The IPANE Project: Invasive Plant Atlas of New England

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The IPANE Project Invasive
Plant Atlas of New England

• Leslie J. Mehrhoff
• Invasive Plant Atlas of New England
• University of Connecticut

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IPANE Project Participants

• Department of Ecology Evolutionary Biology,
  University of Connecticut
• Homer Babbidge Library
• Center for Cartographic Analysis
• New England Wild Flower Society
• Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife
  Refuge, US FWS

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Primary Funding

• United Stated Department of Agriculture
• Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems

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IPANE Goals

• New England Early Detection Network
• Gather current historic distributional data
• Make information available
• Conduct encourage scientific research
• Increase public awareness
• Train volunteer spotters
• Interoperability

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IPANE Project Components

• Atlas of invasive or potentially invasive plants
  in New England
• Interactive website
• Volunteer training - NEWFS
• Research UCONN
• Outreach - NIPGro
• Regional Early Detection Network

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User Community

• Academia
• Conservationists
• Land Managers
• Government Agencies
• Regulators Legislators
• Green Industries
• Public

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Before we got started...

• Convened a knowledgeable committee
• Defined our geography
• Established parameters for the kinds of data we
  would, and would not, gather
• Established criteria
• Established data gathering protocols

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Data Warehouse

• IN
• Herbarium records
• Current field data
• OUT
• Species Catalog
• Collections database
• Maps

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IPANE Collections Databases

• Herbarium specimen
• 20 regional herbaria
• Capture all label data
• Geo-referenced 35 K geo-reference points
• Metadata
• Current Field Data
• Field data from trained volunteers
• Geo-referenced from GPS or maps
• Verified by IPANE staff
• Metadata

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Importance of Herbarium Specimens

• Document a species occurrence in space and time
• Permanent record
• Verifiable
• Good for teaching, demonstration, or as an
  identification aid
• Herbarium currency

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Volunteer Network

• 450 in 3 years 25 per state per year
• Volunteer coordinator
• Staff-run training sessions
• Terrestrial and Aquatic species
• On-line reporting forms
• Verification and Quality Control

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Spontaneous Unsolicited Reports

• Report sighting button on website
• Verification
• IPANE staff
• Regional herbaria
• FNA authors
• Initiate Rapid Assessment process

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The Invasive Plant Atlas for New
England Website

• http// invasives.eeb.uconn.edu/ipane
• Maps database
• Catalog of species
• Project information
• Announcement and unmoderated lists
• Volunteer support
• Quizzes and Weed Wisdom!

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IPANE Catalog

• Scientific and common names
• Diagnostic incursion photographs
• Descriptive text
• Historical information
• Similar species
• Hard copy references and hot links
• Management links

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Berberis spp.
Cardamine impatiens
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IPANE Databases

• Herbarium records
• 20 herbaria
• Historic perspective
• Modeling pathways

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IPANE Databases

• Herbarium records
• 20 herbaria
• Historic perspective
• Modeling pathways
• Current field data
• Ecological site specific data
• Available shortly

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IPANE Maps

• Occurrences
• Herbarium records current reports
• State, county, town, site occurrence
• ?? Automated

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The IPANE Project An Early Detection and Rapid
Assessment Network for New England
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Network Components

• Early Detection
• Rapid Assessment
• Rapid Response
• Long-term Monitoring

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IPANE Rapid Responders Database

• Field Botanists
• Floristic Botanists
• Control Management Experts
• Regulatory Officials

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IPANE Rapid Responders Database

• Geography states and regional
• Responder categories
• Ecological systems terrestrial and aquatic

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IPANE Rapid Assessment page

• List of Early Detection Species
• Table of species status in all 6 states
• Early detection protocols
• How to report a possible new incursion

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IPANE list of species

• Approximately 100 species
• Includes most of the species that appear on some
  state or regional list
• Criteria used to determine biological potential
  for invasiveness
• Problematic or questionable species

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Other things on the IPANE website

• Project information
• Volunteers information
• Associated projects
• Associated research
• Quizzes
• Weed Wisdom!

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Contact us -

• http//invasives.eeb.uconn.edu/ipane/
• ipane_at_uconn.edu