><p>Prior the actual climate-analog velocity measurements, the climate variable surfaces were converted from continuous values into classified variable surfaces. For this, we defined the boundary values for the variable classes so that the climatically matching grid cells had their within-class ranges as small as possible but, at the same time, avoided artefactual extreme precision. After a set of pilot reclassifications, the following within-class ranges were applied: GDD, within-class range 50 °C with 51 categories; TJan, within-class range 0.5 °C with 60 categories; WAB, within-class range 50 mm with 55 categories. Next, using the reclassified present-day and future climate surfaces the search of the minimum distances between grid cells with similar present-day and future GDD/TJan/WAB climates were executed. The search was carried out using the ArcGIS software (Desktop 10.5.1.) by employing the Euclidean distance function. The minimum distances measured for each 50-m grid cell were divided by the difference between the mean points in the two time slices, 1981–2010 and 2070–2099. </p><p>The resulting 50-m resolution climate velocity surfaces for the three climate variables are provided in the zipped files included this data repository. In Heikkinen et al. (2020), these climate velocity data were employed in a series of subsequent analyses. For example, high-velocity areas ('velocity hotspots') of the three climate variables were visually compared with each other based on maps showing their 50-m resolution velocities across mainland Finland and the degree of overlap between the present-day range and projected future range of the three climate variables were investigated in each of the 5,068 Natura 2000 polygons included in the study.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Aalto, J., Riihimäki, H., Meineri, E., Hylander, K., Luoto, M., 2017. Revealing topoclimatic heterogeneity using meteorological station data. International Journal of Climatology 37, 544-556.</p><p>Ackerly, D.D., Loarie, S.R., Cornwell, W.K., Weiss, S.B., Hamilton, H., Branciforte, R., Kraft, N.J.B., 2010. The geography of climate change: implications for conservation biogeography. Diversity and Distributions 16, 476-487.</p><p>Ackerly, D.D., Kling, M.M., Clark, M.L., Papper, P., Oldfather, M.F., Flint, A.L., Flint, L.E., 2020. Topoclimates, refugia, and biotic responses to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18, 288-297.</p><p>Araujo, M.B., Luoto, M., 2007. The importance of biotic interactions for modelling species distributions under climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16.</p><p>Batllori, E., Parisien, M.-A., Parks, S.A., Moritz, M.A., Miller, C., 2017. Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network. Global Change Biology 23, 3219-3230.</p><p>Brito-Morales, I., García Molinos, J., Schoeman, D.S., Burrows, M.T., Poloczanska, E.S., Brown, C.J., Ferrier, S., Harwood, T.D., Klein, C.J., McDonald-Madden, E., Moore, P.J., Pandolfi, J.M., Watson, J.E.M., Wenger, A.S., Richardson, A.J., 2018. Climate Velocity Can Inform Conservation in a Warming World. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33, 441-457.</p><p>Carter, T.R., Porter, J.H., Parry, M.L., 1991. Climatic warming and crop potential in Europe: Prospects and uncertainties. Global Environmental Change 1, 291-312.</p><p>Dobrowski, S.Z., Abatzoglou, J., Swanson, A.K., Greenberg, J.A., Mynsberge, A.R., Holden, Z.A., Schwartz, M.K., 2013. The climate velocity of the contiguous United States during the 20th century. Global Change Biology 19, 241-251.</p><p>Franklin, J., Davis, F.W., Ikegami, M., Syphard, A.D., Flint, L.E., Flint, A.L., Hannah, L., 2013. Modeling plant species distributions under future climates: how fine scale do climate projections need to be? Global Change Biology 19, 473-483.</p><p>Hamann, A., Roberts, D.R., Barber, Q.E., Carroll, C., Nielsen, S.E., 2015. Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and management. Global Change Biology 21, 997-1004. </p><p>Heikkinen, R.K., Leikola, N., Aalto, J., Aapala, K., Kuusela, S., Luoto, M., Virkkala, R., 2020. Fine-grained climate velocities reveal vulnerability of protected areas to climate change. 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LAGOS-NE Shallow Lakes: a dataset of lake variables and multi-scaled ecological context variables used to predict and compare trophic status and TP:CHLa relationships between shallow and non-shallow lakes in the Upper Midwest and Northeastern United States.
We conducted a macroscale study of 2,210 shallow lakes (mean depth ≤ 3m or a maximum depth ≤ 5m) in the Upper Midwestern and Northeastern U.S. We asked: What are the patterns and drivers of shallow lake total phosphorus (TP), chlorophyll a (CHLa), and TP–CHLa relationships at the macroscale, how do these differ from those for 4,360 non-shallow lakes, and do results differ by hydrologic connectivity class? To answer this question, we assembled the LAGOS-NE Shallow Lakes dataset described herein, a dataset derived from existing LAGOS-NE, LAGOS-DEPTH, and LAGOS-CLIMATE datasets. Response data variables were the median of available summer (e.g., 15 June to 15 September) values of total phosphorus (TP) and chlorophyll a (CHLa). Predictor variables were assembled at two spatial scales for incorporation into hierarchical models. At the local or lake-specific scale (including the individual lake, its inter-lake watershed [iws] or corresponding HU12 watershed), variables included those representing land use/cover, hydrology, climate, morphometry, and acid deposition. At the regional scale (e.g., HU4 watershed), variables included a smaller set of predictor variables for hydrology and land use/cover. The dataset also includes the unique identifier assigned by LAGOS-NE(lagoslakeid); the latitude and longitude of the study lakes; their maximum and mean depths along with a depth classification of Shallow or non-Shallow; connectivity class (i.e., whether a lake was classified as connected (with inlets and outlets) or unconnected (lacking inlets); and the zone id for the HU4 to which each lake belongs. Along with the database, we provide the R scripts for the hierarchical models predicting TP or CHLa (TPorCHL_predictive_model.R), and the TP—CHLa relationship (TP_CHL_CSI_Model.R) for depth and connectivity subsets of the study lakes.
Inter- and intra-annual temperature and precipitation variability (1950-2022) across the ranges of non-migratory birds and their association with generation length
While environmental variability is theorized to impact the life history characteristics of organisms, these hypotheses have not been thoroughly tested with empirical data. To fill this gap, we synthesized a global data set of environmental variability metrics and life history characteristics across the ranges of 7,477 non-migratory, non-marine avian species. These data are derived from the ERA5 climate reanalysis, AVONET, BirdTree, and BirdLife databases as well as previously published research. By extracting environmental variability values across individual species' ranges, this data set allows users to evaluate avian species' pace of life in response to environmental change.
Data in support of 'Mechanistic insights into plant community responses to environmental variables: genome size, cellular nutrient investments, and metabolic trade-offs.'
Data was collected to examine whether and how the plant genome size (GS) influences traits (stomata size, stomata density, cellular and tissue level carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) contents) and metabolic-tradeoffs (of photosynthesis, evapotranspiration, water-use, efficiency) of plants in treatment plots in which nothing, N, P, or NP had been annually added. Data was collected from ~500 plants from seven grassland sites that are all part of the Nutrient Network (https://nutnet.org), a globally distributed experiment in which plots have different nutrient amendment treatments that are administered identically to allow cross-site comparisons of the effects of nutrients on biodiversity patterning. The sites chosen varied along a North-South latitude, longitude, mean annual precipitation (MAP) and mean annual temperature (MAT) gradient.
Model Simulations of The Effects of Shifts in High-frequency Weather Variability (No Long-term Weather Trend) Control Carbon Loss from Land to the Atmosphere, Toolik Lake, Alaska, 2022-2122
Climate change is increasing extreme weather events, but effects on high-frequency weather variability and the resultant impacts on ecosystem function are poorly understood. We assessed ecosystem responses of arctic tundra to changes in day-to-day weather variability using a biogeochemical model and stochastic simulations of daily temperature, precipitation, and light. Changes in weather variability altered ecosystem carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stocks and cycling rates. Some responses of processes (e.g., respiration) were inconsistent with expectations, indicating that whole-ecosystem interactions and feedbacks moderate or even reverse responses to weather variability. More weather variability led to greater carbon losses from land to atmosphere, and less variability led to higher carbon sequestration on land. The magnitude of response to weather variability was similar to that predicted from climate mean trend effects. This dataset consists of the MEL parameter file, driver files and output files for simulations without a long term weather trend.
Model Simulations of The Effects of Shifts in High-frequency Weather Variability (With a Long-term Trend) on Carbon Loss from Land to the Atmosphere, Toolik Lake, Alaska, 2022-2122
Climate change is increasing extreme weather events, but effects on high-frequency weather variability and the resultant impacts on ecosystem function are poorly understood. We assessed ecosystem responses of arctic tundra to changes in day-to-day weather variability using a biogeochemical model and stochastic simulations of daily temperature, precipitation, and light. Changes in weather variability altered ecosystem carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stocks and cycling rates. Some responses of processes (e.g., respiration) were inconsistent with expectations, indicating that whole-ecosystem interactions and feedbacks moderate or even reverse responses to weather variability. More weather variability led to greater carbon losses from land to atmosphere, and less variability led to higher carbon sequestration on land. The magnitude of response to weather variability was similar to that predicted from climate mean trend effects. This dataset consists of the MEL parameter file, driver files and output files for simulations with a long-term weather trend.
Seasonal and annual summary statistics of urbanization, vegetation, land surface temperature, and bioclimatic variables derived from remotely-sensed imagery in areas surrounding long-term bird monitoring locations in the greater Phoenix, Arizona, USA metropolitan area (1997-2023)
This data package consists of 26 years (1998-2023) of environmental data and 22 years (2000-2022) years of bioclimatic data associated with CAP-LTER long-term point-count bird censusing sites (https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4777d7f0a899f506d6d4f9b5d535ba09), temporally aggregated by year and by four meteorological seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall). The environmental variables include land surface temperature (LST), three spectral indices of vegetation and water – the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), the soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI), and modified normalized difference water index (MNDWI) – and four spectral indices of impervious surface/urbanization. Impervious surface indices include the normalized difference built-up index (NDBI), the normalized difference impervious surface index (NDISI), the enhanced normalized differences impervious surface index (ENDISI), and the normalized impervious surface index (NISI). LST and all spectral indices were derived from annual and seasonal composites of 30-m resolution Landsat 5-9 Level-2 Surface Reflectance imagery. The seven bioclimatic variables (e.g., air temperature, precipitation) were sourced from 1-km resolution gridded estimates of daily climatic data from NASA Daymet V4. We created temporally-aggregated Daymet raster images by calculating mean pixel-values for each season and year, as well as seasonally and annually summed precipitation. We summarized the values of each environmental variable by generating variously-sized (100-m, 500-m, 1000-m) buffers around each bird point count location and extracting weighted mean values of each environmental variable, with each pixel's values weighted by the proportion of its area falling within the buffer. All imagery retrieval and data processing were completed with Google Earth Engine (Gorelick et al. 2017) and program R. A complete description of data processing methods, including the aggregation of imagery by year and season and the calculation of s
Greenhouse mixed culture experiment from August 2002 to April 2003 (FCE): Evaluate the effect of salinity and hydroperiod on interspecific mangrove seedlings growth rate (mixed culture) / Morphometric variables
A greenhouse experiment (mixed culture experiment) was performed for 8 months to evaluate the effect of salinity and hydroperiod on seedling growth rates of 2 mangrove species( Laguncularia racemosa and Rizhophora mangle). Data analyses are currently being performed.
Biomass and abiotic variable data in the study of the ecosystem engeneering effect of oysters on Suaeda linearis distribution in Georgia salt marshes (2008-2009)
Oysters are ecosystem engineers in marine ecosystems, but the functions of oyster shell deposits in intertidal salt marshes are not well understood. The annual plant Suaeda linearis is associated with oyster shell deposits in Georgia salt marshes. We hypothesized that oyster shell deposits promoted the distribution of Suaeda linearis by engineering soil conditions unfavorable to dominant salt marsh plants of the region (the shrub Borrichia frutescens, the rush Juncus roemerianus and the grass Spartina alterniflora). We tested this hypothesis using common garden pot experiments and field transplant experiments. Suaeda linearis thrived in Borrichia frutescens stands in the absence of neighbors, but was suppressed by Borrichia frutescens in the with-neighbor treatment, suggesting that Suaeda linearis was excluded from Borrichia frutescens stands by interspecific competition. Suaeda linearis plants all died in Juncus roemerianus and Spartina alterniflora stands, indicating that Suaeda linearis is excluded from these habitats by physical stress (likely water-logging). In contrast, Borrichia frutescens, Juncus roemerianus and Spartina alterniflora all performed poorly in Suaeda linearis stands regardless of neighbor treatments, probably due to physical stresses such as low soil water content and low organic matter content. Thus, oyster shell deposits play an important ecosystem engineering role in influencing salt marsh plant communities by providing a unique niche for Suaeda linearis, which otherwise would be rare or absent in salt marshes in the southeastern US. Since the success of Suaeda linearis is linked to the success of oysters, efforts to protect and restore oyster reefs may also benefit salt marsh plant communities.
Eddy covariance 30-minute CO2 fluxes with accompanying biophysical variables from the Grand Bay, Mississippi flux tower site from March 2018 to January 2019
Eddy covariance (EC) CO2 fluxes from March 2018 to January 2019 collected over a Juncus roemerianus marsh located in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Mississippi. EC fluxes were processed in EddyPro 7. Additional biophysical variables included are air temperature, relative humidity, vapor pressure deficit, soil temperature, and water table height within the marsh.
Eddy covariance 30-minute CO2 fluxes with accompanying biophysical variables from the GCE-LTER flux tower site from December 2018 to January 2020
Eddy covariance (EC) CO2 fluxes from December 2018 to January 2020 collected over a Spartina alterniflora marsh located on the western side of Sapelo Island bounded by the Duplin River and Barn Creek. EC fluxes were processed in EddyPro 7. Additional biophysical variables included are air temperature, relative humidity, vapor pressure deficit, soil temperature, and water table height from a nearby tidal creek.
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Watershed 3 – One year of resin-extracted solutes from variably saturated soils
Hbr363: WS3 One year of resin-extracted solutes from variably saturated soils The Lateral Weathering Study looks at spatial patterns of mineral weathering processes at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. This project is characterizing mineral and elemental depletion/enrichment, soil morphology and chemistry, solute transport, and groundwater chemistry along hydropedological gradients. This dataset provides the total elemental mass of inorganic solutes (Ca, Na, Mg, Al, Fe, Mn, P, and S) as well as dissolved organic carbon (DOC) that were extracted off resins installed into shallow groundwater wells (~30-100cm) in Watershed 3. Resin packs were deployed for a total of one year (August 2019-2020) with four consecutive deployment periods, to avoid overloading resin ion capacity. Total mass for each solute was accounted for an entire resin pack, which was 5cm in height and 5cm in diameter, containing approximately 90 g of resin. Resin packs were installed in three different topographic positions along three transects (sites = 9), to characterize solute mass fluxes through different hydropedological units.
Aboveground vegetation cover and biomass in plots with experimentally altered precipitation variability at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2009-ongoing
This dataset contains cover and biomass data collected starting in 2012 for a long-term precipitation variability manipulation experiment at the Jornada Basin LTER site in southern New Mexico, U.S.A. The study was designed to assess the effect of interannual variability in precipitation on average aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands. The study began in 2009, has five annual precipitation treatments, and contains 50 plots (10 per treatment). This experiment uses precipitation shelters and irrigation treatments to manipulate water inputs to 2.5 x 2.5 meter plots in a desert grassland. There are high, low, and ambient (control) precipitation variability treatments. Ambient plots receive natural precipitation each year, while variability treatments alternate between 20% and 180% (high variability), or 50% and 150% (low variability) of ambient precipitation each year. Plant cover measurements are made annually in each plot, from which biomass or net primary production are derived. This is an ongoing study and the dataset will be updated yearly.
Soil water content measurements in plots with experimentally altered precipitation variability at the Jornada Basin LTER site, 2011-ongoing
This dataset contains soil moisture data from a study at the Jornada Experimental Range (JER) in southern New Mexico. The study was designed to assess the effect of interannual variability in precipitation on average aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands. The study began in 2009 and has five precipitation treatments (see Methods). While the study began in 2009, contains 50 plots (10 per treatment) and is ongoing, these data have only been collected since July 2011 in a subset of 20 plots (4 per treatment). This dataset is intended to provide information about the amount of water in surface and deep soil layers, as well as verify that experimental precipitation manipulations are effective. This is an ongoing dataset that will be updated yearly.
Cascade project at North Temperate Lakes LTER - Daily data for key variables in whole lake experiments on early warnings of critical transitions, Paul and Peter Lakes, 2008-2011
Peter Lake's food web was altered by adding largemouth bass at a slow rate while monitoring key food web constituents including littoral minnow abundance indexed as catch per trap per hour, zooplankton biomass, and concentration of chlorophyll a. Paul Lake was manipulated and the same variables were measured there. In Peter Lake, we expected littoral catch of minnows to first increase as minnows moved into the littoral zone due to the threat of bass predation and then decrease due to bass predation. We expected zooplankton biomass to increase as minnows moved into the littoral zone. We expected chlorophyll to decrease due to increased grazing by zooplankton. We expected that variance and autocorrelation of chlorophyll would increase as the food web passed a critical transition. We expected that the time series in Paul Lake would represent the normal variability of an unmanipulated lake
SBC LTER: Reef: Benthic community structure along a gradient of historic kelp variability
These data are estimates of biomass of approximately 225 taxa of reef algae, invertebrates, and fish in transects at 11 non-core sites in the Santa Barbara Channel in summer 2018 (3 transects per site). Sites were selected along a gradient of historic kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) variability, from sites with highly persistent kelp to sites exhibiting extensive variation in kelp biomass since 2008. See the site characteristics data table for site locations and depths. The purpose of the sampling was to explore to what extent the findings from the long-term experiment (e.g. Castorani et al. 2018) apply to natural gradients in kelp persistence. Surveys were conducted following the same methodology used in the annual surveys of kelp forest community structure, such that data from the non-core sites may be paired with annual survey data collected in summer 2018.
Spatial Variability in Marsh Vulnerability and Coastal Forest Loss in Chesapeake Bay
Sea level rise (SLR) and saltwater intrusion are driving shifts in coastal ecosystems that must migrate to survive. Marsh migration into adjacent uplands is a primary mechanism for sustaining coastal marshes, but potentially limited by natural and anthropogenic barriers. In this study, we focus on the Chesapeake Bay as a case study and combine previous delineations of the marsh-forest boundary and high-resolution topobathymetric data with sea level rise predictions to uniquely assess marsh migration potential on the scale of U.S. Geological Survey HUC10 watersheds. Combining these predictions results in a high-resolution Chesapeake Bay-wide assessment of marsh migration potential through the end of the century. Additionally, we analyze high-resolution land use data within the potential migration area to assess what ecosystems are at risk of loss to marsh via salinization and what potential anthropogenic features exist in the marsh migration corridor. The data consists of 3 files created from analyses conducted during the study: 1) A table summarizing characteristics of the study sites, including elevation and land use, and 2) A zipped Shapefile containing the boundaries of the HUC10 watersheds, 3) A zipped raster (CB_MarshMigrationArea.tif) of elevation categories. Cell values indicate: 1 = area below threshold elevation 2 = area between threshold elevation and 0.5 m of SLR. 3 = area between 0.5 and 1 m of SLR. 4 = area between 1 and 1.5 m of SLR. 5 = area between 1.5 and 2 m of SLR. 6 = area between 2 and 2.5 m of SLR. 7 = area above 2.5 m of SLR. Additionally, uploaded are 10 additional files containing the exact copies of the publicly available data we analyzed to create the above files. To obtain these files from their original sources (i.e. USGS, NOAA, etc) please see the links provided in the Metadata-LO-Letters-dat-V3.rtf file. 1) Points at the marsh-forest boundary 2) Chesapeake Conservancy High-Resolution Land Use 3) Chesapeake Conservancy High-Resolution L
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