Keywords
Theme:
Exotic plant
Place:
Florida
Stratum:
invasive
Temporal:
plant occurrences
Description
Abstract
The Florida Invasive Plants shapefile (FLInv) is derived from a geodatabase of observed locations for invasive, exotic plant species on public conservation lands in Florida. The exotic species therein are those listed by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council as being invasive species (see "EPPC" attribute and metadata in FLInv). State (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services) and federal (United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) rankings are also listed for the EPPC-listed species. Each point identifies at a minimum the species and date that the observation was made. Other factors such as acreage, plant distribution, reference, and eradication efforts taking place at that location are included as available.
Purpose
Produced from Florida Invasive Plants GeoDatabase to provide a developing statewide view of current invasive exotic plant occurrences in public conservation lands and to establish an inventory and monitoring tool for policy making in natural resource management.
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Status of the data
In work
Data update frequency:
Quarterly
Time period for which the data is relevant
Beginning date and time:
2001
Ending date and time:
at time 2009
Description:
publication date
Publication Information
Who created the data: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Date and time:
20090630
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Data storage and access information
File name: FLINVpt_20090630
Type of data: vector digital data
Location of the data:
\\fnai6\fnaifilesystem\current\GIS\FNAI_current\FLInv.shp
Data processing environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
Accessing the data
Data format: ESRI data format, dependent upon request
Size of the data: 1.350 MB
Data transfer size: 0.118 MB
Constraints on accessing and using the data
Access constraints:
Available for free download at http://www.fnai.org.
Use constraints:
May be used unaltered with acknowledgment.
Details about this document
Contents last updated: 20090630
at time 13352700
Who completed this document
Frank Price
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
mailing:
1018 Thomasville Road, Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
USA
850-224-8207 x 206 (voice)
850-681-9364 (fax)
fprice@fnai.org
Standards used to create this document
Horizontal coordinate system
Projected coordinate system name: Custom
Geographic coordinate system name: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN
Details
Map Projection Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
Standard Parallel: 24.000000
Standard Parallel: 31.500000
Longitude of Central Meridian: -84.000000
Latitude of Projection Origin: 24.000000
False Easting: 400000.000000
False Northing: 0.000000
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Distance Units: meters
Coordinate Encoding Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution: 0.000000
Ordinate Resolution: 0.000000
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name: D_North_American_1983_HARN
Ellipsoid Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio: 298.257222
Altitude System Definition
Resolution: 0.000010
Encoding Method: Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
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Bounding coordinates
Horizontal
In decimal degrees
West:
-87.412875
East:
-79.881367
North:
31.009642
South:
24.506152
In projected or local coordinates
Left: 74180.599100
Right: 793242.336500
Top: 777922.231200
Bottom: 62268.731300
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Lineage
FGDC lineage
Process step 1
Process description: Data are compiled from FNAI surveys and shared data sets from on-site cooperators. Data are mapped, standardized, and quality-control reviewed then added to a geodatabase feature class managed by ArcMap and Microsoft Access.
Source used: K:\GIS\FNAI_current\FLInv
Who did this process
Frank Price
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
mailing and physical address:
1018 Thomasville Road, Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
USA
850-224-8207, ext. 206 (voice)
850-681-9364 (fax)
fprice@fnai.org
Process step 2
Process description: Spatial attributes including Managed area name, County, Quad, Township, Range and Section are joined to geodatabase attributes using ArcMap 9.2. Latitude and longitude attributes are added.
Source used: K:\gis\boundary_layers
Who did this process
Frank Price
Florida Natural Areas Inventory
mailing and physical address:
1018 Thomasville Rd., Suite 200-C
Tallahassee, Florida 32303
U.S.A.
850-224-8207, ext. 206 (voice)
850-681-9384 (fax)
fprice@fnai.org
Process step 3
Process description: Dataset copied.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\FLINVpoly_20081001
Process date: 20081216
at time 16402200
Process step 4
Process description: Metadata imported.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\archive\20081001\FLINVpoly_20081001.shp.xml
Process date: 20081216
at time 16544300
Process step 5
Process description: Metadata imported.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\FLINVpoly_20081215.shp.xml
Process date: 20081216
at time 17105800
Process step 6
Process description: Dataset copied.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\FLINVpt_20081215
Process date: 20090408
at time 14404000
Process step 7
Process description: Metadata imported.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\archive\20081215\FLINVpt_20081215.shp.xml
Process date: 20090408
at time 15525800
Process step 8
Process description: Dataset copied.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\FLINVpt_20090401
Process date: 20090630
at time 13250500
Process step 9
Process description: Metadata imported.
Source used: K:\Invasive_Plants\GeoDatabase\FLINV_shapefiles\archive\20090401\FLINVpt_20090401.shp.xml
Process date: 20090630
at time 13344100
ESRI geoprocessing history
1. DefineProjection_1
Date and time:
20061215
at time 101034
Tool location:
C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Data Management Tools.tbx\DefineProjection
Command issued
DefineProjection "K:\Projects\DEP\Invasive_Plants_DEP_FY06_07\Reports\Dec06 Status Rept Docs\FLInvComplete_Dec06\FLInv.shp" PROJCS['Custom',GEOGCS['GCS_North_American_1983_HARN',DATUM['D_North_American_1983_HARN',SPHEROID['GRS_1980',6378137.0,298.257222101]],PRIMEM['Greenwich',0.0],UNIT['Degree',0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION['Albers'],PARAMETER['False_Easting',400000.0],PARAMETER['False_Northing',0.0],PARAMETER['Central_Meridian',-84.0],PARAMETER['Standard_Parallel_1',24.0],PARAMETER['Standard_Parallel_2',31.5],PARAMETER['Latitude_Of_Origin',24.0],UNIT['Meter',1.0]] "K:\Projects\DEP\Invasive_Plants_DEP_FY06_07\Reports\Dec06 Status Rept Docs\FLInvComplete_Dec06\FLInv.shp"
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Spatial data quality
Horizontal positional accuracy
Majority of location data gathered with mapping grade GPS; some data derived from hand-drawn maps.
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Spatial data description
Vector data information
ESRI description
FLINVpt_20090630
ESRI feature type: Simple
Geometry type: Point
Topology: FALSE
Feature count: 50538
Spatial Index: TRUE
Linear referencing: FALSE
SDTS description
Feature class: SDTS feature type, feature count
FLINVpt_20090630:
Entity point, 50538
Details for FLINVpt_20090630
Type of object: Feature Class
Number of records: 50538
Description
Data records for the Florida Invasive Plants database. Note - A value of "ZZ" anywhere in the data indicates that data were not taken or are otherwise unavailable for that attribute value. Null (empty) field values may be present for attributes where no valid assignments exist.
Attributes
FID
Alias: FID
Data type: OID
Width: 4
Precision: 0
Scale: 0
Definition: Internal feature number.
Definition Source: ESRI
Shape
Alias: Shape
Data type: Geometry
Width: 0
Precision: 0
Scale: 0
Definition: Feature geometry.
Definition Source: ESRI
OCCURID
Alias: OCCURID
Data type: Number
Width: 10
Definition: Auto-generated, indexed, unique whole number for occurrence record in Geodatabase representing an invasive exotic plant infestation.
Definition Source: MS Access
PlantName
Alias: PlantName
Data type: String
Width: 75
Definition: Scientific name of the species
Definition Source: Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2004. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
DataSrc2
Alias: DataSrc2
Data type: String
Width: 150
Definition: Name of additional agency or organization contributing information related to this occurrence
DataSrc3
Alias: DataSrc3
Data type: String
Width: 150
Definition: Name of additional agency or organization contributing information related to this occurrence
Reference
Alias: Reference
Data type: String
Width: 200
Definition: Original source of information for occurrence record (e.g., FNAI Exotic Plant Survey, site staff report, etc.)
Definition Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Voucher
Alias: Voucher
Data type: String
Width: 150
Definition: Acronym for herbarium housing voucher specimen for occurrence, if voucher made
Definition Source: Index Herbariorum (see NYBG.org)
GrossAcres
Alias: GrossAcres
Data type: Number
Width: 16
Number of decimals: 5
Definition: Gross acreage of the infestation (may include area not covered by the invasive species)
Definition Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Distributn
Alias: Distributn
Data type: String
Width: 30
Definition: Pattern of plant distribution within the gross acreage.
Possible values are:
Single plant or clump One individual plant or one small clump of a single species.
Scattered plants or clumps Multiple individual plants or small clumps of a single species scattered within the gross area infested.
Scattered dense patches Dense patches of a single species scattered within the gross area infested.
Dominant cover Multiple plants or clumps of a single species that occupy a majority of the gross area infested.
Dense monoculture Generally a dense stand of a single dominant species that not only occupies more than a majority of the gross area infested, but also covers/excludes other plants.
Linearly scattered Plants or clumps of a single species generally scattered along a linear feature, such as a road, trail, property line, ditch, ridge, slough, etc. within the gross area infested.
Definition Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
PctCover
Alias: PctCover
Data type: String
Width: 10
Definition: A visual estimate of the percentage of the gross acre(s) infested that is actually covered by the canopy of the plants. Percent Cover classes are: < 5 %, 5 - 25 %, 26 - 50 %, 51 - 75 %, > 75 %
Definition Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory
Comments
Alias: Comments
Data type: String
Width: 254
Definition: Comments or other observations about infestation, distribution, location, or natural community not captured in other fields.
CommonName
Alias: CommonName
Data type: String
Width: 40
Definition: Common name of the plant
Definition Source: Wunderlin, R. P., and B. F. Hansen. 2004. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
FLEPPC_CD
Alias: FLEPPC_CD
Data type: String
Width: 9
Definition: Rank of taxon by Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council.
Definition Source: Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's List of Invasive Species: http://www.fleppc.org.
STATE_CD
Alias: STATE_CD
Data type: String
Width: 9
Definition: Status of taxon according to State of Florida agencies
Definition Source: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of State Lands' List of Prohibited Aquatic Plants: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/invaspec/2ndlevpgs/perrules.htm#62C-52.011%20Prohibited%20Aquatic%20Plants. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services List of Florida Noxious Weeds: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/lands/invaspec/2ndlevpgs/pdfs/noxiousweedtable1.pdf.
USDA_CD
Alias: USDA_CD
Data type: String
Width: 9
Definition: Federal status (USDA)
Definition Source: United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service List of Federal Noxious Weeds
FNAI_NC
Alias: FNAI_NC
Data type: String
Width: 50
Definition: Natural community invaded by taxon based on 2nd-tier grouping of FNAI-defined natural communities of Florida. Determined from aerial-photo interpretation, ground surveys, site-manager communications, and/or other available vegetation cover data.
Definition Source: Florida Natural Areas Inventory and Florida Department of Natural Resources. 1990. Guide to Natural Communities of Florida. Tallahassee, FL.
MA_Name
Alias: MA_Name
Data type: String
Width: 100
Definition: Name of Managed Area (conservation land or preserve)
Definition Source: Florida Natural Area Inventory's Managed Area database
Latitude
Alias: Latitude
Data type: Number
Width: 19
Number of decimals: 8
Definition: Latitude (decimal degrees) for the centroid point representing the infestation location (datum HPGN)
Longitude
Alias: Longitude
Data type: Number
Width: 19
Number of decimals: 8
Definition: Longitude (decimal degrees) for the centroid point representing the infestation location (datum HPGN)
QtrQuad
Alias: QtrQuad
Data type: String
Width: 10
Definition: Reference to topographical quadrangle containing the centroid of the infestation (e.g., 3205) and Digital Orthographic Quarter Quadrangle (e.g., q3205ne).
Definition Source: United States Geological Survey
Township
Alias: Township
Data type: String
Width: 5
Definition: Geological survey grid line North or South of Tallahassee base line. 36 sections arranged in a 6 by 6 array, measuring 6 miles by 6 miles. Sections are numbered beginning with the northeast-most section, proceeding west to 6, then south along the west edge of the township and to the east.
Definition Source: United States Geological Survey
Range
Alias: Range
Data type: String
Width: 5
Definition: Geological Survey grid line West or East of Tallahassee meridian.
Definition Source: United States Geological Survey
Section_
Alias: Section_
Data type: String
Width: 5
Definition: Basic unit of the Township and Range system of land description. A square tract of land, one mile by one mile containing 640 acres.
Definition Source: United States Geological Survey
County
Alias: County
Data type: String
Width: 20
Definition: Florida county in which the occurrence is located
TreatedB4
Alias: TreatedB4
Data type: String
Width: 7
Definition: Indicator of whether or not this occurrence has been treated before
Treat_com
Alias: Treat_com
Data type: String
Width: 254
Definition: Comments related to treatment activities at this location.
SurveyDate
Alias: SurveyDate
Data type: String
Width: 16
Definition: Calendar year, month, and day of survey data collection.
Surveyor
Alias: Surveyor
Data type: String
Width: 80
Definition: Person performing the survey and recording information relative to the occurrence. Most likely the single person most familiar with the occurrence.
Contact
Alias: Contact
Data type: String
Width: 50
Definition: Person responsible for providing the information for inclusion in the geodatabase. May or may not be the same as the surveyor, who is most likely the person most familiar with the occurrence.
DataSrc1
Alias: DataSrc1
Data type: String
Width: 150
Definition: Name of agency or organization contributing information related to this occurrence
Access
Alias: Access
Data type: String
Width: 254
Definition: A brief comment describing the ability to reach the infestation.
Maturity
Alias: Maturity
Data type: String
Width: 8
Definition: Stage of plant development for the recorded infestation. Possible values are Mature, Immature, or Both.
DIsturbTyp
Alias: DisturbTyp
Data type: String
Width: 50
Precision: 0
Scale: 0
Definition: Primary type of disturbance (natural or otherwise) associated with the infestation.
DisturbSev
Alias: DisturbSev
Data type: String
Width: 8
Definition: Severity of the disturbance described in the DISTURBTYP field. Possible values are Light, Moderate, and Heavy.
RefID
Alias: RefID
Data type: Number
Width: 5
Raw_Geo
Alias: Raw_Geo
Data type: String
Width: 8
Raw_ID
Alias: Raw_ID
Data type: Number
Width: 10
Date_added
Alias: Date_added
Data type: Date
Width: 8
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Overview
A value of "ZZ" anywhere in the data indicates that data were not taken or are otherwise unavailable for that attribute value. Null (empty) field values may be present for attributes where no valid assignments exist.