Supporting data for "LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes"
Dataset type: Ecology
Data released on September 22, 2017
Soranno PA; Bacon LC; Beauchene M; Bednar KE; Bissell EG; Boudreau CK; Boyer MG; Bremigan MT; Carpenter SR; Carr JW; Cheruvelil KS; Christel ST; Claucherty M; Collins SM; Conroy JD; Downing JA; Dukett J; Fergus CE; Filstrup CT; Funk CS; Gonzalez MJ; Green LT; Gries C; Halfman JD; Hamilton SK; Hanson PC; Henry EN; Herron EM; Hockings C; Jackson JR; Jacobson-Hedin K; Janus LL; Jones WW; Jones JR; Keson CM; King KBS; Kishbaugh SA; Lapierre J; Lathrop BF; Latimore JA; Lee Y; Lottig NR; Lynch JA; Matthews LJ; McDowell WH; Moore KEB; Neff BP; Nelson SJ; Oliver SK; Pace ML; Pierson DC; Poisson AC; Pollard AI; Post DM; Reyes PO; Rosenberry DO; Roy KM; Rudstam LG; Sarnelle O; Schuldt NJ; Scott CE; Skaff NK; Smith NJ; Spinelli NR; Stachelek JJ; Stanley EH; Stoddard JL; Stopyak SB; Stow CA; Tallant JM; Tan P; Thorpe AP; Wagner T; Vanni MJ; Watkins G; Weathers KC; Webster KE; White JD; Wilmes MK; Yuan S (2017): Supporting data for "LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes" GigaScience Database. https://doi.org/10.5524/100350
Understanding the factors that affect water quality and the ecological services provided by freshwater ecosystems is an urgent global environmental issue. Predicting how water quality will respond to global changes not only requires water quality data, but also information about the ecological context of individual water bodies across broad spatial extents. Because lake water quality is usually sampled in limited geographic regions, often for limited time periods, assessing the environmental controls of water quality requires compilation of many datasets across broad regions and across time into an integrated database. LAGOS-NE accomplishes this goal for lakes in the northeastern-most 17 U.S. states.
LAGOS-NE contains data for 51,101 lakes and reservoirs larger than 4 ha in 17 lake-rich U.S. states. The database includes three data modules for: lake location and physical characteristics for all lakes; ecological context (i.e., the land use, geologic, climatic, and hydrologic setting of lakes) for all lakes; and in situ measurements of lake water quality for a subset of the lakes from the past three decades for approximately 2,600-12,000 lakes depending on the variable. The database contains over 200,000 measures of chlorophyll concentration and almost 900,000 measures of Secchi depth. The water quality data were compiled from 87 lake water quality datasets from federal, state, tribal, and non-profit agencies, university researchers, and citizen scientists.
This database is one of the largest and most comprehensive databases of its type because it includes both in situ measurements and ecological context data. Because ecological context can be used to study a variety of other questions about lakes, streams, and wetlands, this database can also be used as the foundation for other studies of freshwaters at broad spatial and ecological scales.
Please note- all current data is hosted on the Environmental Data Initiative portal (EDI). The copy that is hosted on the GigaDB FTP server was taken at point of publication and will not be updated, please visit the EDI portal for the most recent updates.
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- Soranno, P. A., Bacon, L. C., Beauchene, M., Bednar, K. E., Bissell, E. G., Boudreau, C. K., Boyer, M. G., Bremigan, M. T., Carpenter, S. R., Carr, J. W., Cheruvelil, K. S., Christel, S. T., Claucherty, M., Collins, S. M., Conroy, J. D., Downing, J. A., Dukett, J., Fergus, C. E., Filstrup, C. T., … Yuan, S. (2017). LAGOS-NE: a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes. GigaScience, 6(12). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix101 (PubMed:29053868)
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Readme | TEXT | 4.70 kB | 2017-09-19 | MD5 checksum: 77c4d61a4f86dc85be92548964f65811 |
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Archival copy of the GitHub repository https://github.com/cont-limno/LAGOS , downloaded 15-Sept-2017. The LAGOS package provides an R interface to download LAGOS-NE data from remote databases, store this data locally, and perform a variety of filtering and subsetting operations. | GitHub archive | archive | 9.16 MB | 2017-09-19 | MD5 checksum: f7c813aed73664ab38d673b051e9a76a |
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Soranno P., K. Cheruvelil. 2017. LAGOS-NE-LOCUS v1.01: A module for LAGOS-NE, a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. Lakes: 1925-2013. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/940b25d022c695b440e1bdbc49fbb77b. Archival copy downloaded 18-SEPT-2017. | External link | archive | 217 B | 2017-09-19 | ||||
Soranno P., K. Cheruvelil. 2017. LAGOS-NE-GEO v1.05: A module for LAGOS-NE, a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. Lakes: 1925-2013. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b88943d10c6c5c480d5230c8890b74a8. Archival copy downloaded 18-SEPT-2017. | External link | archive | 215 B | 2017-09-19 | ||||
Soranno P., K. Cheruvelil. 2017. LAGOS-NE-GIS v1.0: A module for LAGOS-NE, a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. Lakes: 2013-1925. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/fb4f5687339bec467ce0ed1ea0b5f0ca. Archival copy downloaded 18-SEPT-2017. | External link | archive | 215 B | 2017-09-19 | ||||
Soranno P., K. Cheruvelil. 2017. LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.1: A module for LAGOS-NE, a multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. Lakes: 1925-2013. Environmental Data Initiative. http://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b1b93ccf3354a7471b93eccca484d506. Archival copy downloaded 18-SEPT-2017. | External link | archive | 217 B | 2017-09-19 |
Funding body | Awardee | Award ID | Comments |
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State of Michigan | JA Latimore | Clean Michigan Initiative | |
National Science Foundation | DM Post | 717265 | Division of Environmental Biology |
State of Maine | LC Bacon | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | LC Bacon | ||
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | M Boyer | Federal Lake Operation and Maintanance Funds | |
Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MT Bremigan | Fisheries Division | |
National Science Foundation | SR Carpenter | ||
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | SR Carpenter | ||
Université du Maine | SR Carpenter | ||
University of Wisconsin-Madison | SR Carpenter | ||
State of Massachusetts | J Carr | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | KS Cheruvelil | U-91595801-2 | STAR Fellowship Program |
National Science Foundation | SM Collins | Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology | |
Ohio Division of Wildlife | JD Conroy | Grant F-69-P | Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Program |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | JD Conroy | ||
Iowa Department of Natural Resources | JA Downing | ESD04HALFasch110155 | Watershed Monitoring and Assessment Program |
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency | JA Downing | Lakes Restoration Program | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | CS Funk | ||
National Science Foundation | MJ González | ||
Ohio Department of Natural Resources | MJ González | ||
National Science Foundation | SK Hamilton | 1027253 | Long-Term Ecological Research Program |
National Science Foundation | PC Hanson | Long-Term Ecological Research Program | |
University of Rhode Island | E Herron | University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | C Hockings | Water Pollution Control (Section 106) Grant | |
Lac du Flambeau Band | C Hockings | Lac du Flambeau General Fund | |
Bureau of Indian Affairs | C Hockings | ||
New York Department of Environmental Conservation | JR Jackson | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | WW Jones | 319 Grant Program for States and Territories | |
New York City Department of Environmental Protection | LL Janus | Long-Term Watershed Protection Program | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | JR Jones | ||
Missouri Department of Natural Resources | JR Jones | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | C Keson | Water Pollution Control (Section 106) Grant | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | SA Kishbaugh | Water Pollution Control (Section 106) Grant | |
State of New York | SA Kishbaugh | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | BF Lathrop | 319 Grant Program for States and Territories | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | JA Lynch | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | LJ Matthews | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | WH McDowell | ||
U.S. Geological Survey | BP Neff | Water Availability and Use Science Program | |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | AI Pollard | ||
State of Massachusetts | PO Reyes | Massachusetts Water Resources Authority | |
U.S. Geological Survey | DO Rosenberry | ||
State of New York | KM Roy | New York State Energy Research and Development Authority | |
U.S. Department of Agriculture | LG Rudstam | 1003732 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture |
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation | LG Rudstam | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | O Sarnelle | ||
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | NJ Schuldt | Water Pollution Control (Section 106) Grant | |
National Science Foundation | EH Stanley | 1440297 | Long-Term Ecological Research Program |
Michigan Agriculture Experiment Station | PA Soranno | Disciplinary Research Grant | |
U.S. Department of Agriculture | PA Soranno | 176820 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch project |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | JL Stoddard | ||
Ireland Environmental Protection Agency | KE Webster | 2011-W-FS-7 | STRIVE Programme |
Lake Sunapee Protection Association | KC Weathers | ||
National Science Foundation | JD White | ||
Gull Lake Quality Organization | JD White | ||
National Science Foundation | PA Soranno | 1638554 | Macrosystems Biology Program |
National Science Foundation | PA Soranno | 1065818 | Macrosystems Biology Program |
National Science Foundation | PA Soranno | 1065649 | Macrosystems Biology Program |
National Science Foundation | PA Soranno | 1638679 | Macrosystems Biology Program |
National Science Foundation | PA Soranno | 1065786 | Macrosystems Biology Program |
Date | Action |
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October 5, 2017 | Dataset publish |
November 13, 2017 | Manuscript Link added : 10.1093/gigascience/gix101 |
November 13, 2017 | External Link updated : https://portal-s.edirepository.org/nis/home.jsp |
November 9, 2022 | Manuscript Link updated : 10.1093/gigascience/gix101 |