Stream Health and Agricultural Conservation Data from 31 Sites in Southwest Virginia

31 sites in the upper Tennessee River basin of southwest Virginia, USA, provide data on the indirect effects of agricultural conservation practices on stream health. The dataset includes measurements of water quality, instream habitat, and macroinvertebrate communities, collected by researcher Joshua Mouser. It was last updated on 2026-05-28.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between conservation practice density and water quality parameters like total suspended solids, nitrogen, and phosphorus.
• Analyzing the effects of instream habitat conditions, such as substrate embeddedness and bank stability, on macroinvertebrate community composition.
• Investigating threshold responses of stream biota to gradients of agricultural land use and conservation practice implementation.

Strengths

• Data from 31 spatially distributed sites representing analytical gradients of land use and conservation practice density.
• Includes multiple data types: water quality, physical habitat, and biological community data.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.

Limitations

• The dataset is small at 106.1 KB, indicating limited scope and sample size.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026-05-28).

Provenance

Source

Joshua Mouser via figshare

Collection Method

Field data collection from 31 sites in the upper Tennessee River basin.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 18:16:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Upper Tennessee River basin, southwest Virginia, USA