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Ibáñez I, Petri L, Barnett DT, Beaury EM, Blumenthal DM, Corbin JD, Diez J, Dukes JS, Early R, Pearse IS, Sorte CJB, Vilà M, Bradley B. Combining local, landscape, and regional geographies to assess plant community vulnerability to invasion impact. Ecol Appl 2023; 33:e2821. [PMID: 36806368 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
Invasive species science has focused heavily on the invasive agent. However, management to protect native species also requires a proactive approach focused on resident communities and the features affecting their vulnerability to invasion impacts. Vulnerability is likely the result of factors acting across spatial scales, from local to regional, and it is the combined effects of these factors that will determine the magnitude of vulnerability. Here, we introduce an analytical framework that quantifies the scale-dependent impact of biological invasions on native richness from the shape of the native species-area relationship (SAR). We leveraged newly available, biogeographically extensive vegetation data from the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network to assess plant community vulnerability to invasion impact as a function of factors acting across scales. We analyzed more than 1000 SARs widely distributed across the USA along environmental gradients and under different levels of non-native plant cover. Decreases in native richness were consistently associated with non-native species cover, but native richness was compromised only at relatively high levels of non-native cover. After accounting for variation in baseline ecosystem diversity, net primary productivity, and human modification, ecoregions that were colder and wetter were most vulnerable to losses of native plant species at the local level, while warmer and wetter areas were most susceptible at the landscape level. We also document how the combined effects of cross-scale factors result in a heterogeneous spatial pattern of vulnerability. This pattern could not be predicted by analyses at any single scale, underscoring the importance of accounting for factors acting across scales. Simultaneously assessing differences in vulnerability between distinct plant communities at local, landscape, and regional scales provided outputs that can be used to inform policy and management aimed at reducing vulnerability to the impact of plant invasions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Inés Ibáñez
- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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- USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources & Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, USA
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter Penryn Campus, Penryn, UK
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Tang B, Kamakura RP, Barnett DT, Clark JS. Learning from monitoring networks: Few-large vs. many-small plots and multi-scale analysis. Front Ecol Evol 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1114569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
Abstract
In order to learn about broad scale ecological patterns, data from large-scale surveys must allow us to either estimate the correlations between the environment and an outcome and/or accurately predict ecological patterns. An important part of data collection is the sampling effort used to collect observations, which we decompose into two quantities: the number of observations or plots (n) and the per-observation/plot effort (E; e.g., area per plot). If we want to understand the relationships between predictors and a response variable, then lower model parameter uncertainty is desirable. If the goal is to predict a response variable, then lower prediction error is preferable. We aim to learn if and when aggregating data can help attain these goals. We find that a small sample size coupled with large observation effort coupled (few large) can yield better predictions when compared to a large number of observations with low observation effort (many small). We also show that the combination of the two values (n and E), rather than one alone, has an impact on parameter uncertainty. In an application to Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data, we model the tree density of selected species at various amounts of aggregation using linear regression in order to compare the findings from simulated data to real data. The application supports the theoretical findings that increasing observational effort through aggregation can lead to improved predictions, conditional on the thoughtful aggregation of the observational plots. In particular, aggregations over extremely large and variable covariate space may lead to poor prediction and high parameter uncertainty. Analyses of large-range data can improve with aggregation, with implications for both model evaluation and sampling design: testing model prediction accuracy without an underlying knowledge of the datasets and the scale at which predictor variables operate can obscure meaningful results.
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Meier CL, Thibault KM, Barnett DT. Spatial and temporal sampling strategy connecting
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Terrestrial Observation System protocols. Ecosphere 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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- Courtney L. Meier
- National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle Boulder Colorado USA
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- National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle Boulder Colorado USA
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Petri L, Beaury EM, Corbin J, Peach K, Sofaer H, Pearse IS, Early R, Barnett DT, Ibáñez I, Peet RK, Schafale M, Wentworth TR, Vanderhorst JP, Zaya DN, Spyreas G, Bradley BA. SPCIS: Standardized Plant Community with Introduced Status database. Ecology 2023; 104:e3947. [PMID: 36494323 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
The movement of plant species across the globe exposes native communities to new species introductions. While introductions are pervasive, two aspects of variability underlie patterns and processes of biological invasions at macroecological scales. First, only a portion of introduced species become invaders capable of substantially impacting ecosystems. Second, species that do become invasive at one location may not be invasive in others; impacts depend on invader abundance and recipient species and conditions. Accounting for these phenomena is essential to accurately understand the patterns of plant invasion and explain the idiosyncratic results reflected in the literature on biological invasions. The lack of community-level richness and the abundance of data spanning broad scales and environmental conditions have until now hindered our understanding of invasions at a macroecological scale. To address this limitation, we leveraged quantitative surveys of plant communities in the USA and integrated and harmonized nine datasets into the Standardized Plant Community with Introduced Status (SPCIS) database. The database contains 14,056 unique taxa identified within 83,391 sampling units, of which 52.6% have at least one introduced species. The SPCIS database includes comparable information on plant species occurrence, abundance, and native status across the 50 U.S. States and Puerto Rico. SPCIS can be used to answer macro-scale questions about native plant communities and interactions with invasive plants. There are no copyright restrictions on the data, and we ask the users of this dataset to cite this paper, the respective paper(s) corresponding to the dataset sampling design (all references are provided in Data S1: Metadata S1: Class II-B-2), and the references described in Data S1: Metadata S1: Class III-B-4 as applicable to the dataset being utilized.
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- Laís Petri
- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Union College, Schenectady, New York, USA
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- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center, Hawaii National Park, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter Penryn Campus, Penryn, UK
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- Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program, Elkins, West Virginia, USA
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Barnett DT, Duffy PA, Schimel DS, Krauss RE, Irvine KM, Davis FW, Gross JE, Azuaje EI, Thorpe AS, Gudex‐Cross D, Patterson M, McKay JM, McCorkel JT, Meier CL. The terrestrial organism and biogeochemistry spatial sampling design for the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- David T. Barnett
- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Neptune and Company 1435 Garrison Street, Suite 100 Lakewood Colorado 80215 USA
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab 4800 Grove Drive Pasadena California 91109 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center US Geological Survey 2327 University Way Bozeman Montana 59715 USA
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- Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara 240 Bren Hall Santa Barbara California 93106 USA
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- Climate Change Response Program National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins Colorado 80525 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 8800 Greenbelt Road Greenbelt Maryland 20771 USA
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- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street, Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado Campus Box 450 Boulder Colorado 80309 USA
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Barnett DT, Adler PB, Chemel BR, Duffy PA, Enquist BJ, Grace JB, Harrison S, Peet RK, Schimel DS, Stohlgren TJ, Vellend M. The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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- David T. Barnett
- Battelle Memorial Institute 1685 38th Street Suite 100 Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center Utah State University 5230 Old Main Logan Utah 84322 USA
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- Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative 185 Center Street Jackson Wyoming 83001 USA
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- Neptune and Company Inc. 1435 Garrison Street Suite 100 Lakewood Colorado 80215 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Arizona PO Box 210088, 1041 E Lowell Street Tucson Arizona 85721 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center 700 Cajundome Boulevard Lafayette Louisiana 70506 USA
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy University of California Davis California 95616 USA
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- Department of Biology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina 27599‐3280 USA
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- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab 4800 Grove Drive Pasadena California 91109 USA
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- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University Fort Collins Colorado 80523‐1499 USA
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- Département de biologie Université de Sherbrooke 2500, boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke Quebec J1K 2R1 Canada
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Thorpe AS, Barnett DT, Elmendorf SC, Hinckley ES, Hoekman D, Jones KD, LeVan KE, Meier CL, Stanish LF, Thibault KM. Introduction to the sampling designs of the
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- Andrea S. Thorpe
- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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- The National Ecological Observatory Network 1685 38th Street Boulder Colorado 80301 USA
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Springer YP, Hoekman D, Johnson PTJ, Duffy PA, Hufft RA, Barnett DT, Allan BF, Amman BR, Barker CM, Barrera R, Beard CB, Beati L, Begon M, Blackmore MS, Bradshaw WE, Brisson D, Calisher CH, Childs JE, Diuk‐Wasser M, Douglass RJ, Eisen RJ, Foley DH, Foley JE, Gaff HD, Gardner SL, Ginsberg HS, Glass GE, Hamer SA, Hayden MH, Hjelle B, Holzapfel CM, Juliano SA, Kramer LD, Kuenzi AJ, LaDeau SL, Livdahl TP, Mills JN, Moore CG, Morand S, Nasci RS, Ogden NH, Ostfeld RS, Parmenter RR, Piesman J, Reisen WK, Savage HM, Sonenshine DE, Swei A, Yabsley MJ. Tick‐, mosquito‐, and rodent‐borne parasite sampling designs for the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Springer YP, Jarnevich CS, Barnett DT, Monaghan AJ, Eisen RJ. Modeling the Present and Future Geographic Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the Continental United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2015; 93:875-90. [PMID: 26217042 PMCID: PMC4596614 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
The Lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum L.) is the primary vector for pathogens of significant public health importance in North America, yet relatively little is known about its current and potential future distribution. Building on a published summary of tick collection records, we used an ensemble modeling approach to predict the present-day and future distribution of climatically suitable habitat for establishment of the Lone star tick within the continental United States. Of the nine climatic predictor variables included in our five present-day models, average vapor pressure in July was by far the most important determinant of suitable habitat. The present-day ensemble model predicted an essentially contiguous distribution of suitable habitat extending to the Atlantic coast east of the 100th western meridian and south of the 40th northern parallel, but excluding a high elevation region associated with the Appalachian Mountains. Future ensemble predictions for 2061-2080 forecasted a stable western range limit, northward expansion of suitable habitat into the Upper Midwest and western Pennsylvania, and range contraction along portions of the Gulf coast and the lower Mississippi river valley. These findings are informative for raising awareness of A. americanum-transmitted pathogens in areas where the Lone Star tick has recently or may become established.
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- Yuri P Springer
- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado; U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado; National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc., Boulder, Colorado; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado; U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado; National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc., Boulder, Colorado; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado; U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado; National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc., Boulder, Colorado; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado; U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado; National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc., Boulder, Colorado; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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- Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado; U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, Colorado; National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc., Boulder, Colorado; National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
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Kao RH, Gibson CM, Gallery RE, Meier CL, Barnett DT, Docherty KM, Blevins KK, Travers PD, Azuaje E, Springer YP, Thibault KM, McKenzie VJ, Keller M, Alves LF, Hinckley ELS, Parnell J, Schimel D. NEON terrestrial field observations: designing continental-scale, standardized sampling. Ecosphere 2012. [DOI: 10.1890/es12-00196.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Evangelista PH, Kumar S, Stohlgren TJ, Jarnevich CS, Crall AW, Norman III JB, Barnett DT. Modelling invasion for a habitat generalist and a specialist plant species. DIVERS DISTRIB 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00486.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Plant species assemblages, communities or regional floras might be termed 'saturated' when additional immigrant species are unsuccessful at establishing due to competitive exclusion or other inter-specific interactions, or when the immigration of species is off-set by extirpation of species. This is clearly not the case for state, regional or national floras in the USA where colonization (i.e. invasion by exotic species) exceeds extirpation by roughly a 24 to 1 margin. We report an alarming temporal trend in plant invasions in the Pacific Northwest over the past 100 years whereby counties highest in native species richness appear increasingly invaded over time. Despite the possibility of some increased awareness and reporting of native and exotic plant species in recent decades, historical records show a significant, consistent long-term increase in exotic species (number and frequency) at county, state and regional scales in the Pacific Northwest. Here, as in other regions of the country, colonization rates by exotic species are high and extirpation rates are negligible. The rates of species accumulation in space in multi-scale vegetation plots may provide some clues to the mechanisms of the invasion process from local to national scales.
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- Thomas J Stohlgren
- National Institute of Invasive Species Science, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA.
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Barnett DT, Stohlgren TJ, Jarnevich CS, Chong GW, Ericson JA, Davern TR, Simonson SE. The art and science of weed mapping. Environ Monit Assess 2007; 132:235-52. [PMID: 17279456 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9530-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2005] [Accepted: 09/27/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Land managers need cost-effective and informative tools for non-native plant species management. Many local, state, and federal agencies adopted mapping systems designed to collect comparable data for the early detection and monitoring of non-native species. We compared mapping information to statistically rigorous, plot-based methods to better understand the benefits and compatibility of the two techniques. Mapping non-native species locations provided a species list, associated species distributions, and infested area for subjectively selected survey sites. The value of this information may be compromised by crude estimates of cover and incomplete or biased estimations of species distributions. Incorporating plot-based assessments guided by a stratified-random sample design provided a less biased description of non-native species distributions and increased the comparability of data over time and across regions for the inventory, monitoring, and management of non-native and native plant species.
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- David T Barnett
- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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