Scripts written to support the following publication -- H.E. Lowman, R.K. Shriver, R.O. Hall Jr., J.W. Harvey, P. Savoy, C.B. Yackulic, J.R.Blaszczak. 2024. Macroscale controls determine the recovery of river ecosystem productivity following flood disturbances. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2307065121
Please visit the Zenodo webpage for this project to access the most relevant and annotated versions of data and code - https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10455822
Data for this project were downloaded from multiple published data sources including:
Appling, A.P., Read, J.S., Winslow, L.A., Arroita, M., Bernhardt, E.S., Griffiths, N.A., Hall, R.O., Jr., Harvey, J.W., Heffernan, J.B., Stanley, E.H., Stets, E.G., and Yackulic, C.B., 2018, Metabolism estimates for 356 U.S. rivers (2007-2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70864KX.
Blaszczak, J.R., Koenig, L.E., Mejia, F.H., Gómez-Gener, L., Dutton, C.L., Carter, A.M., Grimm, N.B., Harvey, J.W., Helton, A.M., Cohen, M.J., Anyanwu, E.D., Pokrovsky, O.S., Krickov, I.V., Manasypov, R.M., Vorobyev, S.N., and Serikova, S., 2021, Distribution, frequency, and global extent of hypoxia in rivers: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99X6SIR.
Bernhardt, E.S., Savoy, P., Vlah, M.J., Appling, A.P., Koenig, L.E., Hall Jr., R.O., Arroita, M., Blaszczak, J.R., Carter, A.C., Cohen, M., Harvey, J.W., Heffernan, J.B., Helton, A.M., Hosen, J.D., Kirk, L., McDowell, W.H., Stanley, E.H., Yackulic, C., and Grimm, N.B., 2022 Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119, e2121976119. (Data available at https://github.com/streampulse/metabolism_synthesis)
Note: Daily discharge data for each river from 1970-01-01 to 2020-12-31 and dissolved nutrient data for available rivers from 2007-01-01 to 2017-12-31 measured by the USGS were downloaded using the 'dataRetrieval' package in R.
Please direct any data requests or questions regarding these analyses to Heili Lowman (h dot lowman at unr dot edu).