Description of the explanatory variables used to predict the abundance of count of 5 species of dabbling ducks within a ∼ 11 km2 scale within the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada during 2002–2010.

These species included; blue-winged teal (Anas discors), gadwall (A. strepera), mallard (A. platyrhynchos), northern pintail (A. acuta), and northern shoveler (A. clypeata). Footnote: data source abbreviations in order of appearance: National Wetlands Inventory (NWI); (CanVec); Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC); United States Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service Breeding Population Survey (BPOP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Earth Observation Data Portal (EODP), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS); Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); National Landcover Dataset (NLCD), Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). All data layers are available from https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/535fa1aae4b078dca33ae3ad?community=LC+MAP+-+Landscape+Conservation+Management+and+Analysis+Portal. Description of the explanatory variables used to predict the abundance of count of 5 species of dabbling ducks within a ∼ 11 km2 scale within the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada during 2002–2010.