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

This data package, LAGOS-NE-GIS v1.0, is 1 of 5 data packages associated with the LAGOS-NE database-- the LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database. Three of the data packages each contain different types of data for 51,101 lakes and reservoirs larger than 4 ha in 17 lake-rich U.S. states to support research on thousands of lakes. These three package are: (1) LAGOS-NE-LOCUS v1.01: lake location and physical characteristics for all lakes. (2) LAGOS-NE-GEO v1.05: ecological context (i.e., the land use, geologic, climatic, and hydrologic setting of lakes) for all lakes. These geospatial data were created by processing national-scale and publicly-accessible datasets to quantify numerous metrics at multiple spatial resolutions. And, (3) LAGOS-NE-LIMNO v1.087.1: 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. The other two data packages contain supporting data for the LAGOS-NE database: (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 LAGOS-NE-LIMNO. The LAGOS-NE GIS v1.0 module includes GIS datasets for: lake polygons and their hydrologic classification; wetland polygons and their classification; streams as a line coverage and their classification by stream order; the zones used for this study (state and county; hydrologic units [at the 4, 8 and 12 scales]); and, lake watersheds (IWS). We also include boundaries of U.S. states and Canadian provinces for mapping. 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
doi: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. In Review. LAGOS-NE: A
multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological
context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. In Review at
GigaScience. Submitted April 2017.