Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC, Jamestown) | Format: URL
www.npwrc.usgs.gov — Alien Plants Ranking System (APRS) is a computer-implemented system to help land managers make difficult decisions concerning invasive nonnative plants. Land managers must focus their limited resources, targeting the species that cause major impacts or threats to resources within their management, or the species that impede attainment of More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC, Flagstaff) | Format: URL
sbsc.wr.usgs.gov — The purpose of this research project is to document vegetation change in the arid lands of the southwestern United States. The project compiles data on past and present plant distributions. These plant distributions are combined with data on past, present, and future climates to predict future plant distributions. The project requires four major More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC, Flagstaff) | Format: URL
sbsc.wr.usgs.gov — The Internet Map Server (IMS) visually displays the non-native, invasive plants (weed) occurrences in the current (2003) SWEMP database. An IMS allows you to interactively draw, query, and print maps. The SWEMP IMS was developed from ESRI's ArcIMS presentation product.The Southwest Exotic Plant Information Clearinghouse is a cooperative effort More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Florida Integrated Science Center (FISC, Gainesville) | Format: URL
fl.biology.usgs.gov — Invasive nonindigenous species are important because they threaten native communities, alter habitats, and can have significant economic impacts. In aquatic environments, invasive species can be especially noxious because native species have few options for escaping direct interactions such as predation and competition for habitat and food. This More...
Publisher: NBII | Format: URL
www.nbii.gov — Natural resource managers face complex decisions that require a clear understanding of the status of wildlife populations and their habitats. Monitoring is key to making effective management decisions and evaluating the outcomes of those decisions. The goal of NRMP is to improve the accessibility of monitoring efforts to resource managers to aid More...
Publisher: USGS | Science Center: Fort Collins Science Center (FORT, Ft. Collins) | Format: URL
www.fort.usgs.gov — Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership (NRMP) is a collaborative effort by the natural resource management community to improve monitoring efforts in order to support effective evaluation and decision-making by sharing information on monitoring projects and protocols. The Natural Resource Monitoring Partnership was built for easy access to More...