Office of the Regional Executive for Biology - Central Region
Inventory Breakout
group
Participants:
Tina Proctor, FWS –R-6
Pam Benjamin – NPS- IR
Randy Westbrooks, USGS-BRD
Phil Dittberner, BLM – NSTC
Virginia Burkett, USGS-BRD
Geneva Chong, USGS-BRD
Gary Waggoner, USGS-BRD
Jan Coffelt – Recorder
Leanne Hanson - Facilitator
Define inventory
Creating
the baseline data on a designated area (where, what, and when) including
metadata (information about the population, site conditions, degree of
infestation, community associations) [NAWMA].
Monitoring
is the repetitive updating of the inventory and follow-up on treated areas
Quantifying
changes to the baseline
Justification and Objectives for inventory
Economic impact of
invasive populations on the US
($138 billion)
- Ecological impact on
ecosystem services (clean air, clean water, pollination, recreation,
aesthetics, biodiversity. Economic
valuation of these impacts are poorly understood and less tangible.
Scientific studies are needed to establish the cost.
- If we are to have an
effective management program, first we must have fundamental baseline
information for future monitoring and management planning and effective
spending of resources.
- Because of the
explosion of invasives, a baseline must be developed now. Question such as what do we have now,
in what way is it changing? Vectors for invasion, etc. on invasives coming
into the U.S.
- U.S. is also exporting
species into other countries. What
is the impact on global trade?
- Limitations on future
land uses and sustainability. We
aim to be “leavers instead of takers” Quinn Ishmael.
- Do this in response to
Executive Order, the National Management Plan and the National
Species Council. Interaction with state and local legal
requirements and mandates.
- Better baseline for
management alternatives (information for adaptive management decisions).
- Baseline information
helps to identify and focus research needs.
- Research application –
qualitative quick and dirty applications. Information and technology
transfer as research continues. Getting
management feedback to researchers on goal and objectives.
- Education
Role
of Standards, what already exists, what standards are needed:
- The role of standards
is to compare and contrast information collected by many different people
in various places and times.
- NAWMA - agencies and
states have already established this as the minimum data standards
- There are additional
ecological and environmental parameters that are important to record as
well
- Metadata FGDC standards
appropriate
- Mapping FGDC standards
that are relevant
- ITIS
- There are many usable
standards that already exist that we need to apply
Discuss procedures and
methods applicable to your topic:
- There is not one
protocol that you can apply. The
protocol will be determined by the objectives and goals of the
manager/researcher and how they intend to use the data above and beyond
the core minimum requirements.
- Make sure that basic science is a part
of what we do, in addition to the applied research required by our partner
agencies.
- Explore more remote
sensing edge, and other cutting edge technologies.
- Establish protocol or
procedures for communications with local landowners, involve all
stakeholders, and expand past regional boundaries or agency boundaries.
- Explore protocols for
early detection.
What
products are most important and useful?
- Public education: products brochures, internet, waysides
- Integrated web
information
- Providing usable
products that answer the questions of the managers
- Protocols or systems
for early detection.
- Database of agencies
involved in active management of different species. What agencies/ contacts have management
practices going on?
- Database of
occurrences.
- Creation of a
distributed querying database system for invasive species NABIN/ Species
Analyst
- Protocols for specific,
simple methods that can applied given a reasonable amount of information
- Distribution maps,
species, ecology of the species, what we know about reproductive methods,
how it spreads,
- Pulling together
Identification aids.
- Hands-on training to do
data collection, inventory; protocol for on the ground inventory,
workshops
Discuss research
needs
- Be aware: Two-way communication between agencies,
or between researchers and land-management agencies.
- Research, develop, and
make available basic Science information about invasive species.
- Develop information
about landscape susceptibility to invasives
- Ecological (population
dynamics) modeling must be developed further
- Additional research is
needed for cutting edge technologies (remote sensing)
- Additional research is
needed to develop sampling methods/ statistical strategies to identify
where the invasive are occurring.
- Ecological range
studies on new species/ potential spread.
Role
of models in Inventories:
1.
Critical reasons of determining susceptibility, predictability, early
detection, and for effective use of limited resources.
2.
Adaptive management models/tools and decision support tools
3.
Responses to environmental perturbations and management practices
4.
Using modeling to focus inventory efforts
Discuss
collaborative activities:
1. Yes.
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