{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Eric Lund", "hasEmail": "mailto:eric.lund@state.mn.us"}, "description": "The Long-Term Resource Monitoring element (LTRM) of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration program (UMRR) has conducted aquatic vegetation and water quality surveys in several navigation pools since the mid 1990\u2019s. Over a 20-year period (1998-2017), the off-channel (i.e. backwater) areas in upper Pool 4 remained chronically turbid and supported a limited submersed macrophyte community with high between-year variability in the proportion of sites where submersed plants were observed. Water surface elevation and discharge rates also fluctuated substantially within- and between-years in the upper pool. Pearson correlation analysis indicated that between-year change in the proportion of sites where submersed macrophytes are observed is correlated to the number of high summer discharge days 1 year prior (r = -0.48); the number of low summer discharge days during the current year (r =0.46) and one year prior (r = 0.62); minimum discharge (r = 0.52) and the duration that depth at vegetation sample sites was within the estimated photic zone (i.e. a metric that reflects a combination of water clarity and water surface elevation) during the current summer (r = 0.63). Conditions more than one year prior and during the other seasons (winter, spring, fall) exhibited little correlation to subsequent fluctuations in the prevalence of submersed macrophytes.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P9WEK9X0", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5dab3da5e4b09fd3b0c9d21f.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_5dab3da5e4b09fd3b0c9d21f", "keyword": ["Backwater", "Discharge", "Macrophyte", "Mississippi River", "Photic Zone", "Pool 4", "Submersed Aquatic Vegetation", "USGS:5dab3da5e4b09fd3b0c9d21f", "Upper MIssissippi River", "Upper Mississippi River", "Upper Pool 4", "biota"], "modified": "2021-04-22T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-92.5502, 44.4578, -92.2083, 44.5880", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Upper Mississippi River-Pool 4 Time Lag Investigation of Physical Conditions and Submersed Macrophyte Prevalence: Data"}