Paired Watershed and Characteristic Trait Data for the Los Planes Basin Research Ranch Watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release
Description
Watershed pairing is an approach used to assess effects of restoration on a landscape by comparing conditions across a treatment watershed and a control watershed, and then quantifying the differences. When the watersheds are statistically paired, the control watershed can serve as a baseline of conditions compared to the treatment watershed.
We apply a watershed pairing analysis across a series of five watersheds within a research ranch in Baja California Sur, Mexico. We use a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to develop the watershed boundaries. We then collected a series of structural and biophysical traits to characterize the watersheds. Finally, we applied a hierarchical clustering analysis to identify the paired watersheds.
This data release consists of a shapefile of the five watersheds with attributes for each of the structural and biophysical traits, in addition to an attribute identifying the direct pairs.
Resources
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P14VSM4G |
Tags
- environment
- hierarchical
- baja-california
- hierarchical-clustering
- watershed-management
- remediation
- mexico
- watershed-pairing
- baja-california-sur
- correlation
- biophysical-traits
- geographic-information-systems
- remote-sensing
- structural-traits
- usgs-6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0