Erin L. Bunting Seth M. Munson John B. Bradford 2018 tabular digital data(txt)and shapefile Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey https://doi.org/10.5066/P98ZCJBI Erin L. Bunting Seth M. Munson John B. Bradford 2018 journal manuscript TBD TBD TBD This dataset was constructed from readily available open source climate and vegetation data, like Landsat. This dataset represents the vegetation and climate conditions for a large number of points across the major deserts of the SW USA. The dataset was constructed in order to use the climate pivot point approach (Munson et al. 2013) at the landscape level. Originally this dataset was much larger but we were looking to study a pure vegetation signal and therefore developed a detailed masking procedure to remove fire, slope, human, and floodplain effects. The vegetation classification originally came from SW regap, though we have refined / regrouped the data. The vegetation classification for each point is representative of the dominant vegetation in the 30m area, but by no means is it the only vegetation there. In the pivot point methodology we look to understand how the vegetation production in a single year relates to long term mean production, these columns are included in the dataset. Lastly, this time series data was composited to the warm and cold season since the deserts studied had productivity/ climate events at different times of year. The definition of season is; warm season (July – September),and cold season (October – March). This time series dataset created to develop the climate pivot point approach based on Munson et al. 2013 (see Cross Reference). This time series regression approach looks to pinpoint the climate tolerance for key vegetation across the southwestern United States. Data users should read the entire metadata record, acquire the manuscript identified as the ‘Larger Work Citation’, and acquire the manuscripts cited therein, to have a complete understanding of how these data were created and used. The data are specific to the uses identified in the ‘Larger Work Citation’ and/or manuscripts cited therein, and any other use of these data would be inappropriate. See 'Distribution liability' statement for more information. 1989 2014 publication date Complete None planned -120.427800 -101.654700 41.853930 28.999020 None Climate Ecoregion Pivot Point ReGAP vegetation classes SAVI Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index SPEI Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index Vegetation Response USGS Metadata Identifier USGS:5b7d816ae4b045b1dc7bd746 None Chihuahuan Colorado Plateau Great Basin Mojave Northern Colorado Plateau Southern Colorado Plateau Sonoran Southwestern United States United States Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Arizona California Colorado New Mexico Nevada Texas Utah None None Seth M Munson U.S. Geological Survey Research Ecologist mailing and physical

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Flagstaff AZ 86001 United States 928-556-7301 smunson@usgs.gov This research was funded by the Department of Interior National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center through a project entitled: Assessing vulnerablity to drought in dryland ecosystems of the Western U.S. Seth M. Munson Esteban H. Muldavin Jayne Belnap Debra P. C. Peters John P. Anderson Hildegard Reiser Kirsten Gallo Alicia Melgoza-Castillo Jeffrey E. Herrick Tim A. Christiansen 2013 Wiley Online Library Ecology http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1586.1 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. 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. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2012 vector digital data Corvallis, OR U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) - National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions.htm ecological regions 20100430 20100501 publication date EPA ecoregions Used to create random points across the study area and assign a ecoregion name (abbreviated) at the point location PRISM Climate Group 2012 maps and data, ASC files Corvallis, OR Oregon State University http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/recent/ Monthly average daily mean temperature 19890101 20141201 observed Monthly mean temperature Calculation of Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) and mean temperature for the 3, 6, 9, and 12 months preceding the vegetation greenness measurement across Northern Colorado Plateau U.S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 2012 GeoTIFF Sioux Falls, SD U.S. Geological Survey https://explorer.earthengine.google.com/#search/tag:landsat Multispectral scanning, Earth resources sensor data 19880301 20141031 ground condition Landsat 5 TM imagery Data were acquired to develop two time series (1988 – 2014) of early (late March – June) and late season (August – October) and calculate Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) values US Geological Survey 20051013 Geotiff Remote Sensing / GIS Laboratory at Utah State University Utah State University https://swregap.org/data/ digital raster data 19990101 20041231 ground condition SWREGAP Data were acquired to define vegetation type at point locations Development of the pivot point dataset: Point locations were generated using a random points generator in Google Earth Engine Application Programming Interface (API). The points generated were intersected to EPA Level III ecoregion, ReGAP vegetation class, and U.S. state layers, and then used to extract the raw and differenced warm season soil-adjusted vegetation index, raw and differenced cool season soil-adjusted vegetation index, warm season standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index, and cool season standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index values. Processing software and versions are identified as ArcGIS v10.3.1 and the Spatial Analyst Toolbox. 2017 Quality Assessment and Quality Control: No formal standard protocols and or formal methods were employed in assessing the quality of these to ensure integrity, completeness and accuracy. See attribute, logical, and positional accuracy statements in this metadata record. 2017 Finalize Data for Dissemination: Data sent to the Southwest Biological Science Center Data Steward for dissemination and preservation per USGS Data Management Policies SM 502.6, SM 502.7, SM 502.8 & SM 502.9 (1 October 2016). 2018 Vector Entity point 644054 8.983152841195215e-009 8.983152841195215e-009 Decimal Degrees D WGS 1984 WGS 1984 6378137.0 298.257223563 PPresp_Data Table containing attribute information associated with the data set. Producer defined ID Unique Point ID Producer defined 5 57719 dimensionless number Longitude The angular distance of the location of a point on the earth's surface, usually measured in degrees east or west of the Greenwich prime meridian, WGS 1984 datum. ESRI, GIS Dictionary (http://support.esri.com/en/other-resources/gis-dictionary/term/longitude) -120.4278 -101.6547 decimal degrees Latitude The angular distance of the location of a point on the earth's surface, usually measured in degrees north or south of the equator, WGS 1984 datum. ESRI, GIS Dictionary (http://support.esri.com/en/other-resources/gis-dictionary/term/latitude) 28.99902 41.85393 decimal degrees Year Year Producer defined 1989 2014 yyyy Season Season of year Producer defined CS Cold Season Producer defined WS Warm Season Producer defined Ecoregion Ecoregion point falls in Producer defined Chihuahuan Chihuahuan Deserts (24) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ST_AB State 2-letter abbreviation Producer defined Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:1:0::::: ReGAP_classes Descriptive ReGAP vegetation classification name Producer defined a textual description of USGS ReGAP vegetation classification names at the data point, to assist in identifying its location Veg_Classes Redefined ReGAP vegetation classification name. This is representative of the DOMINANT vegetation at the point. Producer defined a textual redefined description of USGS ReGAP vegetation classification names at the data point, to assist in identifying its location WS_SAVI_LTM Long term warm season soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) Producer defined 0.007671681 0.30409679 decimal number CS_SAVI_LTM Long term cold season soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) Producer defined 0.019932761 0.256494439 decimal number SPEICS Cold season standardized precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) Producer defined -1.948003709 1.85515368 decimal number SPEIWS Warm season standardized precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) Producer defined -2.538412372 1.960341553 decimal number WS_SD_SAVI Single composite (warm season) cold season soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) Producer defined 0.0000861 0.513012052 decimal number CS_SD_SAVI Single composite (cold season) cold season soil-adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) Producer defined 0.0000942 0.446442634 decimal number WSSAVIminTltm Differnce between SAVI long term mean and SAVI for a given year, warm season Producer defined -0.192056389 0.341920346 decimal number CST2minTltm Differnce between SAVI long term mean and SAVI for a given year, cold season Producer defined -0.189259424 0.327617789 decimal number U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase U.S. Geological Survey mailing and physical

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