BLM REA CBR MBR 2010 Invasive Species

This map shows risk models for invasive species within the ecoregion. Samples of invasive species are presenting -- falling within 4 categories (exotic, annual grasses, noxious forbs, and woody riparian). Bioclimate data for cheatgrass and tamarisk weed is also shown. The input dataset used for all analysis done for these models are also included. These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. These data may not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics...

Types: Live Data; Tags: Annual Grass, Aquatic Species, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR, All tags... Central Basin and Range, Cheatgrass, DOI, Exotic, Geospatial, Invasive, LANDFIRE, MBR 2010, MapServer, Non-native, Noxious Forb, Plant, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Tamarisk, Vegetation, Woody Riparian, biota, liveData, service, Fewer tags

Near-real-time cheatgrass percent cover in the northern Great Basin, USA--2015

This dataset provides an estimate of 2015 cheatgrass percent cover in the northern Great Basin at 250 meter spatial resolution. The dataset was generated by integrating eMODIS NDVI satellite data with independent variables that influence cheatgrass germination and growth into a regression-tree model. Individual pixel values range from 0 to 100 with an overall mean value of 9.85 and a standard deviation of 12.78. A mask covers areas not classified as shrub/scrub or grass/herbaceous by the 2001 National Land Cover Database. The mask also covers areas higher than 2000 meters in elevation because cheatgrass is unlikely to exist at more than 2% cover above this threshold. Cheatgrass is an invasive grass that has invaded...

Types: Downloadable; Tags: Bromus tectorum, CRS, IRFMS, MODIS, NDVI, All tags... annual grass, cheatgrass, satellite data, Fewer tags

BLM REA CBR 2010 MBR Invasive Species

This map shows risk models for invasive species within the ecoregion. Samples of invasive species are presenting -- falling within 4 categories (exotic, annual grasses, noxious forbs, and woody riparian). Bioclimate data for cheatgrass and tamarisk weed is also shown. The input dataset used for all analysis done for these models are also included. These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. The User assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for the User's intended use. These data may not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics...

Types: Live Data; Tags: Annual Grass, Aquatic Species, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, CBR, All tags... CBR 2010, Central Basin and Range, Cheatgrass, DOI, Exotic, Geospatial, Invasive, LANDFIRE, MapServer, Non-native, Noxious Forb, Plant, REA, Rapid Ecoregional Assessment, Tamarisk, Vegetation, Woody Riparian, biota, liveData, service, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, May 2021, v1

This dataset provides early estimates of 2021 exotic annual grasses (EAG) fractional cover predicted on May 3rd. We develop and release EAG fractional cover map with an emphasis on cheatgrass (Bromus tectrorum) but it also includes number of other species, i.e., Bromus arvensis L., Bromus briziformis, Bromus catharticus Vahl, Bromus commutatus, Bromus diandrus, Bromus hordeaceus L., Bromus japonicus, Bromus madritensis L., Bromus racemosus, Bromus rubens L., Bromus secalinus L., Bromus texensis (Shear) Hitchc., and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae. The dataset was generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring data (AIM) plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Assessing annual grass management effectiveness in the sagebrush biome

Invasive annual grasses are a primary, severe, and challenging threat to habitat conservation and restoration for sage-dependent wildlife across federal, state and private lands. Successful management solutions for sagebrush rangelands are likely to be multiphasic, involving some sequence of interventions such as herbicides, seeding of competitive natives that also create habitat, and temporarily altering land use, in an adaptive-management approach. The proposed work tests different herbicides and options for applying them with different seeding and land uses, across a gradient of climate and soils in Interior Regions 5 and 7.This research will examine the efficacy of management options for controlling cheatgrass...

Categories: Data, Project; Tags: CO, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Project, SA Science Catalog, All tags... Sagebrush, Strategic Science - 1420, USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog, UT, UT, UT, annual grass, completed, environment, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, sagebrush biome, Fewer tags

5. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 6.0, July 1st, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Near-real-time cheatgrass percent cover in the northern Great Basin, USA--2015

This dataset provides an estimate of 2015 cheatgrass percent cover in the northern Great Basin at 250 meter spatial resolution. The dataset was generated by integrating eMODIS NDVI satellite data with independent variables that influence cheatgrass germination and growth into a regression-tree model. Individual pixel values range from 0 to 100 with an overall mean value of 9.85 and a standard deviation of 12.78. A mask covers areas not classified as shrub/scrub or grass/herbaceous by the 2001 National Land Cover Database. The mask also covers areas higher than 2000 meters in elevation because cheatgrass is unlikely to exist at more than 2% cover above this threshold. Cheatgrass is an invasive grass that has invaded...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Bromus tectorum, Cheatgrass, MODIS, NDVI, Northwest CASC, All tags... Plants, Wildlife and Plants, annual grass, northern Great Basin, satellite data, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 1.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Fractional estimates of exotic annual grass cover in dryland ecosystems of western United States (2016 – 2019)

The dryland ecosystems of the western United States have been invaded by exotic annual grasses, such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.), that has promoted increased fire activity and reduced biodiversity detrimental to socio-environmental systems. The use of remote sensing tools to monitor exotic annual grass cover and dynamics over large areas can support early detection and rapid response initiatives. This dataset was generated using in situ observations from Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring data (AIM) plots, weekly composites of harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) data, relevant environmental, vegetation, remotely sensed, and geophysical factors and machine learning...

Tags: California, Colorado, Idaho, Land Use Change, Montana, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Remote Sensing, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Washington, Western United States, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, biota, biota, cheatgrass, exotic, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, invasive species, rangeland ecosystems, Fewer tags

Near-real-time Herbaceous Annual Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem, USA, July 2018

This dataset provides a near-real-time estimate of 2018 herbaceous annual cover with an emphasis on annual grass (Boyte and Wylie. 2016. Near-real-time cheatgrass percent cover in the Northern Great Basin, USA, 2015. Rangelands 38:278-284.) This estimate was based on remotely sensed enhanced Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (eMODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data gathered through July 1, 2018. This is the second iteration of an early estimate of herbaceous annual cover for 2018 over the same geographic area. The previous dataset used eMODIS NDVI data gathered through May 1 (https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KSR9Z4). The pixel values for this most recent estimate ranged from 0 to100% with...

Tags: Bromus rubens, Bromus tectorum, California, Colorado, Desert, All tags... Ecology, Geography, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nevada, Oregon, Remote Sensing, Snake River Plain, Taeniatherum caput-medusae, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Ventenata, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, fire, geoscientificInformation, habitat, invasive, medusahead, red brome, sagebrush, satellite, ventenata dubia, western U.S., Fewer tags

USGS Rangeland Exotic Plant Monitoring System

The introduction of exotic plant species into the western United States has caused substantial changes to rangeland disturbance regimes and ecosystem structure and function. For example, exotic annual grass (EAG) invasion in western rangelands has increased wildfire frequency, which greatly reduces rangeland ecosystem diversity and leads to single-species dominance in many areas. Rangeland monocultures do not provide optimal carbon sequestration and other environmental processes necessary to sustain historically normal ecosystem structure, including the ecological diversity needed to support sagebrush obligates like Greater Sagegrouse, pygmy rabbit, and pronghorn. These obligates, as well as others, require contiguous,...

Categories: Data; Tags: Bromus japonicus, Bromus tectorum, California (CA), Cheatgrass, Colorado (CO), All tags... Deserts, Great Basin, Idaho (ID), Montana (MT), Nevada (NV), Oregon (OR), Sagebrush ecosystem, Snake River, Taeniatherum caput-medusae, Utah (UT), Washington (WA), Wyoming (WY), annual grass, exotic species, invasive species; information management, noxious weeds, red brome, rye brome, sagebrush, satellite, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, July 2021, (ver 2.0, January 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2021 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and a native perennial grass predicted on July 1 using satellite observation data available no later than June 28th. Four fractional cover maps comprise this release, along with the corresponding confidence maps, for: 1) a group of 17 species of EAGs (i.e., Bromus arvensis L., Bromus briziformis, Bromus catharticus Vahl, Bromus commutatus, Bromus diandrus, Bromus hordeaceus L., Bromus hordeaceus spp. hordeaceus, Bromus japonicus, Bromus madritensis L., Bromus madritensis L. ssp. rubens (L.) Duvin, Bromus L., Bromus racemosus, Bromus rubens L., Bromus secalinus L., Bromus tectorum L., Bromus texensis (Shear) Hitchc.,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

3. Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2022 (ver 4.0, June 3rd, 2022)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2022 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a bi-weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed within one week of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each bi-weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized Landsat...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Near real time estimation of annual exotic herbaceous fractional cover in the sagebrush ecosystem 30m, USA, July 2020

The dataset provides a near real time estimation of 2020 herbaceous mostly annual fractional cover predicted on July 1st with an emphasis on annual exotic grasses Historically, similar maps were produced at a spatial resolution of 250m (Boyte et al. 2019 https://doi.org/10.5066/P96PVZIF., Boyte et al. 2018 https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RIV03D.), but starting this year we are mapping at a 30m resolution (Pastick et al. 2020 doi:10.3390/rs12040725). This dataset was generated using in situ observations from Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring data (AIM) plots; weekly composites of harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) data (https://hls.gsfc.nasa.gov/); relevant environmental, vegetation,...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, Idaho, All tags... Information Sciences, Land Use Change, Montana, NDVI, Nevada, Oregon, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, geoscientificInformation, invasive, medusahead, noxious, red brome, rye brome, sagebrush, satellite, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 4.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS:64709b34d34e4e58932d1d82, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2023 (ver. 2.0, May 2023)

These datasets provide early estimates of 2023 fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and one native perennial grass species on a weekly basis from May to early July. The EAG estimates are developed typically within 7-13 days of the latest satellite observation used for that version. Each weekly release contains four fractional cover maps along with their corresponding confidence maps for: 1) a group of 16 species of EAGs, 2) cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); 3) medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and 4) Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). These datasets were generated leveraging field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) data plots; Harmonized...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Poa secunda, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial grass, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

Hydraulic Redistribution through the Root Systems of Senesced Plants

Hydraulic redistribution, the movement of water from soil layers of higher water potential to layers of lower water potential through the root systems of plants, has been documented in many taxa worldwide. Hydraulic redistribution is influenced principally by physical properties of roots and soils, and it should occur whenever root systems span soil layers of different water potential. Therefore, hydraulic redistribution should occur through the root systems of plants with aboveground tissue removed or through the root systems of fully senesced plants as long as roots remain intact and hydrated. We examined our hypothesis in field and greenhouse studies with the annual grass Bromus tectorum. We used soil psychrometry...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Bromus tectorum, Ecology, annual grass, hydraulic lift, plant roots, All tags... senescence, soil water movement, water potential gradient, Fewer tags

Early Estimates of Herbaceous Annual Cover in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (May 1, 2019)

The dataset provides a spatially explicit estimate of 2019 herbaceous annual percent cover predicted on May 1st with an emphasis on annual grasses. The estimate is based on the mean output of two regression-tree models. For one model, we include, as an independent variable amongst other independent variables, a dataset that is the mean of 17-years of annual herbaceous percent cover (https://doi.org/10.5066/F71J98QK). This model's test mean error rate (n = 1670), based on nine different randomizations, equals 4.9% with a standard deviation of +/- 0.15. A second model was developed that did not include the mean of 17-years of annual herbaceous percent cover, and this model's test mean error rate (n = 1670), based...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Bromus tectorum, California, Colorado, Desert, Ecology, All tags... Geography, Great Basin, Idaho, Land Use Change, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Remote Sensing, Snake River Plain, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Utah, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, fire, geoscientificInformation, habitat, invasive, ndvi, sagebrush, satellite, Fewer tags

Fractional Estimates of Multiple Exotic Annual Grass (EAG) Species and Sandberg bluegrass in the Sagebrush Biome, USA, 2016 - 2022 (ver. 3.0, July 2023)

This dataset release provides historical (2016 - 2022) estimates of fractional cover for exotic annual grass (EAG) species and a native perennial bunch grass in the arid and semi-arid rangelands of the western United States. The dataset includes four fractional cover maps per year, accompanied by corresponding confidence maps, for a group of 16 species of EAGs, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum); medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae); and Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda). The data were generated using a combination of field observations from Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) plots; remotely sensed data from the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) product (specifically Normalized...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Great Basin, Harmonized Landsat Sentinel, All tags... Idaho, Kansas, Montana, NDVI, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Texas brome, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USGS:61716970d34ea36449a77130, United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, annual grass, annual herbaceous, cheatgrass, exotic, invasive species, medusahead, nonindigenous species, noxious, perennial bunch grass, poa secunda, red brome, remote sensing, rye brome, sagebrush, soft brome, western United States, Fewer tags

State Transition Model of Cumulative Burned Area to Annual Grass in the Great Basin Region of the Western U.S.

A raster identifying previously burned areas as being 1) recovered (to sagebrush-dominant ecosystem), 2) recovering, or 3) transitioned to annual grass-dominated.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Annual grass, California, Great Basin, Idaho, Montana, All tags... Nevada, Oregon, Recovery, Resilience, Resistance, Sagebrush, Utah, Western United States, Wildfire, biota, fires, Fewer tags