Young, John A. Niemiller, Matthew L. Zigler, Kirk S. Culver, David C. Christman, Mary C. Doctor, Daniel H. Weary, David J. 20160629 Vector Digital Data Set (Polygon) Doctor, Daniel H. Young, John A. Christman, Mary C. Niemiller, Matthew L. Zigler, Kirk S. Weary, David J. Culver, David C. 20160629 GIS Data Project/Collection Internet USGS http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F76D5R2H We developed spatial summary (GIS) layers for a study of factors influencing the distribution of cave and karst associated fauna within the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative region, one of 22 public-private partnerships established by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to aid in developing landscape scale solutions to conservation problems (https://lccnetwork.org/lcc/appalachian). We gathered occurrence data on cave-limited terrestrial and aquatic troglobiotic species from a variety of sources within the Appalachian LCC region covering portions of 15 states. Occurrence records were developed from the scientific literature, existing biodiversity databases, personal records of the authors, museum accessions, state Natural Heritage programs, and The Nature Conservancy (for Tennessee). Occurrence records were identified by location and translated into a GIS database. Although the precise locations cannot be made public due the sensitivity of the information, data sharing agreements, and restrictions under the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988, we summarized the data spatially using a coarse 20x20km vector grid. We used these occurence records, summarized at the 20x20km grid resolution in statistical modeling to examine physical factors predictive of cave dwelling fauna. Spatial summaries were developed for all cave dwelling species in our database where we had location coordinates for nine faunal groups (five terrestrial and four aquatic) that are common components of terrestrial and aquatic cave communities: ground beetles (Carabidae), millipedes, pseudoscorpions, spiders, and springtails for terrestrial species groups, and amphipods (Crangonyctidae and Gammaridae), isopods (Asellidae), crayfishes (Cambaridae), and fishes (Amblyopsidae) for aquatic species groups. The purpose of this data set is to depict the occurence of troglobiotic (cave-dwelling) ground beetles (largely the genus Pseudanophthalmus) in 20x20km grid cells covering the Appalachian LCC 201606229 publication date Complete None planned -88.962823492 -77.485046883 40.667873417 32.687712275 ISO 19115 Topic Category biota Alexandria Digital Library Feature Type Thesaurus caves USGS Thesaurus karst USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:5775933ae4b07dd077c76fdf None. Please see 'Distribution Info' for details. None. Users are advised to read the data set's metadata thoroughly to understand appropriate use and data limitations. U.S. Geological Survey, Northeast Region John A Young RESEARCH BIOLOGIST mailing address

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Kearneysville WV 25430 304-724-4469 304-724-4465 jyoung@usgs.gov Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1 (Build 4959) Service Pack N/A (Build N/A) No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted. No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted. Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details. A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the data set has not been conducted. A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set has either not been conducted, or is not applicable. Weary, DJ and DH Doctor 2014 Vector Digital Data Set Reston, VA USGS http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1156/ Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 2014 publication date Source Input 1 Used to determine percentage of each 20x20km grid cell containing karst geology NASA 2013 Raster Digital Data Set Sioux Falls, SD NASA/USGS https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/SRTM Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 20000211 20000221 ground condition SRTM Used for deriving elevation and topographic position measures at the 20km grid level WorldClim.org 2005 Raster Digital Data Set Internet WorldClim.org http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 1960 1990 ground condition BioClim Used to derive temperature and precipitation summaries at the 20km grid cell level David M. Wolock 2003 Raster Digital Data Set Reston, VA USGS http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/bfi48grd.xml Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 1984 2001 ground condition BFI Used to summarize ground water contribution within 20km grid cell areas for modeling Blackard, JA et al. 2002 Raster Digital Data Set West Valley City, UT US Forest Service http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/biomass/conus_forest_biomass.php Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 1980 1997 ground condition AGFB Used to summarize forest biomass with each 20km grid cell Schwarz, GE and Alexander RB 19950901 Vector Digital Data Set Reston, VA USGS/NRCS http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/ussoils.xml Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources 19950419 19960708 publication date USSOILS Used to derive 3 soils components form PCA of soil attributes Summarize cave and karst biota observations from proprietary database into presence absence within 20km grid cells covering the Appalachian LCC boundary 20141004 Select 20km grid cells within the Appalachian LCC that cover areas of karst 20141004 Select 20km cells within Appalachian LCC within karst geology where species group of interest reside 20141004 Vector G-polygon 262 NAD 1983 Albers (ESRI Full Name: NAD_1983_Albers) 29.5 45.5 -96.0 23.0 0.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.6096 0.6096 Meter D_North_American_1983 GRS_1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 Attribute Table Table containing attribute information associated with the data set. Producer defined Y_INDEX 20km grid y-index identifier Producer defined 21 59 X_INDEX 20km grid x-index identifier Producer defined 5 50 GRID_ID Unigue 20km grid ID Producer defined 63 1291 KPCT_20KM Percent area of carbonate bedrockin a 20km grid representing potential karst, calculated from the USGS national karst map database Producer defined 1.065 100 Percent L3_KEY EPA Level III Ecoregion Producer defined 55 Eastern Corn Belt Plains Unknown Producer defined 64 Northern Piedmont Unknown Producer defined 65 Southeastern Plains Unknown Producer defined 66 Blue Ridge Unknown Producer defined 67 Ridge and Valley Unknown Producer defined 68 Southwestern Appalachians Unknown Producer defined 69 Central Appalachians Unknown Producer defined 70 Western Allegheny Plateau Unknown Producer defined 71 Interior Plateau Unknown Producer defined 72 Interior River Valleys and Hills Unknown Producer defined Reg_relief Regional relief type Producer defined mountains Unknown Producer defined plateaus Unknown Producer defined NumCaves Number of caves in 20km grid cell Producer defined 0 708 MEAN_preci Mean precipitation, calculated from 30 year climate normals (1960-1990) at 1 km resolution and available from the WorldClim bioclimatic data set (http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim) Producer defined 924.6578 1533.532 millimeters STD_precip Standard deviation of precipitation, calculated from 30 year climate normals (1960-1990) at 1 km resolution and available from the WorldClim bioclimatic data set (http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim) Producer defined 5.144098 117.3529 millimeters MEAN_temp Mean surface air temperature, calculated from 30 year climate normals (1960-1990) at 1 km resolution and available from the WorldClim bioclimatic dataset (http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim) Producer defined 7.81823 16.1225 degrees Celcius STD_temp Standard deviation of surface air temperature, calculated from 30 year climate normals (1960-1990) at 1 km resolution and available from the WorldClim bioclimatic dataset (http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim) Producer defined 0.0567799 1.09292 degrees Celcius MEAN_Mgper Mean above ground forest biomass in megagrams (Mg) per hectare, from data at http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/biomass/index.php. Producer defined 0 182.8389 megagrams per hectare STD_Mgperh Standard deviation in above ground forest biomass in megagrams (Mg) per hectare, from data at http://data.fs.usda.gov/geodata/rastergateway/biomass/index.php. Producer defined 0 72.79327 megagrams per hectare MEAN_bfi Mean base flow index (BFI), the component of stream flow that can be attributed to ground water discharge into streams, and expressed as a percentage. From USGS Open File Report http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/bfi48grdl.xml. Producer defined 14.17 53.5675 Percentage STD_bfi Standard deviation of base flow index (BFI), the component of stream flow that can be attributed to ground water discharge into streams, and expressed as a percentage. From USGS Open File Report http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/XML/bfi48grdl.xml. Producer defined 0 4.323355 Percentage MEAN_TPI Mean Topographic Position Index (TPI), a measure of local relief which represents the difference between the mean elevation of a local 1 x 1 km grid cell and the mean elevation of cells in a surrounding neighborhood. Producer defined -34.15038 51.49455 STD_TPI Standard deviation of Topographic Position Index (TPI), a measure of local relief which represents the difference between the mean elevation of a local 1 x 1 km grid cell and the mean elevation of cells in a surrounding neighborhood. Producer defined 5.469132 213.4037 AQUA_TERR Aquatic or Terrestrial cave biota occurrence in 20km cell Producer defined NY No/Yes - No aquatic cave-karst biota occurence, but terrestrial cave-karst biota occurence Producer defined YN Yes/No - Aquatic cave karst biota occurence, but no treestrial cave karst biota occurence Producer defined YY Yes/Yes - Both aquatic AND terrestrial cave-karst biota occurence Producer defined MEAN_elev Mean elevation, using a 1 x 1 km grid, interpolated from 90 m resolution Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data, available at https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/SRTM2 Producer defined 174.155 1158.057 Meters STD_elev Standard deviation of elevation, using a 1 x 1 km grid, interpolated from 90 m resolution Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data, available at https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/SRTM2 Producer defined 10.23291 243.3523 Meters Edge_Lengt Length of edge between carbonate and non-carbonate bedrock, calculated from the USGS national karst map database Producer defined 0 663695.9731 Meters X Relative grid cell position in X direction Producer defined -50 -5 Y Relative grid cell position in Y direction Producer defined -59 -21 KARST 20km grid cell in karst (1) or not Producer defined 1 1 soil1 Principal component 1 of PCA on soil water capacity, permeability, depth to water, thickness, bulk density, and percent organic matter Producer defined -3.415600019 2.824943784 soil2 Principal component 2 of PCA on soil water capacity, permeability, depth to water, thickness, bulk density, and percent organic matter Producer defined -1.609409432 1.615675137 soil3 Principal component 3 of PCA on soil water capacity, permeability, depth to water, thickness, bulk density, and percent organic matter Producer defined -3.139038872 1.552601477 log_edge Log transformed length of edge between carbonate and non-carbonate bedrock, calculated from the USGS national karst map database Producer defined 0 13.40557945 Groundbeet Number of ground beetle speceis observations per 20km grid cell Producer defined 1 52 Count IGROUNDBEE Occurence of ground beetle species in 20km grid cell Producer defined 1 1 The entity and attribute information provided here describes the tabular data associated with the data set. 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