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Predicting breeding habitat for amphibians: a spatiotemporal analysis across Yellowstone National Park
The ability to predict amphibian breeding across landscapes is important for informing land management decisions and helping biologists better understand and remediate factors contributing to declines in amphibian populations. We built geospatial models of likely breeding habitats for each of four amphibian species that breed in Yellowstone National Park (YNP). We used field data collected in 2000
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Paul E. Bartelt, Alisa L. Gallant, Robert W. Klaver, Christopher K. Wright, Debra A. Patla, Charles R. Peterson
Timing of seasonal migration in mule deer: effects of climate, plant phenology, and life-history characteristics
Phenological events of plants and animals are sensitive to climatic processes. Migration is a life-history event exhibited by most large herbivores living in seasonal environments, and is thought to occur in response to dynamics of forage and weather. Decisions regarding when to migrate, however, may be affected by differences in life-history characteristics of individuals. Long-term and intensive
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Kevin L. Monteith, Vernon C. Bleich, Thomas R. Stephenson, Beck M. Pierce, Mary M. Conner, Robert W. Klaver, R. Terry Bowyer
LiDAR: Providing structure
Since the days of MacArthur, three-dimensional (3-D) structural information on the environment has fundamentally transformed scientific understanding of ecological phenomena (MacArthur and MacArthur 1961). Early data on ecosystem structure were painstakingly laborious to collect. However, as reviewed and reported in recent volumes of Frontiers(eg Vierling et al. 2008; Asner et al.2011), advances i
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Lee A. Vierling, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Gregory P. Asner, Jason M. Stoker, Brian R. Johnson
Landsat Update: Volume 5 Issue 1
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LANDFIRE 2001 and 2008 Refresh Geographic Area Report--Pacific Southwest
The LANDFIRE National project (LF_1.0.0) was successfully completed in 2009. The goal of LANDFIRE National was to generate consistent 2001 vintage 30 meter spatial data sets for all 50 states for fire and other natural resource applications. This report highlights results from the continuation of LANDFIRE as a program to update the spatial data layers through 2008. The focus of this phase of the p
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Henry Bastion, Don Long, Brenda Lundberg, Jay Kost, Jeffrey A. Natharius, Heather Kreilick, Charley Martin, Tobin Smail, James Napoli, Wendel Hann
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 - summary of validation results
On June 29, 2009, NASA and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan released a Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to users worldwide at no charge as a contribution to the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). This “version 1” ASTER GDEM (GDEM1) was compiled from over 1.2 million scenebased DEMs covering land surfaces between 83°N and 83°S latitudes. A joint U.S.-J
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Tetushi Tachikawa, Manabu Kaku, Akira Iwasaki, Dean B. Gesch, Michael J. Oimoen, Z. Zhang, Jeffrey J. Danielson, Tabatha Krieger, Bill Curtis, Jeff Haase, Michael Abrams, C. Carabajal
Landsat Update: Volume 5 Issue 2
No abstract available.
Characterization of the Sonoran desert as a radiometric calibration target for Earth observing sensors
To provide highly accurate quantitative measurements of the Earth's surface, a comprehensive calibration and validation of the satellite sensors is required. The NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Characterization Support Team, in collaboration with United States Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science Center, has previously demonstrated the use of Africa
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Amit Angal, Gyanesh Chander, Xiaoxiong Xiong, Tae-young Choi, Aisheng Wu
Habitat selection by female swift foxes (Vulpes velox) during the pup-rearing season
The swift fox (Vulpes velox) was historically distributed in western South Dakota including the region surrounding Badlands National Park (BNP). The species declined during the mid-1800s, largely due to habitat loss and poisoning targeted at wolves (Canis lupis) and coyotes (C. latrans). Only a small population of swift foxes near Ardmore, South Dakota persisted. In 2003, an introduction program w
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Indrani Sasmal, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, Shubham Datta, Greg M. Schroeder, Robert W. Klaver, Kevin M. Honness
Changes in historical Iowa land cover as context for assessing the environmental benefits of current and future conservation efforts on agricultural lands
Conservationists and agriculturists face unprecedented challenges trying to minimize tradeoffs between increasing demands for food, fiber, feed, and biofuels and the resulting loss or reduced values of other ecosystem services, such as those derived from wetlands and biodiversity (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005a, 2005c; Maresch et al. 2008). The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Pu
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Alisa L. Gallant, Walt Sadinski, Mark F. Roth, Charles A. Rewa
Completion of the 2006 national land cover database for the conterminous united states
No abstract available.
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Joyce Fry, George Z. Xian, Suming Jin, Jon Dewitz, Collin G. Homer, Limin Yang, Christopher A. Barnes, N.D. Herold, J.D. Wickham
Spectral reflectance characteristics of different snow and snow-covered land surface objects and mixed spectrum fitting
The field spectroradiometer was used to measure spectra of different snow and snow-covered land surface objects in Beijing area. The result showed that for a pure snow spectrum, the snow reflectance peaks appeared from visible to 800 nm band locations; there was an obvious absorption valley of snow spectrum near 1030 nm wavelength. Compared with fresh snow, the reflection peaks of the old snow and
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J.-H. Zhang, Z.-M. Zhou, P.-J. Wang, F.-M. Yao, L. Yang