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Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding Sonoran desert, ongoing since 1999
The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix, and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey, formerly known as the survey 200 and renamed to ESCA in 2015, assesses conditions at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified dual-density sampling design. Beginning in 2000, the study is conducted every five years except the 2020 survey, which was conducted in 2023 owing to delays to due Covid. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. Measurements include an inventory of all plants (identified to the lowest possible taxonomic unit, typically species), plant biovolume, soil coring for physicochemical properties, arthropod sweep-net sampling, photo documentation, and a visual survey of site and area characteristics. The objectives of the survey are to (1) characterize patches in terms of key biotic, physical, and chemical variables, and (2) examine relationships among land use, general plant diversity, native plant diversity, plant biovolume, soil nutrient status, and social-economic indices along an indirect urban gradient. A pilot survey was conducted in 1999, and the first full ESCA was conducted in 2000. The maiden survey in 2000 featured a suite of measurements that were not assessed in later surveys, including data from a portable weather station set up during the field survey at each location, organic matter decomposition, pollen, and mycorrhizae. In 2010, the survey was expanded to include an assessment of one of the residential parcels overlapping the survey plot at sites in residential areas. Many of the same variables that are measured in the 30m x 30m survey plot are measured in the p
Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in parcels of residential areas in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, ongoing since 2010
The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey is conducted every five years at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified, dual-density sampling design. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. In 2010, the survey was expanded to include an assessment of residential parcels overlapping the survey plot at sites in residential areas. Many of the same variables that are measured in the 30m x 30m survey plot are measured in the parcel, including an inventory of perennial plants, and the biovolume of trees. In addition, a detailed assessment of characteristics of the parcel is performed. Investigators interested in data from the broader Ecological Survey of Central Arizona that includes all survey plots can find those data in the Environmental Data Initiative data repository at [this](https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-cap&identifier=652) link.
Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in parcels of residential areas in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, ongoing since 2010 (Reformatted to the ecocomDP Design Pattern)
This data package is formatted as an ecocomDP (Ecological Community Data Pattern). For more information on ecocomDP see https://github.com/EDIorg/ecocomDP. This Level 1 data package was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-cap/653/2. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix, and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey is conducted every five years at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified dual-density sampling design. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. In 2010, the survey was expanded to include an assessment of residential parcels overlapping the survey plot at sites in residential areas. Many of the same variables that are measured in the 30m x 30m survey plot are measured in the parcel, including an inventory of perennial plants, and the biovolume of trees. In addition, a detailed assessment of characteristics of the parcel is performed. Investigators interested in data from the broader Ecological Survey of Central Arizona that includes all survey plots should should search the data catalog for 'ecological survey of central arizona' or 'survey 200' to locate those and other data related to the CAP LTER's ESCA.
Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding Sonoran desert, ongoing since 1999 (Reformatted to the ecocomDP Design Pattern)
This data package is formatted as an ecocomDP (Ecological Community Data Pattern). For more information on ecocomDP see https://github.com/EDIorg/ecocomDP. This Level 1 data package was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-cap/652/3. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix, and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey, formerly known as the survey 200 and renamed to ESCA in 2015, is conducted every five years at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified dual-density sampling design. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. Measurements include an inventory of all plants (identified to the lowest possible taxonomic unit, typically species), plant biovolume, soil coring for physicochemical properties, arthropod sweep-net sampling, photo documentation, and a visual survey of site and area characteristics. The objectives of the survey are to (1) characterize patches in terms of key biotic, physical, and chemical variables, and (2) examine relationships among land use, general plant diversity, native plant diversity, plant biovolume, soil nutrient status, and social-economic indices along an indirect urban gradient. A pilot survey was conducted in 1999, and the first full ESCA was conducted in 2000. The maiden survey in 2000 featured a suite of measurements that were not assessed in later surveys, including data from a portable weather station set up during the field survey at each location, organic matter decomposition, pollen,
Sampling sites where ecological indices were used to assess the impact of different environmental stressors in aquatic environments in Argentina
Dataset is a compilation of all sampling sites of articles where ecological indices were used to assess the impact of different environmental stressors in aquatic environments from Argentina. Points of this dataset were extracted from 78 papers published between 1996 and 2018. We selected articles that use ecological indices to analyze some local environmental problematics or stressors. Using the type of index from each article we performed the kml file, which contained the categorized sampling sites by different symbols according to the ecological index: physico-chemical, biological, geomorphological and multimetric. We carried out a map (shapefile) with all the sampling sites referenced to the ecoregions of Argentina proposed by Burkart (1999).
Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in parcels of residential areas in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, ongoing since 2010 (Reformatted to a Darwin Core Archive)
This data package is formatted as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A, event core). For more information on Darwin Core see https://www.tdwg.org/standards/dwc/. This Level 2 data package was derived from the Level 1 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/115/2, which was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-cap/653/2. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix, and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey is conducted every five years at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified dual-density sampling design. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. In 2010, the survey was expanded to include an assessment of residential parcels overlapping the survey plot at sites in residential areas. Many of the same variables that are measured in the 30m x 30m survey plot are measured in the parcel, including an inventory of perennial plants, and the biovolume of trees. In addition, a detailed assessment of characteristics of the parcel is performed. Investigators interested in data from the broader Ecological Survey of Central Arizona that includes all survey plots should should search the data catalog for 'ecological survey of central arizona' or 'survey 200' to locate those and other data related to the CAP LTER's ESCA.
Ecological Survey of Central Arizona: a survey of key ecological indicators in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding Sonoran desert, ongoing since 1999 (Reformatted to a Darwin Core Archive)
This data package is formatted as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A, event core). For more information on Darwin Core see https://www.tdwg.org/standards/dwc/. This Level 2 data package was derived from the Level 1 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/247/3, which was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-cap/652/3. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: The Ecological Survey of Central Arizona (ESCA) is an extensive field survey and integrated inventory designed to capture key ecological indicators of the CAP LTER study area consisting of the urbanized, suburbanized, and agricultural areas of metropolitan Phoenix, and the surrounding Sonoran desert. The survey, formerly known as the survey 200 and renamed to ESCA in 2015, is conducted every five years at approximately 200 sample plots (30m x 30m) that were located randomly using a tessellation-stratified dual-density sampling design. Study plots cover habitats throughout the CAP LTER study area ranging from native Sonoran desert sites to residential yards to an airport tarmac. Measurements include an inventory of all plants (identified to the lowest possible taxonomic unit, typically species), plant biovolume, soil coring for physicochemical properties, arthropod sweep-net sampling, photo documentation, and a visual survey of site and area characteristics. The objectives of the survey are to (1) characterize patches in terms of key biotic, physical, and chemical variables, and (2) examine relationships among land use, general plant diversity, native plant diversity, plant biovolume, soil nutrient status, and social-economic indices along an indirect urban gradient. A pilot survey was conducted in 1999, and the first full ESCA was conducted in 2000. The maiden survey in 2000 featured a suite of measurements that were not assessed in later surveys, including data fr
Indicator for the current and future socio-ecological burden caused by the expansion of wind energy in German districts
<p>The data table lists the calculated present burden (IST-Belastungsgrad) based on the year 2014 and the maximum possible burden (MAX-Belastungsgrad) on the population caused by the further expansion of wind energy. The so-called burden level is calculated accounting for the area occupied by wind turbines, the total area of a district and the population density. Additionally the table holds data on possible future burden levels based on two scenarios for the year 2050. Each district can be identified by its key, "Regionalschlüssel", and corresponding geo data (EPSG: 25832) of the administrative area provided by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2014 (data was changed).</p> <p>The dataset was created in the context of the interdisciplinary research project VerNetzen and is described in detail in the final project report: VerNetzen Degel, M., Christ, M., Grünert, J., Becker, L., Wingenbach, C., Soethe, M., Bunke, W.-D., Mester, K., und Wiese, F. (2016). <em>VerNetzen: Sozial-ökologische und technisch-ökonomische Modellierung von Entwicklungspfaden der Energiewende</em>. IZT Berlin, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., pp. 98-118, 143-145.</p> <p><strong><em>Deutsch:</em></strong></p> <p>Die Tabelle enthält u.a. den derzeitigen Belastungsgrad, festgestellt für das Jahr 2014, und den maximal möglichen Belastungsgrad je Landkreis. Der Belastungsgrad ist ein Indikator für die durch den Zubau von Windenergie betroffene Bevölkerung und berechnet sich aus der Gesamtfläche eines Landkreises, der für die Windenergie genutzten Fläche und der Bevölkerungsdichte. In der Tabelle sind ebenfalls mögliche zukünftige Belastungsgrade auf Grundlage zweier Projektszenarien für das Jahr 2050 enthalten. Die jeweiligen Landkreise können mit dem Regionalschlüssel oder den geographischen Daten (EPSG: 25832) des Bundesamtes für Kartographie und Geodäsie zugeordnet werden: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2014 (Daten verändert).</p> <p>Der Datensatz ist im Kontext des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts VerNetzen entstanden und ist ausführlich im Projektabschlussbericht beschrieben: VerNetzen Degel, M., Christ, M., Grünert, J., Becker, L., Wingenbach, C., Soethe, M., Bunke, W.-D., Mester, K., und Wiese, F. (2016). <em>VerNetzen: Sozial-ökologische und technisch-ökonomische Modellierung von Entwicklungspfaden der Energiewende</em>. IZT Berlin, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., S.98-118, S.143-145.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Indicator for the current and future socio-ecological burden caused by the expansion of wind energy in German districts - auxiliary values
<p>The table contains the population and the size of the total area for each German district as of 2013. Furthermore it contains the size of those areas per district, that potentially could be used for wind energy.</p> <p>The data on the population is provided by the Federal Statistical Office and the statistical Offices of the Länder: © Federal Statistical Office and the statistical Offices of the Länder, Regionaldatenbank Deutschland, December 2014, Datenlizenz by-2-0 (https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0) (data was changed). The total district area is derived from geo data provided by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2014 (data was changed).</p> <p>For further information on potential areas see VerNetzen Degel, M., Christ, M., Grünert, J., Becker, L., Wingenbach, C., Soethe, M., Bunke, W.-D., Mester, K., und Wiese, F. (2016). <em>VerNetzen: Sozial-ökologische und technisch-ökonomische Modellierung von Entwicklungspfaden der Energiewende</em>. IZT Berlin, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., pp. 105-109.</p> <p><em><strong>Deutsch:</strong></em></p> <p>Die Tabelle umfasst die Bevölkerungsanzahl und Flächengröße je deutschem Landkreis für das Jahr 2013. Außerdem ist die Größe jener Fläche angegeben, die potentiell für die Windenergie genutzt werden könnte.</p> <p>Die Bevölkerungszahlen werden von den Statistischen Ämtern des Bundes und der Länder zur Verfügung gestellt: © Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Regionaldatenbank Deutschland, Dezember 2014, Datenlizenz by-2-0 (https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0) (Daten geändert). Die Landkreisflächen werden auf Grundlage von Geodaten des Bundesamtes für Kartographie und Geodäsie berechnet: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2014 (Daten geändert).</p> <p>Für weitere Informationen bzgl. der Potentialflächen siehe VerNetzen Degel, M., Christ, M., Grünert, J., Becker, L., Wingenbach, C., Soethe, M., Bunke, W.-D., Mester, K., und Wiese, F. (2016). <em>VerNetzen: Sozial-ökologische und technisch-ökonomische Modellierung von Entwicklungspfaden der Energiewende</em>. IZT Berlin, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., S. 105-109.</p>
Text-fig. 9. Phylogenetic tree indicating the number of required character state changes (steps) under parsimony for various positions of Miranthus gen. nov. in a molecular based backbone tree (see material and methods for additional details). in Early Flowers Of Primuloid Ericales From The Late Cretaceous Of Portugal And Their Ecological And Phytogeographic Implications
Text-fig. 9. Phylogenetic tree indicating the number of required character state changes (steps) under parsimony for various positions of Miranthus gen. nov. in a molecular based backbone tree (see material and methods for additional details).
Supporting dataset for manuscript "Estimating the microarthropod diversity in cropping systems by comparing ecological indices across Europe" by Bigiotti et al. 2025
<p>This dataset contains counts of mesofauna individuals classified as Biological Forms (BF). It represent the raw data used for all indices calculation in the manuscript entitled "Microarthropod communities' diversity for soil health assessment: comparing several ecological indices across Europe" by authors Gaia Bigiotti, Francesco Vitali, Stefano Mocali, Giovanni L’Abate, Eligio Malusà, Dawid Kozacki, Irena Bertoncelj, Morgane Ourry, Massimo Pugliese, Heinrich Maisel, Expedito Olimi, Maria Grazia Tommasini, Carlo Jacomini, and Lorenzo D’Avino.</p>
Artemisia pollen dataset for exploring the potential ecological indicators in deep time
<p>To cover the maximum range of <em>Artemisia</em> pollen morphological variation, we provide a pollen dataset of 36 species from 9 clades and 3 outgroups of <em>Artemisia </em>constrained by the phylogenetic framework, containing 4018 original pollen photographs under LM and SEM, 9360 pollen morphological trait measurements, together with their 30858 source plant occurrences, and corresponding environmental factors. Here, we attempt to decipher the underlying causes of the long-standing disagreement in the palynological community on the correlation between <em>Artemisia</em> pollen and aridity by using this pollen dataset to recognize the different ecological implications of <em>Artemisia</em> pollen types.</p> <p>The <em>Artemisia</em> pollen dataset as designed is open and expandable for new pollen data from<em> Artemisia</em> worldwide in order to better serve the global environment assessment and refined reconstruction of vegetation in the geological past.</p>
Text-fig. 7. SEM (a) and SRXTM (b–e) images of Miranthus kvacekii sp. nov.; Mira locality, Portugal. a: Lateral view of flower bud showing corolla lobes extending beyond calyx; note surface of pedicel, calyx and corolla with small equiaxial epidermal cells and indumentum of densely spaced, short stiff trichomes. b, c: Longitudinal sections through floral bud in two directions perpendicular to each other (a, orthoslice yz1024; b, orthoslice xz0950) showing corolla (co), calyx (ca), stamens (st) and semi-inferior ovary with thin ovary wall (ow) and central mushroom-shaped globose placenta (pl) bearing numerous ovules (ov). d, e: Transverse sections through floral bud above placenta (d, orthoslice xy0915; e, orthoslice xy1095) showing calyx (ca), corolla (co), ovary wall (ow) and ovules (ov); yellow outlines indicate the positions of anthers (d) and filaments (e); orange outlines indicate the position of three of the possible staminodes. Specimen, Mira 100-S170157 (a–e, holotype). Scale bars = 600 µm (a–c), 300 µm (d, e). in Early Flowers Of Primuloid Ericales From The Late Cretaceous Of Portugal And Their Ecological And Phytogeographic Implications
Text-fig. 7. SEM (a) and SRXTM (b–e) images of Miranthus kvacekii sp. nov.; Mira locality, Portugal. a: Lateral view of flower bud showing corolla lobes extending beyond calyx; note surface of pedicel, calyx and corolla with small equiaxial epidermal cells and indumentum of densely spaced, short stiff trichomes. b, c: Longitudinal sections through floral bud in two directions perpendicular to each other (a, orthoslice yz1024; b, orthoslice xz0950) showing corolla (co), calyx (ca), stamens (st) and semi-inferior ovary with thin ovary wall (ow) and central mushroom-shaped globose placenta (pl) bearing numerous ovules (ov). d, e: Transverse sections through floral bud above placenta (d, orthoslice xy0915; e, orthoslice xy1095) showing calyx (ca), corolla (co), ovary wall (ow) and ovules (ov); yellow outlines indicate the positions of anthers (d) and filaments (e); orange outlines indicate the position of three of the possible staminodes. Specimen, Mira 100-S170157 (a–e, holotype). Scale bars = 600 µm (a–c), 300 µm (d, e).
Text-fig. 4. Graphical visualization of Phytogeographic Reference Regions Assessment (PRRA) of nearest living relative genera of fossil-taxa from late Early Miocene Wiesa assemblage in eastern Germany. Analysis yields only NLRs which have modern distribution area (partly) in E and SE Asia. For relationships of fossil-taxa to nearest living relatives or ecological equivalents, see Tab. 6; taxa used for analysis marked with asterisks. Three geographic resolutions conducted: a – grid with 1.5° latitude/longitude resolution, b – grid with 2°, c – grid with 3°; similarity column indicates cooccurrences of genera of nearest living relatives in single grid box. Maximum value in our analysis: grid box marked with arrow in map a, located in western Yunnan Province, P. R. China and southern Kachin Province, NE Myanmar (east of Myitkyina city), area with 97.371 7–98.874 2° longitude and 24.586 7–25.837 5° latitude, yields 23 co-occurring species of 13 genera (Tab. 7). in Assessment Of Phytogeographic Reference Regions For Cenozoic Vegetation: A Case Study On The Miocene Flora Of Wiesa (Germany)
Text-fig. 4. Graphical visualization of Phytogeographic Reference Regions Assessment (PRRA) of nearest living relative genera of fossil-taxa from late Early Miocene Wiesa assemblage in eastern Germany. Analysis yields only NLRs which have modern distribution area (partly) in E and SE Asia. For relationships of fossil-taxa to nearest living relatives or ecological equivalents, see Tab. 6; taxa used for analysis marked with asterisks. Three geographic resolutions conducted: a – grid with 1.5° latitude/longitude resolution, b – grid with 2°, c – grid with 3°; similarity column indicates cooccurrences of genera of nearest living relatives in single grid box. Maximum value in our analysis: grid box marked with arrow in map a, located in western Yunnan Province, P. R. China and southern Kachin Province, NE Myanmar (east of Myitkyina city), area with 97.371 7–98.874 2° longitude and 24.586 7–25.837 5° latitude, yields 23 co-occurring species of 13 genera (Tab. 7).
Fig. 5. Parsimony splits network constructed from a per and ITS2 concatenated sequence data set. Heterozygous specimens are indicated with A and B in Ecological and geographical speciation in Lucilia bufonivora: The evolution of amphibian obligate parasitism
Fig. 5. Parsimony splits network constructed from a per and ITS2 concatenated sequence data set. Heterozygous specimens are indicated with A and B. 'bufonivora_EUROPE_A' represents a consistent haplotype present in all 12 samples from Europe (Table 1), of which just two were heterozygous ('bufonivora_frog' and 'bufonivora_NLWi'). 'bufonivora_CAN' and 'elongata_CAN' are represented by two samples each, none of which were heterozygous. Scale bar represents expected changes per site.
Figure. Distribution of the recent localities of Lumbricus terrestris on the Balkan Peninsula (plus marks indicate other Balkan countries where L. terrestris also lives). in On the presence of Lumbricus terrestris Linnaeus 1758 (Oligochaeta, Lumbricidae) on the Balkan Peninsula: some aspects of ecology and distribution
Figure. Distribution of the recent localities of Lumbricus terrestris on the Balkan Peninsula (plus marks indicate other Balkan countries where L. terrestris also lives).
Text-fig. 2. (A) Orientation of Schizocrania filosa (HALL, 1847) on articulated shells of benthic brachiopod Rafinesquina sp. (A1–A3 – on dorsal valve of articulated shells, A4 – on ventral valve of articulated shell; forward growth direction is unclear in three specimens) from Upper Ordovician, Corryville Formation, Lawrenceburg, Indiana (after www.drydredgers.org/scizo.htm). (B) Orientation of Schizocrania multistriata (REED, 1905) shells on outer face of conulariid Metaconularia imperialis test (Dobrotivá Formation, Kařízek mine, Barrandian area; after Havlíček and Vaněk 1996); preserved conulariid shell in white, suggested outline of incomplete conulariid test in grey. Arrows indicate direction of forward growth of Schizocrania specimens. in Schizocrania (Brachiopoda, Discinoidea): Taxonomy, Occurrence, Ecology And History Of The Earliest Epizoan Lingulate Brachiopod
Text-fig. 2. (A) Orientation of Schizocrania filosa (HALL, 1847) on articulated shells of benthic brachiopod Rafinesquina sp. (A1–A3 – on dorsal valve of articulated shells, A4 – on ventral valve of articulated shell; forward growth direction is unclear in three specimens) from Upper Ordovician, Corryville Formation, Lawrenceburg, Indiana (after www.drydredgers.org/scizo.htm). (B) Orientation of Schizocrania multistriata (REED, 1905) shells on outer face of conulariid Metaconularia imperialis test (Dobrotivá Formation, Kařízek mine, Barrandian area; after Havlíček and Vaněk 1996); preserved conulariid shell in white, suggested outline of incomplete conulariid test in grey. Arrows indicate direction of forward growth of Schizocrania specimens.
New indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance to support prioritization and management in the sagebrush biome, United States
<p>Ecosystem transformations to altered or novel ecological states are accelerating across the globe. Indicators of ecological resilience to disturbance and resistance to invasion can aid in assessing risks and prioritizing areas for conservation and restoration. The sagebrush biome encompasses parts of 11 western states and is experiencing rapid transformations due to human population growth, invasive species, altered disturbance regimes, and climate change. We built on prior use of static soil moisture and temperature regimes to develop new, ecologically relevant and climate-responsive indicators of both resilience and resistance. Our new indicators were based on climate and soil water availability variables derived from process-based ecohydrological models that allow predictions of future conditions. We asked: (1) Which variables best indicate resilience and resistance? (2) What are the relationships among the indicator variables and resilience and resistance categories? (3) How do patterns of resilience and resistance vary across the area? We assembled a large database (n = 24,045) of vegetation sample plots from regional monitoring programs and derived multiple climate and soil water availability variables for each plot from ecohydrological simulations. We used USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service National Soils Survey Information, Ecological Site Descriptions, and expert knowledge to develop and assign ecological types and resilience and resistance categories to each plot. We used random forest models to derive a set of 19 climate and water availability variables that best predicted resilience and resistance categories. Our models had relatively high multiclass accuracy (80% for resilience; 75% for resistance). Top indicator variables for both resilience and resistance included mean temperature, coldest month temperature, climatic water deficit, and summer and driest month precipitation. Variable relationships and patterns differed among ecoregions but reflected environmental gradients; low resilience and resistance were indicated by warm and dry conditions with high climatic water deficits, and moderately high to high resilience and resistance were characterized by cooler and moister conditions with low climatic water deficits. The new, ecologically-relevant indicators provide information on the vulnerability of resources and likely success of management actions and can be used to develop new approaches and tools for prioritizing areas for conservation and restoration actions.</p>
Supplementary material to: Dengler, J., Jansen., F., … & Gillet, F. (2023) Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0. Vegetation Classification and Survey.
<p>The newly developed Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0, together with all source systems in a flexible, harmonised open access database.</p> <p><br> Supplementary material 2: The analysed 31 EIV systems with original and harmonised plant nomenclature and original and rescaled indicator values for M, N, R, L and T (*.xlsx).</p> <p>Supplementary material 3: Documentation of additions to and modifications of the taxonomic backbone from Euro+Med (2022) in EIVE 1.0 (*.xslx).</p> <p>Supplementary material 8: EIVE 1.0 indicator values for niche position and niche width of M, N, R, L and T (*.xlsx).</p>
New indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance to support prioritization and management in the sagebrush biome, United States
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