Baseline Inventory and Non-Native Plants of the Kenai Peninsula: Summary of a Two-Year Roadside Inventory (Dec 2005; PDF | I MB)
Homer Soil and Water Conservation District (Alaska).
CalWeedMapper
California Invasive Plant Council.
CalWeedMapper is
a new Web site for mapping invasive plant spread
and planning regional
management. Users
generate a report
for their region that synthesizes information into
three types of strategic opportunities: surveillance,
eradication and containment. Land managers can use
these reports to prioritize their invasive plant
management, to coordinate at the landscape level
(county or larger) and to justify funding requests.
For some species, CalWeedMapper also provides maps
of suitable range that show where a plant might be
able to grow in the future. The system was developed
by the California
Invasive Plant Council and is designed
to stay current by allowing users to edit data.
Conservation of Arizona Upland Sonoran Desert Habitat:
Status and Threats of Buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare) in Arizona
and Sonora - Final Report (May 25, 2006; PDF | 1.5 MB)
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Funded by the National Plant Conservation Initiative and administered through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, project #2004-0013-003.
Early Detection & Distribution
Mapping System (EDDMapS)
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive
Species and Ecosystem Health.
Provides distribution data at the State and County level and point locations.
See the section Who's Using It? for mapping distribution in
various areas of the country. Includes:
Early
Detection & Distribution Mapping System
(EDDMapS) - Alaska
Provides distribution data and abundance of exotic and invasive plant species
in Alaska.
Early
Detection & Distribution Mapping System
(EDDMapS) - Mid-Atlantic Early Detection Network
(MAEDN)
MAEDN is a vast network of land managers, field experts, citizen scientists,
naturalists, gardeners and others interested in documenting invasive plant
occurrences in the mid-Atlantic region for the purposes of early detection,
improved management and better coordination. The region includes Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and
the District of Columbia.
Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
USDA. FS.
North Research Station.
The Northern Research Station FIA unit is responsible
for creating and maintaining a comprehensive forest
inventory for 24 States. FIA collects, analyzes,
reports, and distributes data about the Nation's forests.
See A
Guide to Nonnative Invasive Plants Inventoried in
the North by Forest Inventory and Analysis (Sep
2009)
Ecological
Monitoring / Terrestial
Monitoring Protocol: Exotic and Invasive Plants
Environment Canada.
IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas and The Story Behind the IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas (Revised Sep 2001)
University of Florida. Florida Cooperative Extensions Service. Agronomy Department.
Introduction
ot Mapping Noxious Weeds (Revised 2001; PDF | 435 KB)
Montana State University. Extension Service.
Invasive Plant Mapping: Southeast United States
Princeton University.
Invasions
By Alien Plants Have Been Mapped In European Union (Jan
27, 2009)
ScienceDaily.
Biological invasions are one of the major
threats to biodiversity and in many cases they
have considerable impact on economy and human
health. For their effective management it is
important to understand which areas and ecosystems
are at the highest risk of being invaded. The first
map of the level of alien plant invasions in
European Union (PDF | 1 MB) was published
in the Wiley-Blackwell journal Diversity and
Distributions.
Inventory
and Survey Resources and Monitoring
Resources
Montana State University. Center for Invasive Plant Management.
Monitoring
Better than EDRR for Managing Many Invasive Plant Populations (May
22, 2009)
Montana State University.
Land managers may benefit from spending more time monitoring invasive plants
to identify those
that pose the greatest threat, according to a recent article in Invasive
Plant Science and Management. The article, "The
Rationale for Monitoring Invasive Plant Populations as a Crucial Step for Management
(Abstract)," relates results from a study by Montana State University
researchers.
Nebraska Mapping programs:
- NRD Mapping Program
(Eastern Nebraska)
NRD MapMaker allows you to create rich custom maps in your web
browser from a variety of geographic data - without the need to
purchase expensive software. MapMaker is powered by GIS (Geographic
Information System) databases compiled by a variety of local, state
and Federal agencies.
- Nebraska Weed
Control Association Online Weed Management
System
A state-wide mapping system for all 93 counties
in Nebraska. This mapping system creates a
state-wide database of invasive plants information
and maps them using ArcIMS. Each county weed control authority
updates the information directly on the website from current inspections.
Note, this may be the first state-wide mapping
program of this type.
- Lancaster County Noxious Weed Infestations
This map shows the
noxious weed infestations found by the Lancaster County Weed Control
Authority in the past year.
New York Metropolitan
Flora Project (NYMF) / Press
Release: Some Plants Native to NYC Area Have
Become Locally Extinct As New Flora Has Moved
In (Apr 5, 2010)
Brooklyn Botantic Garden.
Dozens of flora native to the New York region face extinction, a result of urban
development and the encroachment of invasive plants from foreign lands, scientists
from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden report. Hoping to revive plants facing extinction,
scientists recently completed a 20-year project mapping species in every county
within a 50-mile radius of New York, providing detailed information on the health
of more than 15,000 native and nonnative species. See the for more information.
North
American Invasive Plant Mapping Standards
North American Weed Management Association.
Endorsed by: Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds.
Survey
of Invasive Plants Impacting National Parks in
the United States (Jan 5, 2009; PDF | 149 KB) / Invasive
Plant Atlas National Parks
University of Georgia. Center for
Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Prepared by Jil M. Swearingen, National Park Service,
Center for Urban Ecology.
Tamarix Cooperative Mapping Initiative (T-Map)
DOI. USGS. Fort Collins Science Center. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.
Weed Manager's Guide to Remote Sensing and GIS
USDA. FS. Remote Sensing Applications Center.
Weed
Watchers: A Volunteer-Based Invasive Plant Early Detection Program
DOI. NPS.
Inventory & Monitoring Program. San Fransisco
Bay Area Network.
Wilderness
Invaders Surveys & Database
Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute.
In an effort to collect
baseline data on the presence, distribution, threat,
and control of non-native species, the Leopold
Institute has initiated two projects. The first
was a survey of exotic plants in all federal wilderness
areas which was conducted in 1997-98. In 2001 a
survey was conducted of invasive and exotic species
in National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Areas. |
