Description
Data from the Big Island region of the Hawaii Invasive Species Committee (ISC) statewide reporting system, including raw data and spatial data, developed by United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Hawaii Biodiversity and Mapping Program (HBMP) with input from ISC and the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species (CGAPS). The Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC) is a voluntary partnership of private citizens, community organizations, businesses, land owners, and government agencies to address invasive species issues on the island of Hawaii. BIISC's mission includes education, early detection, rapid response, control and eradication of invasive pests threatening agriculture, native ecosystems, industry, human health or the quality of life within Hawaii County.
Data Records
The data in this checklist 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 21 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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
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Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 95e4813a-c69a-4af3-bd9e-d580859de291. Training Organization publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
Checklist; Invasive species; Hawaii
Contacts
- Originator
- Local Committe
Geographic Coverage
The islands of Hawaii are located about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the continental U.S. It is the southernmost state of the U.S. Hawaii is an archipelago made up of eight main islands, seven of which are inhabited. The largest island by area is the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island. Big Island area of some 4,030 square miles (10,438 square km) continues to grow as Kilauea, the world’s most active volcano, continues to pour lava into the ocean.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.896, -156.379], North East [20.324, -154.534] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Alien invasive plants and other non-native pest species like the coqui frog.
| Species | Alstonia Macrophylla, Bocconia frutescens, Bryophyllum daigremontianum, Buddleja madagascariensis, Clidemia hirta, Cortaderia jubata, Cryptostegia madagascariensis, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Jasminum polyanthum, Miconia calvescens, Morella cerifera, Parkinsonia aculeata, Paulownia tomentosa, Pennisetum setaceum, Plectranthus amboinicus, Rauvolfia vomitoria, Rhizophora mangle, Rosa laevigata, Sphaeropteris cooperi, Tithonia diversifolia, Ulex europaeus |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2005-12-05 / 2010-12-13 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Education and surveys for detection of invasive species on the island of Hawaii |
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The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Sampling Methods
Sampling may be aerial, ground, roadside, or with binoculars.
| Study Extent | Terrestrial locations on the Big Island of Hawaii. |
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| Quality Control | Various quality control documentation have been run on the current dataset. |
Method step description:
- Students from each high school organized a series of day-long community surveys in their local neighbourhoods. Participants, guided by local ISC Early Detection Technicians and Student Mentors, visited various locations where they were given photo guides and assigned a route to follow during collection events. Along each route, they were tasked with identifying the target species and taking 1-3 photos of them using GPS-enabled mobile phones. Details, describing every observation of the 21 invasive species of interest, were recorded using a digital data collection form during each community collection event. Participants uploaded the images captured on mobile phones and were encouraged to click their locations using a Google map, embedded in the form, to assign latitude and longitude to each observation. The form’s design was based on the HISC pest reporting form. A database, created and hosted by the Computing Department at UHM, holds the imagery and data from the online form, but these data are not accessible publicly. Data were exported as comma separated value (.csv) files and given to the four UHM graduate students for taxonomic validation using the images and descriptions submitted. The BIISC GIS Analyst used the Google Maps coordinates and image EXIF data to check observations for quality and to add any missing georeferences. Student mentors renamed all image files to match the observation number for cross referencing later at BIISC.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 95e4813a-c69a-4af3-bd9e-d580859de291 |
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| https://training-ipt-c.gbif.org/resource?r=invasive_species_bigisland_hawaii |