Title:

Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) invasive plant species data from the eastern United States, intersected with wildland-urban interface (WUI) status and land cover context

Author(s):

Potter, Kevin M.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Iannone, Basil V.; Guo, Qinfeng; Fei, Songlin

Publication Year:

2024

How to Cite:

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Potter, Kevin M.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Iannone, Basil V.; Guo, Qinfeng; Fei, Songlin. 2024. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) invasive plant species data from the eastern United States, intersected with wildland-urban interface (WUI) status and land cover context. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0033

Abstract:

Non-native invasive plants are a persistent and growing threat to U.S. forests. Meanwhile, the amount of forest within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is increasing, with the expectation that the disturbance caused by housing and the establishment of landscaping plants may enable the spread of non-native plants. This data publication contains combined invasive plant information from approximately 45,000 forest inventory plots (collected between 2010 and 2018); WUI spatial data from 1990, 2000, and 2010; and national land cover data from 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 to test four hypotheses: (1) WUI forests are more invaded than non-WUI forests; (2) WUI intermix forests (where houses mingle with forest) are more invaded than interface forests (where housing abuts forest); (3) WUI forests experience a delay in invasion (i.e., invasion debt) following housing development; and (4) the invasion of WUI forests is associated with disturbance and propagule pressure (based on land cover context). The resulting tabular data include: standard plot information such as location, elevation, aspect, slope, etc.; binary flags denoting if the plot was WUI, housing mingled with forest (intermix), housing that abuts forest (interface), etc. in 1990, 2000, and 2010; information regarding the number of tree species and number of invasive species on the plot; and the percent of agricultural, developed, and forest landcover within 81 hectare window around the specified FIA plot in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016.

Keywords:

biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Forest & Plant Health; Invasive species; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Resource inventory; invasive species; wildland-urban interface; Forest Inventory and Analysis; land cover; eastern United States; Alabama; Arkansas; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Nebraska; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Ohio; Oklahoma; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia; West Virginia; Wisconsin

Related publications:

• Potter, Kevin M.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Iannone, Basil V.; Guo, Qinfeng; Fei, Songlin. 2024. Forest plant invasions in the eastern United States: evidence of invasion debt in the wildland-urban interface. Landscape Ecology. 39: 207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01985-y

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