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Oliver, Samantha; University of Wisconsin
Soranno, Patricia; Michigan State University
Fergus, C.; Michigan State University
Wagner, Tyler; Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Webster, Katherine; Trinity College
Scott, Caren; Michigan State University
Winslow, Luke; University of Wisconsin
Downing, John; Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Stanley, Emily; University of Wisconsin

This dataset includes predicted and observed values of maximum depth for lakes in the upper Midwest and northeast United States. All observed values came from LAGOS (LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database), an integrated database of lake ecosystems (Soranno et al. 2015). LAGOS contains a complete census of lakes great then or equal to 4 ha with corresponding geospatial information for a 17-state region of the U.S., and a subset of the lakes has observational data on morphometry and chemistry. Approximately 100 different sources of data were compiled for this dataset and were mostly generated by government agencies (state, federal, tribal) and universities. Here, observed maximum depth values (n = 8164) were used to train and validate a predictive mixed effects model for lake depth using terrestrial and lake morphology as predictors (Oliver et al., submitted). Predicted values (n = 50 607) generated by the model had a root mean squared error of 7.1 m.

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