{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Roy E Petrakis", "hasEmail": "mailto:rpetrakis@usgs.gov"}, "description": "Watershed pairing is an approach used to assess effects of restoration on a landscape by comparing conditions across a treatment watershed and a control watershed, and then quantifying the differences. When the watersheds are statistically paired, the control watershed can serve as a baseline of conditions compared to the treatment watershed. \nWe apply a watershed pairing analysis across a series of five watersheds within a research ranch in Baja California Sur, Mexico. We use a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to develop the watershed boundaries. We then collected a series of structural and biophysical  traits to characterize the watersheds. Finally, we applied a hierarchical clustering analysis to identify the paired watersheds. \nThis data release consists of a shapefile of the five watersheds with attributes for each of the structural and biophysical traits, in addition to an attribute identifying the direct pairs.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.5066/P14VSM4G", "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.6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0", "keyword": ["Baja California", "Baja California Sur", "Mexico", "USGS:6643d150d34e1955f5a426e0", "biophysical traits", "correlation", "environment", "geographic information systems", "hierarchical", "hierarchical clustering", "remediation", "remote sensing", "structural traits", "watershed management", "watershed pairing"], "modified": "2024-08-16T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-110.1309, 23.6627, -109.8452, 24.1211", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Paired Watershed and Characteristic Trait Data for the Los Planes Basin Research Ranch Watersheds: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release"}