Alewife habitat
habitat_ale.RdA dataset containing the surface area of Alewife habitat and features for individual flow line segments or waterbodies (lakes) comprising habitat units in Atlantic coast drainages.
Format
A data frame with 255,133 observations of 7 variables:
REACHCODECode used to identify individual habitat units
Hab_sqkmSurface area of habitat in square kilometers
LatitudeLatitude at downstream terminus of habitat unit
StateGovernmental unit at downstream terminus of habitat unit
River_hucName of river to which habitat unit belongs, derived from hydrologic unit codes
POPGenetic reporting group geographic region within which habitat unit falls
DamOrderOrder of dam at downstream terminus of habitat unit. Cumulatively assigned such that all habitat units upstream of a given dam all have dam_order >= 1
Examples
head(habitat_ale)
#> REACHCODE Hab_sqkm Latitude State River_huc POP DamOrder
#> 1 USA-1 0.122412805 44.06767 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0
#> 2 USA-2 0.018098687 44.01012 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0
#> 3 USA-3 0.003016216 44.10005 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0
#> 4 USA-4 0.146205559 44.15900 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0
#> 5 USA-5 0.001310855 44.09282 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0
#> 6 USA-6 0.016050529 44.09014 ME Abagadasset River NNE 0