Description
Subset 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. It is a fictionalized scenario based on a real dataset and is meant only for training of the Biodiversity Data Mobilization Course by the GBIF Secretariat, with the support of the BID Caribbean Program of the European Union. The original dataset is attributed to Simpson A (2016). Big Island Invasive Species Committee - Pest Reports - 2005-2010. Version 4.1. United States Geological Survey. Occurrence Dataset accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-07-13.
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.
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.
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How to cite
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Hawaii Invasive Species Council, Big Island Invasive Species Committee (2021): UC2-IS: Big Island Invasive Species Committee - Pest Reports - 2005-2010. v1.5. Training Organization. Dataset/Occurrence. https://training-ipt-c.gbif.org/resource?r=uc2-ishawaii&v=1.5
Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2215166a-353a-47a8-a33d-d4a2fc45ad5d. Training Organization publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.
Keywords
occurrence; observation; North and Central America; United States; Hawaii; Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); University of Hawaii Maui College (UHM); University of Hawaii Maui College (UHM); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); University of Hawaii Maui College (UHM); Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC); University of Hawaii Maui College (UHM); Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC); University of Hawaii Maui College (UHM); introduced species; invasive species; Hawaii introduced species; Big Island introduced species; Big Island invasive species; Derived from Occurrence; for pest control; present; ICBN; ICZN; introduced; invasive; nom. inval. nom. nud.; species; accepted; valid; Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- 23 East Kawili Street Hilo
- 8089333340
- Principal Investigator
- Project Leader
- 23 East Kawili Street Hilo
- Point Of Contact
- Project Manager
- 23 East Kawili Street Hilo
- (808) 933-3340
- 310 W. Ka’ahumanu Ave | Kahului, HI 96732-1617
- 8089843500
- 310 W. Ka’ahumanu Ave | Kahului, HI 96732-1617
- 8089843500
- Point Of Contact
- 23 East Kawili Street Hilo
- 8089333340
- Principal Investigator
- 23 East Kawili Street Hilo
- 8089333340
- Reviewer ●
- Processor
- Species Specialist
- Calle La Joya entre Av. Francisco de Miranda y Av. Libertador. Edif. Unidad Técnica del Este, Piso 10, Ofic. 29 y 30. AP 47552
- 582122637240
- 310 W. Ka’ahumanu Ave | Kahului, HI 96732-1617
- 8089843500
Geographic Coverage
Locations on the Big Island, Hawaii.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.823, -156.182], North East [20.365, -154.687] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Non-native species (introduced) in Big Island, Hawaii.
| Species | Jasminum polyanthum Franch. (Chinese jasmine | Climbing jasmine | Common jasmine | Jasmine | Pink jasmine | Star jasmine | White jasmine | Winter jasmine), Rauvolfia vomitoria Wennberg (Poison devil's-pepper), Sphaeropteris cooperi (Hook. ex F.Muell.) R.M.Tryon (Cooper's cyathea | Scaly tree fern), Miconia calvescens DC. (Bush currant | Miconia | Purple plague | Velvet tree | Velvetleaf), Myrica cerifera L. (Southern wax myrtle | Southern bayberry | Candleberry | Bayberry tree | Tallow shrub), Kalanchoe daigremontiana Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier (Mother-of-Millions), Cryptostegia madagascariensis Bojer ex Decne. (Madagascar rubber vine | Madagascar rubbervine | Ornamental rubber vine | Purple allamanda | Purple rubber vine | Rubber vine | Rubbervine), Coleus amboinicus Lour. (Mexican Mint | Spanish Thyme | Cuban Oregano | Indian Borage), Cortaderia jubata (Lemoine) Stapf (Purple pampas grass), Buddleja madagascariensis Lam. (Buddleia | Buddleja bush | Butterfly bush | Butterflybush | Madagascar butterflybush | Orange buddleia | Smoke bush | Smokebush), Alstonia macrophylla Wall. ex G.Don (Deviltree), Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone (African fountain grass | Crimson fountain grass | Crimson fountaingrass | Fountain grass | Fountaingrass | Green fountain grass | Plume grass | Purple fountain grass | Red fountain grass | Tender fountain grass), Eleutherodactylus coqui Thomas, 1966 (Caribbean tree frog), Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A.Gray (Tree marigold), Rhizophora mangle L. (Red mangrove), Paulownia tomentosa (Thunb.) Steud. (Princess tree | Empress tree | Foxglove-tree), Miconia crenata (Vahl) Michelang. (Canot-macaque | Caiuia), Ulex europaeus L. (The gorse | Common gorse | Furze | Whin), Rosa laevigata Michx. (Cherokee rose), Bocconia frutescens L. (Tree Celandine), Parkinsonia aculeata L. (Jerusalem thorn | Mexican palo verde | Jerusalem-thorn | Retama) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2005-12-05 / 2010-12-13 |
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Project Data
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.
| Title | UC2-IS: Big Island Invasive Species Committee - Pest Reports - 2005-2010 |
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| Identifier | https://doi.org/10.15468/hp7zwr |
| Funding | U.S. Federal Grant to the Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC). |
| Study Area Description | The Hawaiian Islands are situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, extremely isolated from any continental landmass. More than 99% of the land area consists of eight main islands, Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Hawaii (known as the Big Island), located at the end of a long chain of 132 islands, reefs and shoals. The islands decrease with age toward the southeast from Niihau, the oldest (5.2 Ma years), to the Big Island, the youngest (0.6 Ma years). The vegetation zones of Hawaii are primarily influenced by orographic precipitation and the northeast tradewinds. The windward, or wetter, side of the island occurs on the northeast slopes, while the leeward, or drier areas are in the southwest regions. The rainy season in the dry forests is typically between November and March. Lowlands dry forest on Hawaii have been greatly reduced on the island of Hawaii. Although the dry forest life zone occurs over 1000 meters on Hawaii, the lowlands contain a small percentage of the dryforest species on the island. Almost all dry forest within Volcanoes National Park has recently been covered by active lava flows and we could find no closed canopy native dry forest in Volcanoes National Park. The best remaining dry forest occurs in Southwestern Hawaii and woodlands of native dry forest trees occur on the Kona side of Northern Hawaii. |
| Design Description | The Hawaii Invasive Species Council (HISC) in partnership with the Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC), established local educational and data collection programs on Hawaii's invasive species, with the purpose of educate, 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. The programs trained high school students to mentor other students and to facility the collection of images and data by members of the local community. Two schools were selected because they were in areas where the knowledge and documentation of invasive species assessment was poor or non-existent. Teachers worked with their local Invasive Species Council (ISC) Outreach Associate to create teaching materials detailing 21 important invasive plant species, including how to identify each species’ life stages and the most effective control methods. Students from each high school organized a series of one-day community surveys in their local neighborhoods. Participants, guided by early detection technicians and local ISC student mentors, visited various locations where they were given photographic guides and assigned a route to follow during collection events. Along each route, the target species were identified, and 1 to 3 photos were taken of them using GPS mobile phones. The description of each observation of the 21 invasive species of interest, was recorded using an online data collection form, georeferenced by Google Maps, during each community collection event. The form design was based on the HISC pest report form. The database was created and It is host by the Computing Department at University of Hawaii at Maui (UHM), and holds the imagery and data from the online form. BIISC staff and botany students from at UHM, edited and validated data describing the species and locations from the data. The occurrence dataset was standardized in Darwin Core terms (DwC) for final publication in the BIISC database. BIISC provide participating schools with their own websites, and maintain a single, searchable data portal to serve government, public, and scholarly research efforts. |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
Two schools in Hawaii Island (Big Island) were selected because they were in areas where the knowledge and documentation of invasive species assessment was poor or non-existent. Teachers worked with their local Invasive Species Council (ISC) Outreach Associate to create teaching materials detailing 21 important invasive plant species, including how to identify each species’ life stages and the most effective control methods. Students from two high school organized a series of one-day community surveys, betwing 2005 and 2010, in their local neighborhoods. Participants, guided by early detection technicians and local ISC student mentors, visited various locations where they were given photographic guides and assigned a route to follow during collection events. Along each route, the target species were identified, and 1 to 3 photos were taken of them using GPS mobile phones.
| Study Extent | Between 2005 and 2010, students from two high school in Hawaii Island (Big Island) organized a series of one-day community surveys in their local neighborhoods. Participants, guided by early detection technicians and local ISC student mentors, visited various locations (https://www.biisc.org/where-we-work/) where they were given photographic guides and assigned a route to follow during collection events. Along each route, the target species were identified, and 1 to 3 photos were taken of them using GPS mobile phones. |
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| Quality Control | 1. Standardization of the terms of the information fields (columns) to the Darwin Core (DwC) standard: 2. Standardization of the taxonomic information of the records. 3. Standardization of the information of the geographic fields. 4. Standardization of information from other fields. 5. Occurrence records validation. |
Method step description:
- Standardization of the terms of the information fields (columns) to the Darwin Core (DwC) standard: 1. It was listed all the DwC terms and highlighted the required and recommended ones in an Excel spreadsheet. It is important to always have the DwC Quick Reference Guide and the DwC Terms List available online. 2. It was reviewed the content of each column and the term originally assigned. 3. With the filters, It was identified possible transcription errors (double spaces, spaces before and at the end of the text of the cell, orthography, others) and normalized the available information. 1.4. It was re-classified each original term (column name) according to its content, to the DwC term. 1.5. It was split the information from each field that contained 2 or more DwC terms and concatenated information from 2 or more fields into a single DwC term. 1.6. It was generated new columns of DwC terms with information not available in the records. It was used the description of the exercise and the original reference of the dataset. 1.7. When possible, it was filled the empty cells with information. 1.8. It was eliminated empty columns, columns with information already available in another (duplicate) and columns with erroneous information that could not be standardized and did not contribute information to the record or the data set.
- Standardization of the taxonomic information of the records: 1. It was updated the taxonomic database of the 21 introduced species from Hawaii, with information available online from Plants of the World Online (POWO) and International Plant Name Index (IPNI). Each column of information has the respective DwC term. 2. It was compared the information contained in each DwC term (column, cell) related to the species, with the revised and updated taxonomic single database, through the tools available in Excel (SEARCHV, YES, CONCATENATE). 2.3. It was updated (invalid synonyms or names) and completed (empty or incomplete cells) with updated and corrected information. 2.4. When it was finished the whole process in each column, it was used the filters to verify that I did not generate transcription errors. In each non-automatic step, there is the possibility of adding errors.
- Standardization of the information of the geographic fields: 1. In each DwC term (column) look for the respective term. The best recommended practice is to use a persistent identifier from a controlled vocabulary. In this case, it was used the Getty Geographic Names Thesaurus. 2. It was used the Google apps to: 2.1. Google My Maps: It was visualized the set of pairs of geographic coordinates to detect possible transcription errors, calibration of the GPS of the cell phone used, others. 2.2. Google App script - Reverse Geocoding: It was automatically generated the description of the DwC term locality from the pair of coordinates and identified those that are outside the land area of the island (coast or ocean Pacific). Corrections were not possible.
- Standardization of information from other fields: 1. It was reviewed of the content of the field. 2. It was searched for the respective term. The best recommended practice is to use a persistent identifier from a controlled vocabulary.
- Occurrence records validation: Records without an occurrenceID are invalid. A record requires to have the fields: occurrenceID, basisOfRecord, scientificName, eventDate.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 2215166a-353a-47a8-a33d-d4a2fc45ad5d |
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| https://training-ipt-c.gbif.org/resource?r=uc2-ishawaii |