Invasive Species Counts for Santa Barbara County, California - 400 Acres

This dataset represents the number of occurrence points per reporting unit of the following 18 invasive plant species at a 400-acre resolution:

• Ammophila arenaria (European beachgrass)
• Arundo donax (Giant reed)
• Brassica tournefortii (Asian mustard)
• Carpobrotus edulis (Iceplant)
• Centaurea solstitialis (Yellow star thistle)
• Cortaderia jubata (Purple pampas grass)
• Cortaderia selloana (Pampas grass)
• Cytisus scoparius (Scotchbroom)
• Delairea odorata (Cape-ivy)
• Echium candicans (Pride of Madeira)
• Ehrharta calycina (Purple veldtgrass)
• Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel)
• Genista monspessulana (French broom)
• Hedera helix (Common ivy)
• Lepidium latifolium (Perennial pepperweed)
• Spartium junceum (Spanish broom)
• Taeniatherum caput-medusae (Medusahead)
• Tamarix ramosissima (Tamarisk)
  

Use the "i" identify tool to see more information about each data unit.

You can help collect new data:

Santa Barbara county community members are encouraged to collect additional data on public lands using the mobile apps listed below. These data are vetted and feed into the below data facilities. Community members should not collect data about private property unless it is theirs or they have been asked to do so by the landowner. Landowners are encouraged to participate.

To participate, go to
http://calweedmapper.cal-ipc.org/spatial-data/ and/or,
inaturalist.org, and/or
http://calnat.ucanr.edu/Take_a_class/


Info about Data Sources:

These data were amassed from the Consortium of California Herbaria (CCH), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and CalFlora, all publicly available data. Data include observations of the plants in the field, as well as specimen collections.

The Consortium of California Herbaria serves as a gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in participant herbaria.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments.
It allows anyone, anywhere to access data about all types of life on Earth, shared across national boundaries via the Internet. These data data from herbaria and citizen contributions via iNaturalist.

The Calflora Database is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information about California plant biodiversity for use in Education, Research and Conservation. Information in Calflora comes from multiple sources, including public agencies, non-profits, scientists, private donors, and citizen observations.