BLM - National Invasive Species Information Management System - Plants
Citation
Reitsma J (2023). BLM - National Invasive Species Information Management System - Plants. United States Geological Survey. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/y4xndh accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-09-01.Description
The Bureau of Land Management's National Invasive Species Information Management System (NISIMS) is designed to collect field data and store it in a standard database to allow for data sharing and reporting at the local, state and national levels. At this time, the system reports and tracks weed infestations only, Future versions of the system will report and track infestations by all taxa including weeds, birds, fish, and algae. The system also reports and tracks treatments of these invasive weed species infestations on public lands. The tools are based on the use of the BLM system of Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) Architecture approved nationally in 2003. It also depends on the Geospatial Services Strategic Plan approved nationally by BLM management in 2008. It is the first BLM system with seamless tools to collect scientific data in remote locations throughout all BLM lands and to feed that data regularly into national, official BLM geospatial database. Though the infestation data included here represents a snapshot of actual infestations of the individual species, it doesn't represent the total infestations of the particular species. Only a fraction of the lands the BLM administers has been inventoried, and not all of that data has been brought into NISIMS.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Management areas throughout the US owned by the Bureau of Land Management.Sampling
Methodology and required software are described here: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/weeds/nisims/What_Contractors_and_Partners_Need_and_How_to_Get_it.htmlQuality Control
The user manual describes the qa/qc steps taken by participating weed managers, here: http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Planning_and_Renewable_Resources/nisims.Par.39684.File.dat/NISIMS_2_User_Guide_Public.pdfMethod steps
- As per the user manual.
Additional info
During processing of the dataset where percent cover=0, occurrence status was interpreted as 'absent'.Taxonomic Coverages
101,203 observations of 331 unique taxa.
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Plantaecommon name: plants rank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
longitude -77.19246 to -150.7504
latitude 31.88719 to 67.3851
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
John Reitsmaoriginator
position: GIS Coordinator
Bureau of Land Management
National Operations Center, Denver Federal Center, Building 50
Denver
80225-0047
Colorado
US
email: jreitsma@blm.gov
homepage: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/weeds.html
John Reitsma
metadata author
position: GIS Coordinator
Bureau of Land Management
National Operations Center, Denver Federal Center, Building 50
Denver
80225-0047
Colorado
US
Telephone: +1 (202) 912-7226
email: jreitsma@blm.gov
homepage: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/weeds.html
John Reitsma
administrative point of contact
position: GIS Coordinator
Bureau of Land Management
National Operations Center, Denver Federal Center, Building 50
Denver
80225-0047
Colorado
US
Telephone: +1 (202) 912-7226
email: jreitsma@blm.gov
homepage: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/weeds.html
Annie Simpson
administrative point of contact
position: Biologist and Information Scientist
U.S. Geological Survey
email: asimpson@usgs.gov