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1. Effects of Prescribed Fire on Sediment and Nutrient Loads in Southeastern U.S. Forests [USDA_effectsofprescribedfire]
We used the nutrient cycling model NuCM (Nutrient Cycling Model) as our platform for predicting stream and soil nutrient response after forest management with prescribed fire. Study sites were located ...


2. Rotation and Nitrogen Fertilization Effects on Changes in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen [USDA0098]
The dataset consists of data resulting from an experimental study involving seven cropping systems (three monoculture, two 2-year, and two 4-year rotations) with three rates of N fertilizer. Data ...


3. Data Dictionary Directory [USDA0141]
Information on research project title, principle investigators, experimental variables, units, measurements/collection, variable definition, models being used or developed, links with other SGCP projects, ...


4. Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project [ICBEMP]
The mission of The Interior Columbia Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) is to develop a scientifically sound and ecosystem based strategy for forest and rangelands administered by the Forest Service ...


5. Jornada Experimental Range Physical Attributes [MSU0046]
The "Jornada Experimental Range Physical Attributes" database consolidates information about boundaries, topography, roads, fencelines, enclosures, rain gauges, wells and pipeline locations, and vegetation ...


6. Conservation Reserve Program Database [USDA0428]
The "Conservation Reserve Program Database" provides information on U.S. lands undergoing conservation treatments. Data include number of contracts enrolled by fiscal year and sign-up period; average ...


7. Conservation Reserve Program Statistics [USDA0015]
The "Conservation Reserve Program Statistics" database contains information on the number of contracts and acres enrolled by fiscal year from 1986 to 1993 and for sign-up periods 1 to 12. It also ...


8. East European Situation and Outlook Tables [USDA0031]
The East European Situation and Outlook Tables contains data on major economic indicators, gross and net hard currency debt, grain imports and exports, area and production of major crops, livestock ...


9. LANDFIRE National Products [LANDFIRE]
LANDFIRE National products comprise a set of 20+ digital maps of vegetation composition and structure; wildland fuel (crown and surface); and current departure from simulated historical vegetation ...


10. USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Cropland Data Layer for the United States [USDA_NASS_CROPLAND]
The USDA, NASS Cropland Data Layer (CDL) is a raster, geo-referenced, crop-specific land cover data layer with a ground resolution of 30 meters. The CDL is produced using satellite imagery from the ...


11. Developing Rapid Instrumental Methods for Measurement of Soil Quality Parameters [USDA.ARS.NRI.ECL.RapidMeasure]
(adapted from project description) Problem: The need to assess impact of conventional and sustainable agricultural practices on soil quality requires development of routine procedures that can rapidly ...


12. Influence of Tillage Management on Soil Quality and Fate of Agricultural Nitrogen [USDA.ARS.NRI.ECL.TillMngt]
(adapted from project description) Problem: The use of no-tillage cropping systems has increased as their advantages in sustainable crop production have been documented. This includes better maintenance ...


13. USDA Crop Explorer: Global Crop Condition and Commodity Production Analysis from the USDA/Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (PECAD) [USDA0557]
The Production Estimates and Crop Assessment Division (PECAD) of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is responsible for global crop condition assessments and estimates of area, yield, ...


14. MODIS Active Fire Detections for North America [USDA_modisfire]
This coverage represents year 2004 MODIS fire detections for the geographic area covering the lower 48 states and Alaska. The detections are obtained using both TERRA MODIS ...


15. State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) Database [MSU0035]
The "State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) Database" is one of three soil geographic databases established by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation ...


16. Agricultural Online Access (AGRICOLA) Database [USDA_AGRICOLA]
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production ...


17. Analysis Products on Cropland [NRCS_NRI_SotL_CROPLAND]
The maps using data from the preliminary 1997 NRI for croplands deal with a variety of areas. These areas range from specific cultivated croplands, to erosion on cropland and changes in cropland. ...


18. Assessment of the Impact of Environmental Stresses on the Health of Agroecosystems [USDA0510]
The purpose of the "Assessment of the Impact of Environmental Stresses on the Health of Agroecosystems" dataset is to establish a protocol for assessing the health of agroecosystems. ...


19. Biophysical Resource Appraisal Support System (BRASS), Soil and Climate Data Worldwide [USDA0190]
This database management system is comprised of spatial and tabular data of global soils and climate data sets. A model estimates soil moisture and temperature regimes. A five minute ...


20. Use of Coupled Wetland-Agricultural Ecosystem for Water Quality Remediation [USDA0535]
"Use of Coupled Wetland-Agricultural Ecosystem for Water Quality Remediation" examines the water quality benefits that can be achieved in a coupled wetland-agriculture ecosystem ...


21. World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities [USDA0508]
"World Food Aid Needs and Availabilities" is a full-text report that is a study of world food aid needs, defined as amount of grain needed to fill the gap between what a country can produce ...


22. Core Database for the Ohio Management Systems Evaluation Area (MSEA) Regional Data Set [USDA0074]
For evaluating farming systems on a regional scale in terms of their impact on water quality, productivity, and profitability. Climate: hourly rainfall, temperature, humidity, radiation ...


23. Alaska State Soil Survey Database (SSSD); NRCS [EARTH_LAND_SCS_AK_Soil_DB]
The Alaska State Soil Survey Database (SSSD) is a digital data set with all attribute data for twelve (12) national cooperative soil survey projects throughout Alaska. They include physical ...


24. Soil Survey Digitized Maps; USDA/SCS [EARTH_LAND_SCS_AK_Soil_Maps]
Soil Survey Digitized Maps come from digital data sets. This data set includes digitized soil survey maps of Alaska, rectified to orthophoto base using the DLG-3 format. The data ...


25. Major Land Uses in the United States [USDA0061]
The Economic Research Service (ERS) has been a source of major land use estimates in the United States for over 50 years, and the related U.S. cropland used for crops series dates back to 1910. The ...


26. Forest Land Distribution Data for the United States: USDA, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, Starkville MS [USDA_FSSFES_FOREST]
Data and metadata are provided for the Continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii. Information on Forset type and density are provided in the data sets which are available in GIF image format, ...


27. Major Land Resource Areas of the U.S. (MLRA) [MSU0026]
The Major Land Resource Areas of the U.S. (MLRA) contains natural resource information for the United States at a scale of 1:7,500,000. The MLRA and LRR (Land Resource Regions) boundaries are developed ...


28. Louisiana AgriClimatic Information System [USDA0125]
The "Louisiana AgriClimatic Information System" consists of 14 automated stations that collect hourly and daily air temperature, rainfall, solar radiation, photosynthetically active radiation, wind ...


29. Pigeon Roost Creek Data Base [USDA0090]
Document hydrology and sediment transport and characteristics of the water sheds. Collection Organization: USDA Agricultural Research Service Collection Methodology: Automatic (limited) recording ...


30. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Project [MSU0050]
The "Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Project" database includes summaries of the progress and completed research at land-grant universities, funded by the Cooperative State Research ...


31. USDA/ARS Water Database [MSU0041]
The "ARS Water Database" is a collection of rainfall and runoff data which have been collected by ARS for research in hydrologic processes which affect the conservation of natural resources in the ...


32. Washita Watershed Data Set [MSU0040]
The Little Washita River is a Red River basin tributary which is located in Grady and Caddo counties in the State of Oklahoma. The Washita Watershed Data Set contains a variety of data including rainfall, ...


33. Analysis Products on Soil Quality [NRCS_NRI_SotL_SOIL_QUALITY]
The Salinity Influenced Soils on Non-Federal Land, 1992 map shows soils considered 'Salinity Influenced' on all non-Federal land. One blue dot equals 10,000 acres of cropland, potential cropland, ...


34. Analysis Products on Soil and Soil Types [NRCS_NRI_SotL_SOIL_TYPE]
The maps on soils and soil types show percent of land area of specific soils - Alfisols Andisols Aridisols Entisols Gelisols Histosols Inceptisols Mollisols Oxisols Spodols Ultisols Vertisols There ...


35. Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) Data [USDA0085]
The purpose of the "Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER)" dataset is to understand the long-term processes responsible for the origin and sustainibility of shortgrass steppe systems. Collection ...


36. Soil Organic Matter Network, Arlington Plots Organic Matter, Wisconsin, USDA-ARS and University of Wisconsin [USDA.ARS.CPSWPRC.Arlington]
This experiment was established in 1958 and consists of a continuous corn system with various levels of nitrogen application. In the preceding 25 years, there was continuous corn with residue burning. ...


37. Soil Organic Matter Network, Lancaster Rotation, Wisconsin, USDA-ARS and University of Wisconsin [USDA.ARS.CPSWPRC.Lancaster]
The Lancaster Rotation, Wisconsin, legume cereal rotation began in 1967. The area is characterized by rolling to hilly landscapes, with soil developed in loess deposits of variable thickness over ...


38. Determination of the Environmental Fate and Transport of Methyl Bromide [USDA0574]
The primary objective of "Determination of the Environmental Fate and Transport of Methyl Bromide" is to determine soil reactions, the transport characteristics, volatile emissions and mass partitioning ...


39. Pesticide and Water Management Systems to Minimize Contamination of Water and Air With Pesticides [USDA0521]
"Pesticide and Water Management Systems to Minimize Contamination of Water and Air With Pesticides" is a dataset that contains information dealing with irrigation and pesticide management practices. ...


40. Plant Systems for Aquacultural Waste Treatment [USDA0520]
"Plant Systems for Aquacultural Waste Treatment" provides information that aids in the development of fruit and greenhouse crop production systems that utilize aquaculture effluent for growth and ...


41. PLANTS Identification-Wetland Monocots Key On-line [USDA_NRCS_monocots]
A draft interactive key and plant character data set for U.S. wetland monocots is available for testing on-line or by downloading the PLANTS Identification-Wetland Monocots application. Unlike a ...


42. Heat and Oxygen Stresses and Rotations as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide in Crop Production [USDA0527]
The objective of "Heat and Oxygen Stresses and Rotations as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide in Crop Production" is to characterize temperatures, redox potentials, and rotations that will control undesireable ...


43. Jornada Experimental Range Exclosures A and B [MSU0016]
The purpose of the Jornada Experimental Range Exclosures A and B data set is to determine the effects of livestock exclusion upon the vegetation on two soil types on the Jornada Experimental Range ...


44. Long-term Central Hardwood Vegetation and Wildlife Studies [USDA0151]
To measure response of forest vegetation, soils, and animal population to environmental conditions and to forest management practices. The dataset includes ecology/silviculture/growth and yield/wildlife/soils ...


45. Ecoregions of the United States and the World USDA/FS/IMI [USDA_ECOREGIONS]
"Description of the Ecoregions of the United States" is a volume that was originally published in 1978 to provide a general description of the ecosystem geography of the Nation as shown on the 1976 ...


46. Alabama Cotton Data 1987-1988 from USDA ARS [Cotton_USDA_Alabama]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Beltsville, Maryland has been working with various Universities collecting data for use with cotton model development. ...


47. Initial Soil Data Collected From Lubbock, Texas - 1994, File bfcon94.int [BF4132F_INIT_SOIL]
Initial soil data for cotton data sets collected in the Lubbock, Texas area. The data measures the nitrate(lb. N/a), ammonia(lb. N/a), organic matter(%) and soil water capacity(%). The actual filename ...


48. Analysis Products on Water Quality [NRCS_NRI_SotL_WATER_QUALITY]
All of the maps, figures and tables for NRI's water quality are taken from publications. Many of the publications discuss the use of fertilizer, pesticide, or manure. Several of the maps are taken ...


49. Effect of Drought Stress on Oilseed Quality [USDA0077]
"Effect of Drought Stress on Oilseed Quality" is a complex of datasets on a series of experiments over the last 5 years of research on drought stress. Datasets include: 1. agronomic: growth, flowering, ...


50. Mineralization of Organic Nitrogen in Soil Under Plow and No-tillage Management [USDA.ARS.NRI.ECL.MinOrgN]
(adapted from Project summary) Problem: Cultivation of soils has caused large decreases in content of soil organic matter and this has raised concerns about sustainble use of agricultural lands ...


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