BLM - National Invasive Species Information Management System - Plants

John Reitsma

doi:10.15468/y4xndh

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 2024-12-14.

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.html

Quality 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.pdf

Method 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.

Plantae
common name: plants rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

longitude -77.19246 to -150.7504 latitude 31.88719 to 67.3851

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

John Reitsma
originator
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