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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 101,203 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Reitsma J (2021): BLM - National Invasive Species Information Management System - Plants. v1.2. United States Geological Survey. Dataset/Occurrence. https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=blm_nisims&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cc63e998-fe1b-468d-94f1-6afcf494d0e4. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; invasive plants; invasive species; words as described here: http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Planning_and_Renewable_Resources/nisims.Par.31448.File.dat/NISIMS_2_Data%20Dictionary_Public.pdf; Metadata
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- GIS Coordinator
- National Operations Center, Denver Federal Center, Building 50
Geographic Coverage
longitude -77.19246 to -150.7504 latitude 31.88719 to 67.3851
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [31.887, -150.75], North East [67.385, -77.192] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
101,203 observations of 331 unique taxa.
| Kingdom | Plantae (plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-12-31 / 2019-01-30 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Bureau of Land Management Invasive Species Information Management System |
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| Funding | BLM |
| Study Area Description | Federally owned lands of the Bureau of Land Management |
| Design Description | Data is collected using BLM weed monitoring protocol |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Sampling Methods
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
| Study Extent | Management areas throughout the US owned by the Bureau of Land Management. |
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| 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 step description:
- As per the user manual.
Additional Metadata
During processing of the dataset where percent cover=0, occurrence status was interpreted as 'absent'.
| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.15468/y4xndh |
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| cc63e998-fe1b-468d-94f1-6afcf494d0e4 | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=blm_nisims |