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Southeast RISCC Management Network Monthly Webinar
May 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic: Invasive Species Habitat Tool: INHABIT
Guest Speaker: Catherine Jarnevich
Date: Thursday, May 18th, 2023
Time: 1 pm EST
Registration link: Click here
Meeting ID: 922 7639 6275
Password: 142760
About the seminar:
Habitat suitability models of invasive species can inform watch lists and target population searches, but there is often a divide between researchers creating these models and practitioners who utilize them. We have formed a scientist-practitioner partnership to create suitability models for priority species that are integrated into the Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT; http://gis.usgs.gov/inhabit), a web application displaying visual and statistical summaries of habitat suitability models for >200 terrestrial plant species across the conterminous US. These ecologically informed models were further improved by incorporating manager feedback. The web application is designed to provide practical information leading to enhanced land management actions, including mapped products, information on modeled environmental relationships, and tabular summaries comparing risk among species within a given management unit, as well as, comparisons across management units for a given species. INHABIT is actively evolving to he bridge the gap between scientists and practitioners, moving beyond occurrence models to abundance and assessing the geographic distribution of control tools such as biocontrol agents.
About the speaker:
Catherine Jarnevich began working for the USGS while obtaining her doctorate in ecology from Colorado State University. Since that time she has developed a research program through the USGS Resource for Advanced Modeling to assist multiple agencies and groups with species distributions, focusing on invasive species. Catherin’s current research involves the application oof habitat suitability models to answer different applied research and management questions for various species across a range of taxa and spatial scales.