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Data for modeling fountain grass and bishop's goutweed in the contiguous US

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: May 05, 2026 at 08:27 PM | Dataset Last Updated: August 20, 2020 at 12:00 AM
This data bundle contains the merged data sets to create models for bishop's goutweed and fountaingrass using the VisTrails:SAHM [SAHM 2.1.0]. We developed species distribution models for both species following a workflow designed to balance automation and human intervention to produce models for invasive plant species of concern to U.S. land managers. Location data came from existing databases aggregating species occurrence information. Predictors came from a national library of potential environmental variables based on what environmental factors might limit plant species' distributions in different parts of the U.S. including climatic, topographic, soil, land use, and anthropogenic factors. The outputs of these models and those for other species following the same methods will be available on the Invasive Species Habitat (INHABIT) website (https://gis.usgs.gov/inhabit/dashboard_dev.rmd). Each of the four CSV files contain the exact same fields. The bundle documentation files are: 1) '_archive_bundle_metadata.xml' (this file) which contains FGDC metadata describing the fields in the CSV files 2) 'MDS_fountaingrass_KDEbackground.csv' containing the merged data set used to create the fountaingrass models with background data generated based on a KDE bias surface 3) 'MDS_fountaingrass_targetbackground.csv' merged data set used to create the fountaingrass models with target background data 4) 'MDS_goutweed_KDEbackground.csv' containing the merged data set used to create the bishop's goutweed models with background data generated based on a KDE bias surface 5) 'MDS_goutweed_targetbackground.csv' containing the merged data set used to create the bishop's goutweed models with target background data

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