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  • LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.3: 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
  • Soranno, Patricia A; Michigan State University
    Lottig, Noah R; University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Delany, Austin D; University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Cheruvelil, Kendra S; Michigan State University
  • 2019-07-22
  • Soranno, P.A., N.R. Lottig, A.D. Delany, and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.3: 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 ver 3. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/08c6f9311929f4874b01bcc64eb3b2d7 (Accessed 2024-05-25).

  • This data package, LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.3, is 1 of 5 data packages associated with the LAGOS-NE database-- the LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database. With this release, only this data package is being updated and users are expected to use prior releases of the other types of data. Please see the attached additional documentation for a full description of the changes that have been made for this new release.The data packages that make up LAGOS-NE include the following information on lakes and reservoirs in 17 lake-rich states in the Northeastern and upper Midwestern U.S. (1) LAGOS-NE-LOCUS v1.01: lake location and physical characteristics for all lakes greater than one hectare. (2) LAGOS-NE-GEO v1.05: ecological context (i.e., the land use, geologic, climatic, and hydrologic setting of lakes) for all lakes and for all spatial resolutions, also called ‘zones’ (i.e., ecoregions, states, counties). These geospatial data were created by processing national-scale and publicly-accessible datasets to quantify numerous metrics at multiple spatial resolutions. (3) LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.3: in-situ measurements of lake water quality from the past three decades for approximately 2,600-12,000 lakes, depending on the variable. This module was created by harmonizing 87 water quality datasets from federal, state, tribal, and non-profit agencies, university researchers, and citizen scientists. This module includes variables that are most commonly measured by state agencies and researchers for studying eutrophication. For each water quality data value, we also include metadata related to the sampling program, methods, qualifiers with data flags from the original program (qual, not standardized for LAGOS-NE), censor codes from our quality control procedures (censorcode, standardized for LAGOS-NE), and the date of each sample. (4) LAGOS-NE-GIS v1.0: the GIS data layers for lakes, wetlands, and streams, as well as the spatial resolutions that were used to create the LAGOS-NE-GEO module. (5) LAGOS-NE-RAWDATA: the original 87 datasets of lake water quality prior to processing, the R code that converts the original data formats into LAGOS-NE data format, and the log file from this procedure to create LAGOS-NE. This latter data package supports the reproducibility of the LAGOS-NE-LIMNO data module. Citation for the full documentation of this database: Soranno, P.A., E.G. Bissell, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, C.E. Scott, N.J. Smith, S. Stopyak, S. Yuan, M.T. Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C. Gries, E.N. Henry, N.K. Skaff, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2015. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: Fostering open science and data reuse. GigaScience 4:28 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4 Citation for the data paper for this database: Soranno, P.A., L.C. Bacon, M. Beauchene, K.E. Bednar, E.G. Bissell, C.K. Boudreau, M.G. Boyer, M.T. Bremigan, S.R. Carpenter, J.W. Carr, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, M. Claucherty, S.M.Collins, J.D. Conroy, J.A. Downing, J. Dukett, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, C. Funk, M.J. Gonzalez, L.T. Green, C. Gries, J.D. Halfman, S.K. Hamilton, P.C. Hanson, E.N. Henry, E.M. Herron, C. Hockings, J.R. Jackson, K. Jacobson-Hedin, L.L. Janus, W.W. Jones, J.R. Jones, C.M. Keson, K.B.S. King, S.A. Kishbaugh, J.F. Lapierre, B. Lathrop, J.A. Latimore, Y. Lee, N.R. Lottig, J.A. Lynch, L.J. Matthews, W.H. McDowell, K.E.B. Moore, B.P. Neff, S.J. Nelson, S.K. Oliver, M.L. Pace, D.C. Pierson, A.C. Poisson, A.I. Pollard, D.M. Post, P.O. Reyes, D.O. Rosenberry, K.M. Roy, L.G. Rudstam, O. Sarnelle, N.J. Schuldt, C.E. Scott, N.K. Skaff, N.J. Smith, N.R. Spinelli, J.J. Stachelek, E.H. Stanley, J.L. Stoddard, S.B. Stopyak, C.A. Stow, J.M. Tallant, P.-N. Tan, A.P. Thorpe, M.J. Vanni, T. Wagner, G. Watkins, K.C. Weathers, K.E. Webster, J.D. White, M.K. Wilmes, S. Yuan. 2017. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. Gigascience 6(12) https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix101

  • N: 49.3477      S: 34.61761      E: -66.99892      W: -97.90363
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  • Data Entities:
    1. In situ measurements of epilimnetic nutrients and secchi data  (260.0 MiB; 2546 downloads) 
    2. Lake identifiers and morphometry  (8.9 MiB; 1567 downloads) 
    3. Data source and program information  (31.3 KiB; 1441 downloads) 
    4. Overview of changes since the last version  (213.6 KiB; 896 downloads) 
    5. LAGOS-NE-LIMNO QAQC Documentation and report  (426.5 KiB; 846 downloads) 
    6. Script for the creation of the epi_waterquality_10873 table  (36.8 KiB; 825 downloads) 
    7. script to do any necessary cleaning to exported tables  (5.1 KiB; 810 downloads) 
    8. script to remove instances of across site replication  (4.7 KiB; 803 downloads) 
    9. removes duplicated data in the case that it is present  (1.5 KiB; 799 downloads) 
    10. script for the creation of the lakeslimno_10873 table  (2.8 KiB; 805 downloads) 
    11. script for the creation of the sourceprogram_10873 table  (2.0 KiB; 795 downloads) 
    12. documentation for export_script_10873.R  (134.3 KiB; 795 downloads) 
    13. documentation for lakes_table_creation.R  (101.2 KiB; 800 downloads) 
    14. documentation for sourceprogram_creation.R  (92.3 KiB; 790 downloads) 
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  • https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/08c6f9311929f4874b01bcc64eb3b2d7
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