This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

USGS scientists surveyed for American pikas (Ochotona princeps) at sites of documented occurrence before 1980 to evaluate persistance throughout Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, USA, 2015-2017. Scientists also surveyed for pikas and characterized talus structure and temperature to map talus and identify micro-refugia associated with temperature within a focal study in western Montana, USA, 2015-2016. Data include geographic coordinates of detected pikas, environmental characteristics at survey sites, measures of rocks within talus, and temperature recorded hourly with LogTag sensors distributed above and below talus for 1 year.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

The focus of this dataset is soil temperature collected on four mountain summits in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA from 2003 through 2018. Two summit sites were established in 2003 on Dancing Lady and Bison Mountain, east of the continental divide. Two additional summit sites were established in 2004 on Pitamakin and Mt. Seward, also east of the continental divide. These four summit sites comprise a target region set up in accordance with the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA). GLORIA was initiated by the University of Vienna in 2000 and protocols for operating target regions have been refined and revised since then. Sixty-nine GLORIA target regions now exist throughout the world; 16 are in the U.S.A. Current protocols are available at: https://gloria.ac.at/downloads/manual. Along with the plant surveys which took place every five years, temperature loggers were buried 10cm into the substrate on each aspect and on the highest point of each summit and set to record at one hour intervals. Some loggers were lost or their batteries failed before being replaced by new loggers but other logger locations recorded near continuous soil temperature readings since 2003. This will enable on site climate data to be used in analyzing the alpine plant data by looking for snow cover patterns and timing and length of growing season. These loggers were downloaded and replaced every 3-5 years and are currently still on site. A plant survey and temperature data recovery are planned for summer 2019.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.

This data release supports the referenced publication 'Climate futures for lizards and snakes in western North America may result in new species management issues' in this metadata record. Data included in this release includes raster data outputs and resulting summaries from the analyses, described in the processing steps of this metadata record. In summary this release includes information for 129 species and 1 genera of snakes and lizards in western North America. There are 7 rasters for each species and 6 summary rasters for the entire dataset, to total 916 rasters. For each species, rasters display a projected climate-niche at 6 time scenarios and 1 comparison between two scenarios. The summary rasters display calculated richness generated from the individual species rasters for a given time scenario. In addition to the raster data, each species includes an illustration of the comparison raster. The summary data files for this dataset include .csv files that describe the extent and changes of the projected climate-niche space.