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Lake Sediment Pollen from Spruce Pond in Harriman State Park NY from 13778 BP to Present
Aim We analyzed a dataset composed of multiple palaeoclimate and lake-sediment pollen records from New England to explore how postglacial changes in the composition and spatial patterns of vegetation were controlled by regional-scale climate change, a subregional environmental gradient, and landscape-scale variations in soil characteristics. Location The 120,000-km2 study area includes parts of Vermont and New Hampshire in the north, where sites are 150-200 km from the Atlantic Ocean, and spans the coastline from southeastern New York to Cape Cod and the adjacent islands, including Block Island, the Elizabeth Islands, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard. Results Boreal forest featuring Picea and Pinus banksiana was present across the region when conditions were cool and dry 14,000-12,000 calibrated 14C yrs before present (ybp). Pinus strobus became regionally dominant as temperatures increased between 12,000 and 10,000 ybp. The composition of forests in inland and coastal areas diverged in response to further warming after 10,000 ybp, when Quercus and Pinus rigida expanded across southern New England, while conditions remained cool enough in inland areas to maintain Pinus strobus. Increasing precipitation allowed Tsuga canadensis, Fagus grandifolia, and Betula to replace Pinus strobus in inland areas during 9000-8000 ybp, and also led to the expansion of Carya across the coastal part of the region beginning at 7000-6000 ybp. Abrupt cooling at 5500-5000 ybp caused sharp declines in Tsuga in inland areas and Quercus at some coastal sites, and the populations of those taxa remained low until they recovered around 3000 ybp in response to rising precipitation. Throughout most of the Holocene, sites underlain by sandy glacial deposits were occupied by Pinus rigida and Quercus. Main conclusions Postglacial changes in the composition and spatial pattern of New England forests were controlled by long-term trends and abrupt shifts in temperature and precipitation, as well as by
LAGOS - Predicted and observed maximum depth values for lakes in a 17-state region of the U.S.
This dataset includes predicted and observed values of maximum depth for lakes in the upper Midwest and northeast United States. All observed values came from LAGOS ver 1.040.0 (LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database), an integrated database of lake ecosystems (Soranno et al. 2015). LAGOS contains a complete census of lakes great than or equal to 4 ha with corresponding geospatial information for a 17-state region of the U.S., and a subset of the lakes has observational data on morphometry and chemistry. Approximately 40 different sources of data were compiled for this dataset and were mostly generated by government agencies (state, federal, tribal) and universities. Here, observed maximum depth values (n = 8164) were used to train and validate a predictive mixed effects model for lake depth using terrestrial and lake morphology as predictors (Oliver et al., submitted). Predicted values (n = 50 607) generated by the model had a root mean squared error of 7.1 m. This research was supported by the NSF Macrosystem Biology awards 1065786, 1065818, and 1065649.
LAGOS - Lake nitrogen, phosphorus, stoichiometry, and geospatial data for a 17-state region of the U.S.
This dataset includes information about total nitrogen (TN) concentrations, total phosphorus (TP) concentrations, TN:TP stoichiometry, and 12 driver variables that might predict nutrient concentrations and ratios. All observed values came from LAGOSLIMNO v. 1.054.1 and LAGOSGEO v. 1.03 (LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database), an integrated database of lake ecosystems (Soranno et al. 2015). LAGOS contains a complete census of lakes greater than or equal to 4 ha with corresponding geospatial information for a 17-state region of the U.S., and a subset of the lakes has observational data on morphometry and chemistry. Approximately 54 different sources of data were compiled for this dataset and were mostly generated by government agencies (state, federal, tribal) and universities. Here, we compiled chemistry data from lakes with concurrent observations of TN and TP from the summer stratified season (June 15-September 15) in the most recent 10 years of data included in LAGOSLIMNO v. 1.054.1 (2002-2011). We report the median TN, TP and molar TN:TP values for each lake, which was calculated as the grand median of each yearly median value. We also include data for lake and landscape characteristics that might be important controls on lake nutrients, including: land use (agricultural, pasture, row crop, urban, forest), nitrogen deposition, temperature, precipitation, hydrology (baseflow), maximum depth, and the ratio of lake area to watershed area, which is used to approximate residence time. These data were used to identify drivers of lake nutrient stoichiometry at sub-continental and regional scales (Collins et al, submitted). This research was supported by the NSF Macrosystems Biology program (awards EF-1065786 and EF-1065818) and by the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (DBI-1401954).
LAGOS-NE v.1.054.1 - Lake water quality time series and geophysical data from a 17-state region of the United States
Time series of mean summer total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), stoichiometry (TN:TP) and chlorophyll values from 2913 unique lakes in the Midwest and Northeast United States. Epilimnetic nutrient and chlorophyll observations were derived from the Lake Multi-Scaled Geospatial and Temporal Database LAGOS-NELIMNO version 1.054.1, and come from 54 disparate data sources. These data were used to assess long-term monotonic changes in water quality from 1990-2013, and the potential drivers of those trends (Oliver et al., submitted). Summer was used to approximate the stratified period, which was defined as June 15 to September 15. The median number of observations per summer for a given lake was 2, but ranged from 1 to 83. The rules for inclusion in the database were that, for a given water quality parameter, a lake must have an observation in each period of 1990-2000 and 2001-2011. Additionally, observations must span at least 5 years. Each unique lake with nutrient or chlorophyll data also has supporting geophysical data, including climate, atmospheric deposition, land use, hydrology, and topography derived at the lake watershed (variable prefix “iws”) and HUC 4 (variable prefix “hu4”) scale. Lake-specific characteristics, such as depth and area, are also reported. The geospatial data came from LAGOS-NEGEO version 1.03. For more specific information on how LAGOS-NE was created, see Soranno et al. 2015. Soranno P.A., Bissell E.G., Cheruvelil K.S., Christel S.T., Collins S.M., Fergus C.E., Filstrup C.T., Lapierre J.-F., Lottig N.R., Oliver S.K., Scott C.E., Smith N.J., Stopyak S., Yuan S., Bremigan M.T., Downing J.A., Gries C., Henry E.N., Skaff N.K., Stanley E.H., Stow C.A., Tan P.-N., Wagner T., and Webster K.E. 2015. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse. Gigascience 4: 28. doi: 10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4.
Water properties of Arco Lake, Budd Lake, Deming Lake, and Josephine Lake in Itasca State Park from 2006-2009 and 2019-et seq.
Depth profiles of water column chemical and physical properties were assessed with seasonal-scale frequency from four lakes in the Itasca State Park from 2006-2009 and from 2019-et seq. The data was used to assess the mixing status and major geochemical constituents within the lakes. Several parameters were routinely measured with deployable probes at meter or sub-meter resolution at the deepest location in each lake. Water samples were also collected for laboratory analysis. Bathymetry data collected in 2022 is supplied as rasters.
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.
Shifts in Bacterioplankton During Cyanobacterial Blooms Reflect Bloom Toxicity and lake Trophic State, OR 2019-2020
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms (cyanoHABs) typically occur in human-impacted eutrophic lakes suffering from nutrient pollution, but they also occur in lakes spanning the trophic and disturbance gradients. CyanoHABs change the bacterioplankton community structure with increases in specific cyanobacteria strains, as well as shifts in heterotrophic taxa. Bacterioplankton community shifts during cyanoHABs can be somewhat predictable but have been only studied in a limited number of lakes, most highly productive and in developed watersheds. The Cascade Mountains (USA) offer an unique area to study cyanotoxin variation and shifts in bacterioplankton composition across a productivity gradient in lakes with documented cyanoHABs but removed from most development. We explored associations of bacterioplankton communities with cyanoHABs and toxins within a season, as well as across lakes and years via physicochemical metrics, passive toxin samplers and 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The data set is a compilation of physicochemical, meteorological, biological as well as physical lake characteristics and sampling information. Water temperature was tracked continuously within a season for the three lakes while single point measurements of water temperature were taken for the other lakes in the spatial (n= 29) and intra-annual subset (n =12). Daily air temperature, precipitation and aerosol optical depth were extracted from the PRISM Gridded Climate data. Nutrient concentrations were measured for all lakes and analyzed for nitrogen and phosphorus via colorimetry in a flow analyzer. Chlorophyll-a concentrations were measured from filter samples via fluorimetry. Microcystin concentrations from grab and SPATT samples were analyzed via an ELISA kit for Microcystin-LR. Bacterioplankton diversity metrics were calculated from the processed 16S rRNA sequences along with the relative abundance of potentially toxigenic cyanobacteria. Bacterioplankton composition was and can be derived from the raw
High-Frequency and Water Quality Monitoring Data of Long Pond at Grafton Lakes State Park, New York, United States, 2024
This collection of datasets contains high frequency data captured through Hobo, Minidot, and water level sensors, as well as data collected from manual sampling days. Long Pond is located in Grafton New York, USA named for its long shape and shallower depth (max depth is around 8 meters). Using a buoy, sensors were attached to a rope at the deepest point discoverable and deployed. Data covers all information recorded from 2024-04-30 to 2024-10-09. Times are recorded in Eastern Standard Time. Temperature Readings were taken every 10 minutes at 1 meter intervals by both Minidots and hobo sensors (1.52-7.52 m). Dissolved Oxygen was similarly collected every 10 minutes by the Minidots at depths 1.52, 6.52, and 7.52 meters. Manual measurements (YSI and Secchi disk) were recorded on sampling days, as well as water samples that were assessed for water quality parameters from the top and bottom of the lake. Water level data was also collected in 12 hour intervals.
Lake Shoreline in the Contiguous United States
There are millions of lakes, ponds and reservoirs in the United States. Existing datasets are large and unweildy. With this data product, derived from the US NHD (downloaded Jan 2013), we summarize at a high level the distribution of lakes across the US.
Output files corresponding to "Direct groundwater discharge and vulnerability to hidden nutrient loads along the Great Lakes coast of the United States"
<p>This dataset corresponds to the output files that were produced for the study reported in:</p> <p>Knights, Deon, Kevin C. Parks, Audrey H. Sawyer, Cédric H. David, Trevor N. Browning, Kelsey M. Danner, and Corey D. Wallace, (2017), Direct groundwater discharge and vulnerability to hidden nutrient loads along the Great Lakes coast of the United States, <em>Journal of Hydrology,</em> 554, 331-341</p> <p><strong>Data sources</strong></p> <p>The following sources were used to produce files in this dataset:</p> <ul> <li>The National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus) Version 2, obtained from http://www.horizon-systems.com/nhdplus/NHDplusV2_data.php. Region used is: Great Lakes (04)</li> <li>The second phase of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS2), obtained from ftp://hydro1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/NLDAS. Model outputs used are: NLDAS_MOS0125_MC.002, NLDAS_NOAH0125_MC.002, and NLDAS_VIC0125_MC.002.</li> <li>The United States 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2011), obtained from: http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd2011.php.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Description of files</strong></p> <p>The files in this dataset contain are described below:</p> <ul> <li><em>Flowlines</em>: This folder contains a shapefile (<em>GL_coastcatchment_NHDflowline</em>) with the coastline of the Contiguous United States as described by NHDPlus V2, and was merged from a subsample of all river reaches available in the region used. </li> <li><em>Catchment</em>: This folder contains a shapefile (GL_coastcatchment_polygon) with the contributing catchments of NHDPlus V2 corresponding to the above coastline, and was merged from a subsample of all catchments available in the region used. </li> <li><em>Centroid</em>: This folder contains a shapefile (GL_coastcatchment_centroid) with the centroids of the above catchments. </li> <li><em>DischargeVulnerabilities.csv</em>. This .csv file contains the following data (units are in parentheses): <ul> <li>COMID: Unique feature identifier in NHDPlusV2 ().</li> <li>Length_km: Length of coastline feature (km).</li> <li>Area_sqkm: Area of coastal catchment feature (km<sup>2</sup>).</li> <li>Infiltration_kgsqm: Average annual infiltrating runoff for REACHCODE (kg/m<sup>2</sup>)</li> <li>REACHCODE: Reach identifier in NHDPlusV2; reaches can include multiple features; Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is computed by reach, not feature ().</li> <li>RLength_km: Total length of coastline accumulated by REACHCODE (km).</li> <li>RArea_sqkm: Total area of coastal catchment accumulated by REACHCODE (km<sup>2</sup>).</li> <li>RInfiltration_kgsqm: Average annual infiltrating runoff for REACHCODE (kg/m<sup>2</sup>)</li> <li>DGWD: Average annual direct groundwater discharge for REACHCODE (m<sup>2</sup>/y).</li> <li>Vulnerable_percent: Percentage of reach area with developed or agricultural land use in 2011 (%).</li> <li>Vulnerable: Vulnerability to coastal contamination (0- not vulnerable; 1-vulnerable)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p>
Phytoplankton chlorophyll in Iowa state recreational lakes 2018-2020
Chlorophyll a dataset is curated by Phyto-PAM, a multi-wavelength fluorometer that rapidly infers the abundance and composition of phytoplankton communities based on the fluorescence excitation of chlorophyll a and accessory pigments. This dataset categorizes phytoplankton into four taxa: 1) cyanobacteria; 2) ‘Green algae’ (euglenophytes and chlorophytes; 3) ‘Brown algae’ (ochrophytes, dinophytes, haptophytes); and 4) ‘Red organisms’ (phycoerythrin-rich phytoplankton). Sub-surface water samples (n > 450) collected in eutrophic lakes for three summer seasons (2018-2020; 15 weeks per season; from May through September). DNA sequencing data for bacteria and eukaryotes are available at NCBI (16s rRNA: PRJNA764241, PRJNA763651, and 18s rRNA: PRJNA787030).
Land use and management effects on soil carbon in the Lake States, Northern United States - Nave, et al 2022
There is growing need to quantify and communicate how land use and management activities influence soil organic carbon (SOC) at scales relevant to, and in the tangible control of landowners and forest managers. The continued proliferation of publications and growth of datasets, data synthesis and meta-analysis approaches allows the application of powerful tools to such questions at ever finer scales. In this analysis, we combined a literature review and effect-size meta-analysis with two large, independent, observational databases to assess how land use and management impact SOC stocks, primarily with regards to forest land uses. We performed this work for the (Great Lakes) Lake States, which comprise 6% of the land area, but 7% of the forest and 9% of the forest SOC in the U.S., as the second in a series of ecoregional SOC assessments. Most importantly, our analysis indicates that natural factors, such as soil texture and parent material, exert more control over SOC stocks than land use or management. With that for context, our analysis also indicates which natural factors most influence management impacts on SOC storage. We report an overall trend of significantly diminished topsoil SOC stocks with harvesting, consistent across all three datasets, while also demonstrating how certain sites and soils diverge from this pattern, including some that show opposite trends. Impacts of fire grossly mirror those of harvesting, with declines near the top of the profile, but potential gains at depth and no net change when considering the whole profile. Land use changes showing significant SOC impacts are limited to reforestation on barren mining substrates (large and variable gains) and conversion of native forest to cultivation (losses). We describe patterns within the observational data that reveal the physical basis for preferential land use, e.g., cultivation of soils with the most favorable physical properties, and forest plantation establishment on the most marginal so
Lake chloride concentrations and model predictions for 49,432 lakes in the Midwest and Northeast United States.
Lakes in the Midwest and Northeast United States are at risk of anthropogenic chloride contamination, but we have little knowledge of the prevalence and spatial distribution of the problem. The majority of salt pollution in north temperate regions stems from road salt application but other chloride sources include water softeners, synthetic fertilizers, and livestock excretion. Although chloride contamination of lakes is well documented, it is unknown how many lakes are at risk of long-term salinization. We used a quantile regression forest to leverage information from 2,773 lakes to predict the chloride concentration of all 49,432 lakes greater than 4 ha in a 17-state area. The QRF used 22 predictor variables, which included lake morphometry characteristics, watershed land use, and distance to the nearest interstate and road. Model predictions had an r2 of 0.94 for all chloride observations, and 0.87 for predictions of the mean chloride concentration observed at each lake.
A dataset of trophic state index for nation-scale lakes in China
<p>The trophic state index (TSI) serves as a key indicator for understanding the spatial pattern and temporal variation in lake eutrophication, which has not been fully explored for long-term environmental monitoring, especially for small and medium lakes. Landsat satellites provide the capability of monitoring the temporal and spatial distribution of small lakes with a 30 m spatial resolution, which offers an effective complement. Here we generated a dataset of TSI for lakes in China (CNLTSI) using Landsat archives (Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM+, and Landsat-8 OLI) from 1984 to 2023, which contains 2693 predominantly small to medium nationwide lakes in China in the past 4 decades. The dataset produced has a spatial resolution of 30 m and varying temporal resolution due to differences in satellite overpasses and cloud interference. </p>
LAGOS-NE – Lake nutrient chemistry and geospatial data to measure spatial structure of ecosystem properties in a 17-state region of the U.S.
This dataset includes data for the lake water quality and geospatial variables that describe climate, hydrology, land use land cover, and lake characteristics that were used to study spatial structure in lake properties at the sub-continental scales (Lapierre et al. Quantifying spatial structure to improve understanding of the relationships between climate, landscape, and lake ecosystem properties, to be submitted to Ecology). All observations came from LAGOS-NELIMNO v. 1.054.1 and LAGOS-NEGEO v. 1.03 (LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database), an integrated database of lake ecosystems (Soranno et al. 2015). LAGOS-NE contains a complete census of lakes great than or equal to 4 ha with corresponding geospatial information for a 17-state region of the U.S., and a subset of the lakes has observational data on morphometry and chemistry. Approximately 54 different sources of data were compiled for the LAGOS-NELIMNO v. 1.054.1 dataset and were mostly generated by government agencies (state, federal, tribal) and universities. In this analysis, we compiled lake water quality data from the summer stratified season (June 15-September 15) in the most recent 10 years of data included in LAGOS-NELIMNO v. 1.054.1 (2002-2011). We report the median total nitrogen, total phosphorus, secchi depth, and chlorophyll values for each lake, which was calculated as the grand median of each yearly median value. We also include data for lake and landscape characteristics including variables related to lake morphometry, climate, hydrology, atmospheric deposition, land use and land cover.
LAGOS-NE v.1.054.1 Lake water clarity time series (1987-2011), climate, and geophysical data for 601 lakes across a 17-state region of the United States
Time series of median summer water clarity (secchi) values from 601 unique lakes in the Midwest and Northeast United States. Water clarity observations were derived from the Lake Multi-Scaled Geospatial and Temporal Database LAGOS-NELIMNO version 1.054.1. These data were used to assess long-term changes in water clarity from 1987-2011, and the potential drivers of those trends (Lottig et al. in press). Summer open water period was used to approximate the stratified period in the study lakes, which was defined as June 15 to September 15. Over the 25-year time period, each lake had to have at least a single summer water clarity observation for 22 of 25 years. The median number of secchi measurements that were used to derive a single annual median value for each lake was approximately 9. Of the over 14,000 annual estimates of water clarity that we generated, only two percent of those annual values were generated from a single observation and median number of observations for each lake over the 25-year study period was 223. Each unique lake with water clarity data also has supporting geophysical data, including climate, land use, hydrology, and topography derived at multiple spatial scales. Lake-specific characteristics, such as depth and area, are also reported. The geospatial data came from LAGOS-NEGEO version 1.03 except for the annual climate data which was aggregated at the HUC8 spatial scale from monthly PRISM data. For more specific information on how LAGOS-NE was created, see Soranno et al. 2015. Citations: Lottig, N.R., P-N. Tan, T. Wager, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno, E.H. Stanley, C.E Scott, C.A. Stow, and S. Yuan. in press. Macroscale patterns of synchrony identify complex relationships among spatial and temporal ecosystem drivers. Ecosphere Soranno P.A., Bissell E.G., Cheruvelil K.S., Christel S.T., Collins S.M., Fergus C.E., Filstrup C.T., Lapierre J.-F., Lottig N.R., Oliver S.K., Scott C.E., Smith N.J., Stopyak S., Yuan S., Bremigan M.T., Downing J.A., G
Modeled maximum and mean lake depths for the contiguous United States
Depth regulates many attributes of aquatic ecosystems, but relatively few lakes are measured, and existing datasets are biased toward large lakes. To address this, we used a large dataset of maximum (Zmax; n = 16,831) and mean (Zmean; n = 5,881) depth observations to create new depth models, focusing on lakes < 1,000 ha. We then used the models to characterize patterns in lake basin shape and volume. We included terrain metrics, water temperature and reflectance, polygon attributes, and other predictors in a random forest model. Our final models generally outperformed existing models (Zmax R^2 = 0.35; RMSE = 8.1 m and Zmean R^2 = 0.36; RMSE = 3.0 m). Our models show that lake depth followed a Pareto distribution, with 2.8 orders of magnitude fewer lakes for an order of magnitude increase in depth. Additionally, despite orders of magnitude variation in surface area, most size classes had a modeled modal maximum depth of ~5 m. Concave (bowl-shaped) lake basins represented 79% of all lakes, but lakes were more convex (funnel-shaped) as surface area increased. Across the conterminous US, 9.8% of all lake water was within the top meter of the water column, and 48% in the top 10 m. Excluding the Laurentian Great Lakes, we estimate the total volume in the conterminous US is 1,068 to 1,298 km3, depending on whether Zmax or Zmean was modeled. Lake volume also exhibited substantial geographic variation, with high volumes in the upper Midwest, Northeast, and Florida and low volumes in the southwestern US.
Harmful Algal Bloom Reports for 405 lakes in New York State (USA), with antecedent weather conditions and trophic status for each lake.
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) are often associated with warm water temperatures and low wind speeds, but quantifying thresholds in meteorological conditions is challenging. In an attempt to better quantify antecedent weather conditions associated with cyanoHABs, we assembled a dataset to include cyanoHAB reports from individual lakes, as well as air temperature and wind speed data on the day of, and 5 days preceding each cyanoHAB report. CyanoHAB reports were provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) for 405 lakes for an 11 year period spanning 2012-2023. We used 4km gridded surface meteorological data to calculate antecedent weather conditions leading up to each report. The resulting dataset includes 4,208 cyanoHAB reports from lakes of varying trophic states in New York State (USA). We calculated anomalies in daily wind speed and air temperature for each report and the five days preceding it. The dataset is formatted as a wide table, with individual cyanoHAB reports listed by row. Each row provides report-specific data to include the date, site, trophic state of the lake, and the cyanoHAB report status. Each row contains weather data specific to the date and location of each report, with weather variables calculated from the closest grid point for each lake site. We provide 36 columns containing weather variables for each report to include air temperature and wind speed for the day of the HAB as well as the 5 days preceding it. We also provide a 24-year mean value for the day of the year (DoY), as well as the calculated difference between the day in question and the 24-year mean for the DoY.
Lake ice surveys, 1874-2022, Adirondack Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Program Project No. 8 by Adirondack Ecological Center of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Newcomb, New York. Environmental Data Initiative.
The objective of this dataset is to document ice-in and ice-out dates on several lakes on the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry's Huntington Wildlife Forest (HWF). Lakes include: Arbutus, Catlin, Deer, Military, Rich, Wolf and Lodo Pond; some records exist for Long Pond and other water bodies but they are not included here except in some comment fields.
Dataset for: African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) habitat suitability at Lake Ossa, Cameroon using trophic state models and predictions of submerged aquatic vegetation
<p>See research article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.8202</p> <p>Aim: The present study aims at investigating the past and current trophic status of Lake Ossa and evaluating its potential impact on African manatee health.</p> <p>Location: Lake Ossa is known as a refuge for the threatened African manatees in Cameroon. Little information exists on the water quality and health of the ecosystem as reflected by its chemical and biological characteristics.</p> <p>Methods: Aquatic biotic and abiotic parameters including water clarity, nitrogen, phosphorous and chlorophyll concentrations were measured monthly during four months at each of 18 water sampling stations evenly distributed across the lake. These parameters were then compared with historical values obtained from the literature to examine the dynamic trophic state of Lake Ossa.</p> <p>Results: Results indicate that Lake Ossa’s trophic state parameters doubled in only three decades (from 1985 to 2016), moving from a mesotrophic to a eutrophic state. The decreasing nutrient gradient moving from the mouth of the lake (in the south) to the north indicates that the flow of the adjacent Sanaga River is the primary source of nutrient input. Further analysis suggests that the poor transparency of the lake is not associated with chlorophyll concentrations but rather with the suspended sediments brought-in by the Sanaga River. Consequently, our model demonstrated that despite nutrient enrichment, less than 5% of the lake bottom surface sustained submerged aquatic vegetation. Thus, shoreline emergent vegetation is the primary food available for the local manatee population. During the dry season, water recedes drastically and disconnects from the dominant shoreline emergent vegetation, decreasing accessibility for manatees.</p> <p>Main conclusions: The current study revealed major environmental concerns (eutrophication and sedimentation) that may negatively impact habitat quality for manatees. Efficient land use and water management across the entire watershed may be necessary to mitigate such issues.</p>
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Allen Brain Atlas
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Annotated Behaviour and Observability Dataset (ABODe)
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OpenNeuro
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