Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Supplemental Spatial Data for Quantifying Multidimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta

SUMMARY
Spatial data representing climate, proximity to streams, and probability of flooding in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

DESCRIPTION
These data were compiled as predictors of the distribution of riparian landbird species and groups of waterbird species, to facilitate projecting the probability of species or group presence across a given landscape. They were used to identify Priority Bird Conservation Areas and in analyses of the impacts of scenarios representing habitat restoration and perennial crop expansion on suitable habitat. These data are required for using the R package "DeltaMultipleBenefits", which provides the code and work flow for repeating the initial analyses or analyzing new scenarios.

For additional details about the development and applications of these data, please see:  

Dybala KE, et al. (In review) Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: A Framework for Quantifying Multi-dimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta

Dybala KE, Sesser K, Reiter M, Shuford WD, Golet GH, Hickey C, Gardali T (In review) Priority Bird Conservation Areas in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. 

Dybala KE (2023) DeltaMultipleBenefits: Projecting the Multiple Benefits of Land Cover Change in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. R package version 1.0.0. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7718620. Available from: https://pointblue.github.io/DeltaMultipleBenefits.

FUNDING STATEMENT
These data were developed as part of the project "Trade-offs and Co-benefits of Landscape Change on Bird Communities and Ecosystem Services in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta", funded by Proposition 1 Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Program, Grant Agreement Number – Q1996022, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

POINT OF CONTACT
Kristen Dybala, Point Blue Conservation Science, [e-mail]

SUGGESTED CITATION
Dybala KE. 2023. Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Supplemental Spatial Data for Quantifying Multidimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7672193.

DATA DISTRIBUTION
Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7672193)

PROGRESS
Complete

UPDATE FREQUENCY
None planned

DATE
These data were compiled in 2022, based on data from WorldClim (representing 1970-2000), National Hydrography Dataset (published 2020), and Point Blue's Water Tracker (representing 2013-2019).

FIELD DEFINITIONS

bio_1: annual mean temperature (C), 1970-2000 (WorldClim; Fick and Hijmans 2017)

bio_12: total annual precipitation (mm), 1970-2000 (WorldClim; Fick and Hijmans 2017)

streamdist: square root of the distance to the nearest stream (m) (National Hydrography Dataset; USGS 2020)

pwater_fall: mean probability of open surface water during the fall, 2013-2019 (Point Blue Water Tracker; Reiter et al. 2018)

pwater_win: mean probability of open surface water during the winter, 2013-2019 (Point Blue Water Tracker; Reiter et al. 2018)

Literature Cited

Fick SE, Hijmans RJ. 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. Int J Climatol. 37:4302–4315. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5086 

Reiter ME, Elliott NK, Barbaree B, Moody D. 2018. An automated open surface water tracking system for California’s Central Valley. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Petaluma, California: Point Blue Conservation Science. Available from: https://data.pointblue.org/apps/autowater/ 

[USGS] United States Geological Survey. 2020. National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrologic Units (HU) 4 - 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805. Reston (VA): U.S. Geological Survey. Available from: https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/access-national-hydrography-products 

ABBREVIATION DEFINITIONS
N/A

COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEM
WGS 84 / UTM zone 10N (EPSG:32610)

ACCESS & USE CONSTRAINTS
CC-by-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

KEYWORDS

Themes: climate, temperature, precipitation, hydrology, streams, water, flood, remote sensing 

Place: Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Central Valley, California